Interior design ideas

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.

It is not furniture and it is not home appliances. It can’t be brought to accessories and subjects of a decor. It is not absolutely house attributes. However in modern dwellings all of them become more often an integral part of an interior.
Statistics shows that only 10 % of the population visits fitness-centers on a regular basis. And the tendency, which has outlined today to the device of mini-sports clubs in city apartments and country houses, is worth of all praise.
Let’s consider three variants of accommodation of exercise rooms at home:
1. In the apartment, where it is possible to train only in a bedroom;
2. In the house, where there is a special separate room for a sports exercises;
3. In the big country house where it is possible to arrange own fitness-club in a ground floor. 
For a bedroom an optimum variant can be realized in the following developing simulators: elliptic, either a racetrack, or a multipurpose power simulator.
Symbiosis of cardio-and power simulators in a compact variant is capable to provide normal loadings for maintenance in an excellent form of all systems of a human body.
Expenses for purchase of pair harmonious simulators can be within the limits of 450 dollars, and it is possible to place them in the corner behind the wardrobe or under the bed. In this case, the monitor of an intimate rhythm would be even more compact and economic variant. It represents electronic watch which offer readout of time and fix your pulse.
In the separate room made especially for a house sports hall, it is possible to buy not only harmonious, and stationary, but even - more dimensional simulators. They, are, certainly, more expensive, but they are also more reliable and more effective. Concerning cardio stimulators it is necessary to get a rowing, elliptic simulator and a racetrack. Here, you may also place different athletic shells: bars, crossbeams and a bench. 
When in a ground floor, except for technical premises, 50-70 more square meters of the free area are devoted to the domestic sport club, you may buy a racetrack and stationary rowing, the minimal set of cardio stimulators for house fitness-club.
If you want to invite friends to your sport center, it is necessary to equip it with multistation for serious power trainings, to organize a zone of free weights. 
Benches for a press of a bar, power simulators for development of muscles of legs, athletic shells, the Swedish walls- all this is required to you for equipment of a sports club of which you will be so proud.
Fitness-club at home - are expenses of a high price level. But due to the variety of offers in the market of sports simulators there is an opportunity to make it in the economic variant.
 

Do you think that the screen is an old-fashioned interior detail? Certainly, it does not play the role of prime necessity. But east skill to transform a daily life in art, and even some kind of ritual, always created special aura around these subjects. So, it is high time for us to combine the advantage and beauty. Whether it will become a useful subject in the house and it will simultaneously represent the original ornament - everything depends only on you. We offer you some ideas on use of screens in an interior.
Screen is a sample of multifunctional. And its different parts can be arranged differently. It is possible to paint it in any color but you should not forget that it should be in harmony with general style of the premise. Choose pertinent colors for the cabinet and more gentle - for a bedroom.
Such property of a screen as mobility is perfectly useful in the kitchen. And if it will be equipped by worthy image, it will appear simply irreplaceable.
To hide and to block it is not yet everything on what the screen is capable. It can “be reoriented” in a rack. It may become almost transparent, but to incur duties on accommodation and storage of things.
Due to the screen the interior design can always be easy, unexpected and mobile.
Here is one more original and simple decision: a screen replacing wardrobe, and a mirror. By means of such simple design it is possible to change an interior of your room almost every day, only moving a screen in different places, that allowing each corner to be repeated again.

Screen is an ancient invention, the majority of us have absolutely forgotten about it. It, perhaps, is the most unusual subject of the furniture, exotically brought to the Europe. It can’t be named as furniture and it is more likely a mobile wall or the harmonious screen. The history of “a mobile wall” begins in China, where in VII century first screens have appeared, and in VIII century screens were brought to Japan. To the Europe screens were brought in XVII century, together with a fashion for “all Chinese”. In a duality of its function - hiding something behind shutters or to open it partly - Europeans managed to see not only the decorative effects, but also, the opportunities for rather graceful spatial games. Screens have gained great popularity in XIX-XX centuries. The lay-out of apartments of that time demanded division of vital space into zones, and screens easily coped with this problem, covering everything that should be hidden.
The open spaces of modern apartments (with their principles of zoning) are again looking for a guest from the past. Screen is cheaper than any room-partitition and it can be transferred, put and cleaned. The space organized with its help, can be intended for the most different purposes. This exotic subject takes an honorable place in boudoirs, bedrooms and small sitting rooms, sometimes it separates lunch zone or similarity of office. But the present reason of love to screens is explained by the atmosphere of the absolute solitude.
 

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.

So, you have decided, that it is time to update a ceiling. it is an excellent idea! However keep in mind: the choice of materials for its realization will depend not only on your art taste, but also on engineering state of your house and, certainly, on your purse…
For the beginning you should decide what you would like to see above your head. Ceilings may be pendant and the basic, or plaster ones. Pendant ceilings are made from the gypsum cardboard and they are demanding additional furnish share on panel, tension, self-glued etc. Plaster ceilings are either in coloring or pasting.
For the beginning we shall talk about the house, an apartment in which the repair is expected. The greater role is played by the structure. If the house is made of brick and it is less than 15 years old, it practically has not undergone to time deformation, therefore it is possible to buy the most usual finishing materials - troubles with cracks are improbable. If the brick house is from 15 till 30 years old it is necessary to buy some technical additives - priming fixing mixes, and also an assembly of self-glued grid for durability and protection against cracks. However, sometimes these additives can be not applied - everything depends on a state of the house and your desire. And here if the house is more than 30 years old, fastening is necessary. The grid and first coat are desirable for deep penetration. But it is necessary to notice, that “age” is given in quite rough manner - as the standard for average strip; under adverse conditions - high humidity, etc. - the house “grows old” in 25 years.
Concerning panel houses, here the walls and a ceiling are done of an identical material; therefore deformation is essentially less, than in brick house. In panel houses alignment of a ceiling (plates on joints are often connected roughly) is recommended, the first coat is used for deep penetration. As differences on a plane of a ceiling do not happen, the spadework is lead to a minimum.
 

