Interior design ideas

Table layout: utensils

September 28th, 2007

The mistress, setting the table, makes a miracle as any feast is a small holiday even if it is a question of a simple dinner. In housekeeping books it is said that table layout is an art. Experts on ancient traditions add that it is a magic! Harmony, warmly and a coziness will come to your house when, having opened magic properties of utensils, you apply this knowledge to a coziness of a home.
The form of utensils is very important! Magic properties of meal in many respects depend on it. So, the round utensils better concentrates positive energy and protects food from influence negative one. The square utensils make the owner more rigidly and more resolutely. So, if you are shy, eat from such utensils.
However, sharp corners of utensils are counter-indicative to quick-tempered people as they can strengthen their rigid parties. And for passion, adding piquancy to the emotions, services with sharp corners are irreplaceable.
Power of color
In an antiquity the color designated each of four elements: passionate red fire, quiet dark blue air, deep black the ground, innocent white water. Therefore color of utensils is very important. Thus, if you are weak-temperamental, choose utensils of a red shade, if you want something new and sincere, you may surround you with white plates and if you dream of creativity and imagination - dark blue or orange utensils will help you!
It is quite good to keep to the color balance: to have utensils of all shades. So, in spring, when forces were fairly exhausted during winter and it is necessary “to be supported” with energy of updating, the utensils of green shades is preferable.
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Kitchen glamour

September 25th, 2007

These advanced inventions facilitate work, accelerate cooking process and can become fine gifts to any taking a great interest culinary specialist.
They do not take a lot of place, unlike the next combine, a blender, a mixer etc.
Do you remember how Ameli liked to break crust on caramel cream?
Attempt to create a crust by means of matches or lighters can finish rather tragically. In this business the culinary torch (food torch or cr????me brulee torch or culinary torch), giving out the powerful directed flame, is required.
The inhabitants of the mega city, aspiring to equip their home bar, will admire such glamour thing as mojito muddler.
At the Viennese restaurants schnitzels are so thin and flat, that it hangs down on edges of the plate. However, in result of intensive chopping you will get a fragmentary bloody lace. By means of meat pounder schnitzels will quickly reach the optimal size and thickness.
Now any time year it is possible to see fresh sweet chestnuts on sale.
Cooking chestnuts is dangerously for a life and calmness - they (chestnuts) blow up in microwave own and arrange such a noise, that neighbors can call the police. The special chestnut knife and chestnutter will help to cope with this labor-consuming business.
Oil mister is a magic wand for those, who try to eat less fat. Pizza stone is the culinary invention, which will help to get rid of undesirable calories. It will help to create a pizza with ideal form, moderately crackling, and moderately soft crust due to slow, equal, correct warming up as in wood furnaces.
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Some tips on fireplaces (Part 2)

September 21st, 2007

Many of us face with a lot of problems at combining a real stone furnace is a quite complex and responsible business, and it is also necessary to find good masters. It is much easier to choose the alternative - the household metal furnace, which is very convenient and practical in use.
Choosing model, consider the basic requirements:
1. Efficiency should make not less than 75 - 85 % (look the instruction) - otherwise you will yell on fire wood;
2. Fire safety (look at the appropriate certificate).
You should be also convinced that the chosen model will be well combined with your premises interior in view of the recommended parameters of flue and distance up to a wall.
IMPORTANT
The floor under the furnace should not fail. It means that it is necessary to prepare the base or concrete overlapping of sufficient durability, and a flue - according to the rules and according to requirements of the chosen fireplace.
The furnace should stand in the center of the house. In the house with a verandah it should be established so that the “face” part of the furnace would be left on the verandah, and back and lateral walls - settled down between internal partitions.
What is furnace-fireplace?
Furnace-fireplace as well as it comes from its name, represents a mixture of something average between a household metal oven and a fireplace with closed fenny. Such design allows to combine advantages of oven (it keeps heat for a long time) and a fireplace (it quickly heats up premises). And if to pick up corresponding facing, it will not concede to a fireplace on beauty.

