From time immemorial, the peasant hut made of logs has been considered a symbol of Russia. According to archaeologists, the first huts appeared in Rus' 2 thousand years ago BC. For many centuries, the architecture of wooden peasant houses remained virtually unchanged, combining everything that every family needed: a roof over their heads and a place where they can relax after a hard day of work.
In the 19th century, the most common plan for a Russian hut included a living space (hut), a canopy and a cage. The main room was the hut - a heated living space of a square or rectangular shape. The storage room was a cage, which was connected to the hut by a canopy. In turn, the canopy was a utility room. They were never heated, so they could only be used as living quarters in the summer. Among the poor segments of the population, a two-chamber hut layout, consisting of a hut and a vestibule, was common.
The ceilings in wooden houses were flat, they were often lined with painted planks. The floors were made of oak brick. The walls were decorated using red plank, while in rich houses the decoration was supplemented with red leather (less wealthy people usually used matting). In the 17th century, ceilings, vaults and walls began to be decorated with paintings. Benches were placed around the walls under each window, which were securely attached directly to the structure of the house itself. At approximately the level of human height, long wooden shelves called voronets were installed along the walls above the benches. On shelves located along the room they stored kitchen utensils, and on others - tools for men's work.
Initially, the windows in Russian huts were volokova, that is, observation windows that were cut into adjacent logs, half the log down and up. They looked like a small horizontal slit and were sometimes decorated with carvings. They closed the opening (“veiled”) using boards or fish bladders, leaving a small hole (“peeper”) in the center of the latch.
After some time, the so-called red windows, with frames framed by jambs, became popular. They had more complex design, rather than volokovye, and were always decorated. The height of the red windows was at least three times the diameter of the log in the log house.
In poor houses, the windows were so small that when they were closed, the room became very dark. In rich houses, windows with outside closed with iron shutters, often using pieces of mica instead of glass. From these pieces it was possible to create various ornaments, painting them with paints with images of grass, birds, flowers, etc.
The Russian hut is one of the symbols of our country, traditional look housing with its own characteristics. Now, of course, real Russian huts can only be seen in museums-collections of historical buildings or in some villages. Let's see what differences this type of house has.
Initially, all the huts were made of logs. Our ancestors built from what was at hand, and there were always a lot of forests in Rus'. A small log house with one room, that is, four walls and a stove, or rather, a hearth in the center - that’s the whole hut. Moreover, such buildings were often dug into the ground, becoming semi-dugouts, because our ancestors were worried about maintaining heat in the winter. Let us remember that at first the huts were smokehouses and were heated without a chimney.
The floors in the huts were earthen. In general, the design of the traditional Russian log house was improved gradually. Appeared window openings, which initially did not exist, a semblance of a foundation, hearths were replaced by stoves with chimneys.
It should be noted that Russian huts were very different depending on the region. This is understandable, because in the southern regions the requirements for housing were slightly different, and the materials found were completely different from those in the northern latitudes.
It is customary to distinguish the simplest four-walled huts, huts with a fifth wall, which divided the internal space into an upper room and a vestibule, cross-shaped huts, which were distinguished by a hip roof, and six-walled huts.
The porch became an invariable part of the hut later, but today even modern Russian houses rarely do without this small open extension, which became the prototype of much more spacious open terraces and glazed but unheated verandas.
It is very difficult to imagine a Russian hut without a yard. Usually this the whole complex outbuildings, which had very different purposes. At a distance from the hut there could be sheds for storing firewood and tools, a cattle shed, a barn, and a stable. In the northern part of our country, there were covered courtyards that united this complex of outbuildings under one roof, allowing access to the barn without fear of rain and snowfall.
Traditionally, huts were built from spruce, pine and larch, because the trunk coniferous trees met all the requirements, was tall, slender, and easy to work with an axe. At the same time, old and diseased trees were not cut down to build a house - only for firewood; for a residential building they needed quality logs. Timber or shingles were used for the roof; in the southern regions, straw or reeds were often used for the roof.
The interior, if this word is appropriate in relation to the hut, which was mainly practical in nature, was, of course, simple, but decorative elements were still present. For example, an embroidered towel on the icon in the “red” corner, carved details. But to the abundance decorative elements The Russian estate's hut was very far away.
The Russian stove could occupy a very substantial part of the main room, where they cooked food, ate with the whole family, slept, and socialized. If for modern homes the Russian stove is rather a whim, then in the hut it became the center of the entire life of a large family.
