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Vegetable wallpaper and canvas in interior design. Master class on the design of a decorative portal from bamboo cloth

Make the interior brighter and energetic, add southern expression to it, which is especially relevant in late autumn and at the beginning of winter, plant wallpapers and canvases will help. They will delight you with exotic paints and drawings, surprise with refined combinations of natural textures and enchant the uniqueness of handmade. The same materials are environmentally friendly and easy to use.

One of the tendencies of the interior design is the use of natural materials, including wallpaper and canvases with natural vegetation decor. This products on the Russian market are represented by Eijffinger, Rodeka (Obetherlands), Elitis (France), OmeExco (Belgium), Pan-El (Philippines) and COSCA trademark (Italy).

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1. Wallpapers Cane Sand (OmeExco) collection from thin colored cane lamellas pasted on a paper base.

2-4. On wallpapers with vegetation decor, weaving irregularities are visible, differences in color, speaking natural origin.

On the basis of wallpaper, made of durable paper or fliesline, various fibers, jute, marrants, sisal, cane IDR are pasted. Roll width - 0.6-1m, length, 5.5-10m. Price 1 m is 250-3000 rubles. You can learn more about the features of work with plant wallpapers in the article "Training of exotic" ("IID", 2010, N 8).

Omexco ethnic style connoisseurs, not having rigid canons and allowing the mixing of heterogeneous elements, will be interested in even more exotic material - vegetable canvases. It is equipped with walls, ceilings, niches, furniture facades. Bamboo canvases are collected from thin lamellas with a width of 4-20mm, securely attached to the tissue-technical marlay. The decorative layer is covered with transparent varnish or lesing paint that do not hide the unique bamboo texture. Heathedral lamellas are acquiring a darker, saturated shade and additional strength.

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5-8. COSCA natural canvases are represented by 19 bamboo decors, as well as palm and rathanes.

9. Bamboo canvas "Wenge Gloss" from the "Design" series (COSCA). Width of the canvas - 900mm, lamellae- 7mm. Price 1 M - from 500 rubles.

Especially look at materials with a decorative layer, in which bamboo strips and cane stalks alternate, or completely cane canvas with stems and fibers, stitched with durable threads. Adherents of the colonial style will like the rathant canvas, woven from thin, but durable and flexible stems that do not need a support for the basis. Such canvas are distinguished by an incredible variety of drawings, from dense to air openwork. In addition to the finishing of the walls from the rathant, the inserts are made for various furniture items, lamps for lamps.

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10-22. The wall is placed for the future portal (10). The workpiece of the desired width is obtained, cutting the tissue base on the stack of lamellas (11). After the layout of the web (12), it is fixed with painting tape from both sides, and then cut off the length of the metal (13) or an electrical disk saw. The material is cut from the front side to avoid the appearance of scratches and jar (14). A pre-prepared surface of the wall is treated with the primer of deep penetration of COSCA PROFF and wait until it dry. Contact globe COSCA PROFF is applied to the wall (15), as well as on the opposite direction of the decorative material (16) and leave 1-1.5 hours. In order for the glue layer to be thin, use a short pile roller, so the composition does not take place between the slats on the front surface. Slices of the canvas are applied to the wall as possible as possible (17), because in the future it is difficult to correctly adjust. Then they are manually pressed to the surface and rolled the rubber roller (18). The glue spoke on the front side is immediately removed with a wet cloth (19) - when it is completely dry, it will not be easy to do it. A slightly retreating from the edges of the "Arki", gluing a greasy tape, wash the strip with glue (20) and apply a Kant from bamboo lamellas (21). He gives the portal a completeness (22).

The width of vegetable canvases is 0.6-2.4 m. Price 1 M- 260-2000 rub. Installation is easy, the main thing is to prepare the surface, following the manufacturer's type recommendations. The material must adapt to the microclimate of the apartment during the day. Use glue with strong fixation.

Along with natural materials on the market there are many of their reliable imitation. So, vinyl wallpapers are virtuosically reproduced vegetable. Not less popular than natural rathanes, use artificially based cellulose with the reinforcement of kapron thread and plastic. There are advantages and disadvantages of the finish. What exactly won the time to take time.

The editors thanks intek (representative of the COSCA trademark) for help in the preparation of material.