Interior design ideas

Best colors for your bedroom (Part 2)

December 17th, 2007

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Nuances are very important as they can create special atmosphere in the room.  Sofa pillows, coverlets, plaids, a sconce and floor lamps, carpets, floor vases and figurines, decorative utensils - these decor elements are creating good color link between, say, curtains and a furniture upholstery. Besides, it very much recovers and diversifies interior. The main thing is that is not recommended to overload premise with a lot of shades.
Your coziness
It is important to remember about the parts of the world. Northern (cold) part should be necessarily flavored by warm bright tones, southern - by cold. By the way, cool shades of gray-blue, pearl, pale-green can visually expand a premise. If the room, on the contrary, is very spacious, it will be desirable to use pastel or sated tones of warm scale.
Nougat on walls
Designers recommend sating scenery of the house with new paints depending on a season. For example, in spring interior colors may remind egg shell, golden-yellow or apricot. Paints should be gentle as the first spring flowers: cornflower-blue, May greens.
In summer cool and dim shades are recommended. Color accents should be made on silver-gray, green or bluish-beige, chocolate or coffee with milk. Metals and natural materials should be silver and bluish.
 

Best colors for your bedroom

December 15th, 2007

Modest variant
Any pure color is capable to cause irritation in human perception, it requires contrast. - Therefore, working out at the apartment’s interior, it is not necessary to prefer any one color, especially if it concerns to the so-called active palette (yellow, orange, red), because it will be psychologically impossible to stay in such premise for a long time. Color can be always combined with another. The main thing is to avoid strong contrasts - they tire eyes very quickly. Combine not less than three shades.
Pastel in bed
Blue and muffled yellow shades are well combined and the calming effect creates superficial light green tone - this variant ideally suits for bedrooms. - It is better to choose no saturated coloring lilac, green, blue and pink colors for children’s room. The composition of dark blue, yellow and white colors would be the ideal variant both for relaxation and work. Golden-brown color scale will create special cosines in your house.
Grey ambitions
Popular orange is capable to give the tired by black-and-white scale interiors joyful heat and high spirits. this color will attractively look in country and folk style interiors. But even in minimalist style orange color can be quite pertinent because of emotional discharge. From the functional point of view this color should be used in sitting room or living room as it promotes the liberated dialogue and individuality. Orange color can stimulate appetite - that is why it is simply irreplaceable in a dining room and on the kitchen. 
Red color requires absolutely special context - no other color can “argue” with its causing ambition and bright temperament. Perhaps, beige, grey and all the same white tone are the only shades, which are capable to restrain its ardor.
 

Laminate (Part 1)

December 12th, 2007

The massive board has appeared long before parquet and today it is one of the most popular floor coverings. Now, it is the most demanded kind of parquet.
The size of a separate die (board) and modern quality of processing allows realizing the most refined project both in separate premises, and industrially, that considerably raises its characteristics. The file serves as good alternative to natural piece parquet, as it is more durable and creates an image of expensive, beautiful, elite floors.
Oak concerns to the so-called core breeds of tree. Wood of an oak, except for the uppermost, “alive” ring, may be self-preserved. Internal rings do not participate in vital processes and they become impregnated with special substances and become stone during lifetime of a tree. Oak wood is an excellent construction material; it goes on underwater and overland constructions, device of underwater and basic parts of wooden courts (mainly old oak) and as machine, furniture, parquet and joiner’s wood (the winter oak is preferred).
Ash is a very popular breed of a tree. Its wood possesses high hardness and durability that is especially appreciated in floor coverings. An ash is also (as well as oak) capable to maintain greater loadings. Its wood is magnificent. Elasticity and its durability have been highly appreciated at all times.
Ash, owing to the durability, is an ideal breed for processing. Various kinds of a decor will help you to create unique interior. We appreciate the refined taste of our clients, therefore besides a wide choice of colors and grades of a massive parquet board; we offer various variants of a decor on your desire.