The modern log house can easily be called a descendant of the traditional Russian hut. This is always an attractive option for building a house, albeit more expensive than a “frame”, but it is solid and solid.
IZBA- peasant log house, living space with a Russian stove. The word “izba” was used only in relation to a house made of wood and located in the countryside. It had several meanings:
- firstly, a hut is peasant house in general, with all outbuildings and utility rooms;
- secondly, this is only the residential part of the house;
- thirdly, one of the rooms of the house, heated by a Russian oven.
The word “izba” and its dialect variants “ystba”, “istba”, “istoba”, “istok”, “istebka” were known back in Ancient Rus' and were used to designate a room. The huts were chopped with an ax from pine, spruce, and larch. These trees with straight trunks fit well into the frame, tightly adjacent to each other, retained heat, and did not rot for a long time. The floor and ceiling were made from the same material. Window and door frames and doors were usually made of oak. Other deciduous trees used in the construction of huts quite rarely - both for practical reasons (crooked trunks, soft, quickly rotting wood) and for mythological ones.
For example, it was impossible to use aspen for a log house, because, according to legend, Judas, who betrayed Jesus Christ, hanged himself on it. Construction equipment in vast areas of Russia, with the exception of its southern regions, was exactly the same. The house was based on a rectangular or square frame measuring 25-30 square meters. m, composed of round, bark-free, but unhewn logs laid horizontally one on top of the other. The ends of the logs were connected without the help of nails different ways: “in the corner”, “in the paw”, “in the hook”, “in the husk”, etc.
Moss was laid between the logs for warmth. The roof of a log house was usually made with a gable, three-slope or four-slope roof, and as a roofing materials They used planks, shingles, straw, and sometimes reeds and straw. Russian huts varied in the overall height of the living space. High buildings were typical for the Russian northern and northeastern provinces of European Russia and Siberia. Due to the harsh climate and high soil moisture, the wooden floor of the hut was raised to a considerable height here. The height of the basement, i.e., the non-residential space under the floor, varied from 1.5 to 3 m.
There were also two-story houses, the owners of which were rich peasants and merchants. Two-story houses and the rich also built houses on high basements Don Cossacks who had the opportunity to buy timber. The huts in the central part of Russia, in the Middle and Lower Volga region were significantly lower and smaller in size. The floor beams were cut into the second - fourth crown. In the relatively warm southern provinces of European Russia, underground huts were erected, that is, the floorboards were laid directly on the ground. The hut usually consisted of two or three parts: the hut itself, the hallway and the cage, connected to each other into a single whole by a common roof.
The main part of the residential building was the hut (called a hut in the villages of Southern Russia) - a heated living space of a rectangular or square shape. The cage was a small cold room, used mainly for household purposes. The canopy was a kind of unheated hallway, a corridor separating the living space from the street. In Russian villages of the 18th - early 20th centuries. houses that consisted of a hut, a cage and a vestibule predominated, but there were also often houses that included only a hut and a cage. In the first half - mid-19th century. In the villages, buildings began to appear that consisted of a canopy and two residential premises, one of which was a hut, and the other was an upper room, used as a non-residential, front part of the house.
The traditional farmhouse had many variations. Residents of the northern provinces of European Russia, rich in timber and fuel, built several heated rooms for themselves under one roof. There already in the 18th century. Five-walled buildings were common, and twin huts, cross-shaped huts, and huts with trusses were often erected. Rural houses in the northern and central provinces of European Russia and the Upper Volga region included many architectural details, which, having a utilitarian purpose, simultaneously served as decorative decoration for the house. Balconies, galleries, mezzanines, and porches smoothed out the harshness of the external appearance of the hut, built from thick logs that had become gray with time, turning peasant huts into beautiful architectural structures.
Such necessary details roof structures, such as ohlupen, valances, cornices, piers, as well as window frames and shutters, were decorated with carvings and paintings, sculpturally processed, giving the hut additional beauty and originality. In the mythological ideas of the Russian people, a house, a hut, is the center of the main life values person: happiness, prosperity, peace, well-being. The hut protected a person from external dangerous world. In Russian fairy tales and epic stories, a person always takes refuge from evil spirits in a house whose threshold they are unable to cross. At the same time, the hut seemed to the Russian peasant to be a rather miserable dwelling.
