Interior design ideas

Advice ????????1: do not buy closed case with a hanger for a coat hanger! It is beautiful, accurate and ??????? so inconvenient. Besides such case a hanger with hooks is desirable.
Just think over: will you hang up a wet thing into the case? And if visitors have come and there are not enough coat hangers for everyone?… Besides practice shows, those things of daily use will remove from a coat hanger on the chairs, door handles ??????? especially, if there are children, teenagers or students in the house.
If you are afraid, that the open hanger will acquire mountain of things, and one-two lonely coat remains in a case, make a hanger with hooks for doors.
Concerning mirror, there are some variants here: a hinged mirror (oval, rectangular or figured) with a little table - its main disadvantage is that you cannot see you in full growth; the mirror door of a case which, besides functional purpose, will allow you to increase the size of the hall, but has that lack, that the bottom part of a mirror in hall is usually gets spoiled and becomes soiled, especially if there is a dog in the house. And, at last, the combined door, which bottom part, is made of the panel, and top - from a mirror cloth. The height of the bottom part pays off so that you could see your reflection in full growth.
Shelves for scarves and caps are usually placed above the hanger, footwear - in the bottom part of the case or in separately standing box. It is convenient and it is practical to have it under the open hanger with hooks. It is possible to decorate a lateral wall of a case with angular or rounded shelves.

Fashion for such thing, as sanitary technician, - is a very strange phenomenon. It is visible and invisible at the same time, it is important and it is so “modest”. Say honestly: do you look at the urgency of forms and colors at purchase of toilet bowl? We usually ignore this. More often you simply do not think of system of the choice. Actually visual images, taken from interior magazines, are kept you in a head, and are guided by them, when you are choosing sanitary technicians you.
Let’s classify what is really actual in the field of sanitary design.
We shall start from the color; therefore as white color is dominating. As the fashion on color scales in interiors, fabrics and finishing materials would vary, color sanitary technicians remains practically constant. It is offered to sate color scale of a bathroom in other ways - by using decorative illumination (or a bath with chrome therapy) or a tile. Sanitary technicians in a modern interior combine white color with contrast finishing materials on color. Till now anthracite and dark olive colors are actual. This scale emphasizes cleanliness and snow-white light, reveals beauty and laconism of forms sanitary technicians. The vanguard collections executed, for example, from fashionable material “Corian”, offer the sanitary technician not only white color, but also pink, orange and red colors. But, to tell the truth, such bright palette approaches not far to each person and requires very correct registration from surrounding space.
However, if to think, white color as the main stimulus for designers work - it enables to work with the form and to create rather architectural constructions. Yes-yes, don????????t be surprised, not only designers, but world famous architects also work above designing of separate sanitary elements and the whole collections. And, naturally, similar products of sanitary art possess the fine design flavored besides brand name of the architect. This moment also defines fashion: the sound name of the architect or the designer, who has created this or that collection of sanitary technicians, raises its rating.

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Door handles is a very important detail of the decor, capable affect essentially on sales volume of that furniture to which it serves.
Quite often furniture collections differ one from another only by door handles. From all spectrum of furniture accessories it most a subject familiar to us to which we adjoin constantly, several times per day, opening a table, a case, a locker… It is worth of mentioning that it is only the designer, who should think up the form, color, a material for the door handle.
Metal and tree… cold, lifeless metal and a warm, alive tree - eternal competitors in struggle for popularity, but they are the best friends in design development. Metal has always attracted designers with the shine, not allowing dozing imaginations. And the designers experimented pleasure, painting its surface, covering with its gold or polishing it carefully. The photogenic nature of tree is also worth of attention. Not casually wood of cherry, nut and beech became one of the most ordinary materials.
According to practice, recently many people have showed their taste to tactile sensations- the desire to take pleasure not only from contemplation, but also from a touch. Owing to this the demand for handles from leather and fabrics has increased. They are, certainly, less practical, but they are very convenient and original.
Those who have got used to follow fashion, the designers offer door handles from Moravian glass and the painted plastic. Plastic - is the great actor. It is capable to simulate the structure of leather, tree or paper. Glass can????????t be used for this purpose. Nevertheless, glass doesn????????t need it at all; its main function is to emphasize grace of subject.
It is possible to regard door handles as last design novelties from chloroplast, painted in bright acid colors.
Use of a furniture accessories - is uneasy and risky business. In fact as the door handle is fine, it first of all should get used to a furniture image.
Do not decorate the furniture, as if a fur-tree. Each interior subject should look stylishly, instead of “over decorated”.????

