Interior design ideas

Both fantastic strengthening of locks and doors, nor new technologies of confidential flutes and “floating” pins in grooves of keys, rescue from room thefts. The most advanced citizens have already understood it and have started to equip the houses with the biometric locks, working by a principle of “owner recognition” on his individual bioparameters. In experts’ opinion such locking devices have the big future. Though they, as well as any other supersensitive electronics, possess not only advantages, but also lacks.
Development in the field of biometric security techniques were conducted from the beginning of 90th by the several companies in the USA the, Europe and Japan simultaneously. But in real life they became demanded only about six years ago. While the market share of biometric locks does not exceed 1 % in comparison with usual mechanical locks, but it is just the beginning. Experts consider, what these are the “biometrics” that are to become the interior future. However, now process is broken for two banal reasons: the high price and natural human mistrust to all new.
However, as practice shows, both high price and unstable demand are surmountable. In due time mobile phones, only having appeared in the market, cost very dearly, but already some years later, manufacturers, having understood, that so their business will not go, have flooded the market with qualitative and accessible at the price of models. So, depreciation of biometric devices is just a matter of time. As if to the second item, the statistics speaks the following: loyalty of people to biometric locks is highest in those countries where biometrics starts to be applied actively in different areas. Germany, which first of the EU countries passes to biometric passports and where on this background sales of “biolocks” recently have strongly increased, is ahead all planet.
Show your fingers
Papillary pattern on small pillows of fingers of hands is unique for each person. Action of all biometric locks is based on this principle of uniqueness. The lock “learns” the owner: put your finger to a special sensor control - to the device visually perceiving a unique ornament from grooves - and the door opens.
Besides the ability to learn the owner on a hand, biometric locking devices possess all characteristics of usual mechanical locks, including anti-cracking and privacy. Biometric lock has one more essential advantage before the mechanical lock- convenience. If you have established the biometric lock at home, at you don’t have to carry keys or a magnetic card.
For the sake of justice it is necessary to notice, that some manufacturers till now prefer to duplicate the mechanism of recognition by a mechanical key or the code identifier. But, in opinion of some market experts, it is done, more likely, not for secure, but in the marketing purposes. The biometric device is difficult enough for putting out of action, but it still causes mistrust. “And what if the techniques will not work? What if something will suddenly close, and electronics will hang, will fail?”- These are the questions of person, dared to equip the house with biometric lock. In such cases usual spare keys easily dispel doubts in unreliability of electronics.

Have you ever thought what really differs spring from other seasons of the year? Most of people connect spring with the feeling of all new, a feeling of renovation, freshness and sun. Today we offer you…some spring interior ideas. Spring interior differs from all other types of inferior by its “transparency”, levity and cheerfulness. We offer you essential details of spring interior, which will, surely, bring light and good mood into your life.  
Glass candlesticks
These special interior details create romantic mood. Candles float in three glass vessels, and their light refracts through sides and “plays” on artificial colors.
Hobbits basket
The time of wicker furniture is coming. If you are a lucky owner of rattan furniture, it is a high time to demonstrate it! And it is possible to hide far away from eyes many winter things in this basket.
Willow rode and shone path
Use unusual ornament for a table, a locker, and bedside-tables. Pearls, artificial flowers and bulbs are hidden into organza. It works on batteries and especially interesting looks in darkness.
March cats
These clay figurines can be put separately. But they are better looked densely moved up to each other. It seems that everyone will amicably shout or purr now.
“Gilt” and “dairy” vases
In general such vases are recommended for use in flower compositions. But the vase also looks very stylishly even without flowers -in artificial light, and especially - at solar.
Bright bed-clothes
In modern designers’ opinion, the bed-clothes do not need to be hidden under coverlets now. This advice especially concerns juicy and fresh colors of bed-clothes. The only requirement is that the linen should be combined with other textiles of the room: table-clothes, curtains, napkins.
Here is a list of obligatory “spring” house tasks, which should be done as soon as possible. So, you are highly recommended:
to put things in order in the wardrobe:
to clean carpets
to buy new curtains
to change plaids and fur pillows for cotton covers 
to buy trays for fruits
to buy flower vases
to buy new linen and cotton cloths, napkins, curtains

