Just as the chopped and piled ingredients are not yet a festive dinner, so the faceless box with the roof is not yet an apartment building. All those tiny touches that appear over time make the dwelling truly inhabited: a path trodden in the grass to the porch, a slightly worn seat on the owner's favorite chair, traces of ash in the fireplace. But before you enter the new family nest and begin to equip it, you need to take care of the interior and exterior decoration - it is she who will create the ideal atmosphere for its residents in the cottage and will clearly demonstrate the tastes of the owners to those around.
Animal skins on the stone walls of caves can be considered the first finishing materials. This attribute certainly matches all the functions of modern decoration: practical, aesthetic, religious. Even though we live in a secular state, nevertheless, the personal beliefs and convictions of the inhabitants have a significant impact on the selection of artistic subjects for decoration, for example, walls. Natural materials, such as stone, wood or clay, have been used both for construction and for decorating houses since time immemorial, a little later a prototype of modern wallpaper appeared, and archaeologists find the remains of plaster on the ruins of the palaces of ancient kingdoms. You will not surprise a modern buyer with a simple lamella, "clapboard" and even a clinker stone, real originals and creative-minded individuals hunt for ultra-modern developments that humanity could not dare to dream of just fifteen to twenty years ago.
Amazing Wallpaper
Let's start with something simpler. Remember how you glued wallpaper with the whole family in homemade triangular newspaper caps? How did they try to join the drawing on two cuts with four hands, and all the same, someone treacherously let the eye down, the canvas “slid down”, with all the efforts the seam never turned out to be perfect? Well, you can forget about it - today the whole world uses seamless wallpaper - decorative ribbons, the width of which corresponds to the height of the room. Seamless wallpaper is not glued vertically, but horizontally, as a result, the room takes on a neat and complete look.
Jolie Seamless Textile Wallpaper by ProSpero
Textiles, paper and vinyl are all familiar and old, but what about cork wallpapermade from pressed cork bark chips? The main advantage of cork wallpaper is its absolute environmental friendliness. The material does not even require adhesive additives - during heat treatment, natural juice is released from the cork, which reliably holds the mass; for water resistance, beeswax can be added to the material.
Divina Cork Walls by Sedacor
The liquid wallpaper, in fact, are a kind of decorative plaster - they are applied to the wall with an ordinary spatula, like paint or varnish, and then smoothed into an even layer. Unlike traditional roll wallpaper, this coating does not require preliminary surface preparation and even masks irregularities or micro-cracks in the walls.
Liquid silk wallpaper from Silk Plaster
Innovative wall coverings
If the family has a small child, very soon all horizontal surfaces in the house are painted with indelible markers. As the saying goes, if an outrage cannot be prevented, it must be headed! Cover the walls with special marker paints and after a week, when the coating hardens, it will be possible to draw on it as on a regular board.
IdeaPaint marker coating
Turns the room into a huge classroom - it is very convenient to write on such a surface with crayons.
Blackboard effect paint, Ideas Market
Finally, magnetic paint contains metal particles, all kinds of magnets can be molded onto the wall painted with it, like on a refrigerator - only very, very large.
MagPaint coating
Antibacterial paint - a composition that cleans and disinfects air can be effectively used not only in specialized medical institutions, but also in children's rooms. The composition is based on the principle of photocatalysis, which is triggered by exposure to light. You light a lamp and the air begins to rapidly clear.
Creates amazing visual effects, due to the alternation of convex and concave sides, complex optical illusions are achieved, and the elements themselves are produced in a hexagonal or even circular shape.
Bulk ceramic tiles, MyHome
The most unusual new items
Also a kind of wallpaper. As the name implies, this coating really completely imitates not only the aesthetic, but also the practical properties of natural stone: this material is strong, wear-resistant, does not fade in the sun and is not afraid of mechanical damage. At the same time, the walls look as if they are really hewn out of natural marble or granite.
Flexible stone, "AVT" -Decor
Venetian plaster, Kreadom
Real sea pebbles glued to a nylon mesh. This flooring looks especially authentic in the bathroom or in the courtyard with the pool, while the medium-sized pebbles massage bare feet, providing a quality acupuncture massage.