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The mobile furniture, caused by dynamical lifestyle, democratic manner of behavior of modern people and growth of technical opportunities of manufacture, very quickly borrows the ideas from various areas of human knowledge - mechanics, constructions, every possible crafts and sciences. Here the role of the wheel - one of the most ancient inventions - is emphasized. First chairs, little tables and bars, and then - cases, beds, kitchens, upholstered furniture-were put on the wheels.
Respectable and monolithic soft armchairs and sofas for a long time now can turn and be moved apart. But on last fashion they can lean on wheels as all with four, and only two forward supports, leaving back ones elegantly direct. Here, the associations with a wheelbarrow are inappropriate.
Nobody was surprised that little tea tables and mini-bars have quickly got wheels. However now kitchens find mobility! Certainly, it was silly to put wooden lockers with incrustation on wheels. And light aluminium designs for this purpose quite are quite applicable. Owing to flexible hoses and special systems of connection, not only little tables and systems of storage, but also the built in techniques, refrigerators and even plates can freely move in space.
The cases, artfully pretending tables and beds, have got into bedrooms and nurseries, sitting rooms and dining rooms. The podium under which a bed can be hidden is very practical. Such system is especially convenient in children’s rooms, where the child can re-plan space in some minutes and without greater physical efforts. The harmonious or mobile ladders, included in ensemble of a cabinet - libraries or a sitting room, allow forgetting about alpinist feats in searches of the necessary subject. It is strange, that this decision is seldom applied in a private interior. Mobile wardrobes - easy and openwork - save free space, and consoles, with driving off panels or just for decoration, allow believing in the existence of additional room.
Special sphere is devoted to racks under the various equipments. TVs, tape recorders, video- and audio equipment gains the ability to turn to the listener or the spectator. Racks can drive of the wall, to be turned though on 180 degrees, to be hidden or appear in the center of attention. Besides there is no discord if, say, wooden wheels carry a metal podium with the TV - in design game everything is allowed if it is beautiful and comfortable.
Occurrence of simulators and parodists is the truest attribute of popularity. Today it is not less fashionably “to pretend” a wheel or the hinge, than to include the present wheel into the furniture system. It is possible to prove that it is not just a form-building principle, but it has already become something like functional necessity.

