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People of all classes and masses worldwide (of course excluding the super rich category who never have to bother about budgets and durability and planning), till a few decades backs, simply used to not consider to paint their homes plain white.

This wasn't because they used to think that plain white would look too simple or too plain or too monotonous, but because white color was considered not as durable enough to withstand for a couple of years as compared to other colors. Painting one's home pure white although having many advantages like providing a peaceful and high-end aura to the building, yet the thought of the white exterior getting discolored or dirty weighed more in people's mind.

But gone are those days now. Majority of classes of people around the world are experiencing better earnings, better lifestyles and adopting higher standards of living. This has resulted in changing one's usual mindset and choice criteria too.

HOUSE PAINTING IDEA --- Coloring one's home pure white provides serene outlook

And, with all this change happening, one can easily figure out a lot lot many households going for pure white paint exteriors, which not only provides

As we always keep saying here on this blog, when it comes to taking a chance on buying a home from any Government/ Semi-Government/ State-owned authorities & bodies, nothing can beat the euphoria among the citizens of India who rush in huge numbers --- no matter what the realty bazaar indicates, or what the property pundits forecast about the real estate scenario in the near & far as a whole.

And when the Housing Scheme in question is that of the Delhi Development Authority (or DDA as it is popularly called in short form) for a plot of land or flat in DELHI, the Capital city of India, one can easily find people euphoric and cozying up to the anticipation of getting their application forms drawn out in the lucky draw and be a proud owner of a DDA Housing Scheme Flat / House / Plot.

The latest DDA Housing Scheme 2010, which offered more than 16,000 housing dwellings at various localities within the municipal limits of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, made the results drawn out in recently held lucky draw public on 18th/19th of April 2011. The results, besides being published in many national and regional newspapers, are also available on Delhi Development Authority (DDA) website.

If you are also one of the applicants, wanting to know the status of the DDA Housing Scheme Result 2010, Team Bricks-n-Mortar herein below presents you the 4 steps to find out if you have also become lucky:

STEP-1 :  Log in to the Draw Results page of the DDA's website by clicking here

STEP-2 :  Choose "DDA HOUSING SCHEME 2010" from the drop-down menu under the heading: 'SCHEME'

STEP-3 :  Fill in your Application form number or Registration number or Priority number in the following tab space.

STEP-4 :  Choose the respective 'CATEGORY' from the following drop-down menu tab after completing Step-3. Click the 'SEARCH'  tab thereafter.

The subsequent window that opens up after following step-4 brings about the RESULT STATUS OF YOUR APPLICATION FORM. 
Do share the happy news with us through the comment section of this post or otherwise by sending us an email in case you have become a lucky winner from this draw of lots.

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Related reference links:

• Home page of DDA's website 
  
• Results page of DDA's website  
• MCD property tax - Online or hard copy submission 
• MCD property tax - Amnesty scheme 2010
  

Many of our readers referring to this earlier post of our blog (regarding Online Filing of Municipal Corporation Property Tax) have lately reported some of the weblinks of the said post, furnished therein for ready reference, are simply not working and resulting in bad requests.

Upon checking the links and thereafter following up with the MCD, it has been inferred that the MCD website is under updation as well as maintenance presently due to which certain links are either not working  wholly and/or are being modified by them presently.

As such, we advise our readers to be a little patient and try landing at the parent (root) website of MCD first, i.e., mcdpropertytax(dot)in

We would also keep track of the changes made by MCD, and would update the links as and when MCD makes them available.

Thanks
-Team BnM

Knowing the past history records of the home or property one is planning to purchase is utmost crucial in more than one ways as no one would like to invest his/ her hard earned money and efforts in a real estate property that has scrupulous records and bad history.

One of the many simple and non-official ways to find out if the property one is pursuing/ planning to purchase is a clean one is to check with the local property agents / brokers as well as the near & far neighbors. In case any unwanted history is there about the property in question, these people could be the best source of information to find out as they are local contacts and stay in the very same place.

The other practical source could be the nearest police station. There should not be any untoward record history of the property and/or the inhabitants of this property in the recent or entire past.

Last but not the least, check the credentials of the previous owners / builders / property developers who are/ were connected with the property in whichever way by means of word of mouth, police records, internet data inputs, and the likes. Their history and antecedents may help in confirming / quashing your untoward fears/ doubts about the property you are planning to purchase (or even to rent-in in that matter of sense).

Excerpt reproduced as answered by team bricks-n-mortar on another platform on the world wide web.

We were searching and scratching the web for one of our readers who inquired about a few of the best websites on the world wide web. And searching for almost 30 odd minutes and surfing through almost 3 to 4 dozen of the sites and blogs and directories, we came across this post on padstyle that has compiled and listed 25 best / top interior design and furniture blogs.

Compilation of 25 best / top interior design and furniture blogs @ padstyle

Sharing the same with our readers. As a web-courtesy, we are providing a link to padstyle at the end of this post which the interested readers can explore to read about the 25 best / top interior design and furniture blogs.

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Market stuff:

Despite so many blogging platforms available like wordpress, yahoo, multiply, MSN live, et.al., this very blog as ever been stuck to google's blogspot for the simple reason that it offered a simpler yet interesting outlook to the bloggers without going into hassles of learning the nitty-gritty of HTML & CSS compressions and installing the hacks by oneself. Despite other platforms being equally popular, bricks-n-mortar somehow stuck with Google's Blogger Blog platform.

Yet, with times moving on and technology leaping and outpacing itself, other blogging platforms extended some very interesting features; and that is where Blogspot slowly but steadily started lacking. There weren't enough interesting features offered that could push up the adrenalin.

But, it was only very recently that all of you, also familiar with blogspot, might have noticed new features notified on the blogger dashboard.

And the most interesting of these features is the 'VIEWS' option extended whereby the blogs having proper RSS/ Feeds syndication and a couple of other settings can offer their respective readers option to view
the blog in 5 various options, viz.,

1. Flipcard
2. Mosaic
3. Sidebar
4. Snapshot
5. Timeslide

The offerings present the viewing options in these 5 variants and with minimal design complexities and thereby extending simplistic viewing & reading of the blog content.

The 'VIEWS' option is available to bricks-n-mortar readers too who can have a look at the different viewing options by typoing-in the blog URL as http://bricks-n-mortar.com/views

'Snapshots' View

'Timeslide' View

'Flipcard' View

Out of the five options, we personally liked the 'Flipcard', 'Sidebar' & 'Timeslide' options.
How about you? 
Do tell us which 'VIEW' would you like the most once you take a look at them.