How not to turn the interior into a gaudy set of stamps

And 5 Tips on how to use 6 underrated design solutions.

1. Linoleum

Linoleum - perhaps the most cheap floor covering, and on this his advantages end there. The artificial material is not environmentally friendly, the choice of colors and patterns also do not have a particularly diverse. Therefore, designers linoleum practically do not use in their projects.

Council: give preference wicker vinyl flooring. Visually, it is much more aesthetically pleasing, are guaranteed to last for 25 years, will not crack and will not scratch even the chairs on wheels, do not burn or melt.

2. gypsum plasterboard

Drywall - a form material, and by itself it is not bad. Problems begin when from it create a lurid niches and shelves, partitions the most unimaginable forms, multi-level ceilings.

Council: Use drywall to solve spatial rather than design problems. For example, because it is possible to build a niche for an easy built-in closets or partition.

3. Mural

Mural gained notoriety in time the 1990s, when they were popular bright seascapes and huge flowers.

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Council: wallpapers are really able to transform the space and expand the wall. But they have to be as quiet - neutral colors, without too large and bright objects.

4. pelmets

Themselves pelmets is not so terrible. They will decorate your interior a classic, will give a completed form of the windows in the apartment or house with high ceilings. Worse, when they are used without regard to style and relevance swags in the interior.

Council: lower ceilings and modern style interior, the smaller, uncluttered should be pelmets.

5. Stretch ceiling

The main drawback of suspended ceilings - an artificial structure and low environmental friendliness. But they are ideal, if the ceiling is very uneven, as happens in the Khrushchev with ectopic floor slabs.

Council: mirror-glossy surface is still horrible, but the semi-gloss versions may raise the ceiling. More environmentally friendly alternative can be a fabric suspended ceiling, which even can be painted.