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Cabinet
Competent workplace????????s organization is very important. At correct illumination you can work longer, not getting tired, and will not risk to spoil sight. It is necessary to consider, that conditions of light exposure should correspond as much as possible to the day time at night. At work on a computer patches of light are extremely undesirable. Establish two fixtures in order to provide indirect illumination, and put a desk lamp beside on a table. It will shine a workplace without reflections, which strongly irritates and tires the eyes. Besides, there will be no sharp contrast between the illuminations of a table in the room as it also strongly tires. It will be even better, if your desk lamp could change flexibly position and would not heat up a surface. If you are engaged in drawing, take care of the lighting device of sufficient brightness which will transfer colors without distortions. Here soft semitones and shadows without patches of light are required. For these purposes white light perfectly approaches.
Children’s room
Main and very simple rule at installation of illumination in a nursery is that the fixtures should be inaccessible to the child as he would desire to unscrew a cartridge, to consider interiors of a bulb. It is undesirable to use portable fixtures, which easily overturn in a nursery and only stir to games. Instead of this it is possible to hang up fixtures on long arms on walls. You should remember that in children’s room it is impossible to use lamps of the smaller sizes and brightness, than in other parts of the house. If your child is afraid of darkness, establish a lamp-illumination at a bed. It gives pleasant, muffled light, and the child will not scare to fall asleep at night.
Bedroom
As well as everywhere, here the general illumination is necessary, but light should not be directed downwards at all. It is better, if it will softly dissipate in a ceiling. The effect of patches of light is especially undesirable in a bedroom, therefore, having fixtures, think over their interaction. Try to arrange the fixture at a level of eyes for illumination of a wardrobe and try to direct light inside. Then the doors will not give a shadow, and you (without the general illumination) will be able to define easily the fabric and color of clothes hanging in a case. It is unpleasant to wake up, only having fallen asleep; not speaking that then sometimes it is difficult to fall asleep again.
Do not shine a mirror with light color or falling from above.
Bathroom
Having correctly and interestingly arranged fixtures in a bathroom, you will considerably expand its functions, having transformed a banal room for fulfillment of a toilet in a room of rest, a favorite place of a solitude.
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If the furniture and design define the “face” of the room, illumination gives certain “mood” to it. Dim light in sitting room or bright fixtures in the bedroom are simultaneously insipid and impractical. Certainly, it is difficult to expect, that you will hang up a crystal luster in the bathroom. But in fact illumination of each room has the “small secrets”, which are easy for overlooking. And these omissions will emerge by all means in due course, having an effect on unpleasant feeling of discomfort.
In order to avoid this, let’s recollect once again - in what specific features of illumination of different rooms are.
Vestibule/Hall
In vestibule/hall the soft twilight is quite undesirable. Certainly, it can be present, but at the same time here there should be an opportunity of bright light. It is quite explainable. First of all, the vestibule carries out utilitarian function, and we should not try to get in darkness in a sleeve of a coat or to find a boot. Let alone what to make up lips in twilight - rather not trivial problem. Secondly, the quantity of light in the next premises should be comprisable.
Therefore, if the next room is filled in by the bright sunlight, the vestibule should also be bright. And at last, the vestibule defines the general impression of the apartment/house. Do not transform it into a gloomy corridor of the medieval lock. By means of light it is possible to increase a small premise and to expand narrow one, having made a vestibule cozy and light. Except for the general illumination you may add local illumination. It is obligatory for the zone of the mirror. In order to make the reflection well visible, light should go in regular intervals from the mirror, not creating patches of light and shadows. The best variant is to light up the mirror with two fixtures from both parties approximately at the level of the head. The fixtures can be arranged not only on the wall, but also - on the smooth surface, having received other distribution of light intensity.
Sitting room
If you do not wish to establish a traditional luster in the center of a ceiling, you may use dot fixtures. The fine opportunity for creativity is given with designs on the basis of current carrying trunks. You can change design of illumination under your mood without repair. Except for the general illumination it is necessary to consider local illumination in functional zones. If it is a zone of rest, establish wall fixture. And it is even better to put a floor lamp close to the convenient armchair. It ideally approaches for creation of a cosy atmosphere, unique image, changing surrounding space. In a circle of light you will feel lonely, and nothing can distract you from the book. Do not forget about the desk lamp or the sconce near to the coffee table. It should be bright, in fact embroidery of Gobelin tapestries demands the big pressure of eyes. Fine addition to conveniently located lighting devices is the opportunity to adjust intensity of their light. You should also remember that not less than three light sources with the different intensity, located on different levels are necessary???? for creation of a comfortable and cozy atmosphere in the room.
Kitchen
The general illumination in kitchen can be carried out by means of the pendant fixture which is going down above a dining table. The Light source should be hardly above a level of eyes, not getting directly in them. In any case even if you decide to leave traditional ceiling fixture, the table should be well illuminated. Be not limited to traditional forms and safely experiment. Fixtures should have closed lamp shades so that the light would not fall on your face.
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Unsuccessful purchase of furniture is a serious mistake, which consequences can be felt for years (soon it will collapse, will become unstuck, will appear absolutely unfashionable etc). Nothing negative will happen to you, if you follow such rules:
1. If you are a private buyer, try sit on the sofa. If the sofa is folding (try to move apart it for some times. Thus, it is not necessary to be over-modest, especially in the mechanism; in fact you will do this operation not one thousand times!)
2. If you the wholesale buyer and you have arrived to the factory, look of what the furniture is made. If your request is rejected, choose other manufacturers.
3. The skeleton of a sofa should be made well dried converted timber. (Some factories ignore this rule. Thus, non-dried skeleton will dry at your apartment, and the sofa, owing to this, - will creak.
4. Your sofa can be soft due to foam rubber, the spring block and polyurethane foam. It is quite impossible to prove, which material is the best. It depends on your sensations and tastes. But there are some principles.
The more softly foam rubber is, the easier it is crumbled. Sofa pillows, filled with foam rubber crumb, will quickly lose the form.????
5. The folding mechanism is one of the most important elements in the sofa. There are three kinds of folding mechanisms: the book (the seat is put forward half and the back leans back), the folding bed (the mechanism which is displayed in a berth and is under a seat) and sliding. Many companies refuse from “book” and we also advise you to choose between the folding bed and sliding.
6. If you have chosen folding bed, try to find out, of what the “sleeping” support of the folding mechanism is made. Belt supports and metal grids are the most popular kinds of folding mechanism.
7. Upholstery. A flock (a fabric with the pile, put with the electrostatic spray) is easily cleaned and not easily soiled. Large factories never use our flocks and try to avoid flocks with “dry” spray because of very strong electrostatics. It is possible to consider a fabric with Teflon covering as the ideal upholstery: water, tea, coffee will simply flow down from a sofa, upholstered by such fabric, not leaving any traces. But the price! The price is not so ideal…

