Interior design ideas

Long time ago the designers have noticed, that almost each interior has a “sexual accessory”. It depends on the person who thought over the interior of the apartment and who is the owner of the house - and, certainly, on the temperament of members of the family.
Sometimes one of the parties (man’s or female party) distorts the representation about the coziness - and makes the so-called “egoistic” interior, having misled other party????????s tastes. And then the “offended” party feels uncomfortable at home. It can be expressed in irritability, sleeplessness, and, certainly, in traditional unwillingness to come back home.
The most interesting is that both men and women can equally appear in the “offended” part!
The spring -is a perfect time for making pleasure to your sweetheart and to correct the “sex” of the apartment. It is much more interesting, than to decorate the house with balls, flowers and hearts!
THE TEST
We offer you check up the features of your house. Put ticks opposite to attributes which are in your dwelling.
The man’s beginning
Style of your house can be carried more likely to:
Minimalism;
Hi-tech;
Strict classics.
???????????The electrician in the house is completely thought over and each socket is on its place.
???????????The walls are bright.
???????????The main ornament of an apartment consists in audio- and video equipment.
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The female beginning
Style of your house can be carried more likely to:
Baroque (palace);
Country (rural);
???????????Eclecticism (combination of the most different directions).
???????????There are curtains at each window. The house interior is full of textiles: carpets, cloths, plaids, small pillows and etc.
???????????Pastel tone prevails in a coloring of furniture and walls.
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The countries of Scandinavian Peninsula - Sweden, Norway and, connected with them historically and geographically, Denmark and Finland had similar conditions for architecture development: they have not been under the influence of Roman Empire that allowed them to keep traditional interior.
In view of a geographical originality - the cut up coastal line and set of fiords, each of which was a natural fortress, Scandinavia became a convenient basis of aggressive Normans for attacks on other countries, and subsequently - trade with them. These “kinds of activity” steel remain the cores in development of Scandinavian economy and unique architecture.
The type of furniture, which now refers to Scandinavian, has occurred in 20 - 30th years of the last century and has a great popularity at exhibitions of Europe, in the USA and Canada. Scandinavian interior is well-known for its graceful and easy details of designs from a multilayered tree, basically,- from the beech and an oak trees. Their manufacturing became possible due to new technology of MOF reception, patented by Danish designers. The design of furniture is simple and functional; its elements make modular system and are very simple in assembly. Scandinavian furniture is flexible and convenient for warehousing.
The designers of the Scandinavian countries and Finland prefer the combination of national traditions and search of new functional characteristics. And the traditional love to natural materials, first of all to a tree, is combined with aspiration to use new technologies and new materials of its processing: the chrome plated metals, glass, furnish details, tapestry materials.
In the Scandinavian interiors - Finnish, Norwegian - a lot of a natural tree is used: a floor, walls and even sometimes a ceiling are made of tree. Wooden boards of a floor, scraped in olden time, now are bleached by designers in the special image. And the walls from a tree are usually covered with a thin layer of a translucent paint. In a combination to wooden surfaces walls or separate fragments of walls from a brick or a natural stone are in harmony.
The general color of interiors is usually light and with a lot of warm tones: yellow, milky-white, light terracotta. Probably because of lack of natural sunlight, heat and bright paints in the nature, Scandinavian designers prefer to decorate houses with warm and joyful colors, having created sensation of a bright sunny day behind the window.

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When you enter into the apartment - what is the first that your nose can feel? Your visitors perceive the house and these small nuances. The individual aroma of your house is capable to compensate many lacks of typical architecture of our apartments.
Let’s agree at once: it is a question of an apartment in which nobody smokes. Otherwise it is not even worth of touching this question.
Smells are capable to cause different memories. It is quite individual: therefore, when you choose smells for the apartment (house, room) you should be guided by your own sensations and associations.
Try to create bouquet of smells in your apartment. Aroma of spicy grasses, fresh fruit, and coffee can play the leading role at the kitchen.
At all do not spray perfumes in the apartment. Perfume is an intimate thing, as a smell of your skin. The slightest note of perfume can be represented in the bedroom, at your clothes, a handbag, even -the book that you read, but all house should smell slightly.
The most popular “house” aromas are the jasmine, coriander, lavender, mimosa, muscat, mint peppery, rosemary, vervain, cedar and lemon.

