Interior design ideas

The project of the highest skyscraper in the world is developed in Northern America and it can be carried out within the nearest years. The height of building will make more than three kilometers; the quantity of floors will be equaled to 500.
The two-mile construction was developed by American company Tsui Design&Research. The name of the project sounds as Ultima Tower.
The height of a building will exceed 3,2 thousand meters (approximately 500 floors). Travel upward, according to the plan of the author of a tower, should take 9 minutes and 40 seconds. The building will be constructed owing to high-strength concrete with system of the tense steel cables.
Around Ultima Tower artificial lake should be created. Its water will be used for creation of inside of system of the rivers and falls which, besides other, can influence a microclimate of construction. Ventilation should be also natural, without superfluous energy expenses.
According to the architect, construction of unique skyscraper will require $150 billion.

Famous Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman has bought houses for $7 million in area of Los Angeles.
It is surprising that Kidman will live on one street with her former husband Tom Cruise.
Actress’ new house, which has settled down right in the end of the silent deadlock, has five bedrooms, and also a pond with gold small fishes and turned off lawns. Kidman has bought the house for $10,5 million

Famous Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman has bought houses for $7 million in area of Los Angeles.
It is surprising that Kidman will live on one street with her former husband Tom Cruise.
Actress’ new house, which has settled down right in the end of the silent deadlock, has five bedrooms, and also a pond with gold small fishes and turned off lawns. Kidman has bought the house for $10,5 million

Let’s pass to the following, most known, way of pseudo-stained-glass windows manufacturing. It is a stained-glass window from beaten glass and silicate glue. It is necessary to prepare color glasses of the necessary size. Prepare the sketch full-scale, attach from an underside to glass. Degrease a surface with liquid ammonia and put planimetric ornament with dark marker or paint. Cover glass with a layer of silicate glue (liquid glass) and spread a mosaic from color splinters of glass according to the matched figure. In 4-6 hours the surface of a stained-glass window should be filled in with a continuous layer of glue so that it covered all acting splinters. So that the glue did not flow down, on edges it is possible to establish a time framework from wood strips. Except for silicate glue you may use epoxy adhesive or polyester pitch.
It is possible to execute a stained-glass window from whole color glasses according to the following technology. We prepare the sketch and fix it from an underside of transparent glass, as well as in the previous cases. We cut out from the whole color glasses sites of figure of a necessary configuration. On transparent glass-basis the “dry” set of a stained-glass window is done. The space between slices of color glass is filled in with solution of following structure: cement - 1 part, sand - 3 parts, glue - 1 part. For convenience at this operation it is possible to take even polyethylene container from under shampoo into which the glass or plastic tube in diameter of 4-5 mm is inserted. Before filling up edges of color glasses in junctions with silicate glass are carefully greased with a solution by means of a wooden stick. After the drying the basic filling up is made. At such processing the solution does not leak under color glasses, and the stained-glass window turns out accurate and nice.

Real stained-glass window is made of the pieces of color glass inserted into a metal frame. Earlier for manufacturing frames lead was used and now - stainless steel and aluminium have superseded it. Such technologies are, unfortunately, quite complex for house creativity. Therefore, we wish to bring to your attention a little more accessible pseudo-stained-glass windows devices.
Before manufacturing of any stained-glass window it is necessary to develop the full-scale color sketch. If you feel like an artist, you may easily start the business. Otherwise you should find a suitable ornament, address to classics, gradually move ahead from simple to complex, and all your friends will admire creations of your hands.
After development of the sketch, cover it with glass, on which the stained-glass window will be made. It should be well cleaned and skim.
The first method is based on use of soluble color fabrics, such as acetate silk, which is easily dissolved by acetone and nitro lacquers. Cut out slices of thin fabric of a necessary configuration and color according to figure of the future stained-glass window. Cover glass with a thin layer of transparent nitro lacquer and dry it. Then the same nitro lacquers should be put on separate zones, and rags of preparation should be pasted.
Gluing is necessary for making precise pictures as the fabric starts to be dissolved practically at once, and it cannot be moved. Having pasted a rag on the place allocated for it, cover the mark with nitro lacquers and pass to the following one. Having filled a stained-glass window with elements, put one more layer of nitro lacquers and atop pair layers of parquet lacquers. Making pseudo-frame is the following stage. For this purpose epoxy pitch should be mixed up with a hardener in the ratio 1 : 8~10. The received weight should be mixed up with talc and aluminium or bronze powder till the moment, when a mix will get metal shine and will not spread on the glass. Then the received weight should be filled into confectionery syringe or used tube from under a tooth-paste and the equal platen squeeze out on outlines of stained-glass window. Thus it is important not to suppose crossings between lines as platens should not run against each other.
We recommend making all actions with nitro lacquers in well aired premise or at open air, and it is necessary to work in rubber gloves with epoxy pitch.