Pebble tiles, Rodas
"Living" liquid tile can be applied on any horizontal surface, but it will look most effective on the floor: the coating reacts sensitively to the slightest touch, instantly changing the pattern.
Surfloor Liquid Tile
Suitable for walls thermal wallpaper: The same effect is achieved by changing the temperature regime. In order not to experiment with a hairdryer and iron manually, it is better to immediately place such a coating in a place accessible for temperature differences: for example, opposite a window or near a radiator. You will only have to admire the suddenly emerging and hiding pattern.
Thermal wallpaper by Chinese designer Shi Yuan
This time we deliberately left out the so-called “smart” technologies, when the interior decoration, for example, is able to extinguish or transmit wi-fi signals, focusing on the naturalness and exoticism of the proposed novelties. In addition to them, there is a "boom" of eco-friendly products on the market today: textile wallpaper, coverings from bamboo, grass, silk and cotton. Manufacturers strive to simplify the life of the consumer as much as possible, therefore, for example, instead of complex inlaid parquet floors, parquet boards with a groove-tenon assembly system are now at the peak of popularity. There are many opportunities to equip your home in an original and quick way, and every year there will be more and more of them.
Flexible stone
Flexible stone is the most successful attempt to recreate a natural material. It is a thin slice of sandstone bonded with a textile-based binder polymer. This stone is made in the form of flexible sheets and tiles. Its warm color palette, inimitable texture and play of shades will make surfaces extremely beautiful. The scope is limitless: from walls and floors to complex art objects. Flexible stone can be used in bathrooms, saunas, fountains and even fireplaces.
Liquid wood is a real revolution in modern decking. Such boards are made from hardwood of the highest grades and polyvinyl chloride. Liquid wood is ideal for outdoor use in all climates. Finds a wide range of applications in the design of verandas and garden areas. Also used for hedges, fences, benches, gazebos, playgrounds.
Fiberglass reinforcement has become a real breakthrough in the production of concrete-based products. Non-metallic reinforcement is made of basalt fiber and fiberglass, and has a number of advantages over steel counterparts. The main areas of application of fiberglass composite reinforcement are foundations. Can also be used in households for foundations of small buildings, greenhouses and greenhouses
What was the place of the main loss of heat in the room can become the source of its production. "Heating glass" is made by sputtering a conductive film, which absolutely does not impair its transparency. Such glass can serve as a source of main or additional heating of premises, used for the manufacture of heating non-fogging windows, doors, mirrors and showcases. Heating windows are a truly unique opportunity to enjoy warmth and comfort at any time of the year.
Ecowool is a modern cellulose insulation made from waste paper with the addition of special fillers. The structure of this material is a homogeneous mass. Its installation is carried out in bulk into the cells of the frame, which allows you to create an even seamless layer that completely fills the area, without voids and cold bridges. It is widely used both in the construction of private residential buildings and on an industrial scale. The dwelling insulated with ecowool has increased comfort and high performance.
Marker paint is an epoxy or acrylic resin based paint that, once cured, gives the effect of a whiteboard. After applying such paint on the surface, you can write, draw, draw with any markers (intended for use on whiteboards) and erase what was written without difficulty with an ordinary napkin.
Foam glass (foamed glass, cellular glass) is a heat-insulating material, which is a foamed glass mass. Foam glass is mainly used as a universal heat insulator. The exceptional properties of foam glass make it possible to use it in cases where no other heat-insulating material can ensure compliance with technical requirements and safety measures.
Gypsum panels
Decorative 3D gypsum panels are used for wall decoration. This approach opens up a third dimension in interior design, previously limited to flat, cold surfaces. The richness of color and texture solutions allows the use of eco-friendly 3D gypsum panels to embody any architectural tasks and creative ideas in the design of various premises.
Vinyl floor
Vinyl floors are a multi-layer polymer-based flooring. Under the transparent layer, there is a layer on which a pattern is applied imitating natural wood, tiles, cork or stone. The floor is installed by gluing to the base using special glue. The floor, made of vinyl covering, is not afraid of moisture, sand, it is difficult to damage it. The material is intended for use in various premises - in the hallway, living room, kitchen, bedroom and children's room. The coating is also suitable for warm floors and has excellent performance properties.
