House on the hill

The house for a relaxation area of ​​318 m2 in a picturesque place in Latvia overlooking a small pond with an island.

The fireplace tube, lined with roughly treated sandstone, has become a magnificent decorative element that gives the house a solid view

Undoubted dignity of buildings - large windows. They allow not only to fill it as much as possible, but also include beautiful natural landscapes in the interior

In the cabinet-living room, massive sofa and chairs of calm forms from Het Anner are interesting to be combined with the brutal design of the fireplace

Decorative design of the fireplace in the traditional style - with a facing of natural stone and a fireplace shelf of oak- is part of the design plan based on the use of natural materials in the interior

The walls of the cut, isolated from well-fitted logs, serve as the best decorative design of the interior of the living room.

Dark window platbands are contrastingly distinguished on the background of light log walls, forming peculiar frames for picturesque canvases created by nature itself

A completely special space is assigned for the kitchen. Warm light tones of furniture ("Armanda", Latvia) are combined with the color of log walls. Uokna is arranged a cozy corner for tea drinking

In the bedroom of parents, the color and texture of wooden surfaces are effectively accentuated by a white background of walls and a ceiling, covered with plasterboard

In the shower room of parents, a beige tone of ceramic tile (Coliseum, Italy) softens the contrast between the cold gloss and the warmth of the wooden interior details

Simple forms of furniture create atmosphere of rural comfort in the bedroom of parents. Soft light, which gives spherical plaffones, visually increases the height of the room

The small residents of the house are settled room under the roof. Small size of the room led to the corresponding selection of furniture - compact and enough mobile

The central support of the V-shaped shape divides the spacious bedroom into four sectors. Undoubtedly carrying structures, in addition to functional, play a decorative role here.

In a children's shower, lined with colored cafeter (Havanna, Musica Blu, Italy), the direct and diagonal direction of laying tiles are combined

Floor plan

Plan of the second floor

It is unlikely that anyone will argue with the fact that the view from the windows is no less important than comfort and comfort in the house itself. But the nature is not always so generous to give us beauty to the fullest. Then you have to take the initiative into your hands. This is engaged in Aivars Zvirbulis, the owner and head of the construction company SIA Vitus.

It all started with the village owned by Aivas for a holiday, which was in a picturesque place in the Cēsis district of Latvia. Its location was very successful: from the windows opened a magnificent view of a small pond with an island in the middle; Natural hillocks and high trees played the role of a kind of screen - surrounding the construction from all sides, they hid it from sneakers. All these circumstances and brought the owner to the idea to expand and landscaping the Zdanian, so that it was possible not only to spend here two short days weekend, but also live constantly.

For the realization of the convened house, which was a loungered log cabin, attached a rather spacious new part of the rounded fir logs. The ISOVER insulation with a hydrophobizer was laid between the logs, while the FiltS insulation (more elastic, hygroscopic and resistant temperature resistant) was used in the corners of the log. The walls of the old part of the construction, several acts of the time, found it necessary to additionally insulate the mineral wool and decide on the inside of the plasterboard, and with a outer-decorative punishment (edged board with a selected one-sided groove that imitating the log wall). Thus, externally, two parts of the building - old and new from each other do not differ. Or on the plan can be seen where the walls of the initial building are located (they are thicker). In addition, the house found the second floor, which is a lightweight frame structure, insulated with mineral wool and trimmed from the inside with plasterboard, and the overall shagel (insulation is planted on a chalet with the help of adhesive mastic, and the chalet and gypsum and drywall are attached to the carcass on self-drawing) .

The construction has a fairly spacious basement, which includes a garage, a boiler room, a shopping block and a bathroom (in the latter you can get directly from the street, which is especially convenient for lovers most of the time to carry out in the fresh air). The location of the house on the hill allowed the original way to arrange the entrance to the underground garage: for this, the hill site from the road was cut out, and the slopes are strengthened with concrete slabs and lined with a stone. All basements are equipped with heat and waterproofing. Punching insulator used polyfoam. Waterproofing provides rubberoid fixed on bitumen mastic and covered with three layers of waterproofing film. A wide staircase leads from the garage in the hall of the first floor. From here you can go to the guest and master zone, as well as climb on the other, the screw staircase to the second floor. Guest area of ​​the first floor is arranged within the walls of the former guest house. It is a spacious room with an area of ​​23m2, to which the kitchen is adjacent and shower. Thus, it turns out a kind of apartment with all the amenities where relatives or friends can comfortably settle. They are even provided with a separate entrance from the streets through the kitchen.

