Interior design ideas

Spiral and straight staircases

November 12th, 2007

Everyone who owns a cottage or 2-level appartments surely thought what lader to choose. You may think that ledder has no other functions as to serve your transportation from one floor to another but if you think so - this is not correct. Internal ledder can be the main decoration of your house. It can make it beautiful as well as to make it ugly. It has to work in pair with other decor elements. Ledder can show your character - if you own a wide straight staircase this means that you are opened for the guests. As far as if your ledder contains 2 or 3 parts underlines that your house is separated into few parts and shows that the entrance to private one is restricted. If you own a narrow spiral staircase this means the same as multi-part straight ledder. Stairs play a very important role too. We recommend you to consult with your designed before to buy a ledder. This can save you for doing a big mistake. Staircase is not a thing you’ll change in a week so be carefull while choosing it!

How to build the house: recommendations (Part 2)

November 11th, 2007

Four facades should be drawn on the plan: main, or obverse (from road or street), lateral (on the right and to the left of the main facade), domestic (from a court yard). Cuts should be carried out on architecturally-construction plans.
They may be of following kinds:
architectural - reflect an interior of premises without constructive elements;
constructive - show elements of a building (walls, overlapping, a roof and others).
Besides, the project of the house includes plans: the base; allocations of beams of overlapping; arrangements of bearing designs of a roof. There are two stages of manufacturing of the design documentation: the outline sketch and the design-budget documentation (that is the equipment design). The Outline sketch gives representation about a lay-out of the house, the basic constructive decisions, furnish of premises and their engineering equipment.
Norm of the area
Premises of the house are subdivided into two basic groups: inhabited (sitting room, bedrooms, children????????s room, dining room, study, library, a room for visitors, etc.) and subsidiary (wardrobe, bathroom, a sauna, boiler, etc.).
Let’s consider separate parts of the house and the requirement to them.
The cellar is intended for seasonal storage of vegetables, pickles and other products. Access to it is carried out through the hatch, placed on the free area of a floor, on a ladder-step-ladder. In a cellar or on a ground floor it is possible to arrange pantries, economic premises, a boiler-house, garage, or anything you like. The height of basements from a floor up to a ceiling varies from 1,8 up to 2,4 m.
Sitting room
The comfort of the house is defined by the attitude of quantity of members of family to number of rooms. An optimum variant is when each member of family has the separate room.

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How to build the house: recommendations

November 9th, 2007

General view and lay-out
Before to start construction, it is necessary to define, whether you can adjust independently complex industrial, legal and financial attitudes with executors?
There is a set of high quality companies, not only accepting orders for performance architecturally-construction plans and arranging meetings with architects of projects, but also offering to consultation at the choice of the contractor for realization and also recommendations on internal furnish of the future house. In fact only the skilled architect can embody idea of the house of your dream in a stone or a tree. It is necessary to remember that the real professional will never offer the customer the only one variant.
At designing the house it is necessary to adhere to the certain rules. First of all it is necessary to choose scale - usually 1:50 or 1:100 for work above the drawing. Then plan axial, conditional lines, which are passing through the base and walls. Longitudinal axes on the drawing should be located left of a building and marked with letters of the alphabet, and cross-section - below and they should be marked with Arabian figures from left to right. A side of an external wall of 100-200 mm from an axis (depending on thickness of a wall) should be arranged from below on distance, and axes of internal walls - on their middle. These lines are very important, as at a marking of the house they are being transferred on the site. After that trace on the drawing of a wall so that thickness of each of them corresponded to the chosen scale. After that it is necessary to plan premises, dividing their partitions. It is very important to consider the parties of light. For example, southwest and western illumination is recommended for sitting room and northern - for the kitchen.
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Furniture for bathroom