A good house required not only a hut, but also several upper rooms and cages. That is why in Russian poetry, which idealized peasant life, the word “izba” is used to describe a poor house in which poor people live, deprived of fate: peasants and peasants, widows, unfortunate orphans. The hero of the fairy tale, entering the hut, sees that a “blind old man”, a “back-door grandmother”, or even Baba Yaga - Bone Leg - is sitting in it.
IZBA WHITE- living quarters of a peasant house, heated by a Russian stove with a chimney - white. Huts with a stove, the smoke from which came out through a chimney when burning, became widespread in the Russian village quite late. In European Russia they began to be actively built from the second half of the 19th century century, especially in the 80-90s. In Siberia, the transition to white huts occurred earlier than in the European part of the country. They became widespread there at the end of the 18th century, and by the middle of the 19th century. in fact, all huts were heated by a stove with a chimney. However, the absence of white huts in the village until the first half of the 19th century. did not mean that stoves with a chimney were not known in Rus'.
During archaeological excavations in Veliky Novgorod in the layers of the 13th century. in the ruins of the stoves of rich houses there are chimneys made of baked clay. In the XV-XVII centuries. in the grand-ducal palaces, mansions of boyars, and rich townspeople there were rooms that were heated in white. Until this time, only rich peasants in suburban villages who were engaged in trade, carting, and crafts had white huts. And already at the beginning of the 20th century. only very poor people heated their huts the black way.
IZBA-TWINS- a wooden house, consisting of two independent log houses, tightly pressed against each other by their sides. The log houses were placed under one gable roof, on a high or medium basement. The living quarters were located in the front part of the house; a common vestibule was attached to them at the back, from which there were doors to the covered courtyard and to each of the rooms of the house. The log houses were, as a rule, the same size - three windows on the facade, but they could be of different sizes: one room had three windows on the facade, another two.
The installation of two log cabins under a single roof was explained both by the owner’s concern for the comfort of the family and by the need to have a backup room. One of the rooms was the actual hut, that is, a warm room heated by a Russian stove, intended for family living in winter. The second room, called the summer hut, was cold and was used in summer time, when the stuffiness in the hut, heated even in the hot season, forced the owners to move to a cooler place. In rich houses, the second hut sometimes served as a ceremonial room for receiving guests, that is, an upper room or a living room.
In this case, a city-type stove was installed here, which was not used for cooking, but only for heat. In addition, the upper room often became a bedroom for young married couples. And when the family grew, the summer hut, after installing a Russian stove in it, easily turned into a hut for the youngest son, who remained under his father’s roof even after marriage. It is curious that the presence of two log cabins placed side by side made the twin hut quite durable.
Two log walls, one of which was the wall of a cold room, and the other of a warm one, placed at a certain interval, had their own natural and rapid ventilation. If there was one common wall between the cold and warm rooms, it would condense moisture, which would contribute to its rapid decay. Twin huts were usually built in places rich in forests: in the northern provinces of European Russia, in the Urals, and in Siberia. However, they were also found in some villages of Central Russia among wealthy peasants engaged in trade or industrial activities.
IZBA KURNAYA or IZBA BLACK- living quarters of a peasant log house, heated by a stove without a chimney, in a black way. In such huts, when the stove was fired, smoke from the mouth rose upward and went out into the street through a smoke hole in the ceiling. It was closed after heating with a board or plugged with rags. In addition, smoke could come out through a small fiberglass window cut into the pediment of the hut, if it did not have a ceiling, and also through open door. While the stove was firing, it was smoky and cold in the hut. People who were here at that time were forced to sit on the floor or go outside, as the smoke ate their eyes and climbed into their larynx and nose. The smoke rose up and hung there in a dense blue layer.
As a result, all the upper crowns of the logs were covered with black resinous soot. The shelf guards that surrounded the hut above the windows served in the smoke hut to settle soot and were not used for arranging utensils, as was the case in the white hut. To maintain heat and ensure a quick exit of smoke from the hut, Russian peasants came up with a series of special devices. For example, many northern huts had double doors opening into the vestibule. The outer doors, which completely covered the doorway, opened wide. The internal ones, which had a fairly wide opening at the top, were tightly closed. The smoke came out through the top of these doors, and the cold air coming from below met an obstacle on its way and could not penetrate the hut.
In addition, a chimney was installed above the smoke hole in the ceiling - a long exhaust wooden pipe, the upper end of which was decorated with through carvings. To make the living space of the hut free from the smoke layer, clean from soot and soot, in some regions of the Russian North, huts were made with high vaulted ceilings. In other places in Russia, many huts even in early XIX V. had no ceiling at all. The desire to remove smoke from the hut as quickly as possible explains the usual lack of a roof in the entryway.
