House for dune

Fishing village under Jurmala, the sea and sands. Magnetism of this place has determined the style of the house, organically inspired into the environment.

Because of the artificial embankments on both sides of the entrance it seems that the construction is here so long ago, that began to absorb dune

The living room is separated from the hall with a pair of steps. Two window openings in the far wall emphasize the borders of the red partition with a fireplace and make the room visually even deeper

There is no hallway here in its usual understanding - crossing the threshold of the house, immediately fall into a cozy hall with a soft sofa and fur carpet

Large panoramic windows make nature part of the interior, visually expand the living room space

Fireplace with lively warmth of open fire creates a cozy and hospitable atmosphere in the living room

A very unusual shallow fireplace has a little "medieval" view. Such author's fireplaces require more accurate calculation.

The living room is a single space with the Hall, and the second floor site looks like an internal balcony

The kitchen has its own way out. It is very convenient. For example, having arrived from the store, the hostess can enter the kitchen products through this glass door leading to the carport for the machine

The washbasin in the corridor niche is unusual and practical: it is convenient to wash your hands, returning from the walk, and in the afternoon enough natural lighting

Although the cast iron stove and is small, it is able to heat a fairly large room. Even such as this spacious bedroom on the second floor

Slopery Ceilings of the attic decorations in a rustic style: two layers of wide unstage boards

Floor plan

Plan of the second floor

Fishing village under Jurmala, the sea and sands. Regina and Andres came here to visit to friends and at first could not understand what was able to attract this quiet place separated from the sea long dune. But in the third visit, they suddenly felt the magnetism of the local nature, fell in love with her and firmly decided to build their own home here.

View of the house from the pond. From this point, a large terrace is clearly visible with the exit from the living room and the terrace is smaller with a canopy and the exit from the bath turned out to be the attractiveness of this place as soon as Ekaterina Great. For recreation, the empress here built a summer house from large stones. Soviet time he was disassembled, and in his place began to build a brick building - a holiday home for astronauts, but did not have time to finish. The choice was justified by a special microclimate of a small segment of the coast: due to the sand dune the rains here go less frequently than in other places.

The fishing village exists to this day. Fishermen also go to the sea and live in homes that have emerged hundred years ago. Votchichi from Jurmala, cottage here is very small, and those that are, are built mainly in the 70s of the Riga intelligentsia. Regina and Andres did not want to destroy the local style and preferred their home to fit into the environment, it looked organically. Therefore, for its outer decorations used plaster and wood, as locals do. The base was conceived by low, and therefore it seems that the house has so long ago that it has already started to dive into the sand.

In the creation of the design of the construction took part Architect Lien Grise and the owner of Regina, the sculptor by education, which was responsible for the interior design. Aea's husband Andres Dayachman was engaged in selection of materials and construction. My new dwelling spouses gave the name of Sabines in honor of the youngest daughter.

The walls of the building are made of ceramzit-concrete blocks covered with plaster. And only the wall that limits the carport for the machine is fully made of wood house along with a parking for the machine covers an area of ​​175m2 and is located in a depth of a section of 50 acres. Increased building is two rectangles docked in the form of the letter "T". A water rectangle is a large living room, a kitchen and a canopy for the machine, and the other two-storey and includes 4 bedrooms, a bathroom and a bath. The inhabitants of the houses are large fans of a wet bath in all the rules, with diving in a reservoir after the steam. Therefore, the building is designed so that the bath is close to the pond dug. By the way, the soil is taken out when the pond device is not exported, but used to create around the house of artificial dunes.

The construction is designed to relax on weekends, not only in the warm season, but also in the cold. It is designed to be admired by nature in any weather. The windows look at all sides of the world. The spider can be inside through any of the seven glazed doors. Otmy has two large and two small terraces. A small southern terrace is tied to the main entrance and autonomous doors of bedrooms. The sides are the second entrance to the house, from where it can be accessed directly into the living room through a small terrace. On the western side there are two terraces. One of them is equipped with a canopy - this is out of a bath. The second, the largest terrace in the summer is a continuation of the main part of the building. Panoramic windows and double door of the living room are published on it, as well as the glass kitchen door.

