Tips

If you want to do up your interior a little, for example, by changing the color scheme or choosing accessories, contact your decorator for help. If you have more serious plans, say, redevelopment of an apartment, arrangement of non-residential premises or a cottage complex repair and finishing work, then my interior design services will be relevant for you.

If you are planning to independently implement your own design ideas, having a lot of free time and want to spend it by mastering the profession of a foreman in a daily communication with builders; spend the energy to search for addresses of plumbing stores, furniture and wallpaper, then spend weeks choosing the right things without saving money; let me give you some practical interior design tips.

If you want to do up your interior a little, for example, by changing the color scheme or choosing accessories, contact your decorator for help. If you have more serious plans, say, redevelopment of an apartment, arrangement of non-residential premises or a cottage complex repair and finishing work, then my interior design services will be relevant for you.

The regularly used work place shall be located close to the daylight source (the incidence of light should occur from the left). Put the desk in the office in such a way, so that a person sitting at it could control the entrance door.

Place cabinet furniture near the walls, if possible, outside the main points of perception - on one or both sides of the openings. You can make an exception, if you want to use them for visual division of space. To ensure a convenient access, the distance from the furniture with hinged doors should be equal to the width of the door + at least 60 cm (the minimum width of passage).

The kitchen space implies several functional areas (cooking, food storage, dishes). For each of them it is necessary to pick up equipment (refrigerator, sink, stove, etc.). When placing a working area, the location of utility systems – water, gas, ventilation ducts, etc. – is of paramount importance. Kitchen furniture is a modular one. Manufacturers offer various options for the size of modules in width (from 15-90 cm), height of wall cabinets or boxes. The depth of the lower layer sections almost always remains the same - 60 cm. Key zones (washing-fridge-stove) should be arranged in a triangle or in one row. If the most important work areas are parallel to each other in the kitchen, the minimum distance between them should be 120 cm.

When designing the interior, whether it is a cottage, apartment, office or store interior design, I pay a special attention to the color scheme of the room. Color renders emotional coloring to the interior, influences the mood of people staying in it. However, colors and their combinations can influence both positively and negatively.

The only saturated shade is more preferable. Do not use more than two bright colors. For active one, pick up neutral complementary color companions. Combinations of two bright and one neutral color are acceptable, but do not use them in equal proportions. The main one should be one active color only.

Red, yellow, sandy, orange, terracotta and other colors of a warm color scheme are suitable for our climate - the warmth emanating from them will make the interior of an apartment, a cottage and a non-residential room more comfortable.

Creamy, ivory, goes perfectly with dark neutral shades - stone, clay, wood, granite, creating a natural atmosphere characteristic of environmental or Scandinavian style.

Subdued shades of yellow create a chamber muted atmosphere. They are relevant in both the northern and southern premises. Yellow color can be added to the interior using natural materials: wood, reed, straw.

Orange looks good in bright graphic ornaments, as well as with red, burgundy, brown and khaki. Blue and dark blue may be interesting companion colors for the 'Seigneur Orange'.

Brown shades - coffee, chocolate, nut - should preferably be used with beige and creamy, sandy, honey or mint. They look gloomy on their own, in a dark room or just in large numbers. Accessories of blue or red colors are suitable as supplements.

Red color is quite aggressive. However, its more complex shades – brick or wine are quite calm and balanced. In order to balance the abundance of red, the environment in the interior should be designed in light or even white tones.

Applying Turquoise color in the interior of an apartment, cottage or non-residential premises, use the 3:2:1 formula. Turquoise color can play the role of both primary and secondary shade. If we take turquoise as the main color, the second may be white or ivory, an additional shade in this case will be coffee or pink.