Interior design ideas

How to color your interior mistakes

November 7th, 2007

Why is it so difficult to copy successfully design from fashionable magazine? The reasons are quite clear: first of all, color perception depends on the area of painting. Secondly, there is a set of shades of each color, and in order to distinguish them manufacturers give them appropriate numbers and each manufacturer has its own palette.
It is known, that at the Japanese schools children learn to perceive up to 24 shades only of one black color and most other countries of the world there is no color literacy at all. Even the professionals cannot sometimes guess a shade seen in magazine, so, what can we say about those, who are not so much tempted in perception? Besides, the material and the invoice of a painted surface has great value, the same shade with the deep invoice will be look more sated and darker at surfaces.
Don????????t be upset, if your experience of interior color design has appeared unsuccessful; try to correct position by several means. First of all, try to pick up other accessories for room interior: capes on an armchair, a carpet, coverlets or pillows. The great value for of color perception can be made by illumination, especially, it concerns to the mixed colors, white and to all shades grey. Now on sale there is a plenty of lamps with different thermal temperature - from cold bluish up to solar yellow. Probably, having combined them, you will receive quite satisfactory result. It is possible to muffle too bright tone by matte varnish, and too light surface - by repeated coloring.

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Psychological aspects of color

November 2nd, 2007

Individual perception of color is the main riddle, which has not been explained by scientists till now. Everyone sees color differently and chooses the most suitable one from million shades. If certainly, you do not trust blindly to designers and interior magazines, you will choose the color independently. Copying of other interiors may lead to rather undesirable consequences. Bright-dark blue walls with a gold list very festively look in elegant palaces, but in small rooms they are capable to drive mad. Even very beautiful scarlet rose on a green bush and the walls, painted in these colors, without taking into account proportions, will looked painfully. If you decide to stake on contrast colors (red and green, violet and yellow, orange and blue) remember that for their harmonious combination of contrast color should be no more than 10 % of surface.
However, recommendations are not limited to it. Despite of individual color perception, of psychological researches show that it is more preferable to use light, green, greenish-yellow and beige tone for greater rooms. Paint walls in the wardrobe and built in cases in more intensive and even warm tomes. Blue, white and green colors are most psychologically comfortable for bathrooms. For a children’s room chartreuse and pink colors are recommended.
From the psychological point of view, the floor in the apartment should be in warm and not so light tones, as it visually makes it steadier. Besides, if the apartment or house is rather big, it is not recommended to use radical crises of tone, otherwise, it will simply break up to separate rooms and will not look as uniform vital space. Certainly, even one room can be visually divided into functional color zones, but do not use any sharp transitions because the basic tone should be the only one, as motive in a song.

Color secrets

November 1st, 2007

It seems like everyone knows how to combine colors, but…sometimes we make mistakes. At registration of own interior, wishing to show individuality, we always forget about this alphabet.
If room windows look at the south, registration with the sated or dark tones will approach, northern rooms are better for making light.
The darker the ceiling is the lower it seems, and vertical strips on walls make ceiling visually higher.
Darker wall seems standing in the distance and on the contrary.
Dark colors of walls make premise less, light colors expand it.
Red color has an exciting effect, at short-term influence of red color working capacity raises, and long influence leads to exhaustion and decrease in working capacity.
Orange color creates vigorous and cheerful mood, causes sensation of heat.
Yellow color - is active, recovering, invigorating, it promotes creation of good mood, at changeable influence raises working capacity.
Green color - is neutral, soft, calming, does not tire long action of color, causes not strong, but steady rise of work capacity.
Blue and dark blue colors concern to passive colors, promote a relaxation and delay of vital processes, downturn activity and emotional pressure, dark blue color has to contemplation and reflections.
Violet concerns to the most passive colors, causes sensation of depression and anxiety, even short-term action of violet color strongly reduces working capacity.
Brown color - is quiet and constrained, it causes sensation of heat, promotes creation of quiet mood.
Black color associates with night and darkness; it sharply reduces mood, and grey - causes apathy and boredom.
White color makes impression of modesty and simplicity, however, an emotional spirit strongly depends on illumination and heat of the shade. On its background any other color is looks advantageous.
The more colors are represented, the lees their intensity should be.
Bright sated colors cause a visual pressure that leads to excessive excitation and weariness.

How to decorate bathroom?

