Interior design ideas

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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Feng shui at the workplace

March 10th, 2007

We spend about 1/3 of our livetime not only in bed but at our workplaces also. Therefore the better we manage the workplace, the better mood we have while our working time and the more results we obtain in the career. To improve these results an Ancient Chinese science “Feng Shui” can definitely help us.

One of the major ideas of Feng Shui is to pay more attention to your workplace decoration including its colors. According to Feng Shui each color is an expression of the certain kind of energy. Color is able not only to affect our mood, but also has an influence at our health. That’s why and type of modern fashionable white & black & grey offices are absolutely harmful for the health as they have only three colors. To say true - there have no one color! Grey color is a type of black color and black is not color and white color is not visible for your eyes. We see black when the surface reflects nothing and only absorbs light.

White is color indifferent one and therefore doesn’t have any energy. The same we can say about the influence of the variety of too bright tones. The motley color scale attracts attention only in the first moment and to stay in such interior is rather tediously. So the advice is to use more “gold” tones while your workplace decotation. They are light orange, yellow, beige, “coffee with milk” color, warm red tone and calming green color.

Vitamin interior

March 7th, 2007

Spring has finally come! Spring is a time of a general avitaminosis when in a head there are so much light and fresh ideas, and you don????????t have any forces for their realization. The matter is that the weariness and tiredness which have accumulated during the winter. Today we advise you to fill the house with vitamins, which will help to lift vitality.
Energy Of The Sun
Yellow color, almost as chocolate, speeds up work of a brain and helps to solve challenges without a special pressure. Unfortunately, cabinets often make out in dark, black or brown tones (for solidity), greater office premises are interpreted in cold and transparent white-blue colors. It is no wonder that the first one makes a psychological pressure on the person, and the second one does not allow to concentrate - useful ideas disappear through white-blue colors, as through air. So, yellow color should become the ally among the representatives of creative and intellectual trade. Not without reason even the bulb - an eternal symbol of the arisen idea - is also shone by fervent yellow color!
Designers, psychologists and dieticians unanimously recommend using this color for the kitchen????????s interior. It stimulates healthy appetite and promotes a well-known warm and cozy atmosphere when the kitchen unites functions of rooms for negotiations, a hall for meetings, and a pantry for secrets.
And nevertheless, being an excellent medicine for melancholy and chronic weariness, yellow color is moderately good. It is not necessary to be surrounded with subjects of exclusively yellow color - it can become the reason of irritability and excessive excitability.
Emerald Effect
Similarly to yellow, green color has the most different shades - dark and light, warm and cold, that allows using it in an interior of any style. It is possible to not to be limited to wall-papers or textiles. Indoor plants, a picturesque kind on park in the open window - all these are the aspects of deep color of freshness and rest.
However, green can be not only gentle, sated, but it also can be poisonous. Therefore, working with this color, it is better to not overload mentality with excessively bright shades and persuasive patterns. Be not mistaken with pale-green color: at all universality and even some severity of this tone it is important that it did not remind all known “hospital” a shade.
Orange Fresh
Orange color is so bright, that sometimes it is compared on force of influence with white color. It seems to burn with its light and children’s spontaneity. Anywhere, where the orange colo is represented, it would be desirable to move and to operate.
There can be an impression, that orange color does not remain any place for other bright accents. And, certainly, it is complex to imagine monochrome design in orange tones. Actually,both contrasts???? are possible. In fact this color, as well as other one, can be darker or lighter, more brightly or more easy. Such interior perfectly approaches for a nursery, sitting room and kitchen.
Tasty color combinations
We have considered three most energetically useful colors, and each of them is good. But we also can transform an interior into the whole multivitamin complex in which curative properties of all three shades would be combined.
Orange and green are derivatives yellow and consequently perfectly it supplement. Besides, they are well combined with each other, creating “fruit” mood in the house. It is no wonder, that such extremely appetizing combinations are often used for kitchens.
All three colors can create an interesting composition with various shades blue, dark blue both violet colors.

How choose an appropriate color for your room

January 19th, 2007

White interior

White color brings light and coolness. White color is perfectly combined with any color, it is universal, especially well it harmonies with a natural tree. The room issued mainly in light tones, causes more positive emotions. White color will be especially good for small rooms as it visually expands the space. White walls create effect of weightlessness and cleanliness.

Red interior

This bright color approaches for creation of accents, for example, in accessories. However it is not necessary to use red color in a plenty: the abundance of the red color can negatively affect mentality and create an oppressive atmosphere in a room.

Green interior

It is color of the nature, grasses, trees, and it brings you a feeling of confidence of and securities. However, surplus of green color “presses” and oppresses, it should not be too much in an interior. It can serve as a fine background or addition to furniture and accessories, to shade subjects of the room. Nevertheless, green color brings a life and air the house. And even if you don????????t like it, do not forget about plants - even a few greens in a room are a piece of a pleasure and a good mood.

Dark blue interior

It is color of the coldness and calmness. It gives to a room the refinement and nobleness. However, the surplus of dark blue makes premises cold and even gloomy. Therefore it should be counterbalanced by means of warm tones.

Yellow interior

Yellow color is usually associated with heat and coziness. This color fills any interior with hospitality and cheerful mood. If you are not a big fan of the yellow color, but dream to recover and warm the house, it is possible to use only bright accents in different parts of the room. It is well combined with green and red colors.

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