The owners of the house are consisting of a cabinet, hall, living room, dining room and kitchen. The main idea of ​​this part of the interior is the creation of an atmosphere of an unassuming rural coziness. Log walls, wooden beams of floors, furniture simple forms, light windows - all this gives rise to a feeling of internal harmony and unity with nature. The most spectacular room of the house can be called the office, which at the time of the presence of friends turns into an additional living room. His heart, of course, is a fireplace (Jotul, Norway) with a closed firebox and a survival system. The angular construction of this structure is due to the small size of the room. The chims of the fireplace and the boiler house located in the basement, just under the office, were carried out by separate channels in a single pipe. For this reason, it has quite large sizes: 1,11,1m. The fireplace pipe isolated from the brick consists of two parts: a functional chimney placed inside the building, and a decorative outer part. Finishing roughly treated sandstone gives her a very picturesque view. It looks quite effectively and a large stone, an employee of the decorative tube. When the fireplace device, special attention was paid to the docking of its design with walls and overlap of the house. To adjust the difference in the shrinkage, there was a gap between the mantelpiece and walls of the building, which was disguised with wooden trim. After five years, this clearance is supposed to be embedded.

The indisputable dignity of the cabinet-lounge is the large windows that the amazing landscape unfolds: the lounge of the pond and the green of herbs, winter-sparkling whiteness of snow-covered expanses, which allow you to especially acute the joy of the live game of fire in the fireplace.

The main source of heat in the cold season is not a fireplace, but a water heating system. In addition to the floor wooden floor (except for the site in front of the fireplace, decorated with ceramic tiles), radiators are used. Water warm floors are arranged in the same premises. This made it possible to not close the log walls of the log cabins and emphasize the atmosphere of real rural dwellings. The floor is lined with a practical ceramic tiled, well combined in color with a tree.

Wooden floor, which can be seen not only in the office, but also in the rooms of the second floor, is insulated. On the first floor there are two layers of thermal insulation - foam (50mm) and mineral wool (50mm, ISOVER), and only mineral wool on the second.

The interior feature of this house is the maximum "inclusion" in the design of the premises of natural landscapes. Thus, the view from the windows of the dining room decorates it better than any decorative panel. Wooden furniture (Zunda, Latvia), stylized underground, it seems an integral part of the building designs, since it is combined with window frames and door platforms. The kitchen is convenient and modernly combined with the dining room and is isolated from the hall and living room. Directly in the cooking zone is organized a small corner for breakfast on an ambulance hand or tea drinking au-a-a-a-little Pottal table near the window. The small hall, separating the dining room and the living room, serves, if you can put it, "transport junction": from here there are exits on the covered veranda and the porch of the house, as well as on the staircase area, from where you can go down to the basement or, on the contrary, go upstairs.

The second floor is, in fact, the attic, but rather spacious (thanks to the complex roof configuration). Here are the privacy rooms of family members. Parents' bedroom occupies 50.4m2. A large area of ​​the room aroused the need to organize an additional support for the longitudinal beam of overlapping. An interesting V-shaped support form made it not only a functional, but also a decorative element, perfectly visited in the overall design of the bedroom (also included in the decorative game double ties). The bed of light wood, located under the mow of the attic ceiling, as if separate from the common space. On the contrary, at the window, where the relief of the walls and the ceiling forms a peculiar niche, a corner for reading and recreation is organized. Soft chair and sofa (Het Anner, Netherlands) with light finish create very suitable conditions for this.

Prickly adjoins his own shower, from which you can go to a large loggia. This interesting decision emphasizes, according to the owners, the proximity of man to nature. The abundance of light and space makes the room at all like toilet rooms of urban apartments.

Children's size is significantly inferior to the "adult" room - in it only 17.8m2. Table, bed, a small comfortable wardrobe occupy the minimum space (all furniture-zunda). Custom objects are thought out with great accuracy: the table top simultaneously performs the function of the windowsill, and the top panel of the locker fit into the width into the window opening. A small height of the children's ceiling revealed additional convenience of built-in lamps - they do not take away precious centimeters. Large window and dominant in the interior light tone visually increase the room space. At the nursery, a separate toilet room with a shower is also equipped with a significant roof slope, and therefore unsuitable for organizing a residential zone, but quite convenient for hygienic procedures.

Special charm give the house covered terraces located with southern and eastern parties. They became a great place to relax the whole family.

In the process of restructuring his own house, Aivars Zvirbulis- head of a large construction company - thought about the possibility of creating a whole cottage village, for which he acquired the surrounding land with an area of ​​about 200 hectares. The main idea of ​​the project was to ensure each site allocated for the construction of the house, including, first of all, the organization of the landscape. It was here that the transformations began, as a result of which the terrain has changed significantly: new small ponds, hillocks and lowlands arose. Isv and this in order for the future owners of the houses to feel themselves by the owners of their own, perfectly arranged "estate."

Each site is specifically organized so that the house is as far as possible to be elevated, and a pond or lake is visible from the windows. One third of each ownership occupy water bodies at different levels, and forest trees. The location of future buildings relative to each other is also thought out in detail and differs from the usual rank of houses along the highway. A sovereign road is conducted by the side of the general roadway. In addition, the necessary communications are laid everywhere: electricity, water supply, sewage, optical cable with the possibility of connecting telephone, Internet and television.

