Out of fashion and time

Nikolai Ovchinnikov Want to build a house, which gave the sensation of comfort, reliability, serenity, charged with positive energy and was in complete harmony with the world? How is this achieved? Used in interior decoration and interior material, which at all times will look stylish and expensive - a tree. Wood trim - the old way of decorating the house, which appeared in Europe since time immemorial. Even in the era of harsh feudalism, people noticed that the wood paneling of the walls and ceiling significantly warmed the room, provide noise isolation, not missing the sounds from the street and make him comfortable and cozy. Some aesthetes even ordered the servants plank mahogany stone walls of their apartments. After centuries, the tree has not lost relevance. Magnificent home offices and libraries with fireplaces, wooden staircases and walls decorated with a tree, immediately erect housing in an elite category. Not only the noble, solid wood - oak, beech, ash, larch, not only exquisite birch, cherry, walnut, and even soft, supple pine - excellent materials for decoration. And if in order to complete the picture lay mosaic parquet floor of oak, ash, maple, walnut or bamboo, will present grandeur - at the palace interiors! The unique texture of the wood allows you to do with it what you want: relief carving and decorating plates, inlay, paint, finished leather, wrought iron ... And if we leave everything as is - knots and cracks, sawn, the untreated surface will create a special atmosphere. The tree can wear out, fill-eaten bugs artificial surface dust - the impression that it serves more than one century. But what can I say, even if the conventional radiator grille can be remarkably original, attractive due to the decorative wood trim with an artistic pattern. Would not it be wood trim to rot under conditions of constant moisture inherent in the Russian North-West, will not have to struggle with malign bugs, penetrate their steel jaws to the noble mahogany? Nothing like this has happened, since there are modern technologies of wood processing, used in finishing. Impregnation, a special wax, a modern water-based varnish will protect the wood from any possible trouble, including by fire. New technologies can make the familiar texture of wood more exotic, toned surface in black, green, amber color, but keep the thin veins most important thing about finishing a tree house - think about all the details, from furniture, stairs, arches up to the wooden ceilings, screens for radiators, windowsills and light fixtures in the hallway of the build-up of wood or stumps. In the end, should get a single, complete songs, in which the tree will be seamlessly combined with other elements of the interior. Paint the dignity of classic material can continue, but whether it is necessary to convince St. Petersburg, familiar with the wooden palace interiors, preserved for centuries and have not lost warmth and sophistication since then, as their hands touched the royal personages, the uniqueness of the tree? Another question - what will cost like interiors ... It depends on several factors: tree species, ease of manufacture, assembly features, installation. But to abandon the tree initially, anticipating the big spending, do not need to weigh their possibilities with regard to project future home. For example, a wooden staircase - one of the central elements of the interior - can be ordered by a simplified sketch, without thread, forged jewelry, direct flight. It will look good and stand no more expensive than a similar construction of other materials. But you can also order this work of art out of mahogany with a unique hand-carved, intricate forms: coming from both sides of the stairs near-wall will converge on the same site, turning then to the spiral staircase leading to the observation deck or in the attic floor. This style will require tens of thousands of dollars. In any case, stopping the choice on the interior of the tree, the owner of a country house, stands to benefit. This is the interior of a lifetime. Out of fashion, unlike other materials, wood will not leave (it tested for centuries), overhaul it is not required, obsolescence is not threatened. Even shrinkage of the house, as we will see later, the wooden interior is not terrible: the tree is truly a unique material! Only natural - no synthetics start finishing a country house with walls and ceilings, and choose to do this, of course, the wooden wall and ceiling panels. Why? Judge for yourself. The geometry of the walls and ceilings to install the panels does not matter, and do not need special preparation surfaces: the walls installed crate, on top of - the panel that under such a design will significantly enhance the heat insulation and soundproofing of the premises that in the suburban home is very important. There is no need (as in painting or stucco) wall up electric cables and water pipes in the wall. Free shrinkage at home on wall and ceiling panels will not affect in any way, view of the interior does not worsen. And yet such panels can be cleaned with a damp cloth - no problems with care. Sheathe the tree of the wall, only the top or, conversely, the lower part, and the rest of the space obtyanut decorative fabric or tapestry? And what kind of panels for the walls and ceiling to choose? To solve this need with the designer. It is best to use expensive and environmentally friendly natural materials (wood panels and panels, veneered wood veneer), in which the lack of specialized stores do not experience, offering a variety of colors and qualities. Wooden stairs - another important attribute of a country house interior. It will regularly serve in a modest suburban homes built in gardening, and luxury villas. And if it will take for these professionals with a subtle artistic taste, the ladder is not only decorate the house, but will become a dominant interior. Awesome (not so afraid of loud epithet) look near-wall and up-and-ladder