He described the chicken peasant hut in rather gloomy colors at the end of the 18th century. A. N. Radishchev in his “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow”: “Four walls, half covered, as well as the entire ceiling, with soot; the floor is full of cracks, at least an inch covered with mud; stove without a chimney, but best protection from the cold, and the smoke that fills the hut every morning in winter and summer; endings, in which a tense bubble, darkening at noon, let in light; two or three pots... A wooden cup and crumbs, called plates; table, cut down with an ax, which is scraped with a scraper on holidays. A trough to feed pigs or calves, when they eat, they sleep with them, swallowing air, in which a burning candle seems to be in fog or behind a curtain.”
However, it should be noted that the chicken hut also had a number of advantages, thanks to which it remained in the everyday life of the Russian people for so long. When heating with a pipeless stove, the heating of the hut occurred quite quickly as soon as the wood burned and the door was closed. external door. Such a stove provided more heat and required less wood. The hut was well ventilated, there was no dampness in it, and the wood and straw on the roof were involuntarily disinfected and preserved longer. The air in the smoking hut, after it was heated, was dry and warm.
Chicken huts appeared in ancient times and existed in the Russian village until the beginning of the 20th century. They began to be actively replaced by white huts in the villages of European Russia from the middle of the 19th century, and in Siberia even earlier, from the end of the 18th century. For example, in the description of the Shushenskaya volost of the Minusinsk district of Siberia, made in 1848, it is stated: “There are absolutely no black houses, the so-called huts without pipes, anywhere.” In the Odoevsky district of the Tula province, back in 1880, 66% of all huts were chicken houses.
IZBA WITH PRIRUB- a wooden house, consisting of one log house and a smaller living space attached to it under a single roof and with one common wall. The prirub could be installed immediately during the construction of the main log house or attached to it several years later, when the need arose additional room. The main log house was a warm hut with a Russian stove, the log house was a summer cold hut or a room heated by a Dutch oven - a city-style stove. Huts with trusses were built mainly in the central regions of European Russia and the Volga region.
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Hut-hut
The hut is one of the main symbols of Russia. Archaeologists believe that the first huts appeared in the second millennium BC. For many centuries, the architecture of the hut remained virtually unchanged, since it initially combined all the functions necessary for the Russian peasant - it provided a roof over his head, warmth and a place to sleep. The hut was sung by poets and immortalized by artists, and for good reason. Over time, the hut was transformed into a log house-terem for wealthy families. Together with the surrounding buildings, the tower formed a Russian estate. The traditions of building houses from logs developed over centuries, but collapsed in just a few decades.
Collectivization, urbanization, emergence the latest materials... All this led to the fact that the Russian village became smaller, and in some places almost died. New “villages”, the so-called “cottage communities”, began to be built with houses made of stone, glass, metal and plastic. Practical, effective, stylish, but the Russian spirit does not live there, and there is no smell of Russia there . Not to mention the lack of environmental friendliness of such buildings.
However, not so long ago wood construction in the Russian style experienced the first stage of revival. This was reflected in the interiors. Country style is generally at the peak of popularity today. Some people prefer German country style, others prefer Scandinavian or American country style, others prefer , but if we're talking about about a wooden country house or dacha, the choice is increasingly being made in favor of interiors in the style of a Russian village.
Coming from a metropolis to a dacha or to Vacation home in the style of a Russian hut, a person feels unity with nature and connection with his roots. This promotes maximum relaxation and a state of peace. In houses made of wood, the interior of which is simple and unpretentious, you can breathe easily and sleep soundly. And after rest, there is a desire to do things like fishing, planting a new flower bed in May or working in the garden in September - in a word, a surge of strength makes itself felt.
Russian interior style: where is it appropriate?
It can only be fully recreated in a log house. The interior in the style of a Russian mansion, a Russian estate, is appropriate in any wooden house. In other cases, when it comes to, for example, brick house or an apartment, we can only talk about stylization, that is, about introducing into the interior some features inherent in a Russian hut or tower.
The interior of a Russian hut: what was it like?
Russian hut. Photo taken from Russian Wikipedia
The center of the hut was the stove, which was called queen of the house . It occupied a quarter or even a third of the area of the entire home. Kiln pillars were placed at the corners of the stove to protect the “queen” from destruction. The beams under the ceiling rested on these pillars and on the walls. Beams, speaking modern language, zoned the space, dividing the hut into women's half, men's and red corners. On one of the beams there was a bed - a plank lounger, which was loved by children.
