Home Interior Guide

Do you know that constant anxiety and stress can cause different problems? If you don’t start to struggle with chronic pressure and anxiety effectively it will affect your cardiovascular and immune systems. Therefore creation of calm interior is very important.
In ideal, it would be desirable to create similar atmosphere in all house. However, you can create the oasis at home. Here are eight simple decisions for transformation of own space into a comfort zone.
Relaxing music
Your favorite music, sounds of forest and flowing water will help to relax and vanish. Sounds can influence your perception and instantly change your mood.
Soft illumination
Soft and adjustable illumination can create calming atmosphere. The fixture with brightness control will allow you to choose the most comfortable illumination.
Pleasant aromas
Fresh and pleasant smell can “move” you to peace and pleasant space. Open your window let fresh air come to your room!
Furniture placing
Put furniture and other things so that that all necessary always was near at hand. Take away all unnecessary details. Personalize your space with something symbolizes pleasant memoirs (it there can be a soft toy, a family photo, etc.)
Comfortable structures
Use pillows, coverlets and soft materials for creation of relaxing zone. The touch to these subjects should cause positive emotions.
Nature symbols
Bring a nature part in your space by means of cockleshells, stones, a tree, leaves etc.
Answering machine
When it is necessary to relax, take advantage of answering machine and switch off a call. You can always call back, when you will have a rest.

Even if you have enough means for expensive stylish furniture, do not block up teenagers room with it. Furniture function here is quite limited - it should be convenient and sufficient for sleeping, sitting-writing-reading and also for storing books, cartridges, diskettes, disks, clothes, any amusing features etc. The only stipulation - is that furniture for teenagers should be light, not of gloomy tones. It is possible to tell the same and about curtains.
Perhaps, it is not necessary to buy so-called teenage sofas, which are thought up for economy of metric area, but not for convenience of the teenager. Spacious ottoman on which it is possible to settle though lengthways though across is, perhaps, best variant in this case.  Allow your child to grow!
Last scientists’ researches prove that the lack of sunlight can negatively affect not only on physical, but even on mental development of teenager.
It is necessary to provide good illumination in the evening. It is important to keep good sight of teenager. Ceiling light often happens insufficient. Desk lamp would be the best addition because it can be rearranged anywhere. Besides, a variety of lamps in shops allows choosing something “cool”, in taste of your child.

Podium - is the lifted part of a floor and usually it is a frame design. The skeleton can be most different - wooden, metal (providing the greatest durability), from above on a skeleton the finishing material (wood, tile, stone, stopper, laminate, etc.) is put. Sometimes, for creation of original design decisions, the color, which is distinct from color of a floor, is used. Dot fixtures are usually arranged in end faces of steps.
The podium is hardly higher the steps, and also there are areas, on which the whole kitchens are being arranged. As a rule the podium height makes 100-200 mm, if the height exceeds these parameters, it is necessary to add steps to podium for extra convenience.
Usually podiums are classified as technical (necessary for communications and more often established in bathrooms and on the kitchen) and decorative podiums (in bedrooms, sitting and other rooms of the house).
Podium can compensate absence of cases, in it is easy to establish sliding containers and to put any things, saving free space of residential zone.
If you have decided to arrange podium, than you should take care of its rigidity and sound insulation, using special isolating materials.

Rainy weather - is an excellent occasion to make the apartment cozier.
Designers advise to mark approach of each new season with small, but pleasant changes in interior. So, for example, in colds the house should be made warm not only from the point of view of temperature, but also visually. Replace textile accessories from easy weightless fabrics with more thorough - woolen, fur, gobelin and quilted covers. Color scale should be warm. The muffled yellow, sand, terracotta, claret, brick-red colors will give your dwelling cozy and affable kind.
- African motives are present today not only at clothes of woman, but also in interior of the hospitable mistress.
- This season needlewomen have every chance to receive enthusiastic responses of guests, having surprised them with hand-made plaids and pillowcases for sofa pillows.
- If you have many the multi-colored palatines which are in harmony among themselves on a coloring, it is possible to transform them for a while into capes for upholstered furniture. If such variant of decor seems too simple to you, put on a fringe which is hanging down from backs and armrests of sofas and armchairs, large beads.
- Special charm of drawing room can be reached due to combination of traditional - square sofa pillows and round platens. Old covers can be updated, having sewn on edge a beautiful decorative cord with brushes.
- Combination of quilted coverlets and covers for pillows from silk and intricate caskets or other decorative accessories upholstered with the same fabric.
- Today prints allow not only to buy unusual pillow in shop, but also to make liked image, having transferred image on fabric by means of a special paper for the printer and iron.

