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Baby’s room interior ideas

September 26th, 2008

The main principle of baby’s room interior relies in using of soft quiet tones.
In general interior should be light and neutral, but not too boring, - in it is necessary to bring some bright spots into interior.

It can be any pictures or toys; they will waken interest of the child and will help to development of attention concentration. However, it is not necessary to buy multi-colored wall-papers with figures of animals, sun, ships - the excessive abundance of identical motionless images will disseminate attention of the kid.
Red, orange, yellow are active colors. They will help with development of social function. Use red, yellow and orange colors is very good for languid, apathetic and inactive children, these colors are able to improve their communicative activity increases and mood.
Dark blue, blue, violet are calming colors. They well approach for places and the subjects connected with rest and dream: pillows, bed-clothes, covers. Such colors are also good for hyperactive children as they neutralize excessive excitation.

Green and its various shades calm and weaken. That is why its influence is used at shocks and strong nervous shocks. Light green is a color, which makes us more active, it makes us to study the world, to learn something new.

Brown symbolizes confidence, stability and calmness, but its big quantity does not bring please and even burdens. It is not capable to cause bright emotions. Therefore it is not the best decision in children’s room.

Black, white, grey colors are often treated as absence of color at all. They seldom cause any emotions (but if, certainly, they are not used in lots: a lot of black depresses and upsets, causes fear, and an abundance of white - creates sensation of emptiness and loneliness).

Considering all these characteristics, it is necessary to try to use these colors less often as possible. The child in the big degree learns the world through various colors, acquires concepts and values, studies to understand properties of subjects and the phenomena. Therefore we recommend you to avoid such “empty” colors.

Color mood

September 24th, 2008

Color palette of interior is very important, as it can make premise not only warmer or more cool, but also create certain mood (pleasure or despondency, irritation or rest) and even to change state of health (to cause inflow of forces or weariness). Therefore, color of walls should be chosen very thoughtfully, it is not simple proceeding from a principle “pleasant - not pleasant”, but it should be chosen according to purpose of premise, age and character of people, living in it.
For bedroom the combination of quiet, relaxing and calming tones (light yellow with brown and honey, is gentle -blue or greenish with white and sand) is recommended. It is not necessary to overload a children’s room with contrast combinations, because the mentality of the child will not sustain a long pressure - the child will start to get tired. In kids’ room it is better to make pastel walls, for example of light green color. It is a color of fresh greens, it calms and invigorates simultaneously, reminding about solar glade or shady cool of summer wood. Sitting room can be issued in brighter and elegant scale: one of walls can be painted with dense terracotta color, on which the white portal of a fireplace will advantageously look, and for others it is better to choose quieter amber or warm beige shades. Multi-colored, but suitable to each other on tone walls, first, do not overload a premise with greater planes of a bright shade, and secondly, looked quite originally and harmoniously.
Elegant and modern cream tones are practically universal. They with success can become background and for interior of sitting room, and for bright kitchen furniture with covering from glossy varnish of any color, and for dark furniture from natural tree of the hall. And in a combination with white (stucco moldings, frames for pictures and mirrors) cream shades look solemnly, and in a combination with natural fuse or a tree - they look cozy and warmly. But if you love luxury crimson, do not refuse make one white wall of bedroom. It will become a nice decoration for your room, especially on a background of white coverlets with contrast pillows (dark blue or dense -violet). Combinations are, certainly, risky, but they will considerably decorate your bedroom. And the same colors in a pastel variant - gentle -pink, pale -lilac and white - will bring romantic atmosphere to your bedroom.

Ideas for your bedroom

September 19th, 2008

If bedroom in the house - is a separate room, it is desirable to use light pastel and warm colors tone in the interior, creating atmosphere of cosines. When the bedroom is small, using of bright contrast colors is unreasonable. We recommend you to pay attention to nuances - shades of the same colors or tones, close to the general color scale.