Some tips on fireplaces (Part 1)

September 20th, 2007

IMPORTANT
We have talked a lot about the role of fireplaces in the house interior, but there some details, which should always considered at fireplaces arrangement. These details seem not so much important, but you can????????t do without them.
It is not recommended to arrange fireplace on the way of possible drafts. But at the same time access of oxygen is necessary for maintenance of burning. Therefore it is better, if the room c a fireplace will be not less than 20 meters.
The wall, at which the fireplace is established, should be made of fireproof materials, and it should have any kind of communications (like telephone). If the wall is external, than it should be heat insulated with the help of basalt cotton wool, covered by a foil.
The weight of a fireplace in gathering can be very great; therefore the floor under it should have sufficient durability with an obligatory concrete coupler. If you put a fireplace in the wooden panel board house (where floors are also made of wood) and it adjoins to a wall, than it is impossible to do the separate base as at the isolated movements of the bases of a fireplace and the house displacement of a wall can cause destruction of the fireplace. In this case wooden floor should be strengthened with the help of iron structure.
THE FURNACE
If other heating at your house is not supposed, than it is a high time to think about it. Its basic difference from a fireplace relies in long kindling and long-last warming up of the room.

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Wardrobe (Part 3)

September 11th, 2007

It is necessary to have as many shelves, boxes, hooks and hangers in wardrobe as many things you there are going to put the, otherwise you will face the problem of cluttering up. Think twice and it is even better - rehearse, where you will put scarves, shoes where everyday and where - evening dresses, ties and trousers and winter clothes will “be hidden”.
Here it is possible to find a place to mattresses, pillows and other bedding. The mirror (or even two) will be also expedient and do not forget about soft padded stool. Experts advise to maintain a parity of the closed and open surfaces approximately 50/50 in spacious rooms so that they would look lighter and more spacious. In small room the open superficial racks should prevail.
Moreover, wardrobe as well as bath room, should reduce a level of a neurotic pressure, serve original relaxing cabinet. All these wishes are considered by leading firms-manufacturers among which it is possible to name such firms as Rimadesio, Tre-Piu, B&B, Molteni and Co, Tissettanta, Lema, Dossier, Interlubke, Res, Poliform, Versal, “BATTISTELLA”, “TRABATTONI”, “PIANCA” and “RONCORONI”.
As we see, wardrobe - not a tribute of fashion or luxury, and it is very much even useful and necessary space for any apartment. It removes irritation from searches of the necessary thing, enables to leave from bulky and inconvenient cases; it is more rational to structure space. Experts approve, that correctly placed clothes and footwear do not lose the form and wear out more slowly. Researches have shown that service life of things, held in a wardrobe room, is on 15-20 % longer than in usual cases. Correctly planned and equipped wardrobe will bring comfort and coziness into your everyday life.

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Wardrobe (Part 2)

September 10th, 2007

Anatomy of the order
The basic advantage of modern wardrobes is caused by the fact that, owing to systems of built in designs; it is possible to use almost absolutely any space of any configuration, including corners inaccessible to case furniture and a niche for wardrobes. Structurally, there are two kinds of wardrobe and we shall name them “classical” and “modern”. In the first case it is a volumetric expansion of a classical wardrobe, when the system of racks and mini-lockers or wall panels with shelves is established along walls.
In the second variant - the frames - metal bars between a floor and a ceiling - are being used, and then all other elements are being fixed. Such designs are quickly mounted, and they are easily transported from a place on a place.
In their basis wardrobe rooms of any factory have a uniform principle of the device: these are the shelves and hung up, fastened to rooms???????? walls, and system of doors, which separate it from the basic space of the apartment or house.
Shelves can have various depth, they can be sliding and have a side or a tube-hanger from below. You may choose the number of shelves and their arrangement. Except for selves and hangers (which can be supplied by “lift” for top levels) wardrobe are completed with different sorts of sliding cases, special shelves for footwear, trousers, ties, belts, metal baskets for linen, boxes for trifles, covers for clothes, mirrors, an ironing table and built in quartz-halogen bulbs. Drawer of different height and width can have static position in your wardrobe, and can be on wheels.
At leading firms-manufacturers traditional accessories are supplemented with sliding accessories of qualitatively new level: section for trousers, arms for ties, shelves with breakdown on cells for complete sets of underwear, fine subjects of clothes, a shelf for storage of jersey, which bottom is made of aluminium grid that allows things “to breathe”.
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Wardrobe room

