Interior design ideas

Only in XVII century various western innovations began to get into use of Russians, for example, these were the hobby for fabric or from an imprinted leather wall-papers, engravings and the painted cards in frames, wall mirrors (of superstition them originally did necessarily with closed shutters) and even pictures. But all this has not gained especially wide popularity and was more likely an attribute of known free-thinking among the nobility.
The basic furniture was wide bench, cut into wall during construction and served both for sitting, and for sleeping. Besides them in a room there were some benches of the simple form and the table, consisting from a goat with boards laid on them. Rooms were small on the size, with low, often vaulted, ceilings and small windows. Having jambs window frames, into which translucent mica plates were inserted, were considered as luxury. The house had a lot of transitions, corridors and narrow ladders hidden into the wall: as required the additional constructions connected to it covered transitions were attached to the basic building, and the level of floors often did not coincide.
The comfortable dwelling in Russian conditions first of all should be warm; therefore the main place was occupied by furnaces - painted on clay with bright paints or trimmed by different color tiles - green, terracotta or multi-color. Cracks in the house carefully closed up all a tow, doors and upholstered sites of walls were adjoining to windows cloth. Windows were never opened, about any airing had no concept and when it became stuffy, the air was refreshed with frankincense. In a greater mansion the system of hidden apertures - the prospirits provided natural ventilation - was arranged.
In rich houses benches were covered with velvet or tinsel cloth, large carpets were lying on the floor. In a corner of dining room family silver and different overseas souvenirs were placed on an eminence covered by red cloth: “a horn of unicorn”, greater nacreous bowls, “amusing figures” or something like this. Table was also covered with cloth atop of which expensive cloth was spread.

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