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From all possible ways of dressing color - is the most dynamical, the fastest and impressing one. All without exception, professional designers like to experiment with various combinations of colors in interior.
It is important to understand, how colors are combined. For achievement of the effect conceived by you three basic schemes can be used: monochrome, one-voice-frequency and contrast.
The monochrome scheme uses shades only of one color. It can be any color, and for revival variations of one shade of different saturations and a tonality are used. Monochrome schemes assume unity, harmony, open space and continuity. Effect is always calming. However be cautious, so that the room did not become boring and monotonous. It can be wall-papers under painting with a convex relief or decorative plaster.
The one-voice-frequency scheme combines close on a spectrum colors, and the nearest shades of the next, “related” color. For example, if the basic tone is dark blue, your scheme can include blue-green, blue-violet and red-violet shades. But it is possible to make the scheme more interesting, having added shades of different saturation and brightness. One-voice-frequency schemes will give more energy and will stimulate your activity.
The contrast scheme - is the most courageous and strong one. And, as the eclecticism is in fashion now, it combines contrast or opposite colors, such as yellow and dark blue or red and green.
But do not forget, that contrast colors on a background each other seem more brightly, therefore use the given scheme more cautiously, include colors of different brightness and saturation. The supplementing scheme is ideal for rooms, where there is a vigorous activity, for example, for kitchen or sitting room.

Choosing a bath, it is necessary to pay attention only not to the external form, but also to the structure of its internal part. The internal structure of bath influences not only convenience, but also charge of water. Baths of identical form can have different depth, and lateral walls can be vertical or inclined. Dredging for elbows and heads, deepening for soap can be arranged at different height. In order to choose a convenient bath, it is necessary to sit in it. The volume of a bath can make from 70 up to 450 liters and more. You should remember that the more a bath is, the more water it requires.
Modern material
The variety of forms became possible owing to properties of acryl, of which baths are made. Acryl products can give easily any form, it is firm and strong. There are also other advantages:
•    small weight (simplifies transportation and installation of a bath);
•    smooth and warm surface;
•    homogeneous structure and color (scratches practically are not visible and are easily eliminated by polishing paste);
•    corrosion and resistance fading.
There should be a free space with not less than 100Ð¥20 centimeters distance between bath and washstand.
Sound insulation reduces noise during filling bath with water, and thermal isolation slows down cooling water in bath. Acryl baths can be also antibacterial.
These baths are covered with the special antibacterial enamel.

You can make your own Christmas postcards of everything - it is necessary to use your imagination. Art of making postcards by the hands refers to card making.
Individual postcard
Materials and tools, necessary for making postcard
- Color cardboard
- Color paper, figures or photos
- Scissors
- Glue or gluing pencil
- Paints or color pencils
- Spangles and other fine ornaments.
Cut out the form for postcard from a color cardboard. The form doesn’t not have to be of traditional (rectangular), it can be square, circle, triangle or oval. Then prepare details, with which you plan to decorate a card. Depending on plot and a way of registration the postcard can be surprise inside, a postcard with insert, a postcard with «paper animation» or it can be in the form of collage. A postcard with a surprise inside should remind a book.
You can make a figure in the form of the packed gift or, for example, fur-trees, and inside of postcard you can arrange the image of the gift (it is desirable that the gift was unusual, it will strengthen the effect of surprise).
The card with «paper animation» reminds comics, in which the characters cut out from a paper (they can be flat or volumetric). And postcard-collage can be made of journal cuttings or photos. It is desirable to use transparent paper glue or glue with spangles.

