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Liquid wallpaper in a modern interior

How you want to return home and find yourself in a cozy and warm room away from the noisy streets. Thanks to liquid wallpaper, achieving such perfection is quite simple. This wallpaper has significant advantages over other types of wallpaper. They're great

Laying floor tiles

Laying floor tiles at home is not such an expensive process. Therefore, in case of repairs, I believe that you can save money here and do all the work yourself. I bring to your attention some tips for laying floor tiles with your own

Floor repair, laminate flooring and baseboard installation

The floor on the loggia had a catastrophic slope towards the street, creaked heavily and frightened everyone with its appearance. The old boards had long since rotted and were not suitable as a base for the finishing coating. After some thought, it was decided to dismantle everything old

Balcony insulation followed by finishing with PVC panels

The large glazed balcony required serious insulation and modern finishing.The walls with shells of old oil paint and the chalk ceiling looked depressing. As a result of some deliberation, it was decided to decorate the ceiling and walls with PVC panels with

Installation of suspended ceiling

The problem on upper floors is often chronic leaks from the ceiling. In this case, a leak in the kitchen ceiling became an obsessive nightmare for a young family. As a result, it was decided to hang a plastic ceiling with built-in

Repair and decoration of the living room

A young married couple inherited a small one-room apartment near Moscow. The pimply ceiling, six layers of wallpaper on the walls and the scary spots of round sockets looked depressing, but a happy accident brought the owners of the apartment together with another married couple.

Arrangement of hidden sockets

If you decide to renovate a room and put up new wallpaper, then you need to start by installing hidden sockets. After all, you will agree that it is much more convenient when the socket is recessed into the wall, and does not protrude from it, interfere with the installation of furniture and spoil the external

Attic insulation

I started insulating the attic floor by insulating the under-roof space and walls, then installed additional elements of the heating system and supplied backup power for the circulation pump. The walls and roof were lined with multilayer

Dressing room in the attic

When building the attic floor, I paid attention to the unused space, the pockets in the attic space. I figured that future furniture cabinets in the room layout would not be entirely convenient and would be too expensive. Therefore for

Aquarium in the wall

When building partitions in a new house, one idea came to my mind to expand the space - to mount an aquarium in the wall. At the beginning, I intended to make the partition of the kitchen room from the corridor a solid structure of thickness

We glue wallpaper on the ceiling

Tired of the old wallpaper on the ceiling, do you want to revive your boring interior with something new? Or maybe your neighbors have flooded you and replacing the wallpaper is a necessary measure to restore the former beauty of the view “from above”? We suggest not to spend money on

Restricted access system for your home

Nowadays, every owner of a private house agrees that limiting access to his land plays a big role in ensuring his own safety. Professional equipment and system installation services

Ways to improve the performance of an apartment battery

It often happens that during the cold season, the heating power of a conventional apartment battery is not enough to maintain a consistently high temperature in the house, and residents have to either change the system for normal and comfortable life.

Installation of floor plinths

When people are going to change their floor covering, they usually only think about the future installation of parquet or laying linoleum and only at the last moment remember the existence of such an important attribute as a plinth.

Painting ceiling tiles with acrylic paint

To paint ceiling tiles we will need the following: - a tile with a smooth (non-structural) surface and a large relief pattern, - a large artistic brush or a very small paint brush, but I prefer to use a small one

Heating regulation - saving money and gas

“Prepare the sleigh in summer and the cart in winter” says a famous Russian proverb. In the midst of summer, it's time to think about how to create comfortable conditions and survive winter frosts. The rapid rise in energy prices is an additional incentive to search

Selection of linoleum and its installation

The article highlights the main questions that arise for the buyer when choosing linoleum as a floor covering. In addition, using the example of our own actions to renovate a kitchen, the features of laying linoleum on our own are considered.

We make heated floors

The question of heated floors always arises when the main heating system cannot cope with heating the room. You have insulated a balcony, added a bathroom to the main building, or insulated a veranda or hallway in a private house. AND

Mechanical water leakage prevention system

Many people are familiar with the problem of water leaks in apartments, due to a damaged faucet or a burst hose. To prevent such a misfortune from happening, or rather, to prevent it, I propose to make a homemade product from common parts and

Interior door decoration

Almost every person has had moments in life when the home interior becomes boring and joyless, and there is a desire to change or redo something. Women begin to rearrange furniture and paintings, insert new ones into frames

Finish with plastic

The plastic finish looks fashionable and modern. Hides many imperfections, from the curvature of the walls to holes in them. This method of interior wall decoration has many advantages, the only significant disadvantage is the relative high cost

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Useful DIY door hinge device

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