Calibrated Homes: Interior Finishing and Design

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Calibrated Home Interior: Contrasts

Many citizens dream of a wooden country house. And the dream came true, and you built such a “fortress”.
And the question immediately arises before you: “What is the sequence of interior decoration of a wooden house?”, To which we will try to answer you. We will also tell you in what ways the decoration of wooden houses inside is carried out, and what architectural styles can be used in the design of their interiors.

Preparing the home for decoration

Building wood can be different: both in form and in the method of production. Its quality, however, may also be different.
When the wood is carefully sorted, it is given a given shape with clear dimensions, without deviations - the finished product is called calibrated. It can be logs, and boards, and timber.
The price of such material, as you know, is higher.
So:

• Take at least a planed timber. Its surface is heterogeneous, linear dimensions often diverge.
  It is also possible to build a house out of it - it will come out cheaper. But such walls are suitable, perhaps, for an unpresentable country house.
  The bulk of residential buildings are erected from a factory-made beam, which is always calibrated.
• Calibrated timber can be made from solid wood, be profiled or glued. Pine and spruce are usually used as raw materials for its production.
  Of the hardwoods - this is larch, ash, linden.
• Timber houses - The best solution for those who wish to have a country house. And the decoration of a wooden house from the inside, built of calibrated timber, has much more options for creating a good design.

Interior design of a house from a calibrated beam

• The same can be said of logs. They can be cylindrical, in fact, only the bark is removed from them.
  Using them in construction, craftsmen are forced to sort them, stacking larger logs at the base of the basement. The diameter of a calibrated log cannot differ by more than four centimeters.
• According to the degree of humidity, building wood also varies. Moreover, the product will correspond to a given size, only after drying.
  A house built of wood of natural humidity requires a fairly long time to shrink - more than two years. And the inner decoration in a wooden house, should begin only after the final shrinkage of the structure.
• Otherwise, we can simply damage your budget spent on decoration and design. Therefore, it is better to build from dried wood, despite the fact that its cost is slightly higher.
  In this case, the decoration can begin in two weeks. And, even if summer is in the yard, the house needs to be heated.
• Whatever finishing method you choose, wood requires antiseptic treatment. Wall material, as a rule, is processed before laying, otherwise it will be impossible to process the corner joints and joints of various structural elements.
• All that remains unprocessed: details of windows, doors, stairs, overhead decorative elements - all this is primed after drying the premises. Next, you will need to decide which side: external or internal, the walls of the house will be insulated.
  It is possible to leave the house completely without insulation only in the southern regions, but just there, almost no wooden houses are built.

Interior decoration with decorative rope

• The side that will not be insulated can be finished without the use of decorative coatings.The beauty of the wood texture can simply be emphasized with colorless varnish. Interior Corner Finishing wooden house, as, however, of the walls, can be performed using a decorative rope used to seal inter-crown seams.
• You can paint the walls with a colored stain. Many people prefer to get away from the colors corresponding to the tree, and paint the log surface with oil paint of any pastel shade.

But for all this to look organic, you need to think about how you want to see your home. And maybe make it in a certain style.
Or take from the style only what is ideally suited to the house of just such a design, as in your case. This is our next chapter.

We make out an interior

It’s not pleasant when all the surfaces in the room are made of the same material, even if it is wood. And if all the walls inside your house show a beautiful shape of a log, you need to try to make the ceiling so that it brings diversity to this idyll.
So:

• Given that in log houses often built without an attic, the ceiling structure one way or another has to be done taking into account the existing beams and rafters. Their surface is usually decorated to match the walls, and the space between them is sewn up with either a standard clapboard or drywall, simply painted white.
  In the photo below, a clear example of such a design.

