Writes online magazine about Minsk citydog.by
CityDog.by asked for a visit to a 3-room apartment where repair is still ongoing. We have shown the first ready-made "fruits", which, you need to admit, already look "sweet and smoothly".
- Marina, tell me why the apartment transformation began?
- Even finally, without driving into the apartment, we began to redo the kitchen and the corridor. It was the main thing. Then gradually everything else: the room is one, the second, third. Only recently finished the toilet. The apartment has a lot of unfinished nuances who do not want to exhibit atmosphere. Everything should be as I planned in my head.
- Did the redevelopment or the apartment was so initially and was?
- Deli. Previously, the bathtub with the toilet was a passage to the kitchen, so we littered it. I hate when the kitchen is near the toilet. I do not understand why so design apartments: "kitchen-toilet".
- And who worked on the kitchen design?
- I and only me. We, for example, do not have upper lockers. First, my husband and I have been high and every time I open lockers, I forget to close them - we constantly beat your heads, "Marina laughs. - Secondly, I wanted to make a full-fledged room, and not "the place where they stand and cook". In fact, my husband helped me: bedside table, walls, wallpaper, laminate.
As for the choice of color, then black and white are good because they can also add a third, fourth colors to them: I wanted paints - added green tablecloth, blackboard, red flowers.
No, I am not a professional designer - by education economist. Once upon a time he worked in a bank, but he understood that this was not mine, the soul demanded creativity. I went to interior design courses, purely for yourself. I can not say that they gave me something, but but I understood one thing: I like it very much. Then it began to make decorations from felt, now I am engaged in the manufacture of hats, it brings me incredible pleasure. As for the interior, when the apartment appeared, I wanted to do everything to be at home to be at home. Worked extremely intuitive.
- What difficulties arose during repair?
- tolerated the outlets, they knew the hood, it was necessary to hide the pipes in the kitchen somewhere.
A peculiar "difficulties" can be attributed some misunderstanding from familiar older age. Surprised the floor in the hall, the absence of the shelves in the kitchen, the color of the walls, toilet. They asked why they laid a brick in the kitchen near the slab - "there all the fat and soot fly!". And this surface is very good.
- How do you seem "massive taste" in the design of Minsk apartments?
- For some reason, people like "standing". After watching the gear of the type "apartment question", they begin to "create" and make four multicolored walls in the room, for example. It is clear that you can focus on one wall, but not on four!
For some reason, many are afraid to buy Belarusian. I have everything here is almost Belarusian, just a few little things from IKEA. The Belarusian manufacturer has good quality. Especially fabric, here I have to pay tribute. I did curtains myself, blinds, made pillows, the ottomans in the corridor (they are from the swelled wool). The lampshades did also herself, some details found. Pictures. Wall mural from TsUMA. The seats were rag, but I wanted to cover them with the skin - it was not necessary, but was high-quality leathes.
