₦airaland Forum

Horlardorjah:
Why is it then called see through if you don't want people to see from the interior of the gate. The concept n purpose has been defeated

Other reasons for that kind of gate is to allow free flow of air and not to allow the build to look like a prison, brings out the beauty of the building, allows the occupants to see the person at the gate from their balcony, allows neighbours to see what is happening in the compound as a form of security.

It is not for the prying eyes of the passersby to see what is happening within your compound. That's my own take and how I would design mine.

Nice gesture. We don't take nature and environment serious in this part of the world. The problem with parks In Lagos is insecurity. Go and sit down there to enjoy your self. You will see some hoodlums with dreads moving around the place.

If you are a home owner, plant trees, put ornamental flower plants everywhere. Plant canopy shade trees instead of using all these steel and aluminium. Put live flower and plants in most part of your interiors. You will always breath quality air and feel good.

I don't know about you, but once I am in a green park, with trees, birds whistling, good vegetation, I tend to think better and have more recollection of thoughts. It also helps in relieving stress.

I love my village and I always cherish opportunity to visit and stroll down through low level rainforest and feel nature at its best.

michlins:
it's a very good design but put pan at the middle. Leaving the up and down open. I don't know if you understand what I mean

It would look nice. Not putting the pan in the middle per say but a little bit up so that anyone standing in front of the gate will still not be able to peep except if the person bends or jump. The pan should be able to block direct prying eyes from passers by but still create see through up and down the gate.

EgunMogaji2:
Don’t use local babalawo door like me on your private residence.

You will see that door and interact with it a lot. Buy the best affordable imported security door for your front door.

Your auxiliary entrance door can be cheapened out.

The interior doors must never be local steel doors.

Baba Egun,
I am not a fan of local doors but I will still take locally produced hardwood doors over low quality Turkish imported. Even those local hardwood front doors are not cheap. Good ones goes from 300k and above.

The artisan that did my handrails begged that I should allow him do the back exit door for me. I showed him the design I wanted and he delivered something close. Though it lacked some fine finishing I would have loved but I still accepted it. Since it will just be at the back of the house, nothing spoil

affable4:
See them, they have brought Abia state into the narrative.

I don't know where the said Chidi is based, but you see those people that are quick to tell you to go back to your own state to complain, they are the real problems.

Same as telling you to go complain about your corrupt governor in your state when you complain of the governor of the state you are based, do business and pay tax.

If I pay tax in a state, I have every right to complain about anything or anybody in that state.

Even the educated ones are worse off. Taking sides without solving any part of the issue raised.

This is what disgusts me about most Nigerians. Complain about a governor, people will come hard on you to go and complain about your own State Governor.

When people from the East complain about a governor in the West, all hell will be let loosed. Same with when some one from the west points out something wrong in the East, everyone from that region would shout him down.

Then you keep thinking how we would grow as a nation. We should be objective and independent minded in our thinking.

uncleteeh:
Hmmm.
It's even a bit proper to get the advice from an iron bender and not a welder.
If you use 10mm, you will be using more rods on each lintel compared to 12mm.
Well, let your engineer decide what to go for.

Very correct. I wanted to ask the difference between a Welder and an Iron bender. My Structural Engineer goofed big time when I was building as I wasn't around when the building started up to decking level.

It was when we were about to do the decking that I called a seasoned iron bender, with a lot of construction experiences under his belt, to do the iron works for me. On getting to my site, because of some structural defects he saw, he advised places that we needed to put hidden beams, open beams and other reinforcement amendments to support the integrity of the building in certain places of the decking that were not in the structural plan as the building is a lengthy one.

My "COREN" registered structural Engineer agreed with him completely. That was how the building was saved. Since then, I had relied on the iron bender for certain things pertaining to the building.

Next generation gone with mama. Life. I love nature. Would have studied the snake and the egg.

This is the kind of thing Simon Keys of NatGeo likes.

Definitely, outsiders out of ameoba will always compliments you more than your partners. My wife experiences that compliments a lot from outsiders. It doesn't mean that I don't compliment her.

When I give her money to buy fine wears and she goes out with her friends, she would always get compliments. If your husband is doing his job very well, please don't stress him so much about this part of responsibility.

He should consider getting Sadio Mane from Liverpool. The guy is no more happy with Klopp and Chelsea should discuss his availability.