The place for dances should be necessarily allocated by means of receptions of zoning. It can be the floor covering which is distinct from that lays in a drawing room, or special registration of walls. We assure you that it is necessary to allocate rather small (from 3 meters square) area at a window in a corner of a room for dancing. This will allow realizing an image of light premise with mirror walls.
Concerning a floor, we advise you to use smooth, but not the slippery material - otherwise the probability of traumas and stretching during employment may increase. Besides the covering should give pleasant tactile sensations to those who prefers to dance barefoot. No matter what dancing style you have chosen, you should necessarily sit and even lay on a floor (at least during warm-up). Therefore the floor should also be warm.
Concerning the walls - the dance hall is inconceivable without mirrors! The mirror wall can become that zone tool which will define borders of your dancing. However irreplaceable during dance of a mirror can break integrity of an interior or simply irritate your friends. In this case it is necessary to think of how to drape a mirror site of a wall. The simplest variant is to cover it with the same curtains, as well as at windows. Thus, the room will have the so-called “false window”. As a result, when the dancing is not used, a cozy cornerб in which it is possible to put an armchair and to be betrayed less to productive leisure, is created.

Rule 1: harmless materials
Try to keep ecological cleanliness of your house at a stage of construction and repair. The group of the materials most preferable to use includes everything that returns us “in cave ear”: the tree, the straw, not burnt clay … Further in the list of harmless materials there are also a clay brick and natural stones of sedimentary origin. The first products of civilization - metal and glass - have a not so clear reputation.
Rule 2: green doctors
Many house ladies like to plant flowers, but not everyone knows, that house plants are curative “cocktails” as well as medicinal grasses are. So, the plants, containing phytoncids and possessing disinfecting action are a basil, cardamom etc. Other pottery plants calm nervous system, remove a headache and normalize blood circulation (geranium, lavender) - and it is possible to make an ideal composition for a bedroom from them.
If your apartment nevertheless has synthetic materials (and it is almost for certain so), their negative influence is neutralized by the flowers, capable to take away toxins from the air. The plants promoting good digestion, will make a useful set for kitchen, these are the laurels and garden geranium, which clear air and absorb smells. It is possible to decorate a working place with advantage a clearing complex from a balm, mint, a myrtle, a sage and a ficus. Besides curative properties, the majority of these plants possess a pleasant smell - so, the aromatherapy is added. If you want, that aroma in the house was brighter and refined, plant a room rose: at the same time it will help you to get rid of chronic weariness.
Rule 3: curative things
The principle remains the same - natural materials and natural furniture. Prefer wicker baskets to plastic containers, present feather pillows - to synthetic ones, simple “country” fabrics (flax, sacking, and rough wool) - to effective novelties etc. Natural things are not only healthier for a body, but they also possess special power (especially if they are made manually or in a small workshop). Do not neglect the local market of wooden, wicker and pottery products. It is not necessary to look haughtily on olden interior details: the retro-trifle from a family museum (if they are properly submitted) will fill the house with heat and coziness. Unique natural “gifts”, which nevertheless should be avoided, are hunting trophies: skins and horns of the killed animals, scarecrows, etc. no matter how beautiful they would look, the biofield, which they “radiate”, is not too useful for the health and mental condition.
Rule 4: creative atmosphere
House creativity has a positive influence on sincere health and helps to cope with seasonal depression. You should always remember that the real house should be natural, warm and kind!

Fences care
Green hedges can correspond to the final purpose only in that case that they are carefully treated on a regular basis and are correctly looked after. In the first year after the planting regular watering is required; the same concerns loosening and weeding. The basic care is, certainly, a hairstyle of a fence. Art of a figured hairstyle gardeners of Ancient Rome is still in fashion. It is possible to cut bushes in the form of animals, geometrical and architectural forms. In fact many breeds are the fine material, allowing giving the unexpected form to the plant.
Not all plants can be cut. So, for example, if the fur-tree, with its compact and dense crone, is perfectly cut, the pine having a sprawling rare crone does not transfer a hairstyle, dries, and breaks from a snow. Accordingly, plants with a rare sprawling crone can’t be used for “green figures”. And the majority of bushes is good for hairstyle (look the description of plants). The first hairstyle should be done for the second year after the planting. It is possible to do this in the autumn before the leave fall. Sometimes it is better to cut plants in the summer.
The regular hairstyle during warm time promotes development from sleeping kidneys of new runaways in the bottom part of bushes that does not allow a fence to become bare from below. From the very beginning the hairstyle should be lead in the first part of June. Sometimes it is done by pulling a cord and raising the bushes on 4-6 centimeters before the achievement of the necessary height. Often high fences (because of a wrong hairstyle of a branch) grow well only in the top part of bushes, and the bottom dies off, suffering from shortage of light. Such fences are necessary for cutting by forming a cone or a trapeze with an inclination of lateral faces approximately 70 degrees to horizon. Dry and sick branches should be cut out on a regular basis.
Wrong, rare and untimely hairstyle
It leads to the “baldness” of the bottom part of the plants. If the fence has become too bare from below, it is necessary to be rejuvenated by having cut off plants “to a stub” - on some centimeters above the ground, - and anew fence will start to growing.
The most suitable plants for fences are: lilac ordinary, dog roses (wrinkled, cinnamon, and ordinary), honeysuckle (Tatar, dark blue, edible, golden, Alpine, etc.), and fur-tree (ordinary, Caucasian, white or Canadian, prickly), currant (Alpine, golden, red, black) etc.