Enlarged calculation of the cost of work and materials on the construction of a two-story house with a total area of ​​340m2

Name of works	Units. change	Number of	Price, $	Cost, $
Foundation work
Takes up axes, layout, development and recess	m3.	240.	eighteen	4320.
Soil refinement manually, reverse fusion, soil seal	m3.	47.	7.	329.
Device of rubber base, pre-work and horizontal waterproofing	m2.	190.	eight	1520.
Formwork, reinforcement, concreting (walls, monolithic w / b plate)	m3.	49.	60.	2940.
Caution lateral isolation	m2.	158.	2.8.	443.
TOTAL	9552.
Applied materials on the section
Concrete heavy	m3.	49.	62.	3038.
Stone block	m3.	38.	fifty	1900.
Masonry solution, crushed stone, crushes, sand	m3.	42.	62.	2604.
Bituminous polymer mastic, hydrohotelloisol	m2.	370.	2.8.	1036.
Rental of steel, fittings, knitting wire	T.	1,6	390.	624.
Lumber, nails and other materials	set	one	370.	370.
TOTAL	9572.
Walls (box)
Preparatory work, installation and dismantling of scaffolding	m2.	190.	3.5	665.
Facing the outer walls with bricks (old part of the house)	m3.	5.6	96.	538.
Wall cutting from logs	m3.	32.	110.	3520.
Mounting frame design (2nd floor)	m2.	109.	twenty	2180.
Device of reinforced concrete floors over stone walls	m2.	140.	3.5	490.
Device of wooden floors (2nd floor)	m2.	125.	12	1500.
TOTAL	8893.
Applied materials on the section
Brick facing	m3.	5.6	240.	1344.
Lumber (Round Forest, Edged Board)	m3.	39.	120.	4680.
Reinforced concrete slabs	m2.	140.	sixteen	2240.
Rental of steel, fittings	T.	0.4.	390.	156.
TOTAL	8420.
Roofing device
Installation of the rafter design	m2.	170.	12	2040.
Installation of trim and skate shields	m2.	170.	four	680.
Tile Coating Device	m2.	170.	eight	1360.
Enderbutting of eaves, soles, device of frontones	m2.	63.	nine	567.
TOTAL	4647.
Applied materials on the section
Cement-sand tile Braas (Germany)	m2.	170.	29.	4930.
Sawn timber	m3.	4.8.	120.	576.
TOTAL	5506.
Warm outline
Isolation of walls, coatings and overlaps insulation	m2.	590.	2.	1180.
Filling opening windows and door blocks	m2.	48.	35.	1680.
TOTAL	2860.
Applied materials on the section
Insulation Rockwool (Denmark), Isover (Finland)	m2.	590.	2.6	1534.
Parosolation and windproof films proofing, elvitex	m2.	590.	1,7	1003.
Wooden window blocks (two-chamber glass)	m2.	38.	220.	8360.
Wooden Door Blocks, Fittings and Other Material	set	one	3200.	3200.
TOTAL	14097.
Engineering systems
Autonomous Water Supply Device (Well)	set	one	8300.	8300.
Installation of the sewer system (septic)	set	one	3100.	3100.
Plumbing work	set	one	2700.	2700.
Electric installation work	set	one	3400.	3400.
Device fireplace	set	one	3200.	3200.
TOTAL	20700.
Applied materials on the section
Sudtik Uponor (Finland)	set	one	6900.	6900.
Fireplace Jotul (Norway)	set	one	4300.	4300.
Plumbing and electrical equipment, heating and installation devices	set	one	5200.	5200.
TOTAL	16400.
FINISHING WORK
High quality plaster surfaces	m2.	140.	10	1400.
High-quality painting surfaces	m2.	590.	fourteen	8260.
Facing the surfaces of GLCs	m2.	320.	12	3840.
Facing facade board (shagevka)	m2.	109.	10	1090.
Facing surfaces with ceramic tiles, decorative stone	m2.	158.	sixteen	2528.
Flooring device (board)	m2.	220.	fourteen	3080.
Installation of intermediate stairs, carpentry work	m2.	340.	28.	9520.
TOTAL	29718.
Applied materials on the section
GLK (complete with mounting elements and fasteners)	m2.	320.	sixteen	5120.
Screenboard (Pine)	m2.	220.	28.	6160.
Ceramic tile, decorative stone (Italy)	m2.	158.	27.	4266.
Staircase, Decorative Wooden Elements	set	one	12700.	12700.
Dry mixes, paints, varnishes and other materials	set	one	4800.	4800.
TOTAL	33046.
Total cost of work	76370.
Total cost of materials	87040.
TOTAL	163410.