Teen Living Notes

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Teen Living Notes

• Obj. 14.01 Assess ways to maintain living space.

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Maintain living space

• Preventive maintenance making sure that
  structures and equipment in the home are running
  properly. Ex checking outside water faucets for
  leaks or wrapping piles during winter months to
  prevent freezing or simply cleaning the clothes
  dryer lint filter or cleaning the rain gutters

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Maintain living space

• Preventive maintenance plans
• Professional maintenancePaying a company to come
  to your house and perform a job that is needed.
  Ex having your fireplace chimney cleaned
  properly
• Corrective maintenance fixing a home problem
  that could destroy or damage the house. Ex water
  spot on the ceiling and hiring someone to replace
  shingles
• Self maintenance being able to correct the
  problem yourself. Ex homeowner fixes sink pipes
  that were leaking.

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Maintain living space

• House cleaning
• Daily washing dishes, wipe kitchen countertop
  and appliances pick up items to put where they
  belong.
• Weekly changing bed sheets washing them,
  vacuum or sweep floors, clean bathroom area and
  do the laundry
• To help prevent a fire remember to have chimney
  clean once a year from trash or build-up.
• Door mats makes a room easier to clean.

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Obj. 14.02

• Demonstrate ways to enhance living space.

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Enhance living space

• Design principles
• Emphasis- drawing attention where you want it.
  Ex fireplace build with large river rocks or a
  mask collection being notice first when walking
  in a room.
• Balance giving equal weight to the spaces on
  both sides of an imaginary center line. Ex
  matching candlesticks on a mantel.
• Variety combining different styles materials
  in a room, but not too much, like 3 styles of
  furniture, this can create confusion.

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Maintain living space

• Proportion relates in size
• Rhythm regular repetition of line, shape,
  color, or texture creates this.
• Unity feeling that all objects in the room
  belong together.
• Rearranging the furniture is the easiest way to
  create the feel of more space in a room.

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Enhance living space

• To help a young child become more organized in
  their bedroom, use bright color storage boxes.
• When you are not able to put away your clothes
  properly in a dresser drawer, one will need more
  storage space to protect your clothes.

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Enhance living space

• Elements of design to help bring harmony to the
  space
• Color, line, shape (design), and texture(the way
  it feels like fuzzy pillows)
• To create a calming effect use light blue and
  white. Also light blue will make a room appear
  larger.
• focal point an item that draws attention when
  entering into a room.

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Maintain living space

• Be creative in coming up with new ways to store
  items in a home. Ex A teacher could hang up a
  shoe bag in a classroom to keep graphing
  calculators in.
• Compartmentalization divide space in the closet
  or drawers into smaller categories and designate
  a place for each type of item.

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Maintain living space

• To hang necklaces beside a dresser mirror one
  could use hooks, this would help with decoration
  and storage.
• To make a room appear smaller uses dark colors.
• Primary colors are blue, red yellow

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Maintain living space

• Horizontal lines can make a ceiling appear lower.
• Accessories in a bedroom are items like pillows,
  pictures, and lamp. Extra items to help with
  decorating a room. In a bathroom it would be
  items like candle, pictures, or toothbrush holder

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Objective 14.03

• Discuss career opportunities in the interior
  design field.

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Careers in interior design

• Being able to read understand a blueprint would
  be most beneficial to an interior designer.
• Interior designer helps customers choose colors,
  fabrics, furniture in retail fabric furniture
  stores.
• A real estate agent is one who sells homes and
  they need to have the ability to get along well
  with other people

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Careers in interior design

• Owning your own company you would be an
  entrepreneur.
• Blueprint an architects plan for a building.
  A floor plan to show the lay-out of each room.

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Careers in interior design

• Entry level
• House cleaner
• Salesclerks in home improvement/hardware stores
• Intermediate level
• Real estate agent
• Landscape gardener
• Professional level
• Interior designer
• Architect designer