IN stove corner it was run by a woman. In this place there were numerous shelves with dishes and other utensils. Here women not only cooked, but also spun, sewed and did other things. The owner spent more time in men's corner- under the floors.
The biggest and a nice place in the hut, where they ate food and greeted guests. Simply put, this is a living room, a dining room, and often a bedroom. A red corner was set up in the upper room diagonally from the stove. This is the part of the house where the icons were installed.
There was usually a table near the red corner, and in the very corner on the shrine there were icons and a lamp. Wide benches near the table there were, as a rule, stationary ones, built into the wall. They not only sat on them, but also slept on them. If additional space was needed, benches were added to the table. , by the way, was also stationary, made of adobe.
In general, the furnishings were sparse, but not without embellishment. Wide shelves were installed above the window. Festive dishes, boxes, etc. were placed on them. The beds were complemented with carved headboards. The bed was covered with bright patchwork bedspreads and decorated with many pillows arranged in a pyramid. The interior almost always contained chests with handles.
Russian chest. 19th century
During the time of Peter the Great, new pieces of furniture appeared, which took their place in Russian huts, and even more so in towers. These are chairs, cabinets, which have partially replaced chests, piles for dishes and even armchairs.
In the towers, the furnishings were more varied, but in general the same principle was preserved: a large hearth, a red corner, the same chests, beds with many pillows, slides with dishes, shelves for displaying various decorative items. Of course, there was a lot of wood in the towers: walls, floors, and furniture. Russian country style and Russian hut style in particular - this is wood, a lot of wood and almost nothing but wood!
How to create the style of a Russian hut or Russian estate in the interior of your home?
1. Choosing a direction
Some changes gradually took place in the interiors of Russian huts and towers, so first you need to decide what style of era you would like to recreate. Will it be a stylization of an ancient Russian hut or a hut of the first half of the last century, in which many innovations appeared? Or maybe you like the more elegant furnishings of old Russian towers or wooden manor houses of the 18th-19th centuries, when in country style were features of other styles introduced - classicism, baroque, modern? Choosing a direction will allow you to select suitable pieces of furniture, textiles and decor.
Upper room of an old Russian house of the 16th-18th centuries. A. M. Vasnetsov
And this is already the end of the 19th century. The world of the Russian estate in the painting of S. Zhukovsky
2. Creation of the Russian hut style
Basics. It is better to leave wooden walls unfinished. Suitable for floor solid board- matte, possibly with an aged effect. There are dark beams under the ceiling. You can do without a stove, but a hearth is still necessary. Its role can be played by a fireplace, the portal of which is lined with tiles or stone.
Doors, windows. Plastic double-glazed windows would be completely inappropriate here. Windows with wooden frames are worth complementing carved platbands and wooden shutters. Doors should also be wooden. As platbands for doorways You can use boards that are uneven and deliberately roughly processed. In some places you can hang curtains instead of doors.
Furniture. Furniture, of course, is preferable to wood, not polished, but perhaps aged. Cabinets, cabinets and numerous shelves can be decorated with carvings. In the dining area you can arrange a red corner with a shrine, a massive, very heavy table and benches. The use of chairs is also possible, but they should be simple and good-quality.
The beds are high with carved headboards. Instead of bedside tables you can put chests in the Russian style. Perfect fit patchwork bedspreads and numerous pillows - stacked from largest to smallest.
No sofas in modern interior indispensable, although, of course, there were none in the huts. Choose a simple shape with linen upholstery. The color of the upholstery is natural. Leather furniture will stand out from the overall picture.
Stylization of an 18th century interior in the hut of the Pokrovskaya Hotel in Suzdal
Textile. As already mentioned, you should give preference to bedspreads and pillowcases made using the patchwork technique. There can be quite a lot of textile products: napkins on cabinets and small tables, tablecloths, curtains, borders for shelves. All this can be decorated with embroidery and simple lace.
By the way, you can’t spoil the interior of a hut with embroidery - women in Rus' have always loved to do this type of needlework. Embroidered panels on the walls, curtains decorated with sewing, embroidered bags with herbs and spices suspended on the kitchen beam - all this will be in place. The main colors of textiles in the Russian hut style: white, yellow and red.
Lighting. For an interior in the style of a Russian hut, choose in the form of candles and lamps. By the way, there will also be lamps with simple lampshades. Although lampshades and sconces are more suitable for a house whose interior is stylized as a Russian estate.
