Interior design ideas

Your favorite pillow

April 6th, 2007

People have thought up pillows many centuries ago. Their earliest images, which have reached us, are represented with ancient-Egyptian pillows. Pillows accompany us from the very beginning of the life. They are the symbol of heat and coziness.
There were times when the quantity of pillows defined a level of prosperity of the house. They were put on beds as a hill. There were so many pillows in a owner’s bedroom of rich family, that it was almost necessary to put a special bench to shift unnecessary pillows on it, when the owners went to bed.
Later, when rigid armchairs and sofas began to enter into our everyday life, sofa pillows have appeared. They were a prototype of modern upholstery and were considered as a especially functional thing. With arrival of upholstered furniture pillows have not lost their interior role- they have even become an element of an interior, sometimes even, a work of art, as a picture on a wall or a figurine on the shelf. By the way, in Russian manor of pillows were the samples of lordly needlework: they were put in order to modernize and rejuvenate the interior. And on the contrary: splendor, grandiosity can be easily set by the abundance of smart pillows with appreciable decor.
Pillows are put on the armchairs, sofas, beds and chairs, even on the floor. They are so various, that everyone has the right to choose such feature in conformity with the taste - greater or small, soft or is more rigid pillow. By the way, standard sofa pillow has the size of 40?????40 centimeters, however, 80-centimetric copies perfectly lay down on modern huge sofas, and decorative idea can be of 15-20- centimeters size.
Unfortunately, floor pillows are almost forgotten.
Pillows are sewed from different fabrics. Presently to a course there is not only traditional velvet, a Gobelin, artificial and natural fur, a leather and guipure are widely used. The choice of fabric is not practically caused by stylistics of an interior.
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Comfortable interior

April 5th, 2007

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.
???????????Huge plasma panel hangs on the wall.
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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Bowl - a handful of water

April 4th, 2007

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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Scandinavian interior

April 3rd, 2007

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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Exercise room at home

April 1st, 2007

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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