Liquid insulation
Liquid insulation is a modern way of insulation. A special composition with a consistency similar to ordinary paint. The main advantage is that 1 millimeter of material has the same effect as a 5-7 cm layer of mineral wool. At the same time, this insulation is absolutely safe for health, does not creep along the fibers and is not a source of harmful dust hazardous to the lungs. Use liquid insulation in many places. Most often pipes are processed with it, which is very convenient. It is also good to use this material when insulating houses: roofs, floors and walls.
Technologies do not stand still: what until recently seemed the height of perfection is already hopelessly outdated tomorrow.
This statement is also true for many finishing materials: oil enamels, paper-based wallpaper and the so-called "rolls" are now perceived as something archaic, left in the irrevocable past. In return, manufacturers offer new options, the aesthetic qualities and performance of which significantly exceed the characteristics of finishing materials used in the past.
Stolichny Master has prepared a brief overview of modern finishing materials that are successfully used by our company in the renovation of apartments and offices. We hope this article will inspire you to new ideas and daring interior achievements.
Walls
"Flexible stone"
Roll material, one of the types of wallpaper, the front surface of which imitates the color and texture of stone (for example, light sandstone). Strips of flexible stone are applied to the walls treated with adhesives, after which the joints are rubbed until smooth. Even after many decades, flexible stone will not change its original properties: this material is resistant to fading and abrasion.
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Finishing materials are classified according to the method of application:
- coating,
- masonry,
- hinged.
Lubricants
These include paints, plaster, enamel and mixtures for primers, putties and impregnations. These are the oldest and cheapest materials. Can be applied with a brush or spray, covering the surface with a dense layer. Their feature is the limitation of the terms of work in the summer season, since a large amount of water is used in the process. New coating materials have such properties as moisture resistance and thermal insulation. Moreover, their service life can last up to 10 years (for mineral plasters).
Manufacturers pay special attention to waterproofing coating materials. Water repellents - a relatively new type of waterproofing materials. The surface treated with a water repellent acquires pronounced water-repellent properties - the water simply rolls off without leaving a trace.
The liquid wallpaper is an environmentally friendly material based on natural cellulose or cotton fibers. They protect against the appearance of fungus or mold, dust does not stick to them. Most importantly, such wallpapers do not require careful preparation of the bases, as usual, but on the contrary, they will mask minor irregularities, making the wall neater. If the wall is damaged, it is easy to fix the problem - you just need to cover the dent or scratch with material.
Hanging materials
The name of this group speaks for itself. In order to attach this material to the wall, you must first build a base grille and aluminum or steel profiles. Already on this grille, the cladding is attached directly, usually with the help of self-tapping screws. In this case, the edges of the parts fit tightly to each other or snap into the lock. As a result, a ventilation gap is created between the wall and the finish, which helps to solve the problem of wetting. Attached materials include: lining, corrugated board, block house, siding and others.
Such materials are most often used for the design of facades and other external surfaces. it ceramic granite, composite aluminum panels (they can be of different colors and any curvilinear shape), cassettes made of galvanized steel and sheet aluminum with various types of coating, ceramics and fiber cement boards... The outer cladding of ventilated facades performs not only a decorative role, but also protects the wall structure from precipitation and mechanical stress.
In recent years, gaining popularity plastic panels... They are durable, easy to maintain, and most importantly, they help to hide the imperfections of the walls, of which there are many in our houses. The range of such panels is practically unlimited. The material is produced, stylized as tiles, brick, marble, wood, natural stone or any other patterns, styles and textures. You can apply everything from imitation of a tree to a painting by a famous artist.
Masonry materials.
This group of materials is attached to the wall with glue or cement mortar. Masonry materials are highly wear-resistant, non-combustible, increase the thermal insulation of the wall, and mostly consist of natural materials. These include natural and artificial stone, facing bricks, porcelain stoneware and ceramic tiles.
The latest development in this group of materials is flexible stone... It is a thin layer of sandstone, bonded with polymeric materials on a fabric basis. It is produced in the form of tiles and wallpaper and combines the advantages of natural stone and wallpaper. In addition, it goes well with almost all types of finishes, and the price of this product is gradually falling, which gives hope to domestic buyers.