The same people rubbing the oil will soon accuse him of rape and indecent assault. God save him he is not black.

uncleteeh:
Well, probably he didn't see beyond his nose. People have been using good morni for ugly finishes no be today.
There are simple but classy finishes out there.
People need to explore.

As Egun normally say, you can't buy class. What you thought to be out of fashion may be his own pride. Each Aboki to his own kettle.

sgtponzihater1:
Don't train your children by any Nigerian standard please. Send them to the best schools and send them abroad Uni. Training them for the global stage is better than training them the way we were trained

Nice point. Global standard is good but the basic foundation of formation are still necessary. Not withstanding the problems we have, there are still valuable lessons we usually learn as a Nigerians and I wouldn't want that to be lost on them.

EgunMogaji2:
Lots of examples of “money can’t but taste” around me here in Elebu, Ibadan.

You’ll see some monstrosity and you know they paid good money for the ugliness.

It’s well.

Apt. I went to see a tiler recommended to me by a friend where he was working in someone's house. Looking at the house, I knew money was not a problem to the owner. But the kind of finishing, mismatched tiling and irrelevant things but highly expensive I saw made me to shook my head.

See poor choices everywhere. I knew immediately that the owner paid good money for ugliness. I thought to myself that at least he should have consulted an interior decorator or visit Internet to see some modern designs considering the fact that money wasn't his problem.

We deserve the kind of leadership we have. Why are people lamenting? Didn't we vote in Buhari not once but twice.? It seems we have very short memory in this country.

We are all waiting for 2023 to vote in another disaster. I don comot hand for Nigeria matter.

Poor goat and its unborn kid. I am sure its pregnancy could not allow it to struggle with the python. That's why danger should never come near a pregnant woman. Escaping or trying to struggle for an escape is usually risky.

RIP to you poor goat. You couldn't give life to the fruit of your womb. Sorry you had to succumb to the realities of life.

Lexusgs430:
Do they still do that hopeless compulsory devotion in the morning........

Devotion in the midst of massive corruption. Nigeria is an irony of a country. They use that devotion to deceive the gullible to present the place as a place of high moral standard. Double standards in everything and the citizens have also bought this double standards in their ways of life.

The endemic corruption within the immigration service is mind boggling.

Never knew that government could place emphasis on landscaping when constructing a building. Looks like a typical scottish countryside to me with beautiful green scenery. I could stay in this kind of place all day meditating, reading, thinking, relaxing and even sleeping. I love nature.

I miss Scotland.

Esseite:
What plan B?...

- Leave only to return to meet lost relatives?
- Leave to amass wealth to uplift who?
- Leave to erase the lands of my ancestors?
- Leave only to return to meet no family?
- Leave Friends and Family to brag about how I escaped to who?
- Friends, Family and relatives are what life is, without them we are empty.
- What if I die where I run to thinking am running to peace?

There is no leaving... there is no other home.

Excellent. There is no happiness without family and friends. I cherish my immediate and extended families so much, including the friendship I have built over the years. I stayed in UK for two and half years but just could not enjoy myself because of loneliness and boredom.

We have to join hands together to salvage this country. Many middle class have left the country. Go to Lekki phase one and VI and see some empty houses that the owners and their families have relocated and put Aboki there to be maintaining the compound.

My annoyance is that Agberos and danfo will later occupy half of that road and be loading passengers by the road, creating further traffic. Nigeria's problem get Web.

Go to Ajah and see the nonsense Agberos, destitute and street urchins have converted the road and under the bridge into.

The most efficient and effective between the two. My Ogas did it well then when I was in the banking sector. The one seen as more productive and efficient will always command superiority over his mate of the same cadre.

spyder880:
Although am not making a defence for the 'now vilified' front pillars, but with Africa being as hot as it is, we sometimes need a space in a part of the building where we can come out under a sort of shade and cool off for some minutes/hours daily. The space needs to be cross ventilated and also a place we can sit or stand to survey the passing traffic, Holla out to neighbours in our African brotherly greetings. Won't the front of the house be a good place to rest and generally gossip about our neighbours old cars and ugly fences?

Since its economical to hang a covered deck between the front pillars, it will look appealing to a lot of folks.

Picture credit: Casa Phills designs.

Lots of sense in your analysis. I agree. It provides an avenue for open air relaxation and watch events happening outside from the comfort of your home. Very valid points. Very very convincing.

However, a well-designed roof tops does it for me.

