取暖器上八不宜

除了供暖，许多人还尽量让暖气“物尽其用”：有人挖空心思装饰，有人在上面热牛奶、烘袜子，有人把暖气当成储物架。对此，中国室内装饰协会环境检测中心提醒大家注意，因为暖气持续高温、容易藏污纳垢，以下一些物品最好远离暖气设备：暖气罩 暖气罩虽能把暖气藏起来，但也带来了一些问题：一是暖气被罩住后，热量出不来，就难以达到设定的室内温度。二是给暖气维护和维修带来了麻烦和安全隐患。三是暖气罩不易清洗，成为病菌、蟑螂等聚居之处。     

昆明装修工面临断代困局

在昆明装修行业里,"60后"、"70后"装修工仍然是主力军,尽管手艺好的装修工薪酬比一般公务员和白领还高,但由于"80后"、"90后"新生代装修工数量很少,装修工出现了"断代"的困境。"如果能找到其他适合的工作,我肯定愿意改行,这个工作实在是又脏又累。"干了30多年装修工的张师傅不假思索地说。50岁的他觉得"眼花了",有点力不从心而萌生退意,但一个月五六千元的收入,加上老板的盛情挽留,他选择在装修行业里继续摸爬滚打。昆明装修工收入近两年涨一倍来自四川的张师傅已经50岁了,做了30多年的装修工,来昆明10多年了。目前,他是昆明某室内装饰公司的     

Fhe Many Lives of Furniture

HAN Ping, aged 58, is about to move into the new apartment he just bought. He wants to live together with his parents, and new furniture is on his decorating list. Meanwhile, he worries about how to dispose of the old stuff. Seeing that the old furniture has held up for several decades, his aging mother is not convinced it＇s a good move and keeps asking herself, ＂Do we give them up or not？＂ To her, this is a serious question.