Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Creating Harmony under one roof

In the family we are two sisters and father and mother. My mother is a house wife and father is a retired History professor. You know how academicians are in personality.Ouite well read but still having in them the pumping spirit to read more and more now also. The funniest part is that you cannot ignore their habit; you will have to give them space and respect their daily routine.

My mother been a house maker, spends most of her time in kitchen cooking cuisines for us. What else can we expect from a person who is an awarded person in cooking classes? How can I forget to talk about my little sister who is a pianist in a local musical band? I guess you know how we manage below one roof. Well this is sweet home all about, where unlike minded can still stay cordially. Amazed? I know that’s what my friends also feel when they see the nature of my family.

This was not always simple like it is now at home. My sister and I used to have tassels and fights over keeping the volume low or when to put off the lights at night. Very soon when we were in college, my father came out with a solution. His colleague advised him to use glass acoustic walls at home. My father was well aware of the commercial interior glass doors as it was used in his University new library.

So why would anybody wait at such a convenient solution for daily hooks and nooks. The first thing that he planned was to call an interior designer. That time I was surprised to let someone else do the decoration and adjustment of my house. Trust me, it is needed. They know how to create space from corners of your house. Here the idea was to divide the space by using glass acoustic walls. The designer asked our needs which were very simple. We wanted to divide our living space into two sections, one for my father’s study room and the other one for my sister where she could easily practice her piano with disturbing me with her so called trendy vocals.

The designer got the idea and impulse of what exactly what we were wanting from her. She took the measurement of the rooms. She asked about our color preferences. I was little surprised to know that these commercial interior glass doors and glass acoustic walls came in different colors as well as in designs.

In a week’s time my house was turned into a great living heaven .Any outsider would not even come to know that in that small house four family members having different preferences were living smoothly. With the help of glass acoustic walls, our hall was separated into two halves with one common exit. The admirable part was that my father spent hours and hours of reading and my sister spent hours in straining her vocal chords sitting in rooms next to each other. Yes of course, glass acoustic walls limited the sound to travel from one part to another.