Sated tones in bedroom are also possible. If you are young and wish to experiment - it is possible to use, for example, dark blue or even “aggressive” red color for walls. Even dense and warm terracotta or muffled is dark -claret colors may be used. On their background the light bed-clothes and light carpets look perfectly. You will see sweet dreams in such bedroom. A lot of fresh air and warm colors of walls will make your awakening joyful, even if it is snowing or raining.

Natural materials, natural colors - alive greens of plants, light curtains and jalousie, a woolen carpet or banana fibre on light parquet, fixtures with soft diffused light will turn your bedroom into the real place for the rest and love. In bedroom it is possible to make a zone of rest with armchair, floor lamp and low table. In this case bed can be separated by partition with shelves, low rack or translucent jalousie from fabric. It is also possible to allocate a zone of rest, having covered a floor with a carpet.

Here is a good advice for those, who appreciates light, freedom and open space in interior, but does not have enough place in the apartment: you may unite combine bedroom with sitting room, or to make one greater room of two small rooms. Refuse from folding sofa: modern beds are quite nice. But It is recommended separate a bed visually. In this case the high bilateral rack, which would share room into zones, may be used. Both zones will be united by common floor covering.

And finally, even if your bedroom is small on the size, it is all the same recommended to arrange wardrobe. For saving the space, sliding doors may be used. Arrange your wardrobe with every possible racks, hangers and shelves.

Retro-doors: modern lines

September 17th, 2008

Today antiquarian articles, fragments of original historical interior, and especially - doors provide reputation not only of palaces and the most prestigious hotels of the world, but also of any private house.
In this connection it would be interesting to study experience of Dutchs, where the fashion on historical interior style has already entered long time ago. About forty years ago, artful Dutchs have thought up how to wash off paint from country provincial furniture and by that showed “white” antiques to the world. The old tree, being kept by long time under paint, got beautiful amber color.
It calls up with major principles of world restoration, where preservation of original subject is more and more appreciated, only strengthening and its maintenance in the kind, which has reached our times, in a counterbalance to reconstruction, when the destroyed or lost parts of a historical subject practically, are anew restored.
Recently fashion for “olden” houses has come to the USA. Builders try to give slightly second-hand kind to absolutely new private residences, using shabby, beaten, or even creased details of decor. In order to create illusion of decay, architects and designers added cracks, glued shabby wall-papers, selected carpets and curtains with muffled, as though faded, paints.
Such old-fashioned style gave special “gloss” to private residences and allowed building companies to raise the prices three times.
Soon it has become known that owners of such rich private residences, looking for antiquarian materials, almost on flea markets, trying to find old tiles, or slices of a cypress covering of the house. So, the idea has proved that the original aristocratism and internal nobleness genetically aspires only to historically original interior subjects.

Hall Decoration

September 12th, 2008

First advice: don’t establish closed case with coat hanger! Nobody objects that it is beautiful, accurate and … inconvenient. Besides such case in hall should have hanger with hooks.

Think twice: will you hang up wet thing in case on a coat hanger?
As to a mirror, here there are some variants: a hinged mirror (oval, rectangular or figured) with a small table - its main disadvantage is that you cannot see in full height; the mirror door of case which, besides functional purpose, will allow you to increase visually the size of hall, but it also has a lack, the matter is that the bottom part of a mirror in hall is usually and becomes dirty, especially if there is a dog in the house. And, at last, the combined door, which bottom part, is made of the panel, and top - from a mirror cloth. The height of the bottom part should be designed so that you could see you.

Shelves for scarves and caps are usually placed above a hanger, footwear - in the bottom part of a case or in separately arranged shoe case. It is convenient and practical, when it is located under the open hanger with hooks. It is possible to decorate a lateral wall of a case with angular or rounded shelves; it is possible to make a little table for phone, a small bedside-table with boxes for gloves and other trifles.

Planning hanger with hooks, it is necessary to provide some hooks at height of 110-120 cm - bags, short jackets or children’s things will conveniently be placed there.