Kitchen. Without household appliances it is impossible to get by in a modern hut, but technical design can spoil the integrity of the picture. Fortunately, there is built-in equipment that helps with housework, but does not violate the harmony of the Russian style.
For suitable for kitchens massive furniture: kitchen table-cabinet with drawers, open and closed buffets, various hanging shelves. Furniture, of course, should not be polished or painted. Kitchen designs with facades finished with glossy enamel or film, glass inserts, aluminum frames, etc. would be completely inappropriate.
Designer: Oleg Drobnov
In general, an interior in the style of a Russian hut should have as little glass and metal as possible. The plastic here is like an eyesore. Choose furniture with simple wooden facades or realistically imitating rough wood. Solid wood facades can be decorated with paintings in the Russian folk style or with carvings.
As a decor for the kitchen use a samovar, wicker baskets and boxes, onion braids, barrels, pottery, wooden crafts Russian folk crafts, embroidered napkins.
Interior decor in the style of a Russian hut. Decorative linen textiles with embroidery, many wooden items. Will fit perfectly wooden wheel, spinning wheel and fishing nets if the house is located near a river, lake or sea. You can lay knitted round rugs and self-woven runners on the floor.
3. Creating the style of an old wooden manor
U simple peasant hut and the rich old estate have a lot in common: the predominance of wood in the interior, the presence of a huge stove (in the estate it is always lined with tiles), a red corner with icons and candles, and textiles made of linen and lace.
House in Russian style. Designer: Derevleva Olga
However, there were also numerous differences. The rich actively borrowed something new from foreign styles. This is, for example, bright upholstery upholstered furniture, porcelain plates and clocks on the walls, elegant wooden furniture in English or french style, lampshades and sconces, paintings on the walls. In an interior in the style of a Russian mansion, stained glass windows will be very useful interior windows, partitions or veranda glazing. In a word, everything here is quite simple, like in a hut, but there is a slight touch of luxury.
In the style of a Russian estate
4. Russian-style courtyard
The interior itself, the windows in it, and the space outside the window should be in harmony. To fence off the area, it is better to order a fence approximately 180 cm high, assembled from pointed logs.
How do they create a courtyard in the Russian style now? It is impossible to answer unequivocally, since in Rus' the courtyard was organized differently, depending on the area. However, designers have found common features that are recreated in landscape design. A path (often winding) is laid from the gate to the entrance to the house. It is often covered with a board. Along the edges of the path there is a flower border. In the old days, peasants used any free plot of land for garden beds, but they still tried to decorate the front yard with flower beds.
Nowadays lawn grasses are used for the backyard of the hut. This area is shaded by pine trees planted around the perimeter. However, currant or raspberry bushes will also be very much in the spirit of the Russian court. Elements landscape design In the Russian style there are various objects made of wood: a wooden children's slide, a stationary table with benches, a Russian swing. And, of course, all buildings in the yard must be made of wood.
Interior in the style of a Russian hut or estate: ideas from designers
1. About the mirror. Mirrors are an alien object for an old Russian house. However, it is difficult to imagine modern house without a single reflective fabric. Choose mirrors with an aged effect, enclosed in bulky wooden frames. The mirror can be disguised as a false window thanks to wooden shutters. Carved frame with the same wooden shutters can also be used to disguise a flat-screen TV.
2. Styling idea for the bedroom. An interesting solution for bedrooms or children's rooms: stylized as a cozy country courtyard. The walls, 1-1.5 meters from the floor, are lined with unpainted boards imitating a fence. Painting is also used floral ornament: on the wall above the fence butterflies flutter and birds fly. The other wall of the room may be an imitation external wall wooden house with a window decorated with lace trim and wooden shutters. The ceiling can be decorated with a painting representing an image of the sky. A bench, a hammock, barrels instead of bedside tables - and you will feel like you are spending the night in a village courtyard.
3. Household appliances in the interior of a Russian hut. In the kitchen, as already mentioned, it is advisable to integrate all household appliances. But some items can not be hidden, but, on the contrary, can be made into an interior highlight. Technique " airbrush"It is used not only for painting cars, but also for decorating the body of household appliances. For example, you can order a painting of a refrigerator in the Russian style - in this case modern item not only will it not stand out from the style of the Russian hut, but it will also emphasize it.
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This is how designer Tatyana Reshetova interpreted the style of the hut
In the style of a Russian estate
Modern upper room. Photo taken