Landscaping on a Budget

Got a home garden and want to do some Landscaping? Sounds great but the minute you think about all the decisions and costs involved you start feeling overwhelmed. Here are some simple budget landscaping tips to give your home a vibrant look.

Gardens at Adwalpalkar Springfields

Lots of Paint

If you have a small garden space (or even a big one) painting a vibrant color like lavender blue or crimson red to everything that can be painted helps give a very invigorating feel and adds a nice punch to your Garden.  Suggested items that can be painted include the pots, garden furniture, fences or even the door. If your garden space is that which is located on the balcony of your apartment, the tip still stands with the vibrant colored pots and doors.  It is advisable to go for oil based or latex based paints or any exterior grade paints. If you want to paint metal, rust resistant paint is your best bet.

Fabrics

No mistake, fabric actually works for outdoors. Weather is it, rains and mildew?

In-expensive fabric such as recycle sheets, old bed sheets etc, works for outdoor usage. Having a slipcover over your old furniture in the garden brings the place back to life. The more creative you are with the fabric designs you choose; the more appealing the end result is. If the wet weather soaks up the material, the sun will simply dry it up.

Although these fabrics will not really last very long, you will always have new-old fabrics that will come for use at the end for a fresh new look all over again.

Heard of Concrete paint?

Eleganza Villas Landscape

Concrete paints are a pretty new product in the market and is useful in bringing to life a boring grey, cracked concrete block.  Add some nice concrete bricks and build your own little ledge. Next step, splash the paint on it to bring the place to life. If you have a concrete slab you could consider making a nice chessboard by painting it. So be a little creative and add concrete blocks around your space while painting them green.

Painting concrete is just about as easy as painting a wall. First wash down the surface with diluted muratic acid, and use a stiff brush to remove all traces of dirt and grime.

Paint and allow drying thoroughly for a day or two, then sealing with an oil-based sealer.

Dig a front flower bed.

Dig a nice flower bed, especially at a curve near the drive way or at the edge of the walkway. It gives a nice look towards the besides, you’ll not only beautify your home but improve its value as well.

Lots of Pots

Pots are nice, they keep things clean, you can place them either in the garden or even in the house and maintenance isn’t all too difficult either. Keeping them in the garden can add to a systemic beauty of the garden or if you lack a garden space then keeping them in the balcony well placed can make your balcony your little home Garden. 

Enjoy your new Landscape designs on a budget this year.

Buying Vs Renting an Apartment

Buying a Home is especially if it’s your first home is quite an important decision in any person’s life. The reason is simple; it’s the huge financial decision that you are gearing up to make and the subsequent cut backs you will have to endure for it. While you contemplate this, the inevitable debate in your mind is whether you should buy a home or simply rent out for the time frame as the rent seems viable an option. But Renting is also a huge investment decision, one which you do not realize in the short term but in the long term.

So before you decide to go for the cheaper alternative, here are some things you should consider before decide to go all out for any decision.

Finances: Obviously the first point since it’s why we are in this discussion at the first place. Are you ready to spend a huge chunk of your finances on buying a house? You need to make a down payment to the builder or discuss with your bank if you are considering a loan. That’s right; banks offer you EMI options so as to repay the bank what you took on loan in easy installments over the years. Rental schemes are pretty much the same formula where you pay to stay on a monthly basis, should you fail to pay your dues, you are asked to vacate. Not to mention the sum of funds you would have to pay as deposit and brokerage would be quite a bite out of your immediate funds.

Time Period: You plan to stay at a place for a short time then obviously it’s not a smart idea to buy a home there. Common sense! But many people, especially from Goa, Stay abroad and return either for vacations or retirement.  So a decision over here is about personal choices and then the financial point of view.

Future: While staying in a rented home, the rental price is expected to rise if not in a year then at least every 2 years. Market rates assure you that money value tomorrow is lesser than what it is today, so the rent you pay at the start of your stay is bound to fluctuate. In such a case EMI holds a better prospect. EMI is calculated at the start of the Loan tenure and the value does not fluctuate with every passing year (unless you choose a flexi rate). So as the years pass by, you pay the same amount (or technically lesser considering the future value of money) where you started from.

Taxes: As long as you are paying for a residence, you have a tax reprieves and deductions in your favor, be it rent or mortgage interests. You should calculate what suits you best.

 

Sterling Apartments in Panaji Goa

While there are other aspects of decisions involved in purchasing an apartment in Goa, these are some of the important points you need to give consideration to before purchasing your home. 

Why do we need affordable Homes especially Apartments

As we see a massive increase in the population, there is and will always be a huge demand for affordable Apartments for sale in Goa. We also understand that most people prefer moving out of their ancestral homes to start a new family with their spouses and kids. Its a true story in Goa that most parents prefer the groom to own a house and a car. Its not difficult to own a car but what about a house or an Apartment in Goa ?

Affordable Eco Friendly Apartments 

Average income earned by a professional self employed or an employee is around 25 to 35 thousand a month. that's quite low and such people do not even qualify to get a loan of even 10 lacs. A normal 1 Bedroom Apartment for sale in Goa is around 20 lacs so you would need to have an income of at least 50 thousand per month. I believe only 20% or perhaps less than that people earn in Goa.

The government needs to realize these figures and need to make appropriate provisions and certain amendments to land development laws. one of them is increasing the FAR of certain selected places (Floor Area Ratio) to 150% and call it Special Residential Zone (SRZ). Places centrally located between two cities and having an industrial area nearby would be ideal.

Beautiful Apartments for sale in Goa

These SRZ zones will have only Apartments and Flats with all basic facilities and amenities. Construction in these areas should be sustainable and completely practical.

SRZ zones should be well connected to the highways. All roads should be well connected. Footpaths and walkways should be implemented throughout and people should be restricted to own a certain number of vehicles.

The Green aspect should be well protected and taken care of. Planting more trees than the amount of trees cut. Having vertical gardens in all complexes and also terrace gardens on each building. Water harvesting methods and filtering water that has been used. in short- restoring nature especially the flora.

Increasing the FAR and using basic construction material will automatically get cost of the Apartment in Down. Only then an average Goan will afford to Buy an Apartment in Goa or Buy a Flat in Goa.

For more Apartments for sale in Goa and Flats for sale in Goa, Visit Adwalpalkar Constructions Website.