Calibrated log home interior

• The design of this interior is quite simple - this can be done inside the village house. The most exquisite decoration of this room is a Russian stove, decorated with tiles.
  That is what a rustic-style house called Russian country looks like. And what is a house in a village without a Russian stove?
• And since we are talking about the rustic style, we also remind you that in Russia there have always been many craftsmen who can do everything from wood: from simple and comfortable furniture to carved wooden lace. And now, from the same calibrated log, interior elements are made, without which it is simply impossible to reflect the lifestyle of the Russian countryside.

Finishing a country house inside in the Russian style

• If we talk about country style, which means “rural”, then there are quite a few of its varieties: English, American, European. All of them are more or less true to the provincial traditions of their people.
• These architectural styles, like many others, do not accept the use of modern materials, especially polymeric, in decoration. Yes, and who would think to sheathe the walls of a timber house with plastic?
• You can create a certain style using various imitations. Take at least the wallpaper. There are options with different types of veneers, including stone.
  And if the house needs to be insulated from the inside, then its walls can be sheathed with drywall and run wallpaper decoration. At the same time, the ceiling can be made wooden, and here is the country style, only European.

Wallpaper with stone veneer in a wooden house

• In the northern countries: Norway, Finland, Denmark, Canada, houses have long been built from timber. They have the greatest experience in their decoration, which we will turn to too.
  The traditions of construction and interior design in these countries are united by one architectural style called the "Scandinavian".
• If you thought about the style in advance, then in accordance with it you can build the house itself, and then decorate it. It is impossible, for example, to perform in the Scandinavian style the interior of a house with small windows.

Large Scandinavian style windows

• After all, the main thing that is inherent in this architectural style is a lot of large windows, without internal layout. Sometimes it’s even one, all-glass wall.
  In the north, especially in winter, there is not enough natural light. Hence the love of northerners for large windows.
• The color schemes of Scandinavian-style interiors are never dark.They range from dazzling white to delicate pastel colors.
  Contrasting accents are usually made using furniture or textiles. The motto of style: space, light and simplicity.

Drywall Interior

• Most often, as a finishing material for internal walls, drywall is used here, as they insulate houses from the inside, leaving the outer walls in their original form. To do this, mount a wooden crate, or a metal frame, in the cells of which a heater is laid.
• To the racks of the frame, sheets of drywall are fixed. An instruction detailing the technology of this work, as well as the preparation of the gypsum board for finishing, is on our website.
  Although, with your own hands you are unlikely to cope with this work. At least one assistant is required here.
• Interior decoration in a wooden house, the walls of which are sheathed with plasterboard, can also be done using wallpaper. If this is a Scandinavian style, then the wallpaper should be monophonic, it is possible with relief, and for painting.

Stylish Scandinavian home decoration

• The original decoration of such walls can be thin wooden dies, which are a cross section of a non-sanded log. With the help of such round circles of different diameters, an original panel is created that will ideally combine with a ceiling decorative crate made of wooden beams.
• If you choose Provence style for home decoration, then the wallpaper can be in flower. Favorite options for patterns of this style are cells and stripes, which are perfectly combined with a floral print.
  Such combinations can be used both in wall decoration with wallpaper and in home textiles.

Provence style kitchen

• The French also love large windows, only they have curly, with a beautiful layout, or decorated with curly lattices with an intricate pattern. And if in the Scandinavian style, often, there are no curtains at all, then in Provence it is almost the main attribute of the interior.
  In one room, two or three types of curtains can be used at once, naturally harmonizing with the upholstery of furniture.
• The wooden house can be decorated in Alpine style. In any case, the attic - if any.
  It was the French who came up with the idea of ​​making windows in the roof slopes. This wonderful architectural solution makes the attic room very light, stylish, and visually increases the height of the room.

Alpine style in interior design

• Light plain walls, stone tiles as a decor, wooden structures with contrasting finishes - these are the things that help to create an interior in the Alpine style.

What other methods are used to complete the interior decoration of a wooden house - videos, photos and articles on our website, tell you the idea of ​​interior design, help determine the choice of color scheme. Look, read, try to combine and combine, and the design of your home will be one and only!