The English style – symbol of refinement, good taste and excellent quality. This style is conservative, strict, practical, proportional and graceful, the main thing in it – authenticity, good quality and naturalness. The house in the English style creates feeling of comfort, cosiness and tranquility.
Elements of the English style
The interior in the English style assumes availability of some traditional elements of design. The most recognizable and characteristic of them – fireplace. The typical English fireplace has to be the big, reaching practically ceiling, trimmed natural stone, tree or tiles. On the chimney shelf it is possible to place various figurines, hours and family photos.
If the sizes of the house do not allow to make full-fledged fireplace, it is necessary to establish at least electric.
Furniture for the English interior has to be massive, made of expensive breeds of tree – oak, nut or yew, decorated with eaves, pilasters and brass handles. Surface of furniture it is desirable to make old that it corresponded to spirit of aristocratical old times.
It is desirable to cover walls with the oak panels decorated with incrustation or intricate thread. Ceilings in the English interior decorate with rafters from dark tree, and spread floor oak parquet.
One more traditional element of the house in the English style – the wide ladder conducting from the living room on the second floor. It can be decorated with carved handrail and sculptures. The fabrics and wall-paper used in the English style have to have magnificent texture as, for example, velvet and tapestry. The drawing on them traditionally English – strip, peas, "chicken claw", "cucumbers".
Design of rooms
For the English living room it is necessary to allocate one of the most spacious rooms. Its walls on one third height upholster with oak panels, above – paste over with wall-paper with the small drawing. Walls decorate with pictures in magnificent frames, tapestries, weapon, ceiling – stucco molding, floor – expensive warm carpets.
The modern equipment needs to be hidden in cabinets and dressers. In sight – only antiques, silver and expensive ware.
Large windows in the English interior decorate with two-layer curtains of pastel colors with the modest drawing. In tone curtains covers and pillows approach sofas, cloth, lamp shades of lamps. The main element of the English bedroom – white iron bed with the shishechka from brass polished to gloss. On bed – set of pillows and blankets since in the English bedrooms it is always cold. Planning of kitchen most often classical, with accurately separated zones. In the center of English cuisine there has to be big table. Washing, cabinets, furniture – all the most convenient and the big sizes. Choosing the English style for the house, you remember that it categorically is not suitable for the people preferring easy interiors and maximalism. Besides, for the English interior are necessary – to create big rooms it in the small apartment it will not turn out.