Select Nameplate for Your Home the Designer Way
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Your home name-plate is not only an address identification board, rather just like your home it defines your identity at different creative levels. Nameplates says a lot about people living within. These are practical choices for your home and also fulfils the aesthetic purpose. To get you started with "Perfect Nameplate" hunting, here are the few tips:
Freeze the type
As we are living the era of innovations, it is a known fact to everyone that the market is filled with verity of products and specifications including even the small home requirements such as a beautiful nameplate for your home. Few are some trending picks for nameplate :
- Stainless steel
- Aluminium Panels
- Brass
- Traffolyte
- Acrylic
- Wood
- Foam board with digital printing
Consider Microclimate
Aluminium is lightweight, stainless steel is a great choice for high, humid or moist temperatures, traffolyte are robust alternative to metal. Depending on your regional environment, choose the best option available.
Material Finishes that matter
If your home is made up evoking traditional or fusion and ornamental appeals, nothing beat brass as the perfect material for your nameplate. Also, Wood adds merge with any home harmony with your all time interior styles.
Installation
Not only the material finishes, the final touch-up in the means of installation does matter the most. There are two common ways to fix any nameplate to your entrance :
- Glue it : Use desired adhesive (as per your material selection) for permanent fixing of nameplate.
- Use Struds : Struds are designed screws which are use to fix board pieces attractively on walls. This application is the best choice for rental home.
- Make sure that the name written on the nameplate is easily readable.
- Choose the right colour and font.
- Pick green or brown colour for east facing home (as per vastu)
- Pick metallic nameplate for north facing home (as per vastu)
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