Director of any large company does his best to make the office the most stylish and cozy for workers. But inventive Japanese, who in all are guided by the motto “for cleanliness and order”, have gone further and have thought up a way how to make not only a workplace, but also each employee pure and beautiful.
Japanese scientists have developed “shower”, which works without water.
Manner Jet from Okamura and Sanki Engineering device - is the so-called “must-have” for solvent employers. This exclusive and magnificent office subject becomes the irreplaceable assistant in struggle against various bacteria. It can make so that the clothes of workers of the company were absolutely pure without special efforts, and will make everything that you could forget about the dust.
The system of new “shower” work is following: before coming into office, the person comes inside the cabin, where the employee is blown with special filtered air. This air deletes motes and bacteria which, in turn, are soaked up by the machine. As a result - the employee comes to the office faultlessly pure.
Manner Jet will be on sale in October, 2007, and it will cost approximately 16 thousand dollars. Well, those who have the allergy on the dust will really appreciate this tremendous novelty!

Sanitary works
1. Work in hot water, you may protect your hands from burns by two-layer gloves. First thin woolen gloves and then the rubber gloves are put on.
2. If the gate on an input of a water highway in an apartment not completely blocks water, and it is necessary to repair the crane on kitchen, it is possible to open the crane in a bath, to turn out the faulty crane, and to cork its jack quickly. Water will flow down in a bath. After the repair take out a fuse and screw the crane on the place.
3. If the rubber hose is great and does not keep on the water crane, you may cut out on the end of a hose a wedge and densely pull together a hose in a place of isolating cut with a tape, having created a strong covering ring.
Electrotechnical works
4. The emery paper pasted on a plate, will help to clear a sting of a soldering iron of stratifications of scale and deposit.
5. It is possible to use a soldering iron for removal of a varnish covering from a surface of a thin wire (diameter 0,2 mm and less): put a wire on a wooden support and lead a hot sting of a soldering iron on it. 
Painting works
6. It is not obligatory to spoil a brush for a propaint of small surface. It is possible to take advantage of a slice of foam rubber and we advise you to clamp foam rubber in a bracket bent from a strip of a tin in order to avoid coloring your fingers.
7. After work with a varnish the brush can be put in water (if there is no organic solvent). In a day the varnish will be friable and it can be removed from brush with warm water and soap.
8. The stirred paint with the rests of a film can be not filtered. It is necessary to pour a paint into superficial to bank, to put a piece of a kapron stocking there and to dip brush in a paint through it. If the paint is made on nitrocellulose basis, it is necessary to take advantage not of kapron, but of gauze.
Joinerworks
9. Screws and the nails polished by soap or greased by vegetable oil will enter into the firmest wood easier.
10. If the screw connecting details is turned at screwing in, it can be fixed, preliminary having inserted into an aperture of one or several matches, greased by glue.
11. Traces from impact of a hammer on shaving log can be removed if you will put a piece of a wet fabric on this place.

Answer the following questions. The consent and disagreement with statements is estimate on a 10-mark scale:
1. I start to be nervous before any important for me event.
2. I work non-uniformly, by fits.
3. I am quickly switched from one business to another.
4. If it is necessary, I can wait even for a long.
5. I need sympathy and support, especially at failures and difficulties.
6. I am violent and quick-tempered.
7. It is easy for me to make a choice.
8. I should not constrain the emotions, it turns out by itself.
Count up the weight of each of types of temperaments inherent to you under the formulas:
The melancholic person = 1+5; the choleric person = 2+6; the sanguine person = 3+7; the phlegmatic person = 4+8
Interior for the choleric person
Psychologists advise choleric people to mix dark blue with turquoise and all shades green. This color simultaneously calms and supports his active tone, and green in upholstery of furniture and curtains will allow creating the sensation of security in the house. By virtue of big emotional temper choleric people’s nervous system requires rest.
For the same reason it is desirable not to block up their vital space with a lot of things. They quite will accept things of minimalism style or modern hi-tech interiors.
Interior for the sanguine person
Unlike melancholic people, these people do not create cozy local zones - they have nothing to hide and there is no need to be hidden from a life, and to be alone with itself they do not love.
Interiors can be in warm scale: orange-yellow colors, color of amber and baked milk give to the sanguine person feeling of confidence of the forces, enrich the house with energy and health.
Interior for the phlegmatic person
The phlegmatic person is quiet and imperturbable; his confidence is based on knowledge and calculation. The preference is given to rich colors and unusual contrasts, large-sized, massive furniture and firm, strong materials: to metal, a stone, glass. In such house not a place too the upholstered furniture, muffled light, dark walls and the small rooms forced by furniture.
Interior for the melancholic person
Style predilections of melancholic people can be very various: from interiors in classical style up to hi-tech interior. Furniture in interiors is more often without sharp corners, it is usually of round or the oval form. The color score of furniture and all interior should be light: various, not irritating shades yellow from pale yellow and colors of sand - up to amber-yellow and bright-terracotta colors. 