Ideal kitchen: Trifles and mood

December 9th, 2007

In kitchen’s interior of (as well as at any other premise) there are no unnecessary trifles, even if it is a question of absolutely small subjects: saltcellars, glasses for toothpicks or napkins’ holders. That all these small subjects help to create cosines, instead of splitting up space of kitchen, it is completely not obligatory to select them so that they were identical on color, but well to keep the harmony of the style.
For example, if there are inserted tiles with rural motives on the kitchen tile, it is possible to put whickered basket for bread or a painted saltcellar on a table. Accordingly, wrought luster will set other tone: on such kitchen trays with wrought handles or a suitable vase for fruits will look harmoniously.
It is not necessary to forget and about more appreciable interior subjects, such as hinged shelves for utensils (it is possible to choose the models decorated carved or wrought elements) and a curtain. In general window decoration plays an important role in design of any premise, and on the kitchen it becomes one of few ways to give to a room the necessary atmosphere. Air lacy curtains or practical jalousie with corresponding figure, a shelf for the decorative utensils, hiding an eaves, or set glass shelves on all window - the designer has a huge quantity of beautiful and cozy decisions.
No matter what style has been created, the ideal kitchen will turn out at preservation of balance of beauty and functionality. Huge quantity of pleasant, but fine bagatelles, which it is necessary to wipe not one hour, or a shelf with fragile souvenirs in inconvenient place, are capable to bring to nothing any design idea. However, really successful choice of interior elements differs from unsuccessful one by the fact that does not create any discomfort and gives only pleasure. 
 

Ideal kitchen: romantic teapot

December 8th, 2007

However, if it is necessary to study offers in the market of home appliances, it is possible to come to conclusion, that opposition of devices of kitchen style is not so important in some cases. Some manufacturers can offer not simply functional assistants on a facilities, but really designed bagatelles.
For example, the teapot twisted with rattan rope, or a toaster with a flower pattern on the case in it, which are the elements of design and are perfectly entered in country style of kitchen. If modeling number of the manufacturer, chosen by the mistress, is not so wide, it is possible to get models of not so white color, but of any other color: egg-yellow, terracotta, grassy …
Purchase of operating antiquarian devices is one more variant. Certainly, the electric kettle is very convenient and it is much comfortable to make coffee in coffee maker. But any style demands victims and use of such surprising “museum” subjects frequently not a victim, but ever lasting pleasure.
It is possible to address to the artist or to paint household appliances. Then there is a chance to create something exclusive, as much as possible suitable to design of kitchen. Certainly, dishwasher with the figure, repeating patterns on a tile, or the picturesque microwave, painted under national emblems, may become a highlight of any kitchen. The only thing is that it is necessary to consider that water resistance and thermo stability of paints were obtained. And they also should be safe in use: help to the mistress in cooking all the same remains the basic purpose of techniques and any other factors are desirable.

Ideal kitchen

December 7th, 2007

Combine incongruous
The majority of us would like to combine at the kitchen two, at first sight, opposite “directions” - high technologies and something more sincere, for example a retro or country. Certainly, someone prefers kitchen in hi-tech style and in this case plastic and the surfaces of kitchen furniture, trimmed under metal, are ideally combined.
Creation of gentle, in something “rural”, but modern kitchen requires special and frequently individual decisions. If to study the majority of design projects of such type and to find in common, it is necessary to appeal to built in techniques. When romantic “face” of kitchen is required, the idea of hiding all technical features seems very successful and easy.
Usually necessary atmosphere is created due to table and chairs (or, as a variant, benches and an angular sofa). The furniture with whickered elements, vintage inserts on a table-top is used. Thus, the kitchen is being divided into two zones: a place for cooking and a dining room - owing to use of practically opposite styles on the emotional saturation. At the same time both zones should be in harmony: a little bit romanticism “gets” on working territory, and on the contrary.
 

English style

December 2nd, 2007

We do not recommend you to choose this style if you:
Do not like sated on color interiors, with active motley textiles;
Prefer bright and air interiors; you consider as excess decorative friezes, socles and so forth. But if the set forth above reasons are not important for you, we shall consider components of the given style.
It is quite eclectic style as it incorporates influence of two epochs: Georgian (1714 - 1837) and Victorian styles (1837 - 1901). In days of kings of Georges English style was influenced by Greece and Ancient Rome. This style is characterized as majestic, constrained, proportional and symmetric. Walls are painted in one color. On a smooth background of walls borders, a plinth, the panels were actively used. The choice of color quite often depended on the party of light, where windows of the room were located. If on the north - warm shades, for example, pink, citreous colors, prevailed. If on the south - cold, such as azure, green colors, were used. In times of Queen Victoria - the time of technical knowledge, growth of well-being of people - various styles from all countries of the world and different epoch were used. Interiors of that time were full of elements borrowed from cultures of India, Japan, China, Mauritania, Ancient Egypt, and also such styles as rococo, the Luis XIV, Jacob I and so forth. During these period warm shades of terracotta dominated. It was fashionable to use three colors, which borders were read on three levels of wooden furnish, for painting of walls. Quite often the lowest part of the wall, simulating a socle, was not painted, but was pasted over with relief wall-papers.

