Home Interior Guide

Silk dreams
- repainting is one more simple reception to reanimate the old furniture, which has lost form and color (especially if it is scratched). The old table, night table, regiments or coffee table can be recolored in any new shade. Acryl, silk, glossy paints or oil paint with matte effect are recommended. Mordant for wood keeps a structure of wood and underlines its natural beauty. Today it is especially used in design. The only lack of lack is that it can be used for natural wooden furniture - the paint badly lays down on artificial surfaces. If wooden furniture is in a good state, it needs to be cleaned and polished or varnished only.

True spirit
In order to create good mood, cozy and pleasure atmosphere at home, it is necessary to sate a house interior with warm rich colors (red, pink, orange, and gold, yellow) and bright illumination - it is especially important during the winter period, when we feel lack of sunlight.

Magic walls
Don’t not afraid of changing the image of your old walls. Best way to update a wall - is to hang reproductions of pictures in a special way, stylish interesting posters, and enlarged family photos.

One more curious way to freshen a wall - is to use a tapestry material (or slices of fabrics), tense on skeleton from реек.
To illuminate wall-paper with multi-colored lamps, to arrange fixtures under a different corner is also Quite good variant.

Topic of tension ceilings has been touched for many times, but it is still interesting.
Every day we open new horizons of building world ….
Article brought to your attention considers various kinds of tension ceiling systems from the point of view of their functionality, price/quality parity, and aesthetics of ceiling and operational firmness.
Do not doubt. This thin film (15-17 micron) for ceiling maintains about 100 kilograms per meter square. What does it mean? - Safety at flooding by neighbors from above - first of all. Besides, there is no fear, that having touched casually ceiling cloth, you will wound it. There is a safety factor. Certainly, if you do not test a ceiling for firmness to the pricking, cutting subjects, cigarettes decaying, etc.
Note. Let’s imagine that the ceiling has been damaged. There are some variants of tension cloth defect correction. If a cut is close to a profile non-harpoon system of fastening, it is set in profiles - and you receive ceiling in primordial form. If the fastening system is on a harpoon, or the damage is too far from a profile - ceiling repair assumes sticking up of cloth scratch.
Tension ceiling can be established as completely on all ceiling space of premise, and entered by a decorative detail in gypsum cardboard or other ceiling design.
Tension ceiling can be of any geometrical form … step, wavy, in the form of column …. Everything depends on your imagination.

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.

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.

In London, collection of interior subjects, belonging to the Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace, is sold from auction Sotheby’s.
In particular, Daily Telegraph writes that hundreds subjects from the Italian villa, belonging to the designer, killed in 1997, have been sold for more than £7 million.
Sotheby’s mass-media agents have told that about 500 people registered for participation in the auction, and in general auction lasted  more than for 12 hours. Sotheby’s Europe vice-president has told that they were so much pleased with the results of the auction. He has noticed, that in some cases the price of sale of subjects exceeded primary cost of prizes more than in 10 times.
Two Italian bookcases from Versace’s bedroom became the most expensive prizes of the auction- they were sold for  £601 thousand and £481 thousand accordingly.