Oksana Stashenko’s house: money fish and a stove in the love sector

“We started construction in October last year, and in February we already transported things to our house. They wanted him to be inconspicuous. And indeed, when you go down the street and look at it – well, there is a shed, someone might have a household block like that.

My husband and I came up with everything. They took a gray house in a white edging in the Baltic style as a basis. I didn’t want anything pretentious, but at the same time, creative brains are so arranged that there must be something unusual. We added architectural elements – white slats, which we saw as a proposal for another project, but in a different design. They resemble birch trees and blend harmoniously with our forest ”.

“On the site and inside, everything is arranged according to feng shui (Taoist practice of symbolic organization of space. – approx. “Antennas”), starting from the hallway. There is a career corner where badges from various film festivals hang where I am a guest, participant, president, jury member. And there and then fish, they were brought to us by friends from Italy. They are in feng shui – a banknote and must float into the house so that there is wealth in it.

On the right in the hallway there is a gallery of photographs. My husband and I began to collect it in 2010, from our first trip to India, where we flew as friends. The picture from the hotel in Varanasi is our first breakfast as a couple. Here is a photo from the first trip to Lviv, to Thailand, from the film festival, which Vlad attended. In order for our story to last forever, it is reflected in the mirror opposite. Here are our joint photographs, because this is where the brightest place. Initially, Vlad and I were introduced to creativity: I recorded songs in his studio. Therefore, this corner can be called both a career zone and a love zone. After all, our career is a duet! We work side by side, and this is a personal work story.

Vlad and I met in Kiev, where Mukhtarchik was filmed. I then lived in hotels all the time, I didn’t want to be rented an apartment for me. And when they returned from India as a couple, she said: “Let’s have an apartment already.” There is a photo of it in the gallery in the hallway.

The bedroom, according to feng shui, should be in the north, in the dark, in silence. On its right side is the continuation of the career zone, here hangs a part of my film diplomas. Vlad was thinking of placing a TV in the room, but I told him that this item had no place here. Emotions that come from the TV, in principle, should not be allowed into the bedroom. The furniture here is from India, like the mahogany side table. There is a store in Moscow that delivers interior items to us from there. They are taken by sea because they are very heavy. Some things can be bought right away, like this table (by the way, nettles are now drying near it, I’m making a decoction of it), and some can be chosen in the catalog. So I did it with a bench in the kitchen, I even had to wait for it. This bench is 168 years old. “

“The bedroom is combined with a dressing room. The light turns on itself when you enter. On the shelves, basically, there are Vlad’s clothes, because men, in principle, have more things that fold, and my clothes hang on hangers. Here, as in the whole house, there are no doors. We did not have them in the previous one. I bought curtains that did not let in light and hung them in the openings.

There are many unusual items in our bathing area. The most important is the phyto barrel. It is cedar, thick-walled, with a steam generator inside. She came to us from Novosibirsk. Such a barrel can appear even in a city apartment. We always knew that we would put a bathhouse in the house, but at first we wanted to make an infrared one. When we visited the festival in Ulyanovsk, where I received a prize for the best image of a law enforcement officer (the actress is referring to the role of forensic scientist Zhanetta Selskaya in the series “The Return of Mukhtar”. – approx. “Antennas”), Vlad and I went to the spa there. We sat down in such barrels and realized: there is no need to put an infrared bath. And the barrel was sent to us as a gift. She stood in the place where we have specially reinforced the floor in advance ”.

“We have, in principle, the so-called“ smart home ”, everything is turned on by the clock. For example, heated towel rails, batteries in winter turn off themselves when they heat up to a certain level. Thus, we save electricity and protect the environment. Since the bathroom is neither humid nor hot, there is a closet that stores books and albums with family photos.

In the living room, combined with the kitchen, there are large windows, the sun comes to us without obstacles and enters the central southern zone of the house – the glory zone. Here are the awards, a valuable order for me in 2009 – awarding the title of Honored Artist of Russia, gratitude to all those who are involved in my luck, and first of all to my mom. She is no longer with us. She herself was a singer, but not for long, and she wanted me to become an actress. Here are her photographs, many interesting things are kept.

For example, a picture – national silk embroidery from the northern province of China, a drum from Nepal, a fish from the Maldives. It was made by local carvers from wood washed ashore by the ocean. There are also symbols of work: fragments of plates that are smashed on the set when the project starts, there is even my figurine from the cake from the movie “Behind the Showcase”. According to the script, in the final scene I was supposed to bite off her head, but the director allowed not to do this and took it for myself.

There is also an amazing palm tree. In 1998, I brought a date seed from Egypt, planted it, and it grew. And the chandelier-fan in the living room is interesting in that in summer it turns in one direction and cools, and in winter it turns in the other and lowers warm air. “

“We put the stove in the southwestern sector of love. It is here, according to feng shui, that there should be a hearth, red colors. Therefore, there is a symbol of love and fidelity hanging here. We only heat the stove with birch, because this is the right firewood, and brushwood, which we collect right on our site.

Nearby is the kitchen of a domestic manufacturer. It is fundamentally light so that it does not visually reduce the space. The sink is also Russian, costing around 11 thousand rubles. Exactly the same, but German, costs 37 thousand. Why is it needed? We bought all ours whenever possible.

Recently, Vitorgans visited us and gave us plates. We use them all the time. We also have a copper Chinese samovar from the late XNUMXth century. Coals are placed in its lower bowl, water is poured into the upper one, then it is covered with a lid. A variety of plates of raw, thinly sliced ​​meat, fish, mushrooms, tofu, glass noodles and special peanut sauce are served. The lid of the samovar is removed, the water boils, and people sitting at the table put everything in it with chopsticks. Since the food is thinly sliced, everything is cooked in minutes. In the meantime, the broth is boiled, boiling water is poured into it. And at the end, this broth is poured out to the guests. In China, a mother always gives such a samovar to her daughter, and my Chinese mother did the same.

The sun rises in the east, begins to wake up and warm our house, and then passes to the south, and here, on the upper terrace, which is a continuation of the construction of our house, I am sunbathing. We also have a lower terrace, Vlad and I made it ourselves from planks left over from construction. This year wicker summer furniture appeared on it, again by a Russian manufacturer. We have already received the first guests here ”.

“The southeast corner, both in the house and on the plot, is a money zone. When I was walking through our forest, I found microscopic leaves of strawberries with small berries in this place. In May, one meter a day weeded it and recaptured it from the grass. It also passed away with fertilizer. This place needs to be looked after because it attracts money energy.

My husband and I are anxious about everything that grows on the site. When we outlined the project of the house, we realized that several birches would have to be cut down. We went and apologized to the trees. After all, they grew up here before us, we came to their territory. And when they found out that our neighbor would be building and picking up all the greenery on the site where I used to go to pick mushrooms, and where I saw a small Christmas tree and a pine tree, they took shovels, dug these trees and planted them. Now from our large windows, like a huge TV, we look at the forest, where programs about nature and animals are always shown. Birds fly to our feeders, hedgehogs, brown and green frogs come to the terrace, even a wild cat looks in. The cat has no name, we don’t call her in any way, but we always wait and buy food and milk for her ”.