Interior design ideas

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.
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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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Black light (Part 2)

June 24th, 2007

UV is one of the important components of Black light style - painting by fluorescent paints, and, as a rule, it is fundamental painting which, in turn, demands special carefulness in carrying out building-painting and decorating and using of only high-quality materials.
Opportunities of Black of light-design are many-sided. The technology allows achieving new virtual effects. The sizes of virtual space can be so that is necessary for a concrete premise and a specific goal. It is possible to expand borders of premise, or even to make its infinite, to create effect of volume. The technology allows to transform heavy forms in weightless. Among the innovators, who have picked up a fresh direction, there were owners of bars, restaurants, cafe, night clubs, and discos.
So, well-known restaurant “Fantasy” (Moscow) is located in a basement, where there is no natural illumination. The first hall represents gallery. Muffled light proceeds from the picturesque landscapes, framed with shutters. On each little table the spark of a candle blazes.
Getting in restaurant with such intriguing name, it is possible to wait for surprises. Waterfall is one of them. Falling downwards on stones, it forms a reservoir - a natural barrier before entrance into the second hall. The bridge with openwork handrail connects 2 halls - 2 worlds. This path conducts in other reality - into the fantastic country. The internal space of the second hall is formed with a three-dimensional panorama of a fantastic wood which, radiating soft light, erases real borders of a premise. The fragment of the bulk floor, painted under the star sky, reflected in a water smooth surface, strengthens visual effect, dissolving a side between a floor and walls.
For creation of various modes of illumination additional di-chrome light sources - color lamps-”chameleons” are used.

Black light (Part 1)

June 23rd, 2007

This name of a new conceptual direction in design of interiors has occurred from the same lamp of “black light”, well-known to fans of night discos. The lamp radiates a spectrum close to ultra-violet, but, unlike the last one, it is harmless to an organism. These beams are invisible to a human eye. From here such strange, at first sight, the name - “black light”. Our sight perceives only reflected from some natural materials and fabrics beams.
The effect of a luminescence of paints and materials under influence of ultraviolet is known since ancient times. The African tribes arranged ritual dances on a decline, having decorated the bodies with special natural dyes. When the sun came for the horizon, ultra-violet part of a spectrum dominated, causing a luminescence of the most ancient body art. In Black light style the same principle is used.
The basic idea of style Black light consists in the mechanism that by means of picturesque works, a list, volumetric forms, other materials and the special concept of statement of light the space is created.
Walls, a floor, a ceiling, any subjects, which the hand of the artist has touched, serve as light source. Owing to the list by special fluorescent paints the effect of uniform redistribution of light is reached. Paints possess ability to radiate light under influence of beams of a pseudo-ultraviolet and they are invisible and absolutely harmless to a human eye. Symbiosis of paints and color light gives rise to fantastic effect. The image becomes a light source. It finds tridimentionality, changes perception of space. Volumetric elements from a stucco molding, elements of an interior, the furniture, successfully included in a graphic composition, only strengthen holographic effect.

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Magic white

April 17th, 2007

Color score is the most important element of premise????????s interior. Everybody knows that color influences emotional state of the person, mood and working capacity, and has an impact even on thermal sensations. Today we shall consider opportunities of white color. Do not think that it is easy. This color, in which all spectrum of a rainbow is concealed, has great potential and internal force. It is named as a color of all colors and it is considered as a symbol of the absolute, a symbol of the beginning. It is considered, that the white color was at the birth of world. In the Japanese art the white not painted over leaf of a paper is considered so important, as well as that it is written. It is an ideal background, which is often used by designers in the interior, and simultaneously unites all subjects as if immersing them in uniform aura.
We speak “white” with the big share of reserve, in fact it has less shades, than any other color. Compare some sheets of a writing paper from different bales. Concerning interior, pure-white color is cold enough and is not so attractive. However, in the pure state it is used extremely seldom and only in the combination to other colors. Its quieter shades, such as cream, dairy, are perfectly combined with other soft tones (sand, terracotta, gray-blue) and form harmonious interior atmosphere. White coffee, champagne, nacreous, an ivory is faultlessly looked with shades of honey, creams. Such combinations are pleasant in color scale of an interior and are perfectly entered in the most different styles. Such combinations always create warm and an affable atmosphere. That is why the room issued mainly in light tones, causes more than just positive emotions.
White shades are well combined with natural tree. White color also visually expands space. White designs of ladders, windows, doors bring special ease, clearness of lines, clearness of forms, sensation of open space and scale into the house.
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