People have thought up pillows many centuries ago. Their earliest images, which have reached us, are represented with ancient-Egyptian pillows. Pillows accompany us from the very beginning of the life. They are the symbol of heat and coziness.
There were times when the quantity of pillows defined a level of prosperity of the house. They were put on beds as a hill. There were so many pillows in a owner’s bedroom of rich family, that it was almost necessary to put a special bench to shift unnecessary pillows on it, when the owners went to bed.
Later, when rigid armchairs and sofas began to enter into our everyday life, sofa pillows have appeared. They were a prototype of modern upholstery and were considered as a especially functional thing. With arrival of upholstered furniture pillows have not lost their interior role- they have even become an element of an interior, sometimes even, a work of art, as a picture on a wall or a figurine on the shelf. By the way, in Russian manor of pillows were the samples of lordly needlework: they were put in order to modernize and rejuvenate the interior. And on the contrary: splendor, grandiosity can be easily set by the abundance of smart pillows with appreciable decor.
Pillows are put on the armchairs, sofas, beds and chairs, even on the floor. They are so various, that everyone has the right to choose such feature in conformity with the taste - greater or small, soft or is more rigid pillow. By the way, standard sofa pillow has the size of 40х40 centimeters, however, 80-centimetric copies perfectly lay down on modern huge sofas, and decorative idea can be of 15-20- centimeters size.
Unfortunately, floor pillows are almost forgotten.
Pillows are sewed from different fabrics. Presently to a course there is not only traditional velvet, a Gobelin, artificial and natural fur, a leather and guipure are widely used. The choice of fabric is not practically caused by stylistics of an interior.
 

Long time ago the designers have noticed, that almost each interior has a “sexual accessory”. It depends on the person who thought over the interior of the apartment and who is the owner of the house - and, certainly, on the temperament of members of the family.
Sometimes one of the parties (man’s or female party) distorts the representation about the coziness - and makes the so-called “egoistic” interior, having misled other party’s tastes. And then the “offended” party feels uncomfortable at home. It can be expressed in irritability, sleeplessness, and, certainly, in traditional unwillingness to come back home.
The most interesting is that both men and women can equally appear in the “offended” part!
The spring -is a perfect time for making pleasure to your sweetheart and to correct the “sex” of the apartment. It is much more interesting, than to decorate the house with balls, flowers and hearts!
THE TEST
We offer you check up the features of your house. Put ticks opposite to attributes which are in your dwelling.
The man’s beginning
Style of your house can be carried more likely to:
Minimalism;
Hi-tech;
Strict classics.
• The electrician in the house is completely thought over and each socket is on its place.
• The walls are bright.
• The main ornament of an apartment consists in audio- and video equipment.
• Huge plasma panel hangs on the wall.
The female beginning
Style of your house can be carried more likely to:
Baroque (palace);
Country (rural);
• Eclecticism (combination of the most different directions).
• There are curtains at each window. The house interior is full of textiles: carpets, cloths, plaids, small pillows and etc.
• Pastel tone prevails in a coloring of furniture and walls.
 