1. Sparkling “live” fire create warm and cozy atmosphere. First of all it is a question of fireplace. Now modern fireplaces are produced in various styles - from classics to avant-guard. It can be real open fireplace or artificial - electric one. No matter, what fireplace you will choose, it will bring especial charm to your house. If there is no “live” fireplace, fire will be presented by candles. Candles with warm aroma of spices will be especially useful.
2. Textiles play an important role in creation of coziness. Woolen plaids (the cage is now especially actual) or fur capes will save you from traditional winter colds. Woven covers on chairs, dense curtains and sofa pillows in warm color scale will bring Christmas mood into interior.
3. it is also possible to make winter “interior” for vases, brewing teapot or cups. White or red covers with the white “Scandinavian” patterns look especially charming.
4. It is not necessary to forget about live indoor plants, which traditionally decorate the house in winter - European mistletoe, Canada tea, boxes etc.
5. Warm fur skin on a floor will please you in the cold winter morning. Now there is a huge choice of artificial and natural furs of different forms and coloring, capable to decorate any interior.
6. Transparent crystal and table silver will turn usual dinner table into fairytale! So, indulge yourself! Christmas is coming!

Upholstered furniture is the stylish the centre of the French sitting room. Besides, the more spacious premise is , the more furniture takes place in it. Faultless forms, beauty of the invoice of valuable breeds of a tree, intricate, but not loud decor, furnish by carnations - all it does an interior magnetically attractive.
The special attention is paid to the metal furniture. Openwork, graceful and extremely strong metal furniture takes central position in sitting room or bedroom - it may be steel, brass or nickel. As a decor the combination of metal to a tree, weaving from banana leaves or a water hyacinth is applied. Modern technologies allow offering wide color scale, even with ageing. Separate subjects of such furniture can be used for giving charm to interior.
Color style of sitting room in French style is represented with muffled pastel tones - grey-blue, pistachio, color of baked milk.
Even a locker - quite heavy interior element, decorated by artificial made old panels and “shabby” patterns, - will not look bulky.
Unexpected decisions are also possible. French designers, who have been brought up on the classics, invariably pay attention to modern lines, connecting them with traditionally high quality.
One subject is enough to give novelty and the shocking unpredictability to interior. For example, it may be wide wooden surfaces, inlaid with stone plates or breeds of a tree, differing under the invoice and color from the basic one.
In the French interior bedroom is the first violin in a symphonic orchestra. The Bed-castle, velvet sofa, armchair with soft armrests, three-leaved mirror, local “warm” light - these are the indispensable attributes of French bedroom.
In French interior kitchen or dining room is a special place. French designers recommend big round or oval table, the chairs upholstered with a fabric in color to curtains, tasty smells and wine in crystal wine glass.
color scale is very rich- color of ivory, probably, in a combination to separate subjects of color of chocolate or a dark cherry; pistachio in a combination, for example, with nacreous or silver-grey, are the main accents of shades.

Flower design makes any premise cozy and stylish. Correctly picked up plants not only fill the house with oxygen and positive energy, but also influence feelings of the person, help to remove nervous and physical stress.
Placing of flowers and plants on stationary and mobile florists - decorative capacities of the different sizes and forms- is one of widespread ways. Mobile containers can be easily moved within the premise and they also can be regulated in the diversified combinations.
Wall of any light pastel tone is an optimum background for the majority of plants. Blossoming plants with pale will lose their charm on a light background - they accept a dark background more.
Phytodesigners consider that it is not reasonable to place flowers on the window. It is better to use a single plant, low and bushy, if it settles down in the middle of a window, or high and narrow - at asymmetric placing.
Some indoor plants with long accurate stalks look unattractively, if they are located bedside table or on the window sill. Such plants should be established on a special high support-pedestal or placed on the trailing basket.

American company Sky Factory declared about creation of high definition virtual ceilings.
The previous generation of ceilings, which nowadays is issued under trade mark SkyCeilings, represents a set of the fluorescent lamps covered with acryl glass and fixed by means of aluminum frame.
In the new model (which has received the name SkyV) three LCDs of high clearness, which create illusion of practically full immersing in space of clouds, trees and birds, have been already installed.
The company promises to represent SkyV in November-December, 2008. On the market the device should go on sale in the first quarter of 2009.