According to the research, carried out by the newspaper 24timer by means of the Statistical bureau of the country, 100 thousand houses of Denmark have no bathrooms, and nearby 25 thousand are not equipped with toilets.
Inhabitants of such houses are compelled to go to a toilet to neighbors and to use public bathrooms in the cellar.
There are no toilets and bathrooms in the apartments constructed in the beginning of 20 century. Their typical tenants are young men with a low level of incomes, and also greater group of elderly citizens.
In many houses, where there is no bathroom, bathrooms are established directly in the bedroom or in the kitchen.
Making comments on the results of research, specialists from scientific research institute Building Research Institute have noted, that “politicians of the country are more anxious with the state of city streets and squares, instead of improvement of living conditions of citizens”. In their opinion not less than 15 years before should pass until houses and apartments of Denmark will be equipped with toilets and bathrooms.
It is necessary to note, that Denmark has borrowed 12th place in the list of the most stable and prospering countries of the world.

The technologies are presented to the USA, allowing supervising the house, pressing the button or with a touch of finger to the screen. The new system not only raises comfort and safety, but also allows looking after children.
Earlier systems of household automation were offered only to buyers of new houses, but now the systems can be established easily in any house. “House of new generation” became the most evident embodiment of system’s opportunities.
In the given construction it is possible to warm up an oven with a call from a mobile phone. It is possible to receive the notice by e-mail if the window in a nursery opens in the middle of night. If someone has come, the video recorder is put on a pause, and on the screen the face of the person calling at a door is displayed. When you start to look film, jalousies are automatically closed, and light gradually die away.
The most part of these devices are wireless. The system includes 170 switches, chambers of tracking and other devices, connected to house computer network and adapted for Lifeware software. Provisional cost of system NextGen home will make nearby $30 thousand.
 

The inventive 52-year-old British has constructed own eco-house just for ten months and four thousand pounds (nearby $8 thousand).
The house of the British is constructed of straw blocks. As he said, it is possible to make buildings of any type of these blocks, and for construction similar country house no sanctions is required.
Now the enterprising British conducts rates on eco-engineering, receives commission fee for the help in construction of straw houses, and he has also opened web-site about them.

American actress Cameron Diaz, who has become famous owing to the roles in such movies as “Something about Mary” and “Mask”, has got five-room apartment in New York.
As it has become known the actress looked for constant habitation in New York for more than a year. Her choice has fallen on apartment with two bedrooms, which is in a building of pre-war construction. Cost of apartments is hardly less than $3 million
The apartment has a large sitting room with a fireplace, cabinet and some bathrooms.

Houses under straw roofs are quite popular nowadays. They are used both in England, and in the African villages. But the houses completely constructed from this absolutely nonconventional for us building material, are perceived while with some mistrust.
In the twentieth years of the last century the fashion on houses from straw bales has come to some American states.
But in the end of the century the southwest of the USA has again turned to cheap houses from waste agricultural products. Sheaves of straw have again started gleaming in hardworking hands.
Why straw houses are so popular now? The matter is that they are cheap, ease in use and straw has appeared faultless from the point of view of ecology. And moreover, the idea of the use of straw (as a matter of fact, waste of agriculture) has solved the problem of material recycling.
What do we need for the straw house?
First of all, we need straw. But it is not so easy, as it should be well-pressed.
Any stalks, but is more preferable take rye or linen straw as they for some reason do not cause appetite in all wreckers, may be initial material for blocks.
The sizes of blocks depend on length of straw. It is considered, that the stalks of straw are the longer, the more qualitatively they as a building material are.
The main thing is that straw in blocks was dry. If blocks have got damp, before the beginning of their construction, it is necessary to dry them well.