Interior design ideas

The group of known American designers has finished work above design-projects of 13 exclusive country houses in project Aqua by Mirax on luxurious island Allison Island to Miami Beach (USA).
The project has been presented on March, 13th at international exhibition MIPIM-2008 in Cannes. Known architect Alexander Gorlin has taken part in presentation - the author of architectural projects of all country houses.
On March, 1st, 2008 work of known American designers Rene Gonzalez, Sam Robin, Trusher and Robert Brown on creation of an interior of each of country houses Aqua by Mirax has come to the end.
Designers have created unique internal space in each of country houses in view of all details of interiors dressing, furniture and hardware, adequating to architectural style and features of the project.
Four-storied country houses Aqua by Mirax are equipped with lifts, garages for two cars and own moorings for yachts. Each of country houses has bedroom, spacious wardrobe room, SPA-bathroom from Dornbratcht, and also sitting room, study, a children’s game room, table, kitchen, equipped with the professional equipment from Bulthaup, and 3-4 guest rooms with separate bathrooms and bathrooms. All country houses are equipped with audio and video system Bang and Olufsen.
The leader of landscape design the Swiss firm Enea Gardens has transformed specific terraces of houses Aqua by Mirax into exotic orchards with falls and pools with tropical small fishes.
The important part of interiors of country houses became unique subjects of the modern art and the design, earlier presented on world famous exhibitions Art Basel Design Miami.
In July, 2008, the project will be represented at the market. 
 

In working zone unusual decisions are not required. Here light should be uniform and disseminated: it should be general fixture, not giving shadows, and additional lamp at a workplace with an adjustable light stream on a flexible bar or hinges.
According to fashionable tendencies bedroom should have two light centers: at a bed and near the wardrobe. And it is important, that from each party of bed there was a separate fixture: the muffled, matte lamp on night little table or wall sconce above the bed. If it is children’s room with two beds “night lamp” also should be applied on each of them. The most important here is that illumination was sufficient for reading. And for a case the built in dot fixtures will ideally approach.
Dining table is a special place. Its illumination should be soft and cozy. The unusual aura above a table is created with pendant fixtures. Well, if you want a holiday, place on a candle on the table. It is the best way to create the atmosphere of mystery and celebration. 
It is boring to follow all necessary rules. From original novelties - “window” with artificial illumination in ceiling, playing a role of a luster is offered. In this case it is necessary to dot fixtures, which form a shone contour in the form of oval are placed on the access-ceiling. It looks very unusual and effective. Such “hole” in ceiling visually raises it and speaks about not ordinary taste of the owner.

It looks like the recent hobby for minimalism has become very popular. Now we choose cozy, “home”, even Eastern interiors. Sociologists name it “aspiration to hide in a cocoon”, and designers help to create such conditions in which it would be desirable to come back again and again with the house. And the unusual and at the same time carefully thought over illumination is one of the most important elements in cozy apartment.
Multilevel illumination has come to us together with a fashion for multilevel ceilings and has been named “light revolution”. Our eyes need rest and good illumination at the same time. 
In the beginning floor fixtures, a sconce, floor lamps were used at night and coffee tables. But the imagination of designers has gone too far. In general there should be some zones in the apartment. And each zone should have different purpose, different height of ceilings and, certainly, the illumination.
The diversified and bright light decisions are pertinent in sitting room. An interesting course relies in creation of several islands of light. Near to sofas and armchairs it is possible to arrange floor lamps, a sconce, floor fixtures with the lamp shades, giving a diffused light. Architectural and decorative elements - columns, arches, the niches, the open bricklaying - look effectively if to illuminate them with dot floor fixtures.

In order to give some spring style to your apartment, it is recommended to:
1. Use fixtures as Alternative to traditional luster. They can be lifted-lowered and turned into the necessary side.
2. Add “animal” details - it is almost obligatory element of popular nowadays interiors in ecological and ethnic style.
3. Replace the tulle (which is not in fashion now) with flax or organza.
Fabrics
Ethnic style is the most popular today - therefore it is possible to choose east or, on the contrary, northern patterns. It is better to use natural fabrics; in fact the dwelling should be not only beautiful, but also harmless.
Curtains
Organza and veil are the most popular “spring-and-summer” fabrics for curtains. The veil is cheaper, this material softer and is well draped. Organza is more expensive, the fabric more rigid and it looks more elegant due to beautiful metal shine.
Colors should be natural: not bleached fibers, soft “natural” scale. It is very fresh and multilayered curtains from transparent fabrics (for example, organza) looked smart an unusual at the same time.
Illumination
Sparkling with all rainbow colors crystal lusters will never get out of fashion. And, if there is respectable old furniture from an oak or mahogany in your sitting room, you may easily create classical interior.
If you like “hi-tech” style may use such fashionable materials as nickel, chrome, aluminum, white or transparent glass. Absolute absence of plafonds is the last trend of fashion.
It is possible to replace traditional lusters with modular systems: the long arm with set of fixtures fastens on a ceiling or it can partially go down on a wall. It is better to choose systems with lamps, which easily turn in the jacks.  it is possible to twist them in all the parties and to direct a stream of light into the necessary direction.
 

