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5 advertising myths about shower cabins (Part 2)

August 8th, 2008

HOUSE NOTEBOOK
The door from polystyrene is cheaper, but in due course “grows turbid” and looses its attractiveness. It is better to buy matte or with figures ones: on such background traces of time are less appreciable.
Choosing doors sway a skeleton. If it is easily loosened, refuse from this variant.
In order that your legs did not slide in soap water, choose the pallet with figure.
Pallets of the angular form have not the most successful sizes.
Buying a cabin, take the plan of the bathroom and compare it with exact sizes of the cabin.
BY THE WAY
Getting multipurpose shower cabin you should be ready that it will be necessary to arrange repair in bathroom. You should be offered the scheme of “preliminary” works.

Shower subtleties
Doors
The more shutters the door has, the less than place will be inside of a cabin, but the skeleton at the same time is stronger.
Good doors are opened and closed silently.
Doors on rollers are more convenient and break less. Ordinary opening door requires greater area. It is more convenient to wash it, but in 10 years it will be necessary to change rubber linings.
Choose a cabin with a convenient seat. Do not hesitate to check in shop a degree of comfort: sit so as if you are in a sweating room.

5 advertising myths about shower cabins (Part 1)

August 4th, 2008

Multipurpose cabins which can be established instead of a bath are becoming more and more popular.

Myth тДЦ1
This pleasure is not only for elites
Today practically everyone can buy shower cabin. It is necessary to choose only suitable size and adequate price. If you have small bathroom, you can lay out a tile, make a waterproofing, hang up the amalgamator and establish shower corner, which would consist from one door and the pallet.

Myth тДЦ2
Shower and sauna in one bottle

In high-grade sauna the temperature of air should be not less than 80 ╨╛╨б. At such temperature of heating, if you would casually touch plastic, you would receive the strongest burn. Therefore in shower cabins only a Turkish bath, the coolest one, can be arranged. At 100 % humidity of pairs gets warm up to 40 - 45╨╛╨б. If the seller will convince you, that in a cabin pairs get warm up to 60╨╛╨б, do not believe in it.

Myth тДЦ3
Real massage!
In order that the massage was real, water from vertically located atomizers should flow not at the same time: first some seconds - from the lowermost of some, then - from the following, and so up to the top. Then it will repeat all over again. If such process is not present, it is not a massage, but a usual shower. Massage atomizers should be rotary and with jet thickness regulation.

Myth тДЦ4
Electronics is always cool!!
In multipurpose shower cabins the thermostatic amalgamator is better than electronic regulator. In them there can not be electronics of the same quality, as in models at the price of nearby 10 thousand dollars.

Myth тДЦ5
The cabin will serve you for a long time
Practically all details of shower cabins are made of plastic. It is considered as the most qualitative German plastic. But even the most expensive plastic cabin will serve a maximum for 15 - 20 years.

Yves Delorme in Russia

July 19th, 2008

One of the most popular in the Europe and Russia of luxury-marks of bed-clothes Yves Delorme offers elegant mistresses and owners graceful “bed-clothes” for beds and sofas.
The new collection autumn-winter 2008-2009 from the French brand will be presented to the European public only in September, at Parisian exhibition Maison&Objet. Russian clients are lucky: they can choose fashionable bed-clothes now. Novelties are “ahead of schedule presented in conceptual interior Yves Delorme Lifestyle by Mis En Demeure, which has been again opened after reconstruction. The main idea of new space - the union of the French linen manufacturer with colleagues from Design house Mis En Demeure which not only sells furniture and interior objects in Old French spirit, but also renders services on houses and apartments interior arrangement.
In Yves Delorme Lifestyle by Mis En Demeur, besides new collections of linen from balloon cloth and sateen with jacquard or print ornaments, pillows and towels from actually YD, and also Kenzo, Oliver Desforges and Pierre Frey, it is possible to buy oak beds, lockers and cases from natural or artificially olden oak (for example, one bed looks cracked up to cracks and grinded by wood fretters), baroque consoles and mirrors, cut color glass, lusters with the crystal suspension brackets, the flavored candles and amusing figurines.

Economy class Ceilings

July 12th, 2008

They do not assume use of expensive finishing materials and technologies. Each kind demands, that old paint or whitewashing has been removed from a ceiling all over again.

Advantages:
-these works are not so expensive.

Disadvantages:
-such ceilings do not allow hiding a pipe;
-if ceiling is curve (one party is more than on 5 centimeters above another), cracks between plates of overlapping will be seen.

The plastered and painted ceiling
The ceiling should be leveled on described above technology and then painted. Whitewashing and an oil paint are not used any more and can be replaced with more convenient water-dispersive paints.

Ceiling wall-papers
Ceiling wall-papers are being glued on the leveled ceiling.
In what premises are they applied? - in any except for damp ones - bathroom and kitchen.

Ceiling plates

Ceiling plates are made of polystyrene or polyfoam. They may be glue on any surface, which need to be slightly leveled. Plates happen not laminated - it is possible to paint them with paint and to wipe dust with a dry cloth or vacuum cleaner.
In what premises are they applied? - In any and especially on kitchens and in bathrooms.

Unique wardrobe for city apartments

June 23rd, 2008

Japanese designer Takeshi Miyakawa has developed a case-curbstone, intended for small city apartments.
Name Fractal 23 reflects a structure of this unusual subject of furniture: twenty three boxes of the different sizes, from very capacious up to very small, are put forward from a skeleton as if from a locker, and in the combined kind they represent a white cube.
Externally the case-curbstone reminds also light, laconic furniture of the Japanese house, and a puzzle, which is inside of one space hides a set of small ones. Harmless Fractal 23 is made of tree.
The studio of designer Takeshi Miyakawa works for eight years, developing original interior subjects.