The countries of Scandinavian Peninsula - Sweden, Norway and, connected with them historically and geographically, Denmark and Finland had similar conditions for architecture development: they have not been under the influence of Roman Empire that allowed them to keep traditional interior.
In view of a geographical originality - the cut up coastal line and set of fiords, each of which was a natural fortress, Scandinavia became a convenient basis of aggressive Normans for attacks on other countries, and subsequently - trade with them. These “kinds of activity” steel remain the cores in development of Scandinavian economy and unique architecture.
The type of furniture, which now refers to Scandinavian, has occurred in 20 - 30th years of the last century and has a great popularity at exhibitions of Europe, in the USA and Canada. Scandinavian interior is well-known for its graceful and easy details of designs from a multilayered tree, basically,- from the beech and an oak trees. Their manufacturing became possible due to new technology of MOF reception, patented by Danish designers. The design of furniture is simple and functional; its elements make modular system and are very simple in assembly. Scandinavian furniture is flexible and convenient for warehousing.
The designers of the Scandinavian countries and Finland prefer the combination of national traditions and search of new functional characteristics. And the traditional love to natural materials, first of all to a tree, is combined with aspiration to use new technologies and new materials of its processing: the chrome plated metals, glass, furnish details, tapestry materials.
In the Scandinavian interiors - Finnish, Norwegian - a lot of a natural tree is used: a floor, walls and even sometimes a ceiling are made of tree. Wooden boards of a floor, scraped in olden time, now are bleached by designers in the special image. And the walls from a tree are usually covered with a thin layer of a translucent paint. In a combination to wooden surfaces walls or separate fragments of walls from a brick or a natural stone are in harmony.
The general color of interiors is usually light and with a lot of warm tones: yellow, milky-white, light terracotta. Probably because of lack of natural sunlight, heat and bright paints in the nature, Scandinavian designers prefer to decorate houses with warm and joyful colors, having created sensation of a bright sunny day behind the window.

When you enter into the apartment - what is the first that your nose can feel? Your visitors perceive the house and these small nuances. The individual aroma of your house is capable to compensate many lacks of typical architecture of our apartments.
Let’s agree at once: it is a question of an apartment in which nobody smokes. Otherwise it is not even worth of touching this question.
Smells are capable to cause different memories. It is quite individual: therefore, when you choose smells for the apartment (house, room) you should be guided by your own sensations and associations.
Try to create bouquet of smells in your apartment. Aroma of spicy grasses, fresh fruit, and coffee can play the leading role at the kitchen.
At all do not spray perfumes in the apartment. Perfume is an intimate thing, as a smell of your skin. The slightest note of perfume can be represented in the bedroom, at your clothes, a handbag, even -the book that you read, but all house should smell slightly.
The most popular “house” aromas are the jasmine, coriander, lavender, mimosa, muscat, mint peppery, rosemary, vervain, cedar and lemon.

Tension ceilings can be used in any premises, even if actually a ceiling in bad condition. The skeleton of a ceiling is exposed on a level by the special device (if to buy its most, it will approximately manage into $120), then the rigid film tension covering is fastened on it. Such design maintains loading up to 200 kg on one meter square. It is possible to choose any color of the material, and coloring is also possible. Here, installation needs to be entrusted to experts as it is necessary to buy anew materials at the slightest discrepancy. Such ceilings can be used for 25 years.
Self-glued ceilings are represent by foam plates of the square form of 50х50 mm or 60х60 mm. They can be flat and relief. Plates are pasted in a number on the cleared and prepared ceiling. If glue is not applied in the complete set, it is possible to use any other glue. Besides there is a good “national” recipe of preparation of glue: take three parts of ordinary glue and one part of dry finishing joint filler, and mix it up. And it is possible to give the finished kind to a ceiling by covering it with silicone of 101Е mark.
Edges of plates often have small defects. They are also corrected by silicone. Foam border can be completed with decorative silicone. The border is issued by strips 1,3 - 2 m at length. In general, self-glued ceilings are the most accessible ones- both at the price and on simplicity of installation. Such ceilings can be used within 15 years.
Ceilings from gypsum cardboard are not “yet ceilings”. Gypsum cardboard is applied to alignment of a surface of a ceiling, and also for creation of multilevel ceilings. It may be water-resistant and not water-resistant. Water-resistant is applied in damp premises (a bathroom, a toilet, basements), not water-resistant - in living rooms. Such ceilings can be used for 15 - 20 years.
Ceilings under painting and ceilings under pasting technologically differ only at the last stage. Durability of such ceilings is the lowest one -only 3 - 5 years. Such variant of furnish of ceilings is ideal for those who likes to change interior every 4-5 years.