October 18th, 2007

The majority of us day starts their day and finish it with this room. Therefore bathroom should look (yes-yes, “look”) so that it would please the eye. So, the question is how to decorate bathroom?
1. It is very beautiful, when all accessories - lockers, towels, a curtain for a bath, glasses for tooth-brushes - are sustained in one color scale or, on the contrary, are contrast on color.
2. Fluffy carpet is, certainly, pleasant for legs, but it is very short-lived. Therefore it is better to choose rubberized carpet with holes on the floor. Now they are of the most different forms (in the form of stops, an apple, and flower) and colors.
3. If you want to have a rest in a bath, put a soft rubber headrest on suckers under a head.
4. Interesting support for flowers can make style of a bathroom romantic.
5. Give unique charm to your bathroom with the help of self-made panel from cockleshells and sea stones.
6. Put some small sea bowls, amusing under the form pieces of soap on the shelf with beautiful jars of creams and shampoos. Get a special brush for massage on the long handle.
7. The cosines of a bathroom will be given with fluffy towels of different size. Towels should be unessential identical on color.
8. And the most important here is to dream. Make original flounce for the mirror.
9. Hang up on a wall the dried starfishes, bathing birch broom, sponges and special brushes made of flax, a bristle, a clap.
10. Paste amusing pictures on the locker. Attach ground snag instead of the holder for towels…
11. In order to avoid slippage it is not necessary to put on a floor the same tile, as on walls. In an ideal on a floor there should be a special tile: no slipping, in fine pimples. Sometimes elderly members of family have difficulties with rise from a bath without assistance. Having screwed on a wall one or two metal handles, you will considerably facilitate this problem.
12. By the way, it is possible to establish a phone in bathroom so that it would be possible to submit signals if to you, say, feel bad or have jammed the lock. For the same reason instead of traditional locker it is better to have the lock which can be opened outside.
13. Bathroom requires much more careful cleaning: in fact the warm and damp environment is an ideal place for bacteria, fungi, and a mould. In order to avoid wearisome struggle against black formations in corners or on joints of tiles, it is not necessary to wait occurrences of the enemy, it is just necessary to prevent its attack.
14. From time to time wash out all walls of a bathroom with a weak solution of any disinfectant. Various cleaning powders do not suit this purpose, as strongly scratch and spoil a tile. The abrasive substances, which are the part of these powders, do not go on advantage and - assiduous friction conducts enamels of a bath to its mechanical damage, enamel becomes rough and surface accumulates more and more dirt. It is better to use liquid cleaners. Put it by means of brush and wait for some minutes, and then wash it off with lot of water. The mirror can be cleaned by ordinary liquid for windows washing.

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Wall list of an interior (Part 2)

October 2nd, 2007

It is necessary to note one more positive side of interior art list. Art inspires and it is a well known fact. When the person is living in skillfully decorated premise, constantly adjoining with art, he/she starts to feel more significant and significant. And it is not illusion as it can seem at first sight. Of course, it is not obligatory for you to know how to draw, but owing to your initiative and designer????????s talent the beauty will be born. And it will be a new fine reality. It is possible even to say, that you -the customer create beauty and unique world by hands of the painter. By the way, all frescos and mosaics in chapel have been painted not only for the sake of art, but also under the order of Catholic Church.
Now it is high time to say some words about the price. The prices for a list of an interior start from 150-200 dollars for one square meter. Everything depends on a degree of complexity of figure, a level of skill of the master, a surface, on which the image will be created (walls usually are cheaper than ceilings). It is also necessary to remember that hiring free-lancing artist is much cheaper, than hiring the painter from the special companies. At the order of great volumes the discount is usually offered. If to compare the cost of a list of an interior to other expenses for arrangement of the house it can turn out that the author’s list of a drawing room will manage to you cheaper, than the LCD TV-set or other modern technical gadget.

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Wall list of interior (Part 1)

October 1st, 2007

Chapel - one of the most well-known human creations. When we speak about it we, first of all, mean unique Italian frescos. Except for experts hardly somebody will tell something intelligible about the chapel????????s construction. Certainly, it has historical and art value but as soon as people see a list of an interior of a chapel.
Wall list has for many centuries served not only an ornament of a premise. It also reflected applicability of a premise, specified the status of the owner and his material prosperity. So if you want, that your house was not only beautiful and cozy, but also reflected your individuality or told about the history of your family, then it????????s a high time for you to think up about the list of your premise.
The choice of topics for list of an inhabited or public interior is improbably wide and is not limited to bible plots. Now except for classical angels and the sky on a ceiling, it is possible to arrange different landscapes or national symbols. For example, it is possible to represent a terrace on a wall, covered with grapevine or a seacoast. Certainly, there is no seacoast near your house, but the skill illusion is being perceived. The picture on a wall becomes alive and brings you into the fourth measurement.
Except for aesthetic pleasure such list has also a cleanly utilitarian function - it visually expands space. It works approximately the same as focus with mirrors: arrange greater mirror and visually your room will seem twice larger. Only in case of with a list of a wall we receive not the duplicate of an available premise, but filled with the wild life space.
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Autumn tendencies: more warm paints and light! (Part 2)

