Antique home decoration with modern materials

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Nice little estate in the grove

Anonymization and standardization are good at creating a unified approach to documents in various fields of activity. Individual developers of cottages, houses, castles prefer the construction of not faceless, similar buildings, but original buildings, similar to the noble estates of the XVIII-XIX centuries.
The proposed photos and videos demonstrate examples of designer refinements. What gives and what attracts the decoration of old-fashioned facades if, after centuries, contemporaries have no desire to part with the past.

Modern house similar to an old family nest

Antique styling is the main feature of various retro styles and trends. Each of them has its own distinctive features, so they got different names - romantic style and baroque, Gothic style and empire, classic and others.
Paying tribute to the well-deserved classics, it is not necessary to make sacrifices and refuse the comfort of living or the deterioration of the operational characteristics of the building. The house, which has absorbed all modern achievements and at the same time is similar to an old manor, will help to get new technologies and building materials.
The instruction for arranging the facade in retro style requires the use of simple forms and massive products from stone, marble. On the facade, columns, arches, stucco moldings, turrets, decorative cornices, stairs are appropriate (seeFinishing stairs: we choose for ourselves) with twisted balusters and sculptures.

Little tricks that give an old look

The antique facade is striking when looking at the house and focuses on wall decoration and roofing. It is clear that the estate is unlikely to be similar to buildings of past centuries, if the walls are smoothly plastered and the roof has a cheerful color.
The canons of retro stylistics dictate their own rules:

• Using finishing materials and coatings available many years ago, or their imitation in modern analogues.
• The elements that make up the façade decor must match and withstand one style so that annoying little things do not spoil the impression of the entire structure.
• Walls, roofing, the appearance of windows and doors, decorative elements and their location, which are given special attention.
• The architectural structure is perceived and looks in combination with the surrounding landscape, so the device of fences and small courtyard buildings should not be left aside and forget about them.
• The appearance on the industrial scale, and not piece-by-piece, of facing materials, allows to give the house an entourage from history, and the price for them is much lower than individual orders.

Attention: Correctly selected components by style emphasize the status and solvency of the developer without unreasonable expenses for finishing.

The brilliance of the manor

Reliable construction will hide from all adversity

It is not for nothing that the roof or roof has acquired yet another designation of reliability, security and safety. The roof of the old estate was covered with copper, which served as the hallmark of the wealth of the homeowner then, and has remained relevant today.
The copper roof always belonged to elite materials with considerable cost. Successful middle-class people think about such expenses, especially when you consider and add the cost of roofing.
Copper roofs attract developers with their radiant appearance. It belongs to durable materials, but the radiance of copper will lose its luster in a few years and will get the usual greenish color of the old roof.
The modern construction market has alternative solutions and offers. Copper roofing became available thanks to the production of metal roofing and roofing materials with polymer coatings that accurately simulate natural copper with a shiny and bright surface that does not tarnish for many years, but is three times cheaper.
The use of reflective particles allowed to reduce the heating of the roof surface and create a microclimate in the attic (see.Attic finishes: making the right choice) The formation of the completed image of antiquity is complemented by decorative fences, caps and weathervanes made of steel or a wind indicator painted with black powder paint, and the manufacture of a universal mount will make it easy to transfer and place this accessory on the roof of a house, bathhouse, gazebo or other building.

• Walls and their antique wood trim are still the most popular in the world, especially in forest-rich areas. A wooden house from uncalibrated logs does without additional elements that emphasize its belonging to the past era.
  Modern materials need accessible decorative elements and coatings that give historical, epoch-making features. Plaster walls with their own hands are decorated with a variety of stucco moldings of gypsum or elements of polyurethane. Facing the facade with a slab imitating natural stone or aged brick.
  The winning option in cottages is the use of decorative imitation of half-timbered structures. Antique wood trim, imitating a set of load-bearing beams, is attached directly to the previously plastered walls.
  Steel siding with a polymer coating under a natural tree solves decoration and functional tasks. The facing material, made in the “pine”, “bog oak” variant, allows for continuous cladding of the facade of a country house, including a ventilated one, and is used to file roof overhangs.
  Natural wood material helps steel cladding compete with other decorative materials.
• Windows and doors in old houses were not made of plain plastic material. Antique wood trim allows you to achieve historical style in the decoration of the estate.
  Selected technologies for cheap door decoration allow you to find models with wood trim and more expensive, decorated with natural veneer.
• For a harmonious placement of the old-style house in the surrounding space, the homeowner needs to turn to face his fence. A typical picture of cottage villages, observed in many buildings.
  There are luxurious, elegant houses with little things that correspond to a recognizable style, fenced with a three-meter metal fence that does not fit into either the general style or color. This design negates the efforts to give the house, the plot and the surrounding vegetation the appearance of an old manor and family nest.
  A modern house under a historic estate, where there is antique wood trim, looks equally good in the natural corner of the field, forest and in a well-groomed place of the park.

Attention: An alternative to typical blue sheets of corrugated board is a material with a polymer coating that imitates natural stone, which remains attractive for half a century.

Paint, as a coating "antique"

A decorative material that is hard to get past and that needs a special approach - antique paint. It got its name because of the appearance of a slightly worn and rough on the wall, while creating the effect of a noble ancient coating.
Antique wood finishing in combination with the technique of applying paint and artificial latexes, which are part of the paint and brighten in the place of greatest friction, allow us to achieve absolute similarity with antiquity.
So:

• The paint is applied in a circular motion by a brush having a long pile.
• The "worn-out effect" is manifested in places where the specialist makes more effort and presses with a brush.
• Grouting the surface with an ordinary sponge, cloth or brush allows you to get a surface with the desired scuff marks.
• After the paint has dried, the wall is covered with wax to obtain a smooth and shiny wall space.
• The composition for covering the facade is contained and sold in containers of 4-5 liters.
• Any primed surface is treated with paint.
• After the paint dries, a microporous film is formed that is resistant to mechanical stress.
• Paint refers to non-combustible materials and does not contain harmful substances.

Advantages of paint "antique" and the sequence of its application

So:

• Suitable for facades and interior decoration.
• Surface care is carried out with solvent-free detergents.
• Walls are painted in damp rooms.
• It does not interact with the external environment, has resistance to abrasion of the surface, does not lend itself to mechanical damage.

Work Stages

• The surface of the facade should be clean and dry, not have tubercles, cracks and damage, it can not be putty. It is enough to apply one layer of a special primer and let it dry for at least 4 hours.

Note: Outside painting is not performed in frosts, in wet weather and on damp substrates, on frozen or overheated substrates with temperatures above + 30 ° C.

• When performing work on one facade, materials of one batch are used. Natural-based fillers and included in the mixture can cause discrepancies in colors and shades depending on the batch produced.
• Any staining is excluded, which may not start from the corner, the joint, or may be interrupted in the middle of the facade.

Retro style is not a tribute to fashion and for a long time will be in great demand among builders and designers.