Interior design ideas

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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The????variety of modern bowls can be easily grouped into several categories according to the way of their installation.
Pendant bowl is fixed to a wall bolts or hang on special metal arms. Today these both variants exist on the equal rights.
Bowl on the pedestal. Pedestal carries out a double role. On the one hand it serves as an additional point of a support for a “cup” of the bowl and it is especially important, when the wash stands are fastened to the mechanically “weak” wall. On the other hand, the pedestal decoratively covers armature, a waste pipe and a siphon.
The rabbeted bowl is inserted into an aperture of a table-top of toilette table from above.
The striding-leveled bowl, on the contrary from the rabbeted one, is fastened to an aperture in a table-top from below.
The pedestal of a bowl doesn????????t only take up weight massive faience bowl, but it also simultaneously creates standard height from a washstand up to a floor.
Modern bowls without overflow opening can be equipped with CLOU system a-special siphon in which a special overflow opening is represented.
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It is not furniture and it is not home appliances. It can????????t be brought to accessories and subjects of a decor. It is not absolutely house attributes. However in modern dwellings all of them become more often an integral part of an interior.
Statistics shows that only 10 % of the population visits fitness-centers on a regular basis. And the tendency, which has outlined today to the device of mini-sports clubs in city apartments and country houses, is worth of all praise.
Let’s consider three variants of accommodation of exercise rooms at home:
1. In the apartment, where it is possible to train only in a bedroom;
2. In the house, where there is a special separate room for a sports exercises;
3. In the big country house where it is possible to arrange own fitness-club in a ground floor.????
For a bedroom an optimum variant can be realized in the following developing simulators: elliptic, either a racetrack, or a multipurpose power simulator.
Symbiosis of cardio-and power simulators in a compact variant is capable to provide normal loadings for maintenance in an excellent form of all systems of a human body.
Expenses for purchase of pair harmonious simulators can be within the limits of 450 dollars, and it is possible to place them in the corner behind the wardrobe or under the bed. In this case, the monitor of an intimate rhythm would be even more compact and economic variant. It represents electronic watch which offer readout of time and fix your pulse.
In the separate room made especially for a house sports hall, it is possible to buy not only harmonious, and stationary, but even – more dimensional simulators. They, are, certainly, more expensive, but they are also more reliable and more effective. Concerning cardio stimulators it is necessary to get a rowing, elliptic simulator and a racetrack. Here, you may also place different athletic shells: bars, crossbeams and a bench.????
When in a ground floor, except for technical premises, 50-70 more square meters of the free area are devoted to the domestic sport club, you may buy a racetrack and stationary rowing, the minimal set of cardio stimulators for house fitness-club.
If you want to invite friends to your sport center, it is necessary to equip it with multistation for serious power trainings, to organize a zone of free weights.????
Benches for a press of a bar, power simulators for development of muscles of legs, athletic shells, the Swedish walls- all this is required to you for equipment of a sports club of which you will be so proud.
Fitness-club at home – are expenses of a high price level. But due to the variety of offers in the market of sports simulators there is an opportunity to make it in the economic variant.
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Do you think that the screen is an old-fashioned interior detail? Certainly, it does not play the role of prime necessity. But east skill to transform a daily life in art, and even some kind of ritual, always created special aura around these subjects. So, it is high time for us to combine the advantage and beauty. Whether it will become a useful subject in the house and it will simultaneously represent the original ornament – everything depends only on you. We offer you some ideas on use of screens in an interior.
Screen is a sample of multifunctional. And its different parts can be arranged differently. It is possible to paint it in any color but you should not forget that it should be in harmony with general style of the premise. Choose pertinent colors for the cabinet and more gentle – for a bedroom.
Such property of a screen as mobility is perfectly useful in the kitchen. And if it will be equipped by worthy image, it will appear simply irreplaceable.
To hide and to block it is not yet everything on what the screen is capable. It can “be reoriented” in a rack. It may become almost transparent, but to incur duties on accommodation and storage of things.
Due to the screen the interior design can always be easy, unexpected and mobile.
Here is one more original and simple decision: a screen replacing wardrobe, and a mirror. By means of such simple design it is possible to change an interior of your room almost every day, only moving a screen in different places, that allowing each corner to be repeated again.

Screen is an ancient invention, the majority of us have absolutely forgotten about it. It, perhaps, is the most unusual subject of the furniture, exotically brought to the Europe. It can????????t be named as furniture and it is more likely a mobile wall or the harmonious screen. The history of “a mobile wall” begins in China, where in VII century first screens have appeared, and in VIII century screens were brought to Japan. To the Europe screens were brought in XVII century, together with a fashion for “all Chinese”. In a duality of its function – hiding something behind shutters or to open it partly – Europeans managed to see not only the decorative effects, but also, the opportunities for rather graceful spatial games. Screens have gained great popularity in XIX-XX centuries. The lay-out of apartments of that time demanded division of vital space into zones, and screens easily coped with this problem, covering everything that should be hidden.
The open spaces of modern apartments (with their principles of zoning) are again looking for a guest from the past. Screen is cheaper than any room-partitition and it can be transferred, put and cleaned. The space organized with its help, can be intended for the most different purposes. This exotic subject takes an honorable place in boudoirs, bedrooms and small sitting rooms, sometimes it separates lunch zone or similarity of office. But the present reason of love to screens is explained by the atmosphere of the absolute solitude.
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The place for dances should be necessarily allocated by means of receptions of zoning. It can be the floor covering which is distinct from that lays in a drawing room, or special registration of walls. We assure you that it is necessary to allocate rather small (from 3 meters square) area at a window in a corner of a room for dancing. This will allow realizing an image of light premise with mirror walls.
Concerning a floor, we advise you to use smooth, but not the slippery material – otherwise the probability of traumas and stretching during employment may increase. Besides the covering should give pleasant tactile sensations to those who prefers to dance barefoot. No matter what dancing style you have chosen, you should necessarily sit and even lay on a floor (at least during warm-up). Therefore the floor should also be warm.
Concerning the walls – the dance hall is inconceivable without mirrors! The mirror wall can become that zone tool which will define borders of your dancing. However irreplaceable during dance of a mirror can break integrity of an interior or simply irritate your friends. In this case it is necessary to think of how to drape a mirror site of a wall. The simplest variant is to cover it with the same curtains, as well as at windows. Thus, the room will have the so-called “false window”. As a result, when the dancing is not used, a cozy corner???? in which it is possible to put an armchair and to be betrayed less to productive leisure, is created.

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