Interior design ideas

Floor question (Part 3)

May 4th, 2007

Carpet warp - is a rolled carpet covering. Natural carpet warp is made of wool. The basis represents a grid from natural jute. This material possesses high warm- and sound-proof properties. However, the wool and jute easily absorb and keep water that often leads to damage of covering. Natural carpet warp is also easily trampled down and stores dents for a long time.

Polyamide (nylon), polypropylene, polyacryle and polyester are used for the manufacturing of artificial carpet warp. Coverings from nylon are soft, they well hold pile, they are easily cleaned, do not fade and they do not have dents from furniture. Other synthetic materials concede to nylon on their qualities. The way of manufacture both of natural and artificial carpet warps can be subdivided into three types: woven, taffetine and needled. Woven carpet warp is made by way at which fibers are bound with a basis. It is the strongest and most expensive variant. At taffetine way a string needle is fixed by means of glue. In such a way it is possible to create various kinds of a carpet covering - loop back (upwards eyelets), nap (upwards fibers) and their combinations. For manufacture of loop back carpet warp string should be painted in advance, that allows creating equal colors of a covering. Single-level (eyelets of identical length) loop back carpet warp can be easily cleaned. Multilevel ones have loops of different height that creates volumetric figure of surface. Such carpet warps look effectively, however it is much more difficult to clean them. Depending on length of loops and qualities of a string taffetine loop back carpet warp can be subdivided into some kinds. Loop back scroll carpets are made of yarn of several colors that allows creating complex figure and sculptural effect. Velour carpet has short cutting pile. It is very soft silky material; however on monophonic velour traces of steps and dirt are well appreciable. Frieze carpets are made of strongly twirled yarn. Due to the structure of carpets???????? pile a frieze allows to hide various pollutions. Needled way means “driving in” of nap bunches into the basis. This covering is almost smooth and it is reminding felt. Such carpet warp differs from waved or taffetine ones by higher wear resistance and smaller deformation susceptibility.
When you choose a floor covering, you should consider the following moments: it should be wear proof, moisture proof, it should resist to pressure and impacts and to possess good sound-proof properties.
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Floor question (Part 2)

May 3rd, 2007

Laminate - a multilayered design with pasted atop of a plate from the paper layer simulating valuable breeds of a tree (an oak, a yew, a cherry) or a stone (a marble, a granite).???? Coverings from a laminate differ by high durability and wear resistance. The average term of exploitation - is fifteen - twenty years.
Ceramic tile - these are the products of various kinds and the sizes, made from the formed clay. It is one of the most wear proof finishing materials. Not glazed tile (one roasting) is applied at facing walls and a floor; glazed tile (double roasting) is used for walls decoration. The tile can be painted in weight or have only a decorative color layer. The impressive surface reduces sliding. More often the ceramic tile is applied in sanitary-engineering units and kitchens. It is a wear proof and durable decorative material.
The tile has high heat conductivity (so-called “a cold floor”); however this lack is successfully eliminated by means of artificial floor heating.
Stone plates are made from a marble or granite. Granite - is extremely firm material, differing by its water- and mud resistance. It has uniform figure and wide scale of shades. It ideally approaches for kitchen or hall decoration. Marble - is a crystal breed of white, pink, blue, green, black colors. Various shades can be gained owing to the maintenance various metals and graphite oxides. The main values of a marble are proveins which create original figure.
Ceramogranite- is the ceramic plates externally reminding a natural stone. They are water-proof, cold-resistant and wear-resistant.
Gold (Korean) tile - are the floor covering representing plates from natural stone and polymers. The material is water resistant, it is steady against household chemicals and it is easily cleaned. The term of use is defined with the quantity of steps which are to be made before the occurrence of first fretting attributes. Usually, it is about ten millions steps. In habitual variant ???????? it is about ten-fifteen years of exploitation.

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Floor question (Part 1)

May 2nd, 2007

Today a wide assortment of floor coverings is represented in the market of building materials. In order not to be lost in their variety and to make a right choice, it is necessary to know basic characteristics of each kind of floor coverings.
Parquet - is type of floor covering, which is widely widespread in premises. It represents a wooden block from expensive breeds of a tree with a high density (an oak, a beech, a nut, etc.), laid by “square” or “cold check”. Ready parquet is covered with several layers of varnish. Each four years it is necessary to grind this covering with anew varnish. At correct care the parquet floor is capable to serve for more than thirty years.
Parquet board - it is a three-layer design from natural wood. As to the sizes it is possible to say that it reminds a board from a file, and figure of the top layer simulates piece parquet. It is ecologically pure natural material - it is strong enough, wear proof and durable. The top layer of a parquet board is made of valuable wood breeds - an oak, a beech, a nut, a maple, a birch, a cherry, a tic, an acacia, etc. This layer is responsible for the durability: the more thickly it is, the more polishing it can sustain. An average layer - is a short blocks from resinous coniferous breeds. Bottom - is more often fur-tree or pine plywood. The parquet board should be covered by varnish and impregnated with a mix of oil, wax and natural pitches. Figure of a surface depends on saw cut, therefore it can be homogeneous or with various knots and proveins. Modern technologies allow varying color of an initial material. So, stripping makes wood of a beech more sated; bleaching of an oak and a maple gives light, coldish tone; artificial “oldering” gives the noble deep shade to an oak, causing associations with palace parquet. As well as the piece parquet, a parquet board requires polishing of surfaces - then it can serve for more than twenty years.
Linoleum - is the natural material made of wood flour, pitch, a fuse, chalk and the linen oil, put on a fabric basis. It is durable (about twenty years), water-proof, scratches and dents resistant. However linoleum is complex in use, as it is rather fragile and bursts on bends.
Artificial (commercial) linoleum - is a multilayered covering from PVC. Owing to high durability, scratches and dents resistance (figure is put on all depth of a material), rotting resistance, small heat conductivity and a variety of figure artificial linoleum, it can be used both in houses, and in public premises.

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Mobile furniture

May 1st, 2007

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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