Color design is very important, especially if you have decided to choose it on your own.
1. It is desirable to learn more about coloristic.
Unfortunately combination of colors can be unpredictable- sometimes you can get nice grouping, but sometimes it can be terrible.
2. Except a color difference in the different areas it is also necessary to consider, that it will look different at illumination.
Here it is necessary to consider many factors - the sun, lamps, and shades.
3. Color of furniture should be considered. Including a way of coloring - in one case it can be monophonic wall it is possible to color a bottom one color, top - in another.
4. What about floor?
It is not a secret that floors can be made of different materials - parquet, laminate, linoleum…It is clear that it is simply unreasonable to arrange magnificent interior with linoleum floors. So, if you want some luxury, then you should choose parquet floor.
5. Rooms - bedroom, sitting room, kitchen…
It is desirable to choose calming pastel colors for bedroom.
Sitting room - is your visiting card, so it should impress your guests. Color can be different - it depends on your taste.
6. If you don’t have furniture…
If you still do not have furniture, you can create general image of your home and try to combine colors. in this case, design ideas are recommended.

From all colors dark blue is more often connected with concept of beauty. Since the most ancient times it is popular all over the world. Dark blue - is the color of eternity, connecting the present with the past and the future. Magicians and wizards used to dress dark blue color. In the middle ages people in blue, knew true. In Ancient Egypt pyramid from within was colored in dark blue color. The Buddha and Krishna are also of dark blue color. In myths dark blue color is a divine color; it is a color of mysteriousness and value.

From the psychological point of view, dark blue color associates calmness and peace.
Dark blue - is the most popular color of “cold” scale. Its expressive possibilities are really inexhaustible. It, as a rule, associates with the sky and the sea; it possesses ability to transfer both lightness of clouds, and calmness of the cloudless sky, and a deep gloom of night. Color of the sea depends on the sky, depth, time of day, weather conditions and even features of a sea-bottom: it fluctuates from dark blue-violet shades to pale aquamarine.
Two shades of dark blue are considered as cores. Light blue (blue) - color of the sky, refreshing cool, height, freedom, peace. It is color of carelessness, pensiveness and romanticism, it calms, radiates reliability, but thus, looking at it, it is impossible to concentrate. It is color of “quiet emotionality”; it gives the chance to be outside the limits of a society, it expands space.

Dark blue (indigo) possesses the properties similar with blue, but as its intensity is high its influence on the person is much stronger. It is a symbol of consciousness, depth, and internal source of life. This color is very much appreciated by Japanese and Chineses. But tending black, it gets a grief shade, leads to depression, and causes oppressing action, anxiety, excessive gravity, grief, grief.
Dark blue color is strict and mysterious; its presence in interior always gives refinement and nobleness to a room. But because of coldness its use in an inhabited interior is very uneasy problem. In excessive quantity it can even lead to depression. Therefore skilled designers counterbalance its warm tones: red gives interior expressiveness, yellow - freshness, and peach - luxury and elegance. Mixing it with yellow, we receive green shades, and with red - violet.
Orange - is a complementary color to dark blue. It is organically combined with white and dark brown. If it is the deep dark blue it is necessary to combine it with the same deep shades of red, brown, green and white.

Thanks to the calming influence dark blue color is often used in bedrooms interior- the most silent part of the house. After all images, which are matched by dark blue color - late night, silence, darkness, a fairy tale…
It approaches as primary color for sitting rooms, where it can vary in various shades: from dark blue in a carpet covering to dim blue in drawing of wall-paper. “Blue sitting room” calms and weakens after the working day. If with a bedroom and a bathroom all is clear and unequivocal, in dining room prevalence of dark blue color is not always good.
Physiologists prove that dark blue color reduces appetite, so if you are wishing to grow thing, you can use this color in your kitchens interior.
If the hall premise is small or narrow, there is a reason to paint it completely in purely blue color. It will give to space of a hall lightness and unusual cleanliness.
Blue color is recommended for office interior as it will help to settle down conflict situations.

