Interior design ideas

The decor of the house or a separate room is simultaneously both a science, and an art. As in any science it has its own rules and laws which are necessary to be adhered. And as in any art the infringement of some laws and deviation from rules are welcomed.
Rule 1: First of all, think of the convenience and comfort and only then -about fashionable tendencies. Remember, that a beautifully decorated house still should remain the house. It is a place where you spend the most part of your time. Do not forget about tastes and convenience of other members of the family:it can be simply inconvenient  to your husband to sit in the armchair on thin legs, and to your children, passing by the expensive vase from thin glass. It is their house too, and they also should feel comfortable in it. Do the house for yourself, but not for the surprised reaction of the visitors.
Rule 2: Adhere to certain idea
Making an interior stylish and interesting will be much easier if you adhere to any motive or a color. It can be, for example, a flower motive, marine, or any other that is pleasant to you during this period of life.
Rule 3: Introduce an element of surprise into the design
Unexpected elements brighten the room: a photo of the huge sizes, a shelf, hanging too low, a red pillow on a green sofa. Do not be afraid of experiments. Your house should display your and only your individuality.
Rule 4: Do not demonstrate everything you have
One or two figurines look well, but ten figurines are already too much. In other words, try to keep balance between coziness and blocking up. Even if you like fashionable Victorian design with abundance of decorations, it is better to parade simultaneously only a part from them, and to change the composition from time to time, depending on your mood. If you are the collector, put 3-4 most valuable exhibits of the collection on a visible place, and take away the others until the interested visitor would not ask you to show more of them. One or two beautiful pictures on the wall attract the attention, but a lot of pictures converse the room into the art gallery.

Pictures and other elements of décor
A good picture is better to be hung up in the shiniest place of a room so that it didn’t neighbor with other usual subjects of furniture. Paintings look especially effective on the smooth walls. If walls are covered by wall-papers with figure, the picture should have a wide frame. Pictures should not be many.
Pictures should be hung up at the level of eyes or a little bit lower. The pictures of the greater format especially, oil paintings, should be hung up above the level of eyes and with an inclination. Water colors and photos should be hung up below; on some in a number but only if they are of approximately equal size and style.
Pictures should counterbalance and calm the room, instead of causing chaos from color spots; Pictures should be combined with the furniture, vases or the desktop lighting devices located sideways from them. Pictures of a vertical format are counterbalanced by the low vessel put on a book case whereas pictures of a horizontal format demand a high vase or a vessel.
The decorative elements of the room should not obligatory be costly or expensive: even costly things are not always valuable. The small vase or a color reproduction can be a good ornament for your house, if they are put on a suitable place and are in the harmony with the style of the house.
A thing from the last century (not important, whether it will be, furniture or something finer, for example, a clock) will decorate a room in an especial way. Old things which have seen much are not only beautiful; they bribe the coziness and any warm into the house. Even modern interiors look not so cold with their occurrence. The ancient thing gives to premise individuality; it emphasizes an originality of personal taste of the owners. It is not so difficult to find antiques, as it seems at first sight. Many markets of antiques represent a great variety of choice.
Actually, coziness in the house depends not only on how our apartment is arranged and decorated, but also on the owners who live there.

Therefore, our personal harmony and charm form a special atmosphere of the house …

The accomplishment of the house depends not only on the lay-out, type and arrangement of the furniture, but it also depends on the color of the walls, a choice of lighting devices, tapestry materials.
Curtains and tapestry materials
Curtains and drapery are one of basic elements of an ornament of the house.
The purpose of curtains and draperies is not only to create a beautiful frame of doors and windows, - they can protect a room from the sharp temperature fluctuations, darken the premises. It is necessary to remember that curtains should not deprive the room of sufficient natural illumination.
Curtains can visually soften substantial lacks of windows or doors of a room - to extend or to expand them. For example, to make the window look widely, curtains and draperies should be hang up on both parties of the window’s aperture, grasping a part of a wall on the right or on the left. If you want to narrow the window, attach curtains to the eaves correspondent to the size of the window’s aperture, and lead up the length of the curtains almost to a floor.
If walls of the room are painted or pasted over by wall-papers without figure, it is possible to use fabrics with figure for curtains and draperies, and it is desirable, that the background or figure of a fabric corresponded to painting of walls, it should be one color with the walls, but to be of other shade.
If draperies or a decorative fabric are smooth, you should choose tulle without figure.
Checkered fabrics are widely use for making curtains, covers, cloths, sofa pillows and or, even, for upholstering of the furniture. For a room painted in light tone, choose a light checkered fabric.
Curtains and draperies from expensive fabrics - like silks and velvet - make lined-up as they hung heavier and with deep folds and so that the fabric did not spoil, or did not burn out from the sun.
Carpets
Large carpets or carpet coverings enrich the room. They visually increase the size of a premise, in particular, if their figure is fine and homogeneous. Carpets of the small size are usually put on the sofa, table, and armchair.
You can put can two carpets at two various groups of furniture in the narrow room; as though, the room will be divided by it on two parts (the same effect can be achieved by means of carpet coverings of two and more colors (in case of monophonic walls), creating thus an atmosphere of ease) and if the furniture is put so, that it separates one part of the room from another one, the premise visually becomes not so long.
If you have a small carpet, which covers all or nearly all the area of a floor, use one of primary colors of a carpet, but lighter shade for painting of the walls.