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Tension ceilings can be used in any premises, even if actually a ceiling in bad condition. The skeleton of a ceiling is exposed on a level by the special device (if to buy its most, it will approximately manage into $120), then the rigid film tension covering is????fastened on it. Such design maintains loading up to 200 kg on one meter square. It is possible to choose any color of the material, and coloring is also possible. Here, installation needs to be entrusted to experts as it is necessary to buy anew materials at????the slightest discrepancy.????Such ceilings????can be used????for 25 years.
Self-glued ceilings are represent by foam plates of the square form of 50?????50 mm or 60?????60 mm. They can be flat and relief. Plates are pasted in a number on the cleared and prepared ceiling. If glue is not applied in the complete set, it is possible to use any other glue. Besides there is a good “national” recipe of preparation of glue: take three parts of ordinary glue and one part of dry finishing joint filler, and mix it up. And it is possible to give the finished kind to a ceiling by covering it with silicone of 101????? mark.
Edges of plates often have small defects.????They are????also corrected by silicone. Foam border can be completed with decorative silicone. The border is issued by strips 1,3 - 2 m at length. In general, self-glued ceilings are the most accessible ones- both at the price and on simplicity of installation. Such ceilings can be used within 15 years.
Ceilings from gypsum cardboard are not “yet ceilings”. Gypsum cardboard is applied to alignment of a surface of a ceiling, and also for creation of multilevel ceilings. It may be water-resistant and not water-resistant. Water-resistant is applied in damp premises (a bathroom, a toilet, basements), not water-resistant - in living rooms. Such ceilings can be used for 15 - 20 years.
Ceilings under painting and ceilings under pasting technologically differ only at the last stage. Durability of such ceilings is the lowest one -only 3 - 5 years. Such variant of furnish of ceilings is ideal for those who likes to change interior every 4-5 years.

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So, you have decided, that it is time to update a ceiling. it is an excellent idea! However keep in mind: the choice of materials for its realization will depend not only on your art taste, but also on engineering state of your house and, certainly, on your purse…
For the beginning you should decide what you would like to see above your head. Ceilings may be pendant and the basic, or plaster ones. Pendant ceilings are made from the gypsum cardboard and they are demanding additional furnish share on panel, tension, self-glued etc. Plaster ceilings are either in coloring or pasting.
For the beginning we shall talk about the house, an apartment in which the repair is expected. The greater role is played by the structure. If the house is made of brick and it is less than 15 years old, it practically has not undergone to time deformation, therefore it is possible to buy the most usual finishing materials - troubles with cracks are improbable. If the brick house is from 15 till 30 years old it is necessary to buy some technical additives - priming fixing mixes, and also an assembly of self-glued grid for durability and protection against cracks. However, sometimes these additives can be not applied - everything depends on a state of the house and your desire. And here if the house is more than 30 years old, fastening is necessary. The grid and first coat are desirable for deep penetration. But it is necessary to notice, that “age” is given in quite rough manner - as the standard for average strip; under adverse conditions - high humidity, etc. - the house “grows old” in 25 years.
Concerning panel houses, here the walls and a ceiling are done of an identical material; therefore deformation is essentially less, than in brick house. In panel houses alignment of a ceiling (plates on joints are often connected roughly) is recommended, the first coat is used for deep penetration. As differences on a plane of a ceiling do not happen, the spadework is lead to a minimum.
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Rule 1: harmless materials
Try to keep ecological cleanliness of your house at a stage of construction and repair. The group of the materials most preferable to use includes everything that returns us “in cave ear”: the tree, the straw, not burnt clay ??????? Further in the list of harmless materials there are also a clay brick and natural stones of sedimentary origin. The first products of civilization - metal and glass - have a not so clear reputation.
Rule 2: green doctors
Many house ladies like to plant flowers, but not everyone knows, that house plants are curative “cocktails” as well as medicinal grasses are. So, the plants, containing phytoncids and possessing disinfecting action are a basil, cardamom etc. Other pottery plants calm nervous system, remove a headache and normalize blood circulation (geranium, lavender) - and it is possible to make an ideal composition for a bedroom from them.
If your apartment nevertheless has synthetic materials (and it is almost for certain so), their negative influence is neutralized by the flowers, capable to take away toxins from the air. The plants promoting good digestion, will make a useful set for kitchen, these are the laurels and garden geranium, which clear air and absorb smells. It is possible to decorate a working place with advantage a clearing complex from a balm, mint, a myrtle, a sage and a ficus. Besides curative properties, the majority of these plants possess a pleasant smell - so, the aromatherapy is added. If you want, that aroma in the house was brighter and refined, plant a room rose: at the same time it will help you to get rid of chronic weariness.
Rule 3: curative things
The principle remains the same - natural materials and natural furniture. Prefer wicker baskets to plastic containers, present feather pillows - to synthetic ones, simple “country” fabrics (flax, sacking, and rough wool) - to effective novelties etc. Natural things are not only healthier for a body, but they also possess special power (especially if they are made manually or in a small workshop). Do not neglect the local market of wooden, wicker and pottery products. It is not necessary to look haughtily on olden interior details: the retro-trifle from a family museum (if they are properly submitted) will fill the house with heat and coziness. Unique natural “gifts”, which nevertheless should be avoided, are hunting trophies: skins and horns of the killed animals, scarecrows, etc. no matter how beautiful they would look, the biofield, which they “radiate”, is not too useful for the health and mental condition.
Rule 4: creative atmosphere
House creativity has a positive influence on sincere health and helps to cope with seasonal depression. You should always remember that the real house should be natural, warm and kind!