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House cinema is a professionally planned premise, in which the big screen, specially picked up acoustics and a projector with the high optical sanction are established. All this “works” on creating of full sensation of “presence of a represented situation” at watching films.
All completeness of sensations experienced by you also depend on quality of the picked up and correctly established techniques. For example, the qualitative video projector creates images with high contrast, deep tones and a natural color rendition. And the image turns out volumetric, causing the sensations close to what arise at watching film at a good cinema.
Special knowledge is necessary to choose correctly components and to establish such system. Therefore it is better to address to experts, as now, there are a lot of companies, specializing on installation of such systems.
For providing optimum quality of sounding and the image, the house cinema should be placed in a separate room and it is better, if it would have the rectangular extended form with a minimum quantity of windows. Dense curtains at windows - are obligatory. It is even better, if the room under a house cinema gets out for a design stage of an apartment or the house. Thus it is possible to think over accommodation of acoustic system and building connecting cables and columns did not spoil the interior.
The size of a room under a house cinema defines the choice of techniques. If you do not have desire or an opportunity to create a house cinema with the greater screen and a projector, it is possible to establish the TV with the big diagonal or the LCD-panel. But in any case, the powerful and complex acoustic system with a lot of columns in a spacious room is required. Also it is necessary to take care of additional blackout or to put especially sensitive screen in the large premises.
The textiles in the room interior for a house cinema, besides function of an ornament, are capable to extinguish acoustic handicaps. Besides every possible drapery, carpets and mobile partitions from a fabric, it is possible to divide the big premise on the size into separate zones, or, on the contrary, as required, to unite space in a single one.
Curtains, upholsteries serve as well for association of furniture and techniques. Thus the textiles brings a color variety in an interior, creates a color associations and mood.
The furniture for house cinemas is represented with convenient armchairs and sofas on which it is possible not only to sit or to lay down. It is desirable to supply upholstered furniture both a set of variegated pillows and plaids. Here, low tables with shelves and, probably, legs on wheels that they could be moved, and also supports for storage of cartridges and disks are also necessary.
Illumination of a premise demands the thought over decisions: it should be multilevel and multiple. Equipping a room with fixtures, it is necessary to provide an opportunity of modeling of light both on brightness, and on an orientation, it is better if there will be some the lighting devices established at different levels and in different zones of a room. The top general illumination - lusters, plafonds - is desirable, but unessential; it is quite possible to replace it with the fixtures creating absent-minded soft light on a ceiling (for this purpose they are established on the perimeter of a ceiling). Every possible floor lamps and a sconce will create an average level, and desk lamps - personal illumination or illumination of the limited zone, for example, a dumbwaiter.

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If there is enough space in the kitchen, it is possible to choose a table of any geometrical form, if it only would correspond to the style of an interior and configuration of the kitchen. In the big kitchen, where the equipment is planned along walls, it is desirable to enter a table so that it served good interior accent.
Both round and an oval table would perfectly look in the big kitchen (20????meters square????and more). By the way, such tables borrow more place, than rectangular and square models do. And, as a rule, round and oval tables are cut from a working zone and they are not participating in our everyday life. In that case it is a question of stationary lunch group. In the big kitchen the neighborhood of lunch group with an easy show-window for elegant utensils or the small closed element of type of a locker for storage of services, tableware and table linen is recommended. All this will finally generate a place, where you will have a meal, and it will significantly raise its status.
In small kitchen the rectangular table, instead of square is more preferable.
When it is difficult to pick up a table of the necessary configuration and the sizes of a manufacturing, it is possible to order a table in building execution with a table-top of the soft streamline form.????
Today especial significance is attached to arrangement of a lunch zone. “Fast food” has bothered, people has pulled to tasty and healthy house food with family. Here, one old, as the world, proverb can be mentioned: anything so does not unite family, as a joint meal does. So, family traditions are again in the center of attention.
When lunch zone is brought to the dining room or to the sitting room, you have more opportunities to arrange it in a special way. For example, it is possible to place lunch group so that nothing distracted you from meal, to make it the aesthetic center of the dining room, to use fashionable materials and so on.
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Organization of lunch zone, as well as arrangement of any other site of kitchen, depends on a way of life of family, its traditions and representations about where it is necessary to eat. Everyone on this account has own opinion. Some people are convinced, that dining room is the only place for acceptance of food there, and kitchen is the working block where the food is prepared. For others - dining table on kitchen is a favorite place of all family. The others have only breakfast on the kitchen, and prefer to have dinner or supper in the dining room or sitting room.
Traditions, way of life, habits influence the organization of kitchen. Even if the family eats in the dining room, the kitchen without an element behind which it is possible to have a bite, will hardly be found. And the other question is whether there will be a high-grade lunch zone here.
Concerning the organization of a lunch zone of kitchen, it can be with a dining table and without it. The first variant assumes closed self-sufficient kitchen. In the second case the working kitchen is united or combined with a dining room or sitting room, where not only Sunday dinners, but also suppers, and breakfasts are being transferred. In that case the space is all opened or it is divided into functional zones. When the kitchen is small and it is difficult to place a high-grade dining table there, the variant of the working kitchen combined with a dining room is very practical. The working part is not restrained. And the dining table (it may be also a sliding table) is transferred to the dining room.
During the last five years the popular variant of the organization of a public zone was most, perhaps, represented by the general open space, including kitchen, table, sitting room and a hall.
Today the tendency of uniting kitchen with sitting room or dining room is not so popular. And kitchens of the closed type are more preferable. Such kitchen assumes the presence of the high-grade functional and lunch zones.
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