Wish to invite friends and don’t know - what to prepare? Speak by phone with the kitchen!  While it explains to you, what it is necessary to buy for salad, ask it to leave the video message for the wife or the husband.

Consumer and Industrial division of the well-known company - has presented the concept of Kitchen of the Future, named as simply as possible: GE Kitchen of the Future.
It is possible to say, that some kinds of ideas from presented here, have already been represented before, and some of them have been already realized. We are already familiar to the refrigerators with Internet access or photographing products and sending a picture on a mobile phone, we have already seen a kitchen table which is giving out the advices during the cooking, and the refrigerator with the integrated microwave own.
But GE Kitchen of the Future is a mixture of all functions gathered together (and many other things), and it is a side behind which a simple association of ideas gives something new.  It is easy in interaction of the person and the kitchen, in convenience, in sensations. All the technologies are quite modern.

The kitchen, the occurrence of which and a wide use in everyday domestic work the authors of the concept carry for 2035, looks as a big rectangular case, most part of which looks like a mirror. In real, it is a huge screen, in all width of the kitchen, sensitive to a touch in any points.
Having a rest, you can deduce on it the image of a landscape - it will turn out, as if a window in a garden or at the seaside. But when you will approach to kitchen - it will become alive and will display a number of pictograms with dropping out computer menus.
The kitchen will distinguish your speech, and you can ask it, what it would recommend for a breakfast. Everywhere you will see recipes, the list of products with marks, which already are in the refrigerator, and arrows with explanations - what is where, what for and in what sequence.
By touching the screen you can choose the further actions. And the same screens (and the general screen here is divided into some parts) during the necessary moment smoothly will be removed aside, opening access to a refrigerating compartment, microwave own or to other devices.
From the kitchen there will be forwarded a little table which, by the way, at the end of cooking it will be cleaned inside and will automatically clear itself of grain crumbs and spots of fat.
It is quite probable, that such kitchen can talk to you on a cellular telephone and dictate - which products are not sufficient in the refrigerator for the dish chosen by you for a supper.
And having come back home, you can find out a badge of the message. Touch it and you will see on the screen of your spouse which, for example, asks you to put in a refrigerator a bottle of wine from a bar (this message your sweetheart has written down in the street, from a video camera of the mobile phone and has sent to the kitchen through the Internet).
Inside of the same kitchen its owner will find a dishwasher which possesses a huge stock of a washing-up liquid. It is dosed out precisely with a computer to minimize sewage; there its owner will find a bowl with the ultra-violet filter of water.

What do we mean, when we say ″my home″, ″my house″? For most of us it is our own corner in this big world, a place where we feel comfortable, in safety and harmony. Much can be learned about the person, having visited his or her house. Our house talks about our tastes, character, values, social status… Due to a large choice of furniture and accessories each house gets own style.
Today we′ll talk about the warmest detail of the house, about its heart. As far as you understand, our conversation will be devoted to a fireplace. 
In general, a fireplace is an architectural element consisting of a space made to keep a fire, usually for heating but sometimes it is also used for cooking.
From the constructive point of view, the space where the fire is contained is called a firebox; a chimney or other flue allows gas and particulate exhaust to escape the building.
 Usually, the fireplaces are constructed in building interiors (inside the house), but in some cases, outdoor fireplaces are built for evening warmth, preparing food or for other decorative purposes.
There are many types of fireplaces: coal, wood or peat burning fires were widely spread till early 90-s and then they were mainly replaced by cleaner and safer natural gas or electric systems.
Nevertheless, fireplace is more than a decorative element but it is a heart of your house, a place to sit with your friends, or just your thoughts. So, the type and the style of the fireplace is the expression of your vision of calmness and cosiness.
 

One of the great things about moving into your new home is the ability to make it look exactly the way you want.  Choosing the right carpet, the right place for that family photo, even the position of your favorite chair in front of the television are all ways to make the rooms in your home speak the language that you understand.

Probably one of the most overlooked parts of the whole process of decorating your home is choosing the proper fixtures for your curtains.  Although small, these tiny pieces of hardware can add a great deal of style and substance to any room.

So how do you choose the right fixtures for your curtains?  There are quite a few questions to ask yourself when you’re trying to choose the right accessories for your window decorations.  The first of course, is how they will look in the room.  If your sitting room has a warm feel with browns and other earth towns such as greens or orange colors, the right fixtures for your curtains might just be a warm wood with ornate carvings.  Of course, if your apartment is more modernistic feel, something simple and elegant like brushed nickel or gunmetal black might be in order.

Another thing to consider when finding the right fixtures for your curtains is how much time you will have to spend taking care of them.  While fixtures made of wood or metal might look absolutely fantastic, they do require a bit more maintenance and up keep.  Wooden fixtures might look great, but they often need to be dusted and polished on a regular basis.  Metal fixtures also need to be polished on a regular basis, and depending on the type of metal, you also run the risk of having to deal with discoloration.

Because of these various reasons, many people are starting to steer away from the more natural choices and choosing curtain fixtures that are made with man made materials.  One example of this is, of course plastic material, such as PVC.  These materials offer a newer choice that is lighter in weight, and can take on just about any color or look that you could want.  Because of their versatile nature, curtain fixtures made of plastic or other man made materials might be a great choice.

Once you consider such things as the overall accent that your curtain fixtures will bring, and the overall ease of maintaining them, the last thing to consider is how they fit into your personal taste.  By using your imagination and a little bit of patience you’ll be able to find the right fixtures for your curtains.