Close to the nature
There are many criteria for choosing carpet. Material, of which the carpet is made, is the defining criteria. According to it all carpet products are classified as natural, partially synthetic and completely synthetic carpets.
Wool has been always considered as leader among natural materials for carpets manufacturing. Sheep (most widespread), goat, camel, and also a wool of other animals, for example llamas, is used for carpets manufacture. Woolen carpets have a lot of advantages. They absorb moisture in crude premises and keep heat in badly heated rooms, they do not accumulate static electricity, and such carpets are steady against deterioration.
But natural carpet are very expensive, therefore, frequently manufacturers reduce the price of production, offering half-woolen products, adding synthetics.
Silk carpets are also classified as natural. Silk fibers are considered as the strongest; however silk carpets will hardly warm you in cold weather.
Less often for manufacturing of mats rice, flax, and hemp are used. Mats from sea seaweed are also on sale. They have natural green or brown color and smell as sea salt (unlike fakes). If you have decided to choose such carpet, keep in mind that the covering on latex basis will serve longer.
Synthetic advantages
Carpets from natural materials are very expensive. Floor coverings from synthetic materials are economic and, consequently, are more accessible. And for suffering from allergy people- it is a unique possibility to create of “fluffy” coziness. Woolen carpets can provoke sudden allergy.
The basic synthetic fibers, applied at manufacturing of carpets, are polyester, polypropylene, polyacryle, polyamide (nylon). Doctors recommend suffering from allergy people to buy carpets, made of nylon, as it is the most neutral kind of a fiber, without extraneous smell and the price will not be so high.

Spring pleases us with updating and nature awakening. At this time you may update apartment interior and to refreshen it.
Let’s try to think how to bring new changes into to bring new changes into house interior without spending a lot of time and money!

Furniture rearrangement
Furniture rearrangement is the best way to improve mood - to arrange furniture in another way, somehow in new fashion. Take away “heavy” furniture from the centre of the room.

Change position of subjects
Try to find new unexpected places for figurines, vases, souvenirs. Combine some subjects, create compositions.

Covers and plaids
Such things not only warm in cool weather, but they also decorate apartment interior. Use covers for a decor of bedroom and sitting room.

Color walls
Try to recolor one wall in a room in your favorite color. Hang your favorite pictures or photos on it. choose color, which will be in harmony with wall-paper and furniture in room.

Pictures and mirrors
Mirrors and pictures can essentially diversify and decorate apartment interior. Now it is possible to find a wide choice of pictures. It is necessary to remember, that mirrors are undesirable for hanging up opposite to a bed and entrance door.

Satisfy the small promising geographer with decorating children’s room with world map
Maps - is a unique and interesting way to decorate a bedroom of any child; in a room of the young princess or in the world of racing cars, the corner decorated with a map, will look quite original. Your son or daughter will demonstrate map to the friends and it can become a good tradition!
By the way it is the best way to give additional knowledge to your child. But this form of a decor has also some other advantages. Here are some of them:
* sex of a child does not play a role. The map will perfectly serve both for boy’s and girl’s room;
* map grows together with the child. Having decorated children’s room Disney’s heroes, for example a charming bear, you soon will meet an alteration problem since the bear will cease to be nice to your little girl when she will become the teenager;
* maps are rather cheap.

- Young married couples (with the small experience of family life) can have bedrooms of different colors. It is recommended to use at least two - or a maximum three colors;
- If the married couple is engaged in brainwork, it is recommended to sleep in bed, which has blue color and on the contrary if the married couple is engaged in physical work, only green tone is recommended at coloring of their bed-clothes;
- Emotional people should have olive color in their bedroom;
- Constraining and depressive people need to have bed-clothes of emerald shades as these shades induce to various imaginations and add boldness;
- Just married couples can avoid unnecessary stress by using such colors as light yellow, orange and bright red colors, and to surround them with dark blue shades or dark yellow;
- When spouses notice, that they start to lose emotional touch in the relations, they can be secured against it, using dark-golden colors in their bedroom;
- Spouses, who suffer from excess weight, should avoid shades of orange color, otherwise they will eat before going to bed, and instead of love they will have only a voracious appetite;
- Partners, who loose passion, should use violet colors in a bedroom interior;
- And here is the most important advice: try to avoid brown color in a bedroom; this color promotes process of ageing.