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how beautiful and convenient to decorate the interior of the apartment
“Make it beautiful for us,” said the hero of a satirical play by Vladimir Mayakovsky, exposing the bourgeoisie. Sometimes people decorate the interior in such a way that the hair of professionals stands on end. Interior designer Elena Sidorina said that at first glance it seems “expensive and rich”, but at the second – simply tasteless.
Some people like the ceiling in waves, hanging in different levels, black or with clouds overhead. But if you saw one from a friend who made repairs ten years ago, and were inspired, it is better not to ask to do the same! These refinements are no longer relevant, and by and large even vulgar.
If we are talking about classics, when old objects “from grandmother’s chest” are used in the interior, this is normal, this is old school. And if what was popular during the European renovation – no, although this is also sometimes called old school. But it’s tasteless and not inspiring.
Only in Russia is there still a love for everything that glitters. They think this way: if an apartment is covered in gold, pilasters, or stucco, everyone will immediately understand that you have money. And it would be fine if the stucco was real, otherwise it was made of polyurethane, and gold is just paint.
In general, when a fake is bad manners. I refuse such projects, a baroque palace is annoying.
People think: you need a bright spot in the interior! And they stick a print of the sun, trees in the middle of the room. If they just use the ornament – not bad, but if it is so frankly – it is unfashionable, ugly and too frank. The interior looks cheap at best. The same applies to lurid wallpaper.
You go into the bathroom – as you stepped into the sea! Waves rise around, under your feet the abyss of the sea, from where a shark looks at you with a 3D effect. Now self-leveling floors are popular, they say they are durable and easy to use. But they look somehow too pretentious and annoying.
Prints on kitchen furniture
A giant cup of tea or coffee, sunset and dawn, lemons, flowers, incomprehensible patterns … Now there are a lot of such kitchen furniture with glossy photo printing on the facade. It is believed that a bright accent cheers you up. And for me, so annoying. If the handles are still so pretentious, mother-of-pearl, so generally horror.
There is a classic old interior, created by those who understand this. And just making the house antiques will look like a pawnshop, not an old interior.
You can simply add one rare thing to a modern design, and it will become the accent of the room. If you choose the details correctly, it will be interesting and unusual. And if it is not clear why and why this thing appeared here … Then don’t!
And now they make fake antiques: furniture is artificially aged in the workshop, and it’s like old things … for 20 thousand rubles. But in fact – from the category of “expensive and rich”. That is, cheap. A fake story is a bad story.
Everything is in one light scale, no color spots, no decor and nothing that reveals the personality of the owner. In a word, nothing superfluous, from the word “absolutely”. But even such a boring interior can be made interesting if you use many different textures and shades of objects, upholstery of sofas, a down cape on the sofa, mirrors. The space will become interesting.
Overload in the interior – overload in the head. It is worth seeing what is happening in your life, if you want to put everything in the apartment at once, stuff it with things. The question is: why is this necessary? The living space should work in such a way that a person can rest, come to his senses. So as not to be crushed by a bunch of paintings, sofas, furniture …
And if the room is cluttered, it is inconvenient, uncomfortable, you are constantly stressed from the fact that you go to the kitchen for a cup of tea and bump into a cupboard.
If we are talking about a modern interior, then it will always be a mixture of styles. This is eclecticism. But it is one thing when selected with taste, and another – according to the principle “somehow”. For example, you are doing a loft-style interior, or minimalism, or classic Scandinavian. And you have inherited a sofa from your grandmother, with guipure upholstery and cats on the pillow. He has already survived two wars and does not fit into the style at all … In this case, I convince clients: do not do this, do not drag something old into a new life.
There is no such rule that furniture should certainly stand only against the wall or that the sofa looks beautiful in the middle. It all depends on the specific case, on the layout and size of the apartment. In a large space that unites the kitchen, living room and dining area, the sofa may well sit in the middle. And in a room of 20 square meters it is irrational, there is no passage. And when they do this for the sake of beauty or to make it “like in the movies”, of course, it is annoying.