The concept of space plays the most role in Chinese interior. Chinese interior is based on the feng shui art - the skilful organization of space. So, external simplicity of smooth or round bends always bears in denying of direct and sharp lines. In the Chinese interior precise square or triangular forms are undesirable. Therefore corners in modern apartments can be cut off the furniture, put obliquely, and rectangular little tables can be covered with round cloths. The same effect is achievable by means of the walls draped by a fabric. It is not worth of mentioning, that registration in Chinese, as well as in any the style, ethno style does not assume use of multi-colored wall-papers in a floret at all. Walls are usually painted in the certain, characteristic color for the given culture or plaster. As a rule, any Chinese construction has some support corresponding elements of fire, water, air and the ground. But, certainly, it is necessary to try to establish four columns in the middle of the sitting room. They can be stylized, executed of plaster and removed to walls or drowned in them. However, nothing prevents even to draw or designate simply columns on walls if you want to follow all formalities of the Chinese style and it will be far from the real opportunities of the apartment.
As it is possible to see, in an interior of the apartment, made in the Chinese style, there are no trifles at all. Practically its each detail is original, unique and the Chinese screen or carelessly thrown on a couch and decorated with gold string pillow plays the major role in the arrangement of the space. For example, the major element of registration is the ornament and the form of doors and windows. And their arrangement cannot be casual - it is desirable, that wide doorways settled down against each other, as though they are connecting the interior with all other space.
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Japanese do especially appreciate furniture of the old tree - named “oldwood” (the so-known, “antiquarian tree”): such wood has excellent durability despite of age. The Japanese make screens, frames for mirrors, tables, benches and consoles from massive “oldwood”. More modest fragments of the “oldwood” are used for facing of furniture subjects: backs of the beds, racks, tables, lockers, buffets, coffee little tables. It is possible to notice of tree traces - certificates of the past are appreciable- on many fragments of the ready-made furniture. Therefore depth of a surface????????s relief, made of “oldwood”", can be deeper than 1-1,5 centimeters. The lines, created by the nature “oldwood”, provide a charm of uniqueness, which is especially appreciated by the Japanese. Lamp shades for fixtures and floor lamps are made of the oldest “oldwood” materials.
The only rule, which can????????t be objected of, is that the furniture should be made of a file of a tree as it possesses the ability to accumulate and radiate vivifying energy. Thus the furniture should not be heavy: sometimes hollow spaces are made in the racks made of a file for reduction of weight.
The special attitude is paid to a tic. The tic, which was not coming under influence of moisture and insects-wood borers, was applied at construction of private residences, in ship business and to manufacturing valuable subjects of furniture and instruments of handicraftsmen. Everything that was made of a tic should serve for centuries. In the course of time, the tic, as well as mahogany, becomes even more beautiful and stronger. Small subjects of an interior, such as vases, are made of mango. Stools and small subjects are cut out of a trunk of a mango, which should not exceed 50 centimeters in diameter. Coverings of strong breed of the reed (named as the “opium-mat”) are also appreciated. The surfaces are quite strong, but, owing to the wavy invoice, they look as lungs.
Contrary to the European traditions the table-top does not cover the legs: on the contrary, their end faces open beauty of wooden rings. Details - in the form of lockers, decorative couplers, have special importance.
Simplicity of forms emphasizes the importance of “free space”.
Charm of Japanese style is so great, that its elements can be even met in authentic reproduction of interiors in any country of the world.
However, usually, it is a question of use of separate subjects and creation of small “Japanese” corners.

