A green home for you is now a reality

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Written by: Manaswita Ghosh
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

― John Muir

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John Muir’s universe was much better than what it is today, and what it will be. The world has changed constantly, earthquakes giving new dimensions to the land, the weather gradually shifting from a blend of pleasant and blissful to a combination of extremes that has driven humanity to create artificial living and breathing systems. Air conditioning has become a necessity, and gardening has become a thing of the past unless you are lucky enough to live in the countryside. The urban populace has made a living out of dusty skies and dustier living spaces, but is it all that is going to be? What can we do to get that better universe of John Muir? Is it possible to evoke it at all?



My answer is, yes. If you still wonder how it is going to be, I would whisper the three magic words into your ear—Urban green revolution. Anything from that pot plant in your bedroom to the fauna in your balcony, it’s a part of this exciting trend. You do not need to dream of lush green mountains and valleys anymore. The age of designing has reached a point where you can have your own valley of bliss, right in your tenth floor apartment!


A small patch of planting can change the course of your life, making you healthier, happier and more productive. But what is the right approach to such a unique living system? How do you design your home and give it a unique twist, introducing the perfect living wall systems throughout? Here’s the answers to all your queries:



1.Living walls: Converting that boring white wall in your property into a green one was never this exciting! You can pick any unused wall and make it grow into a living wall. It doesn’t matter if it’s interior or exterior, these living walls are easy to maintain and sustain if you opt for the right plant. Earlier, it was difficult to establish a living wall system indoors, and we kept it to pot plants. But now you can opt for floor-to-ceiling living walls indoors that liberate everyone living in the house. Places like corridors, waiting spaces, or the wall near that staircase can be turned into a cooler, beautiful green living being.



Exterior walls are a different story altogether. These not only help make the interiors cooler in summer (considering global warming, you are going to thank these green walls), they help protect the walls from corrosion and weather damage. Plants absorb a large amount of noise as well, insulating the building against noise pollution. Exterior living walls are perfect for home, office and restaurants, adding value to life and your customers.



2.Terrace gardens, bio-balconies and green roof: If there’s anything better than living walls, it’s living balconies and terrace gardens. Not only this arrangement gives you the chance to reinvent that unused space on the top of your home, it makes up for all the space you can get to bring to life the magical green space you had always dreamt of. When you do not have a vertical landscape to design in case of living walls, the horizontal space of a terrace can be a great opportunity for you to experiment with varieties of plants such as shrubs, wildflowers and cacti, sedums and herbs etc. These are surprisingly easy to maintain as well, given the right installation of irrigation systems and the density and depth of the soil you grow the garden on. Sunlight isn’t an issue here, so you have a large variety of flora and fauna to choose from. One of the many advantages of having a garden on your roof is the inevitable decrease in pollution levels as the plants absorb most of it, leaving you with clean, fresh air.



3.Living pictures: When we speak of living walls, you may think of reinventing those to an extent they intrigue the artist in you some more. Perhaps this is why we have another unique form of living walls that we call living pictures. No these aren’t the ones from Harry Potter, where people very much move around, the ‘living pictures’ in the world of designing and architecture signify a portrait that’s simply made out of plants. This modular wall system is extremely clever; pre-grown fauna is simply embedded on the portrait to give in the unbeatable look that every designer loves. You have the flexibility to change the design of the living picture anytime since these are only embedded upon the vertical portrait. The irrigation system for these are amazing, with hidden tanks of water that need no refill up to six weeks.


Given the fact that I have just introduced you to a whole new world of modern artificial gardening, I understand your anticipation to get started with these and install them in your house soon. It’s time to explore with this new and unique trend of living wall systems, instead of being sad about not having the natural garden on your property. An artificial garden is as much beneficial as a natural one, given the right planning and execution.




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10 Brilliant Ideas To Decorate Your Office With Sticky Notes

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By: Manjiri Kochrekar
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Spice up your workplace to boost your enthusiasm and efficiency at work with these amazing sticky notes decor ideas!



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Spicing up your regular workspace with colorful, attractive sticky notes can add charm to it and boost your enthusiasm to work harder with refreshed mind. Appropriate use of sticky notes can help you remind certain important tasks and make it easy for you to execute tasks in time. And, the most wonderful thing is that you need to invest minimal energy in decorating your office interiors with sticky notes.

So, why not come up with different, interesting ideas to decorate your office interiors with colorful sticky notes, add creativity, and boost your work efficiency and enthusiasm? So, Houssup takes pleasure to offer you a list of amazing office interior design ideas to help you embellish your workplace with beautiful creations with sticky notes.