Fashionable tendencies of bedding

September 9th, 2008

The aesthetics of bedding is subject to influence of fashionable tendencies in the same measure, as clothes. Every year designers (among which there are such well-known designers as Ralph Lauren, Sonya Rikel, Donna Karan, Armani, Paloma Picasso, and Kenzo) let out new collections of sleeping textiles.

This year flower and vegetative patterns of the sated and alive tones on white or gentle-pastel background are especially popular. They ideally answer fashionable vintage tendency, doing accent on white-pink-cream scale, an abundance of ruches and frills, lace and graceful embroidery.

How to buy bedding so, that to wake up vigorous and enamored in a life?  HYPERLINK pillows and blankets are qualitative, they do not cause allergy and promote healthy dream. It is not a secret that healthy dream is a key to beauty.

In particular, the company has created collection Sea Cell Active with antibacterial effect HYPERLINK. It is based on the unique natural fiber, made of sea seaweed extracts. The effect of the last ones amplifies ions of silver, well-known for their beneficial influence.

Besides in collections there are pillows with the rejuvenating effect, containing aloe vera extract, jojoba oil and vitamin E. Royal Pearl collection has a cooling effect of natural silk HYPERLINK.

Wall frescos in interior

September 7th, 2008

Today the ancient techniques of painting on crude plaster have undergone changes and have got industrial scales. Modern frescos with the same accuracy, as well as a manual list, simulate and transfer the invoice of ancient work.
Different manufacturers offer set of versions of modern frescos.

Frescos on canvas
In this kind of frescos only natural materials - lime, river sand, natural pigments, glues on vegetative or animal basis, cotton canvases - are used only. Technological process of manufacturing of such frescos is completely manual work.

Frescos on self-gluing basis
Such frescos are created by means of special paste from the smallest sand which is put on especially strong nonwoven self-gluing basis. In this case the image to be put by digital way and it is quite easy to set - it is necessary to remove simply a blanket and to paste a fresco on a wall. Thus it can be combined with any materials - wall-papers, a paint, etc.
Frescos on self-gluing basis can decorate walls, ceilings and any other surfaces.

Frescos on rigid basis
At such kind of frescos the layer of plaster is put on special rigid basis. Edges of fresco on a rigid basis have art chips, which emphasize olden time of work.
Such frescos can be mounted on a wall both by means of assembly glue, and by means of usual holders However the size of such fresco is limited and cannot be more than 3Ñ…1,4 meter.

Frescos on plaster
Despite of riches of a choice, today the majority prefer frescos on elastic plaster. In a basis of a fresco is represented with the Italian plaster to which on special technology elasticity is given. The image can be put on plaster by means of modern technology of ecologically harmless paints press.

Pebble gravel

September 3rd, 2008

Pebble gravel goes on sale ready to use - with the additive binding and gluing materials and represents the dense weight packaged into 10-20 kilogram containers. There is a set of colors and shades of this material on sale.

The large Pebble gravel is good for facade furnishing, in particular for a socle, fine Pebble gravel will approach for internal works. On sale there are quartz, marble and granite Pebble gravel. They perfectly resist bad weather, and look well.

In connection with the fact that Pebble gravel contains grains of natural stones, it is quite heavy, and not economic: it is necessary to use from 2 up to 4 kilograms of from 2 up to 4 per one square meter. But it perfectly masks roughness and it may be easily washed both by suds, and usual water. It is extremely durable covering.

Durability of fastening to the wall is not always advantage. Wishing to make the choice in favor of this covering it is necessary to warn - will be possible to remove it only together with a wall. After drawing both peddle gravel and surface become a so monolith, that it is necessary to put a new material from above (preliminary having leveled a surface with front putty).

The wall for Pebble gravel should be clean and dry. It is important to prevent cracks and hollows. It is possible to take advantage of any paint as the first coat.

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