Interior decoration of cottages in the country

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Minimum furniture and maximum space

The construction of the cottage is divided into several stages and is a complex process. The final stage includes the interior decoration of country cottages and the exterior design of the building.
Decorating cottages may seem like a simple task, feasible to do it yourself, if you are an outside observer. What is a cottage?
An individual home in need of thoughtful decoration before it is built or repaired. Difficulties arise when purchasing a finished building, but here you can choose the perfect option, given the nuances of wood or other materials.

Which option to choose

Skills of several construction majors are required in order to realize the ideas of designers and architects in the interior and exterior design of the building. The decoration inside the cottage may contain several basic styles.
Styles:

• High tech.
  Glass and metal, a little plastic, straight lines, strict, and at the same time, simple designs. The complete lack of wallpaper in the flower, complex elements in the decoration.
  The tree is completely absent or its minimum number of elements is used. Tables have round or rectangular glass countertops, chairs with metal legs and backs.
  Coffee tables have wheels, and shelving is done in simple forms with glass shelves. Hi-tech looks good in large spaces, separated by safety glass doors and partitions into functional areas.
• Oriental motives.
  Offers rich colors of colors and intricate patterns. Hue colors of ocher, bronze, umber, brown, against which red, violet, green and blue colors look great.
  A raspberry color, turquoise, orange and juicy fuchsia with a gentle green hue are intertwined cheerfully, solemnly and harmoniously. In the photo and video it is clearly visible that it is not possible to present the motives of the east without bright fabrics.
  The combination of warm and cold tones, silk and velvet, made with the taste of drapery, allows you to achieve the effect of oriental motifs, to recreate the atmosphere of a colorful, oriental bazaar with their aroma and colors.
• Village hut, appropriate in any wooden house.
  Walls are best left unadorned. The floor is lined with a massive matte board or artificially aged material.
  Beams of dark shades are located under the ceiling, but you can do without a Russian stove. The hearth is still needed, and the fireplace revetted with tiles or a decorative stone will perfectly cope with its role.
  The remaining cases of decoration of brick buildings contain stylized features inherent in the Russian estate, a hut or a tower.
• Classicism and neoclassicism are different time and epochal periods of culture.
  Decorating cottages inside, in the classicism style of the mid-20th century, it contains a transition from museum furniture, hand-made to cheap, familiar, "conveyor" works. However, the owners of cottages can be attributed to a special caste, having sufficient funds for using expensive, high-quality materials made of natural wood, stone, silk in the interior.
  The color scheme consists in calm, noble tones combining light pastel, pale yellow, slightly greenish walls with luxurious brown color of furniture and parquet.Classicism welcomes fabric wallpaper, or another imitation of fabrics, stucco moldings, columns or half columns with straight line shapes.
  Walls are decorated with frescoes, landscapes or portraits in the spirit of past centuries. Parquet floors are complemented by carpets.
• Fantasy coast speaks for itself.
  The style emerges from the contests of the world's leading design and architectural publications. Talented authors submit their work, but each has its own dominant idea, around which various proposals are played out.

Attention: “Smart home”, “Emotional style”, “Nomad style” suggest the use of perfect computer technology, built-in microchips or microcircuits into walls or decor.

• The flooring is made of special glass, capturing the heat of solar energy and directing it inside the room, the interior of the cottage is built on “smart materials” and high technology. In such houses, a person is freed from everyday worries and can devote more time to self-realization of a person.

The characteristic features of the decoration of cottages

The construction of the cottage is a large project, the tasks of which are not just the construction of the building in accordance with the drawings, but also the realization of the dream of its owner. A dream that has been hatched for years in their thoughts and discussed with the whole family.
Therefore, the house must meet the maximum wishes and expectations of customers.

