Interior design ideas

World map in children’s room

February 23rd, 2008

Satisfy the small promising geographer and decorate his room with the world map.
Maps is a unique and interesting way to decorate a bedroom of any child; the corner, decorated by map will look originally in a room of young princess or the world of racing machines. Your son or daughter will brag of map to the friends and who knows, you can become the ancestor of the good tendency! Plus, it is the best way “to give” additional knowledge to your child. They will successfully cope control on geography!!
Advantage of maps
The fact, that use of world map can be educational for your child; will force any parent to appreciate it. But this form of decor has also other advantages. Here are some reasons of choice of map for children’s room registration:
- The map will perfectly serve both for a room of the boy, and for a room of the girl.
- The map grows together with the child. Having decorated of children’s room in Disney style of character, for example charming bears, you will soon face the problem of alteration since the bear will cease to be nice to your little girl and when she becomes the teenager she will not want to see them any more. Maps approach to any age.
- Maps are rather cheap and accessible.

Chilean exclusive: the huge pool of a popular resort has got into the Guinness World Record

January 28th, 2008

South America has always attracted travelers with the rich culture and nature. Today, being built up with comfortable hotels and offering touristsтАЩ exotic “paradise” resorts, it becomes even more popular. Chile (with tremendous mounting skiing resorts and lakes) is one of the most mysterious countries of the Southern hemisphere.
Planning to visit this unusual country, famous impressing landscape and varying climate, first of all bring in your plan visiting of a resort San Alfonso del Mar, located in the city of Algarrobo. On territory of this picturesque place rich with 5-star hotels of the maximum class, company Chrystal Lagoons has constructed the pool, which was recently recognized the largest pool in the world. Earlier this place was occupied by Moroccan Big Splash pool (”Big Splash “), which is136 meters length and 91 meter width.
Chilean pool is not a pool at all, but the huge artificial lagoon reaching for length in one kilometer and containing about 250 thousand of cubic meters of sea water. The budget of pool makes 1 billion dollars: the area of territory, occupied by the pool, makes 8 hectares, and depth reaches 35 meters.
Many people have arrived to swim in crystal-transparent salty water, the only lagoon from the moment of opening. No any millionaire has such expensive pool. So the solvent tourists who are not troubling with a payment in 2 million of dollars (such sum is required on the maintenance of pool), enjoy pastime in the south of Chile.
Owing to computer system of a filtration and change of water fresh sea water continuously and trouble-free acts in Chilean “monster”. Not less comfort in pool is provided by warm water (26 degrees) and the temperature of water is nine degrees above the temperature of the sea. Of course, authors of the grandiose project name it a “delightful artificial paradise” and they are, certainly, right.
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Make your dwelling fragrant

January 20th, 2008

Your dwelling should have the accent of your individuality, and its smelling sweet atmosphere should improve your mood and strengthen your charm. Spread out fragrant sachets in the wardrobe or case with linen. It is recommended to use such aromatic substances as lavender, which gentle easy smell calms nerves and does not interrupt other smells.
Put fragrant sachet and folds of curtains and put them under pillows of armchairs and sofas. Special covers will protect clothes from dust and bad smells. Use deodorants for elimination of the unpleasant smell distributed by means, protecting things from insects.
Put the sachet, impregnated by perfumes, in the handbags. If you are waiting for guests, you may flavor slightly air in a room by means of a spray.
Put a droplet of cologne or fragrant oil on the electric bulb before you will switch on the light. When this bulb will light up, aroma (under influence of heat) will extend on all room.
At combustion fire wood spread a pleasant invigorating smell on a room. If there is a fireplace in your house, you may throw a bay leaf, fennel, clearing of apples, an orange peel into the fire.

Gifts

December 23rd, 2007

So, you have already chosen and bought gifts, now it is a high time to wrap them. In fact it is necessary to present the gift beautifully. We offer you some ideas on gifts design.
Color paper
Here you can take advantage of the imagination and think up something original. For example, to decorate bright boxes with freakish mosaic figures, to cut out by means of special scissors, gear multi-colored strips. The main thing is that it was colorful and more cheerful.
Paper weaving
It is necessary to do your best in order to make out a gift in such a way. First cut out a strip in 4 centimeters width from two glossy sheets of a paper, put red and green strips beside with each other in chessboard order, bend the ends paste the paper on convolutions. The bow and fan may be also made of paper and pasted on a box.
Fabric wrapper
The most refined way to decorate gift - is to take fabric instead of a paper. It is necessary to make as much accurately as possible. Such wrapper will approach for a gift to your women, for example, for mums or grandmothers.
Blue-white boxes
With a bow: cut off a tape of the necessary length from plaster bandage (from a drugstore), fold double, stretch in bowl with warm water and make a bow.
Snowflakes: dark blue paint draw on a white brown paper of a snowflake.
Christmas tree: cut contours of Christmas tree on a wide strip of a color paper.
Strips: fill baking cups for cookies with a thin layer of plaster, dry up, squeeze out plaster from baking cups, drill holes and pass through strip.