But Bros o, this design you posted here, even with the pillars, looks so beautiful. I wouldn't mind this modern design with pillars. Well done.

InvertedHammer:
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You should be happy that there are no two front pillars to complement the roof. That's an improvement.

I suspect that when you give our Nigerian architects a contract to design a building, most of them draw the front pillars and roof first, then try to figure out the rest.
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Na the matter wey me and my woman take quarrel. Most Nigerians fancy these pillars and believed that the pillars makes the house looks elegant. Far from it. My build is a typical contemporary build with mono pitch roof. But my woman, with her Nigerian mentality, believes that all the houses in Nigeria must have those pillars. Modern architecture don't come with pillars.

Usually, it is not the fault of the Architect. It is the client that mostly request the presence of those pillars and high roof

They should go and arrest his parents. Those without means and not ready to train their kids should have no business with procreation. There are consequences to the society for every child born. Nigerians should stop bringing more idiots and thieves into the world.

Chest beaters up there spewing rubbish. Some of them will never go near that airport or fly plane in their life.

Most people here that involve in all these ethnic vitriolic and banters are low life people, struggling and distanced from realities of life.

They think that people are jealous of their little achievements and gets overtly excited over little things. Some up there have already started playing ethnic card for a project that is developmental, a common good and available to anyone to use, irrespective of his location or tribe.

We have to outgrow certain sentiments in this country. Our thinking and mentality sometimes could be crude and archaic.

Just saw two columns of trailers, loaded with herders and horses along kingsway roady, ikoyi going God's no where. I don't know what is happening.

I wished Bishop Okogie was his superior. Priests in the East gets away with a lot of misconducts. You can't try any nonsense under Okogie or Adewale Martins. 5 years suspension awaits you and if you do more gragra na to tell Pope to derobe you immediately. No time for rubbish.

Imagine a priest in a Roman Catholic church behaving like a war lord with militia followers. Enugu Bishop has been a weaklin where Mbaka is and it has come to hunt him back.

I am not hating but celebrating being a citizen of another country on social media smacks of inferiority complex. This is very common with Nigerians and African players. Mikel Obi did same when he got his UK passport.

I was thinking that with their exposure and status, they should maintain some level of dignified silence in things like this. Everything is about God in Nigeria and for Nigerians and that's why our religious leaders are taken advantage and playing mind games with us. As someone asked above, whether God works with Portuguese immigration.

In sane countries, things works properly and you don't need one divine miracle to get what belongs to you, unlike here that we keep calling and invoking divine spirit to intercede on our behalf because of man made problems we brought unto ourselves.

I don't like doing business with family and friends and neighbours. I prefer to deal with a stranger, even if I met the person online.

In case of any Bleep up from the person, I would be able to go broke with the person. But once na family or neighbour, it would always be difficult to explore more radical and brutal ways of dealing with the issue.

You shouldn't have returned the car. Pay all the duties and registration, count your loses and move on. I don't like being dragged behind by transactions that have gone wrong. I will count my pains and losses and learn from there and take it behind me.

Trust me, this incidence will keep disturbing you and you would always be thinking on what to do next. These issues have ways of weighing one down. So, find a way to get past it and not to prolong it even further and save yourself unnecessary stress and BP. The stress of being a Nigerian and living in Nigeria is already too much.

The project may be about contracts after all. Before you knew it, we will be told that N500bn were spent on the project without any good intention. Contracts would likely be awarded to cronies.

I did NIN under Obasonjo with huge budgetary approval and my card is now useless, despite the stress we went through. Now, government is repeating the same process.

The only data capturing exercise that was done in this country with good result was BVN. Just because it was championed by the private sector. If government was to have handled that BVN, it would still have failed.

I support this move but implementation of laws has become a difficult task in Nigeria. Just like someone said, banning Okada will also help but the problem with Nigeria is that some people will misinterpret it and say that their people are being targeted by the ban and would threaten the nation and further retaliate.

I blame Ambode for this Okada menace. Fashola did a good job by banning them and there was decency on the road but Ambode just kept mute and the thing went beyond control. Banning okada now will be disastrous for the state with great difficulty.

Oba Otudeko won't go down without a fight. Regarded as the doyen of the banking sector and a boardroom strategist. He has finally come to his end and I heard that the man is a boardroom bully. I admire him sha.

A lengthy court war is brewing. Lawyers will soon cash out big time.