Not ashamed to show people

That is why moments of interior decoration of individual rooms of the cottage are negotiated and approved in advance, and all work is carried out according to sketches, design projects. In parallel, at this stage, a selection is made finishing materials.
The interior decoration of the cottage with wood differs from similar work in urban apartments, which entails the involvement of experienced and highly qualified specialists or reliable companies with good recommendations.
So:

• The most important feature and it is the first on the list is the area of ​​the premises. Cottages are ordered by specific people according to their special projects and desires.
  The number of rooms and their area can be as necessary or just want, unlike apartments, when you do not have to choose.
• The decoration of the cottage inside may contain elements of the interior inappropriate in the apartments. These include fireplaces, stairs or rooms that require special finishes and materials (bathhouse, gym, sauna, greenhouse, attic with conservatory, pool).
• Due to the above circumstances, the interior woodwork of cottages should be carried out by craftsmen who have gained experience in construction works on such objects. Even a good specialist repairing apartments may have difficulty working on a cottage, not knowing the specifics and characteristics of the decoration of the premises as a whole or its individual parts and elements.

The sequence of work in the cottage

The staircase is the decoration of the room.

The main stages of the work can be enlarged and distinguished by type:

• Wiring or power supply of any structure is one of the most important tasks, without which a modern person does not think himself. Regardless of the distance of the passing electric lines, the connection to the cottage will have to be done.
• Plumbing installation guarantees the convenience, practicality, reliability and functionality of the system. A country cottage may not have a plumbing shop nearby or a company engaged in the elimination of any minor breakdowns that could result in big problems.
  Therefore, it is necessary to choose high-quality plumbing for the cottage and require the same installation of plumbing equipment and components.

Attention: Repair of low-quality sanitary equipment costs out of town much more than similar works in the city.

• Alignment of walls, ceiling, floors.Walls make up most of the rooms and are always in a prominent place.
  They should have a perfectly flat surface that aligns in two ways. Raw, using dry mixes, and dry by mounting various designs.
  Each of the options is equally effective, but have their own nuances. Plaster aligns surfaces with differences of 30-50 mm, with greater curvature, installation of the frame with further plasterboard cladding is preferred.
• The installation of doors and windows should correspond to the appearance of the facade, interior decoration and interior. Country houses require constant heating and protection of the interior from moisture and drafts, condensation and molds.
• The final stage - finishing in the form of wallpaper decoration, painting, laying flooring, tiling.

Type of building and types of decoration

The material from which the cottage is built is a decisive factor when choosing finishing samples. All buildings, in essence, can be divided into stone and wooden buildings.
So:

• The wood interior of the cottages has a number of characteristic limitations and features. Wood is an independent, very beautiful building material.
  Over time, it undergoes shrinkage and its surfaces poorly hold plaster or ceramic tile. Cottages built of logs or beams are covered with protective equipment, varnished to preserve the natural color of wood.
  Sheathing is carried out by lining, or sheets of drywall. There are opportunities for painting with water-based paints or simple whitewashing.
  Floors in wooden houses are laid on logs, laminate, parquet, linoleum or massive board, but laying flooring with an impressive weight is undesirable. There are no restrictions in the decoration of the ceiling, it is important to enter its appearance into the general interior.
• Stone cottages have no restrictions at all, both natural and artificial materials are used. In any case, the interior of the cottage made of wood takes into account the style and architectural findings.
  To create a truly cozy atmosphere in a country house, various options are used for each room. The entrance hall and living room can be lined with clapboard, the price allows you to choose the right panels, plaster the bedroom and wallpaper.
  The walls of the bathroom, kitchen and bathroom are tiled. The instruction for the use of drywall sheets offers to sheathe the walls with them, hide communications under them and get additional insulation of the room.
  The flat surface of drywall can be designed to your liking. The flooring of these cottages is diverse.
  Everything is determined by their original design. If the floors are on logs, then they are limited to light floor coverings.
  Monolithic, concrete floors provide room for the arrangement of warm floors, you can lay floor tiles on them or have a modern, bulk coating.

When hiring experienced builders, it is worth remembering that total costs can significantly increase from the complexity of the work performed, and that two-thirds of the costs fall on the cost of interior decoration of the cottage in the country.