New Year’s interior-2008

December 18th, 2007

Dark blue tinsel and gold Christmass trees
The majority of designers - both Russian, and foreign - offer to use gold colors and various shades of dark blue. And the more brilliant and flickering are, the more fashionably it will look.
Turquoise and bronze are the most fashionable color combination of the season.
Amusing bottle bobbins will perfectly decorate New Year’s table and can serve as a gift.
Traditions
-New Year is a family holiday, when fashionable tendencies are seldom strictly observed. If are you keeping still grannyтАЩs fur-tree toys-relics, it is possible to assume that your Christmas tree fur-tree will be traditional. And it is possible to give more fashionable kind to your house, having decorated curtains with tinsel. This year lilac and violet are the most fashionable colors. Buy violet candles and a lilac tinsel.
The bouquet, made of fur-tree branches, tinsel and garlands, will replace the most original Christmas tree.
Glamour variant
This year traditional combination - red and gold - is still fashionable. But dark blue color in its all shades and combinations - from blue up to dark blue - is especially fashionable.┬а
By the way
Not so long ago there was a tradition to give fur-trees of unusual colors. Let it be small, but absolutely inexplicable color for a fur-tree - red, orange, yellow, dark blue… Natural vegetative materials - a coconut fiber, a feather, corn leaves are especially fashionable this year.

Laminate (Part 1)

December 12th, 2007

The massive board has appeared long before parquet and today it is one of the most popular floor coverings. Now, it is the most demanded kind of parquet.
The size of a separate die (board) and modern quality of processing allows realizing the most refined project both in separate premises, and industrially, that considerably raises its characteristics. The file serves as good alternative to natural piece parquet, as it is more durable and creates an image of expensive, beautiful, elite floors.
Oak concerns to the so-called core breeds of tree. Wood of an oak, except for the uppermost, “alive” ring, may be self-preserved. Internal rings do not participate in vital processes and they become impregnated with special substances and become stone during lifetime of a tree. Oak wood is an excellent construction material; it goes on underwater and overland constructions, device of underwater and basic parts of wooden courts (mainly old oak) and as machine, furniture, parquet and joiner’s wood (the winter oak is preferred).
Ash is a very popular breed of a tree. Its wood possesses high hardness and durability that is especially appreciated in floor coverings. An ash is also (as well as oak) capable to maintain greater loadings. Its wood is magnificent. Elasticity and its durability have been highly appreciated at all times.
Ash, owing to the durability, is an ideal breed for processing. Various kinds of a decor will help you to create unique interior. We appreciate the refined taste of our clients, therefore besides a wide choice of colors and grades of a massive parquet board; we offer various variants of a decor on your desire.

English style

December 2nd, 2007

We do not recommend you to choose this style if you:
Do not like sated on color interiors, with active motley textiles;
Prefer bright and air interiors; you consider as excess decorative friezes, socles and so forth. But if the set forth above reasons are not important for you, we shall consider components of the given style.
It is quite eclectic style as it incorporates influence of two epochs: Georgian (1714 - 1837) and Victorian styles (1837 - 1901). In days of kings of Georges English style was influenced by Greece and Ancient Rome. This style is characterized as majestic, constrained, proportional and symmetric. Walls are painted in one color. On a smooth background of walls borders, a plinth, the panels were actively used. The choice of color quite often depended on the party of light, where windows of the room were located. If on the north - warm shades, for example, pink, citreous colors, prevailed. If on the south - cold, such as azure, green colors, were used. In times of Queen Victoria - the time of technical knowledge, growth of well-being of people - various styles from all countries of the world and different epoch were used. Interiors of that time were full of elements borrowed from cultures of India, Japan, China, Mauritania, Ancient Egypt, and also such styles as rococo, the Luis XIV, Jacob I and so forth. During these period warm shades of terracotta dominated. It was fashionable to use three colors, which borders were read on three levels of wooden furnish, for painting of walls. Quite often the lowest part of the wall, simulating a socle, was not painted, but was pasted over with relief wall-papers.

