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Individual furnitureThe ability to express your individuality in the interior will not leave the one who craves it, even with the exact following publicly available advice.

Take furniture, for example. An indispensable component of modern headsets for living rooms is the so-called wall - a set of special purpose cabinets. The idea itself is excellent: the "walls" are easy to use and save space. But, no matter how diversified their designers in details, the main thing remains: massiveness, "inactivity", dictate in relation to other furnishings. Actually, this property of the "walls" and enhances the similarity of our homes. It is necessary to approach with extreme caution when choosing such furniture for small apartments, where all its shortcomings (which are, as it were, a continuation of the advantages) become especially obvious and pressing. Here is the time to give free rein to your taste, your individuality.

A unique interior can be created using individual pieces of furniture, selected in size, nature and type of finish. The style of these items does not have to be exclusively modern. A skilful combination of new and old furniture and antiques gives the dwelling a special flavor.

Built-in furniture is considered the most convenient and economical type of apartment equipment. In the context of our conversation, you can add: and optimal in order to make your home unique.

There are two types of built-in furniture. Wall cabinets - they are arranged in niches or along internal walls. Partition cabinets - the name speaks for itself, with their help they separate the adjacent rooms of the apartment. The usable volumes of built-in furniture are about twice as large as mobile ones, which occupy the same floor area. Saving space is increased by pull-out and folding elements: beds, tables, even ironing boards.

With the help of wardrobes, you can change the purpose of the premises in the apartment in accordance with the needs of the family, make the "typical" layout original and more convenient for residents. At the same time, the interior of the apartment is unrecognizably transformed, fully revealing the individuality of the characters and tastes of the owners. (By the way, this is also possible thanks to the use of shelving furniture. It is based on vertical bearing racks - supports made of wood or metal, usually openwork. Separate furniture sections, shelves, boxes are strengthened between the racks.)

Despite all the advantages of built-in furniture, in our apartments it is found only as a "gift" of architects and builders - in the hallways, corridors, sometimes in bedrooms. Why it happens? We are ready to spend many months trying to get the coveted "wall", sometimes overpaying, humiliating ourselves, standing in immense queues, in the end, acquiring not the one that was chosen, but the one that we got. And in this race - again the dreary face of stereotypes, with which they got used to: "Like everyone else!"

Or are there masters in our people - golden hands, who would create masterpieces in a single copy? Their number has decreased, but they still exist. And maybe, creating a new look for our home, we will remember: one of them lives in the neighborhood. So let's call him - for help and a teacher!

In recent years, shops have appeared in many cities "Do it yourself", where you can purchase the materials necessary for the home master. When heading there, do not forget to take your son with you: a future man should know the smell of wood and paint, know the sore pain of labor corns and the incomparable joy of good and necessary work.

There is almost a greater sense in such cooperation than teaching a particular boy to work.For many decades, without replenishing the ranks of true masters, we have steadily lost respect for the rest, for the work of their hands. This is also where our distrust of "self-made" comes from. Let the inferior table - after a month the legs begin to fall off - but the factory one. And if he did it himself, it was because of poverty. And often people of really modest income - and we, alas, still have a lot of them - save for the sake of purchased prestigious "pieces of wood" where no savings are allowed: on health, rest, entertainment.

It turns out that by walking with your little son to the DIY store, you are already destroying stereotypes that are harmful and humiliating both for individuals and for the whole society.

Individual furnitureWhen a person is internally liberated, lives without looking back: "What will Princess Marya Alekseevna say?", His originality manifests itself as naturally as buds on trees open in spring.

In one house, the owners glued a white sheet of paper to the full width of the wall right on the wallpaper. The son and daughter, the younger inhabitants of the house, painted on the wall. Friends who came to the children, with indescribable enthusiasm, participated in the creation of an unusual "artistic canvas" - with a lot of individual subjects, portraits, landscapes. On the second or third evening, a neighbor called the apartment, whose baby had just captured his vision of air combat on the wall. The woman, apologizing, asked to tell what her son was “again guilty of”. The owners shrugged their shoulders: there were no quarrels. She insisted: “The boy confessed: he painted something on the wall. Maybe you can fix it? He will always mischief! My husband will come ... ”The distressed mother was taken to the nursery. She stood for a second in front of the painted wall, and then exhaled: “Well, you know! This is a disgrace! You just let them - they will finish everything like that! " And she left, offended. And for a long time she did not let her son visit the neighbors until the shock experienced was forgotten. I really want to believe that the boy himself will never forget how he painted on the wall, and this memory will help him to preserve his originality. And when he grows up, he will be able to create a house that looks like the owner, and not like a neighbor's ...

The measure of "usefulness" of a thing by no means determines the role it plays in creating home comfort. Is there a great use of flowers in a vase? Or from a clay man on your desktop - your son made and gave you on your birthday? Or from a patterned macrame canvas under the phone, handicrafts of two craftswomen, mother and daughter ...

These things have no practical meaning, but they are in the house - touches in the portrait, without which the face is unrecognizable. It is these "little things" that most vividly reflect the taste, character, for an attentive eye - and the relationship of the inhabitants of the dwelling.

What should you remember when decorating an apartment? The monotony of emptiness is as tiresome as the heap of "trinkets", even the most beautiful ones. If you have a penchant for creativity, needlework, do not neglect the opportunity to show your abilities in creating comfort. Cushions of the original form, made by the hostess, painted by the father in watercolors, wooden crafts, successful photographs of his son, or a panel made of straw, woven by his daughter's hands. Using these things in the interior will not only give the house a special warmth, animation, but also help you learn to cooperate with household members. After all, you can discuss with everyone: the empty wall above the sofa depressing the look, here it asks ... what? There should be some color spot ... Isn't there anything interesting in our artist's (photographer, wood or macramé) "storerooms"? Yes, but the size does not fit? And we will order ... Yes, sonny (dad, mom, daughter, grandmother), here's a family order for you, just try ... If there are no “ready-made” craftsmen in the house, then there is a reason to join creativity. Perhaps, from such a conversation, the father will have an idea: to master color photography with the children ...

Sashina E.Yu. The ABC of Home Economics


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