November 8th, 2007

Ergonomics and practicality are the basic requirements to bathroom furniture. Unfortunately, the sizes of our bathrooms do not always allow us to get greater and convenient furniture. Therefore, designers offer both original and magnificent complete sets, and compact, but capacious enough.
Prestigious: a tree
If the metric area of bathroom allow, it is better to choose wooden complete sets - from oak, birches and a tic. Certainly, they are more expensive. But designers have created a lot of models for such furniture. Practically each of them is a work of art.
The wooden furniture happens classical, ethnic and even wrought.
However, keep in mind: such furniture assumes spacious premise and good ventilation.
Middle class: laminated veneer
At cost veneer furniture borrows an intermediate niche between furniture from laminated particle board and a tree. Veneer is a thin layer of wood which structure and figure does not differ from a tree. It is beautiful and water-resistant.
Cheap: plastic
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The plastic furniture (basically curbstones under a bowl and mirrors) may be both very narrow (from 50 cm at width), and wide (up to 150 cm).
Curbstones and mirrors can be angular, allowing saving a place in the bathroom.

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How to color your interior mistakes

November 7th, 2007

Why is it so difficult to copy successfully design from fashionable magazine? The reasons are quite clear: first of all, color perception depends on the area of painting. Secondly, there is a set of shades of each color, and in order to distinguish them manufacturers give them appropriate numbers and each manufacturer has its own palette.
It is known, that at the Japanese schools children learn to perceive up to 24 shades only of one black color and most other countries of the world there is no color literacy at all. Even the professionals cannot sometimes guess a shade seen in magazine, so, what can we say about those, who are not so much tempted in perception? Besides, the material and the invoice of a painted surface has great value, the same shade with the deep invoice will be look more sated and darker at surfaces.
Don????????t be upset, if your experience of interior color design has appeared unsuccessful; try to correct position by several means. First of all, try to pick up other accessories for room interior: capes on an armchair, a carpet, coverlets or pillows. The great value for of color perception can be made by illumination, especially, it concerns to the mixed colors, white and to all shades grey. Now on sale there is a plenty of lamps with different thermal temperature - from cold bluish up to solar yellow. Probably, having combined them, you will receive quite satisfactory result. It is possible to muffle too bright tone by matte varnish, and too light surface - by repeated coloring.

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Interactive window

November 6th, 2007

Company Philips has presented model of a new window which is, first of all, intended for hotels. This novelty under name Daylight is rather interesting to that the user can change light exposure and color scale of a premise by touch, helping people to relax and restore forces, for example, on business trips, especially after distant flights. Daylight can change a visible landscape behind a window and at the same time to reduce light exposure of number of hotel, drawing various patterns on the window. In order to increase quantity of virtual vegetation (and, accordingly, in a room) the person should stand in front of the window and touch it by hand. Similar movement gives effect of opening jalousie.
Besides, the window can carry out function of an alarm clock. If to adjust it for certain time the pattern on glass will gradually “leave”, in regular intervals increasing quantity of light passed in a premise. Thus, by then, when the person needs to wake up, its organism will be prepared, as though the real sunrise has come. Notwithstanding that it is possible “to draw” patterns from leaves on the window, to add building or other objects, Daylight remains an ordinary window behind which the real landscape is seen. Except for visual effects it is possible to adjust sound - pleasant sounds of the nature.
It is also possible “to close” a window and to take advantage of the help of light therapeutic panel Alcove Light Therapy, which surrounds it. It can be shone by various colors, both weakening, and charging energy and after long flight, and after the difficult working day. Thus, hotels and their lodgers should not pay dearly for use of a novelty as such artificial illumination consumes not enough electricity, and additional color support turns out owing to fluorescence of concept elements.
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Psychological aspects of color

November 2nd, 2007

Individual perception of color is the main riddle, which has not been explained by scientists till now. Everyone sees color differently and chooses the most suitable one from million shades. If certainly, you do not trust blindly to designers and interior magazines, you will choose the color independently. Copying of other interiors may lead to rather undesirable consequences. Bright-dark blue walls with a gold list very festively look in elegant palaces, but in small rooms they are capable to drive mad. Even???????? very beautiful scarlet rose on a green bush and the walls, painted in these colors, without taking into account proportions, will looked painfully. If you decide to stake on contrast colors (red and green, violet and yellow, orange and blue) remember that for their harmonious combination of contrast color should be no more than 10 % of surface.
However, recommendations are not limited to it. Despite of individual color perception, of psychological researches show that it is more preferable to use light, green, greenish-yellow and beige tone for greater rooms. Paint walls in the wardrobe and built in cases in more intensive and even warm tomes. Blue, white and green colors are most psychologically comfortable for bathrooms. For a children’s room chartreuse and pink colors are recommended.
From the psychological point of view, the floor in the apartment should be in warm and not so light tones, as it visually makes it steadier. Besides, if the apartment or house is rather big, it is not recommended to use radical crises of tone, otherwise, it will simply break up to separate rooms and will not look as uniform vital space. Certainly, even one room can be visually divided into functional color zones, but do not use any sharp transitions because the basic tone should be the only one, as motive in a song.
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Color secrets