As it has become known New York City’s famous Plaza Hotel is opening after three-year renovation.
Restoration of a 19-storeyed building, in which Marilyn Monroe was photographed and which lodgers were participants of group “Beatles”, has managed to its present owners in $400 million
Owners wished to transfer room-numbers of hotel in to private property; however, this idea has encountered resistance of trade unions and mayor of New York. Negotiations have led to that the majority of room-numbers will all the same remain to hotel, and nearby 200 of them will be sold into private possession.
Plaza Hotel has been opened in the beginning of the last century. It is known on many Hollywood films which were shooted in its walls.
 

Curtains and drapery are one of basic elements of apartment decorations. Curtains can visually soften substantially lacks of windows or doors of a room - to extend or expand them. For example, in order to make the window look more widely, curtains and draperies may be located on both parties of the window aperture, grasping a part of a wall on the right or at the left. If you desire to narrow a window, you may attach curtains to eaves, corresponding to size of window aperture, and length of curtains almost should touch to the floor. 
In room, where walls are colored or pasted over by wall-papers without figure, it is possible to for use fabrics with figure for draperies, and it is desirable, that the background or figure of fabric corresponded to painting of walls, it may be the same color with them, but of other shade. For those premises, which wall coverings have figure, it is recommended to use smooth fabrics.
If in room there are both draperies and decorative fabric, tulle should be without figures. If there are large things in the small room, it should be upholstered by smooth fabric.
Large figure of a fabric is admissible for draperies, curtains, upholsteries of furniture in greater and high rooms, and also just for decoration the large sizes.
Checkered fabrics are quite comprehensible for curtains, covers, cloths, sofa pillows and to furniture upholstery. 
If under windows of the central heating battery, tulle and, in particular, curtains are made   of silk tulle, kapron, nylon, viscose, it is desirable to make them  only up to the window as contact to hot batteries will spoilt them.

The rack is the most traditional way of various subjects’ accommodation: from utensils up to a ships collection though it is intended initially for storage of books.
The rack is a set of shelves, deprived not only a face-to-face door, but also sometimes lateral shelves.
Many racks are equipped with put forward boxes and pallets. It allows storing a lot of subjects in it. Besides, there are mobile racks, on wheels. They are good that you can make rearrangement in the room without special difficulties. This plus will be especially clear to those people, who face the problem immobile racks, fixed to walls. However, immobile racks have some advantages - unfixed rack can drop everything, if you with it will not be careful.
Now racks are made of diversified materials: tree, metal, the plastic, the laminated plates and so forth. Besides, all these materials can be combined in any way. If the interior has hi-tech style, you will appreciate fashionable racks from glass and aluminum.
Racks can be used for zoning space. For example, in a small-sized apartment the rack can differentiate a room on children’s room and bedroom, having created additional comfort. And mobile racks will allow you to create some kind of „mobile zoning“, dividing a premise differently, and depending on your needs and desires.
 

The name “ceramics” has occurred from the Greek word “Keramos”, which means “clay”. And it is the clay which serves the raw material for manufacture of any pottery, including and ceramic tiles. As well as all pottery, tiles distinguishes by the raised rigidity (they are not deformed and do not bend though are a fragile material), they are hygienic, easily cleared and are steady against chemical agents influence.
Researches in the field of aesthetics, carried out recently, went in two directions. First, it is a reproduction of marble or natural stone structures. A lot of efforts have been put in development of the invoice of surfaces and in increase in tile thickness, in new color scales and graphic decisions, since so-called “structures”, which now are the first obligatory step to new ideas and tendencies development. Secondly, it is creation of surfaces, pierced by weather and time.
Combination of a ceramic tile with various materials (glass, metal, a tree) is one more fashionable tendency. The combination of several formats, owing to what it is possible to achieve interesting decorative effect, is also used.
Ceramic tile is not just a decorative material. The world of ceramics is similar to the world of a fashion. Here there is also great variety and mixture of styles, colors and forms.
Knowledge of the basic world classifications, the basic types of the tiles (majolica, a ceramic granite, etc.), the parameters, describing technical features of tiles, will allow choosing correctly the given kind of floor covering.

Cities of oil kings are continuing to reach for the sky. Here the amazing imagination highest buildings will be created. But the latest news from Saudi Arabia has shaken the world, having forced everyone to speak about a new record. As it has become known, in Jidda construction of the new giant, which will take away a palm tree of superiority at already under being built skyscraper Burj Dubai will begin and it will become the highest building in the world.
City landscapes of the Near East, owing to a continuous stream of petrodollars, promptly get the ultramodern kind reflecting all building achievements of XXI century. Only just the tower Burj Dubai has been recognized the highest building in the world, as the new project which promises to break all conceivable and inconceivable records has begun.
Last week in Abu-Dhabi the chapter of the British firm Hyder Consulting, leading development of Burj Dubai, has declared the order for designing of a new tower which should become twice higher than Burj. Building company Kindom Holding offers to construct skyscraper Mile High Tower (1600 meters high).
Let’s remind, that tower Burj Dubai, which will be completed by the end of 2008, has at present reached 605 meters in height, and upon termination of construction it will tower above the ground on 818 meters. Thus, Burj has already overtaken the previous champion - a skyscraper in Taipei (508 meters). The new tower will also leave far behind both buildings.
 

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.