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Corner in cozy style

May 28th, 2009

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.

How to choose appropriate color?

May 20th, 2009

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 donтАЩt 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.

Dark blue color in interior

May 12th, 2009

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.

Warm detail in your interior

May 6th, 2009

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.

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