False ceiling in bathing

June 15th, 2008

False ceiling in bathing is very fashionable nowadays. Feature of bathroom, to which it is necessary to pay attention at furnish of a ceiling first of all, is that it is premise with the raised humidity. The surface of ceiling can contact not only with damp air, but also with water. Accordingly at choice of a material it is necessary to be assured in its moisture resistance.
Coverings with incorrectly picked up moisture resistance after a while start either to stratify, or to rust under the influence of fungi and bacteria. All other requirements to ceilings in bathing (light-reflective and sound-proof ability, fire resistance, and ecological cleanliness) completely correspond to the general, shown to ordinary ceiling designs.
Furnish of a ceiling in a bathroom by means of a pendant design is one of variants of decisions. It is beautiful and functional - under a false ceiling it is possible to hide electro posting, ventilating etc. rack metal ceilings, tiled, and also from water-resistant gypsum cardboard perfectly approach for bathing.
Today some types of tiled false ceilings are being produced. Not all of them are suitable for bathrooms - everything depends on material. It is possible to choose plates from a mineral fiber. This material is not afraid of moisture. However, besides mineral fiber the structure of such plates includes a secondary paper, clay and organic additives.

Ideas for your bedroom

June 2nd, 2008

If bedroom in the house is a separate room, it is highly recommended to use light pastel and warm tone, creating atmosphere of coziness. When the bedroom is not large, it is desirable to avoid right contrast colors. It is better to play on nuances - shades of one color or close to color scale tones.
Natural materials, natural colors - a lot of alive greens of plants and tree, light curtains and jalousie, a carpet from a wool or banana fiber on light parquet, fixtures with soft diffused light. In a bedroom it is possible to make a zone of rest with an armchair, a floor lamp and a low table. The bed can be separated by partition with shelves, low rack or translucent fabric jalousie. It is also possible to allocate a zone of rest, having covered a floor in with a carpet or a carpet covering of other color.
But bed, nevertheless, remains the basic furniture of bedroom. And it is necessary to choose it correctly. Every possible variants of skeletons, mattresses and headboards require thoughtful and slow choice, and, of course, experts’ recommendations. Skeletons and mattresses -are imperceptible, but the most important parts of your bedroom. They define qualities of dream and rest.
At a choice of a mattress it is necessary to pay attention not only to its softness or hardness, but also to a possible allergens in structure of its layers or features filling material. For example, latex mattress is made of natural or artificial foam rubber. It is the most durable type of mattresses, but they are not recommended to people with raised diaphoresis.

Steel character: Fixtures Esedra, Status, Grossmann

May 31st, 2008

Many factories, having given in to charms of minimalism, precise lines and brilliant surfaces, have decided to devote╨▓ the whole collections to high-tech style. This problem has been in the best way solved by three factories - Esedra, Grossmann and Status.
So, Italian factory Esedra specializes on decorative fixtures. Esedra combine rigid character of a mega city and own game of design, idea, and light. Other Italian factory - Status - combines in the fixtures severity and a practicality. Already more than 30 years production of company Status guarantees high quality and functionality. The laconic, brilliant fixtures executed in cold tones, become an original interior detail and will emphasize purposefulness, activity and gravity of the owner. The lamp with the fantastic name Colibri, created in 1998, is the sample of minimalism and the favorite of office interiors, and collections of fixtures of factory Status, for example, Papira is a combination of the high quality, the sated, deep color palette and functionality.
German company Grossmann has made high tech as the basic style direction. Grossmann is a real German quality, a wide range both decorative, and architectural light, a variety of models and interesting details.

Feather or spring bed?!

May 30th, 2008

Choosing between spring and spring less kinds of mattress, you will, certainly ask yourself about which one is better. It appears, orthopedic properties can be shown at any qualitative mattress only when it will be correctly picked up, and after the analysis of set of all data - weights of the person, its “special” (problems with a backbone) and personal sensations. So, the full person “will fail” in a soft mattress, and thin one will not feel a special difference between board and rigid rookery. Some firms give the information on an allowable weight among other parameters. Therefore, before to make such expensive purchase (the price can vary from 500 dollars up to 5 thousand dollars), and especially at Internet purchase, it is necessary to direct all over again to the nearest interior and to test available variants in operation. It means that you need not only to sit, but also to lie down on the exhibit as if you have decided to have a sleep.
If to speak about details, models with dependent (classical) springs (linked among them on all cloth and consequently creating wave effect), despite of essential prize in the price, are confidently superseded by mattresses with springs.
Each spring is compressed exactly as much as weight of your body needs, not paying attention to the neighboring springs. Such mattress, are carefully supporting and repeating each bend of your body and do not allow it to become numb. As a result, you will have a sweet sleep. Because of absence of wave effect, spouses, lying on one mattress, will not bother each other.

Furniture in Russian style

May 13th, 2008

The furniture in Russian or pseudo-Russian style has for the first time appeared at the international exhibition in 1867 in Paris. And it will be successfully exhibited at the further, always causing genuine interest of public and experts. It is indicative, that the products executed in this style, have forced Europeans to change the opinion of Russia and more closely to concern to what Russian manufacturers offered.
The new direction, in which genuine interest and surprise prevail comes on change to opinion occurred in the West that “Russia is the country of imitations”, and its manufacturers are guided only by creation of copies. European experts have at once noted, that Russia aspires to be released from whose that there were influences to create own, based on national elements, style.
Russian furniture has completely grown from these conditions. Connections of a tree are not hidden by artificial veneer, but, on the contrary, to they are attaching special expressive significance. It also explains why partitioning of separate parts are executed with full understanding of the elementary techniques; each element makes impression, as if it has been quickly and easily made by a cutter or on a lathe.
No any synthetic material, but a tree can fill the house with such powerful natural power.

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