Interior details that give a bad taste owners

• Interior details that give a bad taste owners

If all the following to gather in one apartment, you get the so-called "luxury renovation." Thousands of shops and design firms in the CIS famously operate this concept, casting customers sweet dreams. But do not be fooled: at best, it echoes the post-Soviet "priblatnennogo glamor", and at worst - Incredible bad taste.

Here are 10 of its main features.

Columns, pilasters, arches and other "palace" decor. Someone deliberately orders repairmen "baroque" or "Empire", and someone comes to a modest word "classic" to yield all the same ceremonial splendor. Over large areas of the museum it looks archaic, and in the crush of standard flats with a low ceiling - a vulgar sham.

In the photo: Anastasia Melnikova at his St. Petersburg apartment, converted from the former 11-room communal.

Plain panel treshka in Saratov in the Baroque style.

The abundance of mirrors, shiny and glossy poverhnosteyVyuchiv that mirrors expand the space and gives the gloss of sophistication, some turn their homes into a glass labyrinth, where if you do not go blind, then sooner or later you touch the mind.

In the photo: Apartment Bari Alibasov.

Note the golden toilets and urinals, which are completely lost in the surrounding splendor.

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DivanPyshny frilly, fancy, with lots of pillows, upholstered in "royal" velvet (or even the skin) or embroidered monograms - and a staunch ascetic not resist the temptation at least once in life to dive into a sofa, in a heavenly cloud. This is absolutely normal, if you then make the only right decision - to leave this monster in a furniture showroom and never, never look in his direction. Photo: Singer Eva Polna with her daughters.

Boris Moiseev.

Multi pelmets and installation of zanavesokStoit type in Internet search engine "elite curtains," and you will discover countless designs, more colorful one another.

A special category - the unique author's works: from home-grown masters of this genre of fantasy is truly unlimited and must trample the viewer in awe.

In fact, "rich" intricate draping and ruffles from cheap fabric look caricature, and from the road - a theatrical and often (! Here's the paradox) cheap. Photo: Hope in the apartment Kadyshevo.

Multi-level ceilings with fancy volnoyChasche all glossy, with a fancy lighting (whether UFOs, or dissecting room), with an imitation of the sky, with artistic painting, finally. And many companies to repair and design shamelessly give the whole horror of the curved "exclusive".

Although why be surprised when people are earnestly interested in the Internet, how to make such a ceiling.

Waterfalls and fontanchikiNu why not do in a normal city apartment unexpected tropical oasis surrounded by plastic windows, wallpaper walls and laminate?

Nevertheless, many design firms are convinced that it is necessary because of feng shui, and is especially great in your interior fit waterfalls with multi-colored neon lighting, creating a "favorable contrast."

Materials and Textures with a claim to "expensive-rich" Interestingly, even left for permanent residence in Europe, many of our compatriots remain true sweet heart "Asiatic": gold and mother of pearl, shiny fabrics, crystal. Cheap imitation? Well, let him, the main thing that looks spectacular. Look around: the market is crowded with variations of "inexpensive, but catchy," at least have wallpaper with glitter. However, even in an expensive performance of "Asiatic" does not change its essence. Photo: Bride Nikolai Baskov Sofia Kalcheva at his home.

Sam Basque visiting friends.

LepninaOchen binding element of the decor, is relevant only in a truly luxurious and spacious interiors, and forbidden to all others. Fretwork - the enemy of small spaces with low ceiling, visually it makes them even smaller and creates a feeling of closeness. It does not tolerate cheap furniture and minimalist.

However, domestic "special" repair continue to argue that stucco can decorate an apartment in the Khrushchev.

Copies of world famous paintings and skulpturShedevr a blueprint - do not mind, do you? In any case, it is necessary to know that the reproduction for consumer goods are only poor quality and have nothing to do with art.

Souvenirs and other overseas ekzotikaOni terrible litter apartment, turning it into a warehouse dead utensils. Special "chic" - when this is not compatible with each other: Africa on the wall, in a corner of Japan, and Turkey on the floor. By the way, be sure to add this to the trash magnets on the fridge, with a curious property: should one appear, and they begin to multiply like cockroaches.

In the photo: the worst incarnation of exotic souvenir - Elena Proklova house stuffed with animal and "sacrificial altar".