They do not serve as decoration.
If all of the following to gather in one apartment, get so-called “luxury renovation”. Thousands of workshops and design firms in the CIS famously operate on this concept, evoking the customers sweet dreams. But don’t be deceived: in the best case, it echoes the post-Soviet “priblatnennogo glamour” and at worst incredible bad taste.
Columns, pilasters, arches and other “Palace” decor
Someone knowingly eating a repairmen “Baroque” or “Empire”, and someone comes in a modest word “classic”, receiving the output of the same ceremonial pomp. On large areas it looks archaic Museum, and in close quarters standard apartments with low ceiling, dirty props.
On the photo: Anastasia Melnikova in his St. Petersburg apartment, converted from the former 11-room communal.
Normal panel-bedroom apartment in Saratov in the Baroque style.
Lots of mirrors, shiny and glossy surfaces
After learning that mirrors expand the space, while the gloss adds sophistication, some make their homes in the glass maze, where if not blind, then sooner or later it will begin to move the mind.
Photo: apartment Bari Alibasov.
Note the Golden toilet and a urinal that is completely lost in the surrounding splendor.
Fanciful sofa
Lush and fancy, with lots of pillows upholstered in “Royal” velvet (and sometimes skin) or embroidered with monograms — and staunch ascetic can resist the temptation at least once in your life to take in this sofa, just like a cloud. It is absolutely normal, if you then take the only right decision — to leave this monster in a furniture showroom and never, never look in his direction.
On the photo: singer Eva Polna daughters.
Boris Moiseev.
Tiered valances and installation of curtains
It is necessary to type in the Internet search engine “luxury curtains”, and you will discover countless designs, one more decorative than the other.
Special category — unique works of authorship: homegrown masters of the genre fantasy is truly limitless and needs to plunge the viewer in awe.
In fact, a rich draping and intricate ruffles cheap fabric look cartoonish, and expensive — and often theatrical (the paradox!) cheap.
On the photo: in the apartment of Nadezhda Kadysheva.
Multilevel ceilings with fancy wave
Most often glossy, with fancy lighting (whether UFOs, or autopsy’s), with imitation of the sky, with artistic painting, finally. Many of the company’s repair and design shamelessly give all this curvilinear horror for “exclusive”.
Although to be surprised when the people seriously interested in the Internet, how to make a ceiling.
Waterfalls and fountains
Well, why not make in the usual city apartment is an unexpected tropical oasis surrounded by plastic Windows, Wallpaper wall and laminate?
However, many design firms are convinced that it’s necessary for Feng Shui and that is especially cool to your interior fits waterfalls with colorful neon lights, creating a “best contrast”.
Materials and textures with a claim to “expensive-rich”
It is interesting that, even leaving on the permanent residence in Europe, many of our compatriots remain true sweet heart “Asiatic”: gilt and mother-of-pearl, shiny fabrics, crystal. A cheap imitation? Well, importantly, looks spectacular. Look around: the market is full of variations of “inexpensive but catchy” to take even Wallpaper with sparkles. However, in the expensive version “Asiatic” does not change its essence.
Photo: the bride of Nikolai Baskov Sofia Kalcheva at his home.
He Basques in the city.
Stucco
Very obliging decor item, only appropriate for a truly luxurious and spacious interiors and off-limits to everyone else. Stucco is the enemy of small rooms with a low ceiling, visually it makes them even smaller and creates a sense of closeness. She does not tolerate cheap furniture and minimalism.
However, the domestic “experts” at the repair continues to argue that the stucco can decorate the apartment in the Khrushchev.
Copies of world renowned paintings and sculptures
Masterpiece is a blueprint — not confused, no? In any case, you should know that reproduction for consumer goods are only of poor quality and irrelevant to art.
Souvenirs and other foreign exotics
They are terribly clutter up the apartment, making it a dead stock utensils. Special “chic” when this is not combined among themselves: on the wall of Africa, in the corner of Japan, and on the floor Turkey. By the way, is sure to add to this trash magnets on the fridge with a curious property: it is necessary to receive one, and they start to multiply like cockroaches.
In pictures: the worst incarnation of the gift of the exotic — house Elena Proklova with animal models and “sacrificial altar.”
