TV presenter Olga Platonova showed her estate

“Several generations of my family lived on Malaya Nikitskaya Street,” says Olga. – In the Church of the Ascension of the Lord, which is opposite the house, one of my great-great-grandfathers served as a priest when Alexander Pushkin got married there. But, contrary to fashion, I moved from the center of the capital to the countryside. Traffic jams under windows, thousands of cars … Moreover, I have four children in my family. I wanted space and air. I bought a dacha in Mamontovka. The plot of 28 acres so quickly refined that it became boring. I asked realtors to find something bigger. They were dumbfounded and said that then options with old pioneer camps and sanatoriums should be considered. I agreed. An abandoned rest house of the Pravda publishing house was found, where the entire Soviet elite rested. Hectare of land. By that time, I had successfully sold my dacha in Mamontovka, so there was money to buy this plot. But there were difficulties with the design. According to the documents, the purpose of the land is a holiday home, not individual construction. This means that you have to pay huge taxes. It took two years to change the status of the land. And the view of the former boarding house was depressing: a peeling concrete fence, dilapidated buildings, weeds up to the waist. The building, which was once a canteen, was demolished, and two gazebos were built on its foundation. The central dormitory building with a corridor system was surrounded by stone, and two semi-rotundas were attached to it. We live in it. The sports building was converted into a guest house, studio, winter garden and a water park with a home theater. Since I got the boarding house with furniture, I received a lot of sofas and 22 Temp TVs, as well as a myriad of carpets. I distributed the best ones to friends, laid the rest under the apple trees to insulate the roots for the winter.

An artificial pond with waterfalls and fish, paths, gazebos, flower beds, greenhouses appeared on the site. She was engaged in the development of the interior and landscape design herself. I have 15 certificates of completion for various courses. This house was designed in the style of Russian classicism. Many, entering here for the first time, believe that a huge amount of money has been spent on its furnishings. This is wrong. I developed the project myself. I bought some of the furniture and decor elements at flea markets, and then she and the craftsmen brought it to mind. I bought silk, which is used to upholster the walls in some places, in Pavlovsky Posad at 100 rubles per square meter. I sewed the fringed curtains and bedspreads myself. Bronze a cheap kitchen made of chipboard. The main thing here is to show imagination.