September 5th, 2007

Creation of special space for storage of things helps to get rid of superfluous furniture, saves a place, keeps light and open space in your house.
The competent lay-out of an apartment assumes not only one and even several wardrobes, for example, male, female, and children????????s wardrobes. If owners presume to allocate a high-grade room under this premise, the variants of its arrangement are really unlimited.
If everything is reduced to the minimal re-planning, any formed corner or not involved space may be used for the wardrobe, and be they can be anywhere: between hall and kitchen, between kitchen and sitting room, between dining room and bedroom.
It is not so necessarily (though it is tempting!) to expand the case to the sizes of the whole room, and for creation of the compact wardrobe the area of 4 meters will be enough; more often it is founded on the territory of former corridor, sometimes - on a place of a guest bathroom, and it is possible “to cut off” rectangular (or even triangular) piece from a bedroom, sitting room or dining room. And frequently, even the built in cases may be used as wardrobe rooms.
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Elite furniture (Part 2)

July 12th, 2007

For the last years some changes in definition “lux” in interior and furniture design, which are not connected with a fashion, are being observed. The “lux” category is defined any more by cost and skill of manufacturers, but with other criteria which have been recognized secondary: reproduction of moral values, successes in research of materials, ecological compatibility and others. All these qualities are not evident, but they considerably raise value both each subject of furniture, and a uniform of interior design composition. Thus the important components of quality of elite furniture gain originality, novelty, beauty and, first of all, functionality.
It appears so that the furniture of “lux” class serves not only to image of the owner, but it also carries out functions of furniture in general - it provides coziness and comfort in the house. Today functionality of furniture means bilateral communication between the designer and the consumer. Designers do not chase extreme novelty of forms any more, and aspire to make stylish beautiful furniture as much as possible ergonomic. With this purpose new creative decisions are created and samples of classical design are staticized.
Do not hesitate of luxury. In fact furniture is not only for a body, but it is also a hobby.

Elite furniture (Part 1)

July 11th, 2007

Conceptually the furniture can be divided into two kinds: furniture for a life, and other furniture, “for eyes”- as a hobby.
Elite furniture - criteria of estimation
There is furniture of absolutely other grade. Furniture is a sign on taste and social status of the owner. Such furniture is not on sale in ordinary shops and it is not made at factories by million parties. It is called furniture of “luxury” class.
In opinion of the inhabitant for furnish of luxury furniture the original concept and use of natural materials - a tree, leather, natural fabrics, nonferrous metals are characteristic. And it is quite natural - transcendental cost of the goods is really “charming”.
The attitude to furniture is not always defined by a material status, and more likely world position. Those, who wish to transform a place of residing at the house into the dream, hardly will save on an interior.
Despite of current of time and development of the furniture industry (improvement of technologies and materials), and its further improvement (introduction on the furniture market of the new companies and countries) Italy remains the world leader on the market of elite furniture.
“Elite” - the luxury - has not always been the defining characteristic of the Italian furniture. But today the furniture of a class “luxury” differs not only, and not so much by price, but on many other qualities. Among other furniture markets researchers of the of the Italian furniture market features mark it????????s (paradoxically!) availability.???? In other words: the increasing numbers of people are capable to decorate the life with rather qualitative furniture. When we say “furniture”, we mean everything, including, lighting devices, accessories, textiles, table silver - all movable subjects of interior design.

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Dining table (Part 3)

June 18th, 2007

History
Chairs have been thought up by people long time ago. Among archeological finds of Ancient Egypt harmonious stools and thrones with a straight back and a quadrangular seat, rectangular tables on four legs and round on one support, have been found.
In Slavonic countries all people, including approached to the imperial person, sat on a bench. The chair served as a throne, and tsar sat down on it only in “special” cases. Rich people upholstered a bench with a thick both dense rag and felt, and pulled green cloth from above. The owner always sat in a “red” corner, and the mistress took a place on edge.
In the Western Europe in XV century people have thought up to attach a back and armrests to stools. During solemn receptions chairs with pillows stood out only to members of royal family. The nobility sat on stools, less well-born court - on harmonious seats, other people stood. King at the choice granted ladies with “the right of a stool” - to sit at his presence. Chairs of an epoch of a baroque are as beautiful, as well as inconvenient. The groove became covered with a mix of chalk with glue and special additives and the thinnest leaves of gold from above were attached. ????????????????????
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