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1. Jazz Up Your Cubicle:

Your cubicle is the place where you spend most of your time when at work. So, why not decorate your cubicle and its surroundings with multicolored, vibrant sticky notes! Get sticky notes of green, pink, blue, yellow, violet, and other colors. Choose to decorate a particular area of your cubicle with just one color. For instance, decorate your table with yellow notes. Create digits, small wonderful images, and other creative stuff using sticky notes. Colorful decorations will not only make your cubicle attractive but also provide you choice to create memos or make notes at the right places which will remind you all essential tasks.



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2. Switch Notes To Hint You:

Creating a switch out of sticky notes is an innovative idea that will facilitate you to create a reminder to perform a task. Paste a bunch of square-shaped sticky notes on your office wall, make a square hole in the middle, and create a traditional switch button in the hole with the help of small pieces of white paper. You can write necessary reminders on its sides to help you remember important things as you look at the switch.


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3. Tune The Time With Sticky Clocky Notes:

Time is one of the crucial aspects when you are at work. So, creating wonderful office interior designs by using sticky notes that have clock shapes and designs can be a brilliant way to remind you the time for a particular task. You can develop small designs using alarm clock-shaped notes on work desk, cabin, conference room, and many other suitable places which you look upon often. Draw needles on the clock to specify time of your meetings.


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4. Have Calendar Prompts:

Are you habituated to glance at the calendar often when at work? So, why not develop an adorable calendar by using colorful sticky notes on the walls of your office! Use various colors of rectangle-shaped colorful sticky notes and create a small yet spacious calendar of the month every month of year to jot down all important tasks.  Create columns using these notes to develop weeks. Use markers to write tasks on the notes. Not only it will act as an reminder but also enhance the appearance of your workplace.


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5. Woods Memo On Your Keyboard:

Tree-shaped sticky notes can serve as pleasant memos to remember important tasks of the day. Place these green tree-shaped notes in between the keys of your keyboard creating a small forest office decor. Write important timings and tasks on the trees to help you remind them when you spend long hours working on your desktop.


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6. Debug The Errors:

Aren't you bound to make errors when at work? And, errors grab your attention instant. So, use error sticky notes to create memos and reminders of important meetings and tasks. Paste windows-shaped error notes on your table, drawers, and walls of the cubicle to make you turn to them to remember crucial jobs of the day.


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7. Glam Up Your Office Wall With Guitar:

Adding an image of an exquisite guitar to your ever-busy office interiors is bound to make your work atmosphere more pleasant than usual. So, use various colorful sticky notes and create beautiful design of a guitar on one of your office walls with the help of an expert office interior designer. Whenever you have a look at the creative guitar, it will bring a smile on your face and ward off all your stress.


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8. Spruce Up With Tourist Attractions:

If you work in a tours and travel office, then sticky notes having signs and name of various international tourist destinations can be a brilliant way to glam up the interior design for your office. Get notes bearing logo, images, and names of all popular countries and tourist attractions and paste them around your cubicle, on the walls of the entrance of your office, and in most places where clients will glance often.


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9. Inspire Yourself With Motivation Quotes On The Walls:

Inspirational or motivational quotes and words will keep you going when at work. So, why not have your workplace adorned with some brilliant motivational quotes? Paste varied shaped sticky notes on the walls of your office and write a range of motivational quotes on them with the help of markers. Choose light-colored markers on dark-colored notes and vice-versa to make the quotes look clear. You can have opinion of an office interior designer for wonderful design ideas of sticky notes to have amazing collection of inspirational quotes.


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10. Talking Bubbles Alerts:

Ideas and tips catch you attention the most when you see them in a chat format. Having memos and tips on talking bubbles sticky notes can be one of the best ways to remember important tips or alerts. Stick these chatty notes on your drawers, table, walls of the cubicle, and other places that you glance often. Jot down daily to-dos on these notes. The talking bubbles will not only remind you crucial tasks but also bring a smile on your face when you see them.

Now that you know all these ten brilliant ideas to improve the appearance of your office while serving the purpose of reminding you important jobs, make sure you choose some of these  sticky notes design ideas and make your office more beautiful and more efficient. Share your experiences with us by leaving a comment below.

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Working Women and Their Personal Room Decor

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By:- Niharika Choudhary
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THE ACCENT OF PERSONLIZATION


In succession with the hour, a working woman has her priorities set right. She is the one who takes up everything, unruffled and moves ahead of the social norms. Her lifestyle is her narrative, in turn portraying her personal choices. Belonging to the same field, every woman is different, with yet different choices. Various interior design magazines these days depict these lifestyles amalgamating them with interior design trends.
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In the era of attaining individual acknowledgment, these women want their peculiar belongings to stand out loud too. They strive for individualism. Yeah, that’s the word! Individualism is the key factor administrating their choices and their power to take decisions. It has an influence on their personal room décor as well.