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Influence of wood on health and emotional state of the person (Part 2)

November 26th, 2007

Not only color of wood, but also breed of a tree influences our health. Having chosen corresponding breed of a tree, it is possible to correct not only emotional state, but also character of the person. For example, the bamboo helps to supervise aggression, to remove irritation. The beech promotes development of tolerance in relation to associates. The larch helps to believe in the forces and to overcome uncertainty in. The oak relieves of vanity, helps to look objectively at the world, gives additional energy and reduces excessive anxiety. The hornbeam helps to develop a real sight at things and to get rid of prejudices and errors. The nut will help you to make right decisions and not to come under another’s influence.
Thus, wood is little bit more, than just building material. People and plants, being a part of one ecosystem, are indissolubly connected with each other. Tree is a material, created by the nature, in the wooden house you always will feel calmness, warmly and coziness.
Wooden windows are Indispensable attribute of harmless habitation. Unlike plastic, the tree possesses ability “to breathe”, that is to pass air through microspores, thus providing its continuous circulation. Modern wooden windows possess high sound insulation, low heat conductivity and stability to temperature drops and durability. Their aesthetic qualities concern to conclusive advantages of wooden windows. They are perfectly combined with a parquet and wooden furniture and help to create the finished shape of interior. That is why in the European countries, for example, Sweden, and Holland, three quarters of windows is made of tree.????
The country house constructed of harmless materials will create the special atmosphere opened for rest, helping to restore forces, energy and composure, to find balance with world and to find calmness and cheerfulness.
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Influence of wood on health and emotional state of the person (Part 1)

November 24th, 2007

When we say “ecological compatibility”, we mean not only advantage for health of the person, but also environment harmlessness, both the goods, and all cycle of its manufacture. Speaking about harmless habitation, it is impossible to forget about such factor as ecological comfort, including a high degree of ecological safety, presence of conditions for rest and restoration of forces.
In comparison with concrete and brick houses, houses from a tree have a lot of advantages. One of the important properties of wood relies in its ability to update air in, and also to support optimum humidity, preventing dampness in the house. Tree is also an excellent heat insulator. Speaking about mechanical properties of wood, it is necessary to note, that the tree easily gives in to processing.
Besides, it is known, that wood possesses curative properties. In antiquity it was considered, that it removes weariness and restores forces. Today we speak about influence of wood on bio-energetic of the person. For example, it is considered, that such breeds as oak, pine, apple-tree and birch have property to give the energy while so poplar, aspen, bird cherry and an alder take it away. Those trees, which give energy, simultaneously render curative influence on an organism of the person: they remove stress and irritation, raise a tone, restore nervous system, raise activity. Some breeds of tree, for example, apple-tree and cedar, possess clearing and disinfectant properties.
Color of wood can influence a psychological state of the person. In the nature red color associates with danger, therefore wood of red shades can raise excitability, uneasiness and cause psychological discomfort. Dark, close to black color tree is capable to cause dejectedness. Warm shades of yellow and orange color waken energy; however, in lots they can provoke irritation. Optimum influence on the state of the person is rendered with oak or tic of light brown color. They create a cozy atmosphere and give to the person feeling of calmness, confidence and stability. Light shades also have ability to increase space and to make premise brighter.
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Your bedroom

November 13th, 2007

1. Close space of a bedroom
Bedroom is the intimae zone; it is not the place for work, watching TV, etc. There should not be phones, TVs, the musical centers, simulators, paper blockages, book shelves in the bedroom. All aforesaid takes away a lot of energy and distracts from rest and romanticism.
If there is no opportunity to place sleeping and a workplace in different rooms, take advantage of simple partition or a drapery from a fabric to divide both spaces. If you wish to place the TV in a bedroom, make it hidden in a niche of a case, etc.
2. Symmetry
Bedroom is a place for a two; therefore symmetry is preferable both in a decor, and in subjects, for example, two little tables, two night lamps, etc. If you are lonely, all the same equip a bedroom as if you have your sweetheart and it will involve love.
Beds with two mattresses or any dividing strip are bad, as they symbolize dissonance. It is possible to neutralize a dividing strip, having laid red bed sheet.
3. Pictures and images
In the beginning it is necessary to decide what should not be in your bedroom. There should not be family photos, only photos, where you together and no relatives and friends. The picture or the image in a bedroom should represent only pleasant and positive feelings that, waking up and falling asleep, you received only pleasant emotions.
There should not be mirror in the bedroom as it draws problems and anxiety, stirs to good rest and can draw intervention of the third party in your relations. Take mirror away from the bedroom, or drape it for the night.
4. Illumination
The rules are those: a lot of daylight in the afternoon, soft light in the evening and darkness during sleeping. The sunlight helps you to wake up in the morning in good mood; darkness does not prevent to sleep at night. For creation of cozy evening illumination it is recommended to combine various elements: ceiling and wall fixtures, floor lamps etc.
5. Sensuality
The bedroom should please not only an eye, but also other sense organs. It is possible to create sensual conditions with the help of:
-aromatic candles or sticks,
- bed-clothes,
- flowers.
We hope, our advice will help you to create cozy and comfortable bedroom.

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