The balcony is of great importance not only for preservation of physical and mental health of inhabitants, but also facilitates satisfaction of many small daily economic needs.
The green fence on a balcony isolates apartment, interferes with overheat and improves microclimate of premises, it protects from the sun, dust and wind. The greens transform small space of balcony or a loggia into a tiny garden at apartment on any floor of the house.
The decorative effect of gardening of a balcony or loggia should arrange nice view on the balcony and from room. The kind from street though is the essential factor; however, it is not so important, as a view from apartment.
We recommend you to plant asters, a geranium, daisies, carnations, a sweet pea. They decorate interior of apartment and look perfectly. Planting of wild-growing grapes on the balcony is also recommended. It is also possible to plant different perennial plants, in particular, ivy.
The balcony furniture has is very specific. Its quantity and character depend, of course, on size of the balcony or loggia, degree of protection against the atmospheric phenomena and your habits. It is necessary to accept the general principle - during warm season frequently used balcony furniture should be there constantly.
Folding dining table and stools, a chaise lounge, folding little tables, armchairs, benches with folding covers for vegetables or fruits can be used.

The word “boudoir” has come from the French language. It meant a ladies’ sitting room or a room before a bedroom, where the woman could be engaged in cosmetic procedures or welcome visitors. Certainly, at that time such smart apartments were presumed only by rich ladies, but now you can arrange your own world, having managed much more modest means. So, what shall we start with?

Arrangement
Define a place, which you would allocate under the private use. Most likely it will be a bedroom. The classical boudoir interior, as a rule, is arranged in French style (for example a rococo), but you can choose furniture and accessories, following your taste. East motives will be also actual. As a whole it is desirable to make design in light, gentle tones.

Toilet table
The toilet table or pier glass is necessary for you. Without them the boudoir has no right to be called as that. Small table on the bent wooden legs in retro style, probably, even slightly made old will look ideal. It will become the main element of your boudoir and its main accent.

Recamier
Couch-recamier, named in honor of the brilliant mistress of Parisian salon, will help to create necessary atmosphere. It can be a bench with legs, covered with velvet and decorated with small pillows. The tiny coffee table, where it will be convenient to put a coffee cup, will be also required. If there is not enough place it is possible to replace a couch with soft padded stools.

Screen
Mysteriousness to a ladies’ corner will be provided with textile screen. Besides, it is very convenient, when it is necessary to separate intimate zone from the general space.

Light
Light plays important role in general atmosphere. On one hand, during rest it would be desirable to use soft, diffused light, but on another - good fixture for make-up drawing is required. For a boudoir the wall sconce or a floor lamp with a satiny lamp shade will approach. And it is better to place additional illumination above the mirror.

Curtains, portieres and curtains have for a long time turned from especially functional interior details into the very effective subject of dressing of a premise. Salons and shops offer a wide choice of production for all tastes and style: from classical to avant-guard.
The velvet, silk, velour, tulle, sateen, chintz, clap, flax, serge, tweed, taffeta - all these materials do not get out of fashion. The present fashion is distinguished by the big eclecticism and democracy, wide spectrum of styles, coloring and fabrics. Today the synthetic and “ecological” fabrics added to them. The tendency on changing natural fabrics into synthetic on the basis of polystyrene and acryl is still available. These materials have high consumer properties: the raised opacity, wear resistance etc. They do not loosen their color and are easily washed and do not need careful ironing.
There are also, curtains covered with special structure against burning out, they need dry-cleaning. The other novelties of modern textiles are represented with the compressed tulle, fabrics with the drawing etched by acid, interior fabrics from the metalized thread, modern fabrics with furnish by rubber, straw, a woolen thread, a cord, the gold thread, so-called cellophane with printing drawing, a taffeta - “chameleon”.
Choosing this or those fabrics, take into consideration the sizes of a room, its proportion and the form of window apertures. It is very important, as a choice of color, invoices, drawing and a fabric structure form your interior.