 THE DECOR

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Flaunting a clean and crisp, monochromatic décor, women wants it chic in style. It’s astonishing to know that grey can add thousands of its shades, yet being so minimal in appearance.
With a hectic schedule and the engagements of daily life, colours are one only thing which turn out as your best friend. Right colours and the right design ideas, consider them the need of the hour .They play a heavy game on our minds. 
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For a working lady, colour schemes which will work can be-
·         Right balance of very soft tones in the class of pastels
·         Ideally, neutral shades work the best on the walls, with an addition of accent colours through accessories and furnishings.
·         Soft tones on a larger surface area helps, to calm mind and soul
An individual touch is convenient, with these shades and can adore almost every personality.

Right organization and substantial storage sets-up the primacy in the personal room décor of a working woman. Women have an obsession to keep the right things in the right place. A well-planned storage for all the essentials that a lady has is a must.
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Some smart organization using effective storage design is always a good idea, to organize the daily operational belongings.-
·       Clean, geometric and classy storage can be less fussy and more functional. Shapes leaning towards the geometric nature do not distract the focus of a décor but at the same time, adds a lot of value.
 Storage solutions can always be customized according to your personal needs. A lady with an obsession of books can beautifully display then of wall storage. It will add to her décor.
Keeping the décor minimal can help you maintain it in the minor span of time
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The busy mornings, when everything needs to get-set -go, no woman can afford to compromise on their appearance for the day. Can one imagine the hassle, when she can’t figure out where her pink lip colour has hidden itself?  Surely a working woman can.

A well- planned wardrobe can help, de- cluttering one’s life, along with a well-planned vanity. Everything in a room can be added with an accent of personal influences to the extent that it allows one to enjoy the space till eternity.

The décor, to summarize, should be functional in the first place, along with being clean and classy at the same time. So ladies, fight up the rendezvous of the daily hectic schedule, let nothing stop you from being an individual of substance. In the end allow your personal space, your personal room to do the needful.

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WHAT GETS MEASURED GETS MANAGED

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By: Priya Saxena
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INTRODUCTION

“Those who do not remember the past tend to repeat it”, so it’s extremely important to keep evolving with time. The quantity of computer data generated on planet earth is growing exponentially by every passing day. Organizations working in the logistics, financial services, healthcare and many other sectors are capturing more and more data and wish to generate an additional value from it. The social media is also creating gigantic quantities of digital information that may potentially be mined to generate valuable output. The only matter of concern is, ‘How to manage this abundant data’, also ‘How can this data be mined to get meaningful insights’.

ABOUT BIG DATA

Big Data in the present times have become extremely important in IT world. It involves processing of very large quantities of digital information including a variety of data types, which cannot be analyzed with traditional computing techniques to uncover correlations, hidden patterns and other insights. The analytical findings can lead to more effective marketing, superior customer service, better operational efficiency, and new revenue opportunities competitive advantages over competitor organizations and other business benefits.
In the Present time colossal amounts of data are being generated. In the good old days, normal relational databases were used to manage and access data, but it’s impossible with this dynamic data. Previously employees of business firms used to enter data manually, and then came the existence of social media portals, where data is entered by the users themselves, now the data is even generated by machines such as satellites etc. Currently it has become impossible to take the data and bring it to the CPU (processor), this abundant data would overwhelm the CPU and it won’t be able to process it.
To solve this problem multiple CPUs are brought to the data, in such a way that each CPU is parallel to different servers, there can an infinite no of CPUs for an infinite no of individual servers, this is called parallel processing. This is a technological shift, making the processing scalable larger as data needs.

BIG DATA TOOLS

The problem of storage of the data is solved, now the question is ‘how would it be accessed’. There are unbelievable insights hidden in this data which can be incredibly useful if one knows how to extract the data. The most popular tool used to access the Big Data is ‘Hadoop’; it is the leading big data technology which is used by many leading big data pioneers. It’s an open source, so freely available. It can tell what and where is the useful data in which exact server this data helps in creating new algorithms to create services.
Hadoop distributes storage in processing of large datasets into groups or clusters of server computers, it detects and compensate for hardware failures or other system problems at an application level, this allow a high level of service continuity to be delivered by clusters of individual computers each of which maybe prone to failure. It consists of 2 key components:

Hadoop distributed file system- It permits the high-bandwidth cluster-based storage, which is essential for Big Data computing.

MapReduce- is a data processing framework, based on Google search technology it distributes (maps large data sets) across multiple servers (yellow portion),

Each server creates a summary of the data allotted (blue dots), after this all summary is given back in a reduced state its concept is to reduce data before more complex data analysis tools are used.  

Cloud based data solutions are available for startups or small firms for they cannot afford an inbuilt big data infrastructure.