complex design, made of mahogany. To see this, you can look at the Constantine Palace, where the guest lounge presidents carved staircase is not, as a masterpiece of stylized as a bridge, or look at the original decision of stair-Belozersky Palace Belotserkovsky. In the manufacture and installation of stairs is necessary not only to artistic taste, but the exact engineering calculation, important binding ladders to the walls, corners and ceilings. Otherwise, it is geometrically correct items (stringer, Kosourov, steps) in the best case would be an aesthetic conflict with the curvature of walls, and at worst - do not allow installation without drastic design changes. Some details of the stairs in case of gapping may lead to deformation of the steps or squeak. A cheaper option - to make a ladder made of concrete and sheathe the tree. But whatever it was, the length and height of steps should be standard sizes, so as not to cause inconvenience, and railings - such as to be comfortable lifting and a small and old. Calculations for the manufacture of wooden stairs and installation shall be made only after shrinking the house. Ladders installed after all finishing work, and all design elements must be treated with insulating materials (varnish, paint) protects against moisture, shrinkage and deformation. Windows and doors (both interior and balcony and entrance), of course, must be ordered from the same material as the entire interior. Plastic, even covered with laminating film under an oak, ash and larch, is completely unacceptable in the interiors of wood. For windows typically use high-quality, radial cutting softwood or oak north of Siberia in the Krasnodar Territory. Form - any. Under the order may make wooden windows with triple-pane windows (three windows) arched, semicircular, circular or even irregular shapes. And all of them will open in a mode of ventilation. A convex semicircular wooden box, which will be issued, will give the facade an unusual form. Paint and varnish will protect the window from weather troubles. Accessories can be chosen ad hoc, anti-vandal, so open the window attackers can only frame crumbled to pieces. Doors can also be as simple a strict form, and decorated with artistic carvings and bronze fittings. Then we obtain not only detail of the interior, and a masterpiece (we repeat ourselves in the estimates, but it's true: look at the carved doors of the palace Kochubey). As is the case with windows, are of great importance preliminary measurements. The door should open easily and does not create a nuisance to anyone in the house. Twisting the door as a result of shrinkage of the house, creaking, loose closing is not possible if it is made from high quality wood, dried and passed a special treatment. Wooden entrance and balcony doors are impregnated with a special compound in order to protect from the effects of rain and snow. Complement the interiors of mahogany, comes over the rooms and halls of bronze lamps, fill the space of small architectural forms - and a country house is ready! From classical to art deco interior with individual elements of the tree, we figured out, but will look like the house in general? Look at the suburban villa, conceived by the master of the classic English style. The walls are decorated with wood paneling from floor to ceiling, painted in one color, without painting. On the floors of rooms, lobby and living room - parquet mahogany, hall, bathroom, kitchen - black and white tiles in a checkerboard pattern. In the bathroom - towel rack made of dark wood, shell - with a wooden board. In the kitchen - "heavy" wooden furniture, doors hidden behind all the modern technology - from dishwasher to the grill. Countertops - made of wood, in the center - a large desk. The main element of living, of course, a fireplace, decorated in dark wood with inlays of tiles. Classic Sofa rounded shapes, covered with colorful tapestry stool with curved legs, a bookcase, a table-based console with dark wood and Voltaire chair complete the track. The special charm attached floor lamps and sconces in the light of which the dull sheen of mahogany in the bedroom - a bed made of dark wood, tricuspid wardrobe and dressing table. In the office, library, smoking room and billiard room - the furniture of mahogany, which, together with panels and flooring creates a unified, complete composition of the interior of the tree is not possible only in high-tech, all the other classic and contemporary design lines make use of wood in one or certain extent. In the manufacture of joinery products for libraries and classrooms, living rooms and dining rooms, bedrooms and children's specialists use the original methods of old masters, combined with modern technology. The result - unique. But in modern interiors tree will find its place, because no matter how varied the time and passion, people still drawn to a natural, environmentally friendly materials, with warm textures, strong and dependable furniture ... Take, for example, Art Deco, manifesting a combination of Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism and stylishness of the ancient East, Egypt and Africa. Brilliance and variety of colors, materials - from metal to ivory, and skin - in short, eclectic, and the absence of any restrictions. But even here without a natural pattern of natural wood can not do, especially when designing furniture simple rectangular shape, which is inherent in this style. Sometimes designers working in the Art Deco, choose a tree as a sort of unifying all the elements of the material. Another modern trend - loft, suggesting the absence in the house isolated spaces (except maybe the bathrooms and bedrooms), initially based solely on glass, metal and ceramics. Now minimalist design, which allows a lot of space and light, are increasingly interspersed with mahogany furniture and parquet flooring, alternated in the kitchen and bathroom with stylish tiles. So without a tree in the interior and today - anywhere.