November 1st, 2007

It seems like everyone knows how to combine colors, but…sometimes we make mistakes. At registration of own interior, wishing to show individuality, we always forget about this alphabet.
If room windows look at the south, registration with the sated or dark tones will approach, northern rooms are better for making light.
The darker the ceiling is the lower it seems, and vertical strips on walls make ceiling visually higher.
Darker wall seems standing in the distance and on the contrary.
Dark colors of walls make premise less, light colors expand it.
Red color has an exciting effect, at short-term influence of red color working capacity raises, and long influence leads to exhaustion and decrease in working capacity.
Orange color creates vigorous and cheerful mood, causes sensation of heat.
Yellow color - is active, recovering, invigorating, it promotes creation of good mood, at changeable influence raises working capacity.
Green color - is neutral, soft, calming, does not tire long action of color, causes not strong, but steady rise of work capacity.
Blue and dark blue colors concern to passive colors, promote a relaxation and delay of vital processes, downturn activity and emotional pressure, dark blue color has to contemplation and reflections.
Violet concerns to the most passive colors, causes sensation of depression and anxiety, even short-term action of violet color strongly reduces working capacity.
Brown color - is quiet and constrained, it causes sensation of heat, promotes creation of quiet mood.
Black color associates with night and darkness; it sharply reduces mood, and grey - causes apathy and boredom.
White color makes impression of modesty and simplicity, however, an emotional spirit strongly depends on illumination and heat of the shade. On its background any other color is looks advantageous.
The more colors are represented, the lees their intensity should be.
Bright sated colors cause a visual pressure that leads to excessive excitation and weariness.
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The end of season: flower bed, lawn and garden (Part 2)

October 30th, 2007

Make winter “hair dress” to a lawn
Watch, that the lawn did not leave under a snow???? not cleared from leaves and not short-haired, otherwise in the spring the lawn will rot, and fresh grass will make the way hardly through a brown layer of a last year’s grass and fallen down foliage. When the lawn is cleaned, it is high time to carry out prewinter hairstyle. Thus the height of a grass remains quite high - 10 - 12 centimeters, for this purpose you should establish a mower on the maximal height of a cut. After a “hairstyle” it is recommended to cover the lawn with a mix of peat and sand in order to smooth roughness and to fill crack in the ground.
Well, the lawn is ready for wintering. It is necessary to take care of mower. Remove dirt and the rests of a grass from it; erase all traces of rust with a fabric or rigid brush. Merge oil and gasoline from the petrol machine. After that grease with lubricating oil all bearings and spray an aerosol against rust (is on sale in shops for gardeners) all metal parts of the machine. The mower winters better, when it is being put on a wooden surface, instead of the ground or concrete.

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The end of season: flower bed, lawn and garden

October 27th, 2007

Take care of a flower bed
If you have not made it earlier yet, cut off stalks and “dead” leaves at all wintering???????? eutherophytes (including peonies, phloxes and to a host). After that redig the ground around of plants accurately and add humus.
Clematises, blossoming on this year runaways, also require a scrap on 2 units from a level of the ground. After scraps the plant should be covered - powder with peat or dry foliage, or powder foliage. Remember: cover only after the ground will be chilled on 2 centimeters.
When minus temperatures and the ground will be established, and the ground will be a little bit chilled, it is possible to start winter crop eutherophytes - Iberias, calendulas, clarkias, larkspur, poppies, chrysanthemums, a mignonette, lobelias. Sow simeons on the equal ground; powder them with a mix of peat, sand and humus. Early winter sowing is good that plants will get under way in growth in the first warm days and will amicably blossom during the season.

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