PREDICATIVE AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

These two techniques are branch of advanced analytics which are used to make predictions about unknown future events and ensuring that the declarations and statements of a program are semantically correct.
The most important key points that cover the semantic analysis are what semantic analysis is, what it means in the context of data science and machine learning, and why is it important to the marketers.
As you already read above, the machines lacked the ability to determine what is relevant and why. Advances in Machine Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP) has impacted deep semantic analysis heavily through advanced algorithms, and powerful computers, they are getting impressively better by the day.
Semantic analysis is not about teaching the machines, but about getting them to learn.” When seen from a data processing point of view, semantics are considered as “tokens” that provide context to language. They provide clues to the meaning of words as well as their relationships with other words and other tokens. The goal, as it is for any reader, is to look beyond the words on and see the meaning.
For example, a computer can see patterns that tell it things like,
  • a)      ‘Apple’ and ‘fruit’ are semantically related.
  • b)      ‘Apple’ and ‘red’ are more closely related than ‘Apple’ and ‘fruit’.
  • c)      ‘Red’ can mean a ‘color’.

To achieve the semantic understanding the computer would have to make the connection that an Apple is a red colored fruit.
This has proved to be extremely helpful in many ways:
  • ·      In extracting relevant and useful information from huge clusters of unstructured data.
  • ·      Creation of chatbots, which solves problems of users without human interference.
  • ·      Speech recognition (AI).
  • ·      Bots became multilingual.

Predictive analytics uses many techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence, data mining also statistics modeling to analyze current data to make predictions about future. 
This technology has helped to a great extent to many big shots and even small firms, analyzing the previous data and drawing a meaningful result for the same would be extremely useful to grow. It’ll give a better understanding of the customer needs, market demand, competitor’s strategic plans and a lot more.

PRIDICTICVE AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS USED IN HOUSSUP

The primary goal of big data analytics is to help companies make more informed business decisions. Houssup is a Tech-backed Interior Décor Solutions Platform and focuses on the customer needs. It is soon going to inculcate this technology and work on the semantic and predictive analysis for greater understanding of the customer needs and also predicting the unknown future events.

A famous author once quoted, ‘Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web, like deer on a freeway’, which is true in every sense.

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That perfect hue

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By:- Resham Karmchandani
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Five mouth watering colour schemes to make your home come alive


The appeal of colours lies not only in their beauty but also their energy! Colours are the essence of our lives. From livening up our day to calming us down, colours have a huge impact on the aura around us. While purple in the bedroom keeps passion alive, blues calm you down! Every fashion year, the forecast gurus come out with a best colour palette for the season. Colours that grace your home make your living spaces lively and stylish. As the summers transition into sweet monsoons, we bring you the best colour palettes to indulge in! Here are the five best, mouth watering colour themes to revive your home-

   1.Neutral

    can you believe that neutrals look that good when on the walls?  Think wintry retreats and amber ashes. This colour palette is not too loud and works beautifully for calming a room down. If you can’t work a basic white wall, think textures and ash greys. Compliment this colour palette with rustic wooden cupboards and stroke painted doors. The cherry on the cake? Throw in a few charcoal or coffee coloured accents around and you have the perfect setup for a stay in summer vacay.


 2.  Creamy tones

It is the age of pastels! With every colour being diluted down with a generous dollop of creams, pastels are the biggest trend of 2016. Pick your favourite colours and dial it down to a pastel or powdery shade and you are set to rule the décor world. The hues will pump up the colour palette in your house and yet keep everything soothing. The balmy effects of the pastel colours are best suited for use in the living room and the bedroom. Strew the house with beautiful peonies and new age furniture. Pastels may not be as easy to style as neutrals. Play it safe with some minimal indie prints.

3.   Warmer blues

I miss the beach and I’m sure so do you. Let’s bring it in shall we? The beautiful sunrise and sunset and that burning blue colour! These energized hues from the beachside are perfect to cosy your house up. Indulge in a few blue pottery tiles, if you are looking to go local. We are thinking, generous amounts of blue like the sea strewn with sunset accent décor pieces.
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4. Nature Inspired Greens

Go green with nature inspired colour palette. Greens when used in the right shade can be very flourishing. Take the leap of faith and trust the flora to do the rest! Mix and match the green monochrome palette with colours from nature. A pale yellow here and a stroke of lavender there is all you need to make this palette work.


5. Cold winters 

We may not like extreme cold winters but we sure like the palette! Let the winters of Narnia in, with whitey whites and icy blues. Detox your life with wispy blue hues and misty blacks. This colour palette offers the perfect balance of neutral and colour pop in your home. Experiment with paint hues, furniture fabrics and accent material to bring this theme alive! 

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