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Penthouse is a floor in attic space, which facade is entirely or partially formed by a surface of a roof. Usually the penthouse is equipped as the second level of an apartment of the top floor. Thus it almost always serves as private territory: bedrooms, children’s rooms, a cabinet, a bathroom are settled down there. At such lay-out of an apartment a hall, kitchen, a dining room and sitting room are recommended to be arranged at the first level. However, sometimes even “all apartment” can be placed at the big penthouse.
Children’s world or cabinet?
How is it better to dispose of inhabited space of a penthouse? Everyone solves this question depending on needs and tastes of members of household, choosing from two kinds of a lay-out - studio (opened) or room (cellular) lay-out. Division into rooms is recommended for the big family. However, even the open lay-out at competent selection of furniture, a variety designs in the form of moved apart partitions, transparent walls, green hedges from room colors, is capable to transform a penthouse-studio into a multipurpose premise, very comfortable for residing.
If your penthouse - is at the second floor of a two-level apartment it is the most expedient to equip on it rooms for “solitude” and “silence”. The nursery located thus, is isolated from other traditionally adult premises. You can always lay the child, not worrying, that something will disturb him with late wakefulness at the TV or in the company of visitors. And then, you can only imagine, what interesting world your child would have: inclined walls, unusual arrangement of windows which can also be unusual - round or triangular, a ladder leading on its top floor.
Children’s room on an attic is a dream of any child
Bedrooms above - are also an excellent variant, especially for the big family, inviting friends and relatives. By the way, it is good to sleep on a penthouse as thus the silence and rest are guaranteed. In the evening, when you are laying in the bed, owing to an inclination of windows, you can admire stars in the night sky.

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Fabrics are rather grateful element of the interior. With their help we can not only decorate dwelling, but we also may hide some lacks. Fabrics are rather mobile material. Unlike many other things elements of an interior they can be easily operated -it is possible to change drapery, arrangements, and fabrics eventually if you have enough money for this purpose.
Draperies
Draperies are the decorative decision, alternative to traditional curtains. The window can be issued by any one fabric or several fabrics, which are close or contrast on color. Depending on the chosen fabric multilayered drapery creates an atmosphere of luxury, or strictness. Muslin, transparent synthetic fabrics, materials of average density is well draped. Fabrics with a contrast lining can be wrapped up around of eaves, after you have fixed their volumetric plait.
Classical variant of a drapery is represented by the simple eaves which have been wrapped up in one length of a fabric, symmetrically hanging down on both parties of the window. Draperies can be hung up as a loop, to find and the edges should fall to a floor. Light draperies, being often used in a combination to opaque curtains, protect room from curious eyes outside and supervise a stream of light.
Tendencies
One of such directions is characterized by fabrics in style of the early 70-ies. It is a large, often geometrical figure, with prevalence of pastel color gamut that approaches just for decoration of simple forms. Fabrics are basically synthetic.
One more fashionable direction foresees natural fabrics of quiet, pastel or light tones, well combined natural materials: a tree, metal. They well adjoin to vanguard novelties of an interior.
Simultaneously, there are fashionable upholsteries in the conservative style, calculated on traditional classical interiors. Silk, gobelin fabrics with traditional patterns (flowers, pastoral stages) are among them. They are distinguished with prevalence of quiet, soft tones: dark -purple, green, blue or bronze.

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