September 23rd, 2007

With approach of a dim season you should make your apartment as light as possible. You can do these with the help of such interior details as floor lamps, desk lamps, night lamps and candles. Lamp shades should be in classical style - heavy, with brushes and gold ornaments.
Plaids, pillows, covers on chairs and armchairs - all this will not simply change the interior, but it will also warm you in the long autumn evenings. And if still to pick up warm, soft shades - soft orange, brown, kind colors of autumn, - than it will much easier and more comfortable for you to stay ion good mood in cloudy days.
Flowers will help to get rid of depression: the greens will please your eyes and the care of plants distracts from sad feelings.
If you do not have free time to take care of plants, it is possible to decorate your house with bouquets: autumn is a fertile time for this purpose. Nevertheless, there is one more way out: you may use artificial flowers in original combination.
Do not forget about hair slunk skin or a fluffy carpet on a floor. It is fashionable and your legs will be warm.
By the way
Children????????s room should be bright at any time of year!
And the more mixtures of colors will be there, the better will be for the child. The western psychologists consider that since the early childhood the child should be surrounded with all colors of the world and it may be done in any combinations. The more bright details are used in children????????s room interior, the more cheerfully your kid will be.

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Autumn tendencies: more warm paints and sun! (Part 1)

September 22nd, 2007

How to make the apartment cozy, and mood joyful, despite of coming rainy days?
In an amicable way, each new season requires some changes in the interior of an apartment or the house, but it is not so cheap and easy. And time for, say, banal change of wall-papers or floors takes a lot of time. Therefore in any apartment we shall change surrounding area, proceeding from your financial opportunities and mood.
In autumn your house should be filled with many lovely knickknacks - caskets, candlesticks, bright cloths and napkins. If they will be hand-made, it will bring more charm and coziness to your house. On a little table it is possible to put a vase with bright fruits. They will not only relieve of depression, but they will also strengthen you with vitamins.
Do not regret time for a choice of candles: aromatic and simple, small and smart. They will help to relax in bedroom and a bathroom and bring romance into your intimate life.
It is also possible to change curtains and it, in turn, will change your mood for better. Autumn is a high time to change light tulle and organza and pass to heavier materials, for example, velvet portieres. They will make your apartment cozy and classically warm.
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Painting of… walls

July 26th, 2007

Since ancient times, people have been thinking about the decorating of their dwelling. Moreover, practically all modern designs have been invented during ancient times and after this they were only improved. So, running bisons and the mammoths, the armed hunters and tigers became prototype of-wall papers. The more people tried to improve their “art”, the better figures were. People lived in caves, temples, castles and decorating of walls became the cheapest way of “dressing” dwellings.
At those ancient times decorating of walls remained the only way to give a unique kind to the dwelling. After Renaissance epoch more technological way of decoration of premises was thought up- now these were plaster, fabric and cheap wall-papers. Was it the end? Of course, no! During the last years painting of the walls has again become fashionable. Why? First of all, it is convenient. By means of painting it is possible to expand visually the space, to lift a ceiling or, on the contrary, to lower it for creation of a greater cosines. Secondly, painting makes premise “alive” and expresses individuality of its owners. Imagine what pleasure your guests will receive, examining figure in a dining room or how it would be wonderful for your child to fall asleep in a room painted, as a fairy tale!
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Low ceiling? What about luster? (Part 3)

July 9th, 2007

Illumination plays the important role in the house. It influences our mood, health, temperament and even our behaviour. That is why correct choice of plafond will help to create correct mood and to make your house cozy and comfortable. Today we shall tell to you about the features of house illumination. How to choose a color of plafond:
Yellow
(so will incandescent lamp at transparent or white plafond so the fixture look) - the most optimum color, which stimulates a pupil and does not tire the eyes.
White (at a transparent or white plafond so the fixture with luminescent lamps) - simulates a daylight, raises working capacity.
Red - excites, raises pressure.
Orange - “appetizing” color, which accelerates palpitation.
Green - the most pleasant for eyes; reduces pressure, calms, good for having a rest, and working (basically - with muscles).
Blue - slows down a rhythm of breath, reduces pressure - light for those, who wants to be lazy.
Dark blue - oppresses and even can make you sleep.
Violet - oppresses and irritates nervous system.

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