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Mosaic (Part 2)

December 1st, 2007

Ceramic mosaic, more truly, its chips are externally reminding of usual tile - it is also in the form of square or rectangular, only the smaller size. Colors, offered by manufacturers and shades, are very various. The mosaic can be glazed and can contain “special effects” - impregnations of other color, imitation of rough surface, etc. The surface, laid out by ceramic mosaic, will be more relief, than trimmed by a glass mosaic. The ceramic mosaic is stronger than glass that is why it is combined with stability to abrasive deterioration and original appearance. Not glazed mosaic has porous structure, with all troubles following from here.
The ceramic mosaic approaches for facing of the most different surfaces, including pools, facades of buildings, walls and floors of bathrooms and kitchens.
Stone mosaic. In its manufacture the most different breeds of a stone, since cheap tufa and up to the rare breeds of marble, onyx and jasper, are used. Color of a natural material is unique, game of structures is unusual, and therefore each mosaic image is obviously unique. The stone can be left polished, and it may be artificially “olden” - in this case the color will be more muffled, and edges will be smoother. The maximal size of chips is 50*50 mm (basically such elements are applied outside of premises).
If you are planning to buy mosaic from the natural or agglomerated marble it is necessary to consider, that it is rather soft materials, at care with which it is impossible to use abrasive cleaners and the rigid brushes, capable to leave scratches on the polished surface. It is necessary to avoid liquids - fruit juices, wine, vinegar, etc.???? Majority of products of these materials is recommended to be used after stacking in places with intensive operation and you should rub it with special wax. Exception is made with agglomerates on the basis of quartz.

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Mosaic (Part 1)

November 30th, 2007

The mosaic is the figure, made of small pieces or various materials. The word in translation with Latin “musium” means “devoted to muses”. The first mosaic images, which have reached up to now, belong to the epoch of antiquity. However, today it experiences a rebirth. Even more often it is possible to see a panel and pictures in the most various to destination premises: pools, showrooms, cafes, shops.
Glass mosaic. Today Venetian glass is the most widespread material for manufacture of a mosaic. It is durable, water-resisting, heat resisting, cold-resistant. Besides, it has continuous structure so, it is not subject to influence of microorganisms and bacteria and can be used for furnish of pools. As to a color palette, it is so polychromatic that it is difficult for describing. For this purpose during manufacture diversified additives are being added into the glass: from a pine forest, cadmium and selenium up to a semiprecious mineral aventurine and nacre.
The most widespread form of type-setting elements (modules, chips) is square. The more finely they are the more detailed elaboration of the image will be.
The glass mosaic has very wide scope: these are the walls and floors in any closed premises, from kitchens up to pools and bathrooms, and also a surface of furniture, fireplaces, and facades of buildings.
Smalto mosaic. Smalto is a version of a glass mosaic. But unlike last one smalto structure includes salts of kalium, instead of sodium, and other natural connections giving color to the material. Modern smalto is received in result of pressing fine parts of densely painted glass with addition of oxides and sintering at temperature of 700-800????C within the day. in result the material gets excellent physical and chemical properties: crashworthiness, frost resistance, stability various aggressive cleaners. Smalto is shining from within. Besides, each cube differs from others. Because of it the greater surface, which has been laid out by smalto of one color, does not look sadly. Available technologies allow receiving up to 10 thousand shades of smalto.

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Influence of wood on health and emotional state of the person (Part 2)

November 26th, 2007

Not only color of wood, but also breed of a tree influences our health. Having chosen corresponding breed of a tree, it is possible to correct not only emotional state, but also character of the person. For example, the bamboo helps to supervise aggression, to remove irritation. The beech promotes development of tolerance in relation to associates. The larch helps to believe in the forces and to overcome uncertainty in. The oak relieves of vanity, helps to look objectively at the world, gives additional energy and reduces excessive anxiety. The hornbeam helps to develop a real sight at things and to get rid of prejudices and errors. The nut will help you to make right decisions and not to come under another’s influence.
Thus, wood is little bit more, than just building material. People and plants, being a part of one ecosystem, are indissolubly connected with each other. Tree is a material, created by the nature, in the wooden house you always will feel calmness, warmly and coziness.
Wooden windows are Indispensable attribute of harmless habitation. Unlike plastic, the tree possesses ability “to breathe”, that is to pass air through microspores, thus providing its continuous circulation. Modern wooden windows possess high sound insulation, low heat conductivity and stability to temperature drops and durability. Their aesthetic qualities concern to conclusive advantages of wooden windows. They are perfectly combined with a parquet and wooden furniture and help to create the finished shape of interior. That is why in the European countries, for example, Sweden, and Holland, three quarters of windows is made of tree.????
The country house constructed of harmless materials will create the special atmosphere opened for rest, helping to restore forces, energy and composure, to find balance with world and to find calmness and cheerfulness.
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