The car parking is unusually organized: it is open from two sides of a canopy, over which there is a large shopping room (such two-storey extensions are characteristic of old rural houses). The parking lot is constantly blown out by the wind, so the snow does not accumulate on it. Establishment can be found on the outer staircase, through large bivalve doors. Its area (more than 20m2) allows you to store a lot of useful for country rest, but bulky items: skiing and sledge, inflatable boat, mangal and much more.

Included through the glass double-handed door in the glass wall. Once around, find yourself in a square lobby with a neat staircase on the second floor. And immediately see a spacious room with a fireplace. It combines a living room, dining room and kitchen. This is the largest room at home, not only in area (60m2), but also in height (about 5m). Such an impressive vertical is achieved due to the fact that the attic space under the roof is not blocked, and united with the first floor. The roof is insulated and late with two layers of boards, which, like beams, are processed by a transparent veil of an unusually beautiful brownish shade. The color of the ceiling echoes the color of the floor laid out by Italian ceramic tiles of different shades and sizes. The feeling of this simple admission is achieved by the feeling of antiquity, because the inhomogeneity of the color is characteristic of the floor coverings of the long-built houses.

The plastered walls are painted in the color of ivory, this warm shade gives the room a sunny look even on a cloudy day. The windows reaching the floor connect the interior with the surrounding nature. Landscape can be admired, sitting at the dining table, on the sofa or in the chair at the fire. The windows are not closed with curtains, and therefore nature is part of the interior of both the day and night.

The dominant element of the living room is a separate wall, not reaching the ceiling, with an integrated open fireplace. This wall color of red brick is highlighted against the background of light walls with a contrast square. Pipe the fireplace, leaving the vertical in the ceiling, emphasizes the height of the room. The fireplace is made from a chamot of a ceramics master, old familiar hostess. In general, there are many objects made in the nearest workshops. It did not simply allowed to save, but also added to the interior of the local flavor, what the owners of the house were so sought.

The buffet is generously decorated: the legs are made in the form of flattened balls, the doors are decorated with volumetric thread, and the high openwork cornice passes on top. Similar buffets were very popular in XIX. The second attractive view of the Living room object is an old buffet, decorated with carvings. It was bought in the village, at a local resident who had this subject of the situation in a disassembled form, since its total height is more than three meters. Judging by the impressive dimensions, the buffet was made for a rich house (according to rumors, stood from some Russian prince). The end of the late XIX century. Preserved surprisingly well, I only had to remove the old varnish and put a new one. And now the vintage buffet decorates the living room of the modern house. The rest of the furniture in the room is from the Italian factory Calia. Laconic outlines and discreet design items give a feeling of calm and reliability.

In the design of the living-dining room hostess used warm shades of brown, red and yellow. To decorate the room, regina ordered a picture from a familiar artist, and only theme "Flowers" was stipulated. What was the universal joyful surprise when the picture in color exactly coincided with the general mood of the interior!

The red wall with the fireplace is a kitchen. The furniture is the author. It is a rigid frame attached frames, lined with fine tiles, which coincides with the color with outdoor. The same tile posted countertops and walls. Doors and drawers are made of oak. But the most important thing in the kitchen is the Italian wood-burning oven Nordika. This is an elegant modern product with many decorative details worth it here not only for beauty - the hosts prepare on the furnace almost all the dishes and assure that they do not go to any comparison with cooked plates with modern technologies.

The layout of the second part of the house is compact and logical. Here are private chambers. From the hall you can get two bedrooms, climb the stairs to the second floor or go into the corridor leading to the bath area. This corridor also performs a wardrobe function with wardrobes, which are located bathroom, boiler and sauna. It is acknowledged by a glass door leading to the terrace. The bedrooms on the first floor have a separate way out on the terrace, which allows them to feel more independent of their inhabitants. The ceilings here, as in the living room, are covered with boards, and the walls are painted. Only on the floor is no longer a tile, but a carpet coating from natural fibers resembling a mat. Upon its warm textured surface, it is very nice to step by barefoot legs. Furniture in the bedrooms is made by Grival Mebeles (Latvia) from the darker, than finishing the floor and ceiling, wood.

Resting outside the city, it is pleasant to cook on a living fire. Such a original wood-burning oven with a stove and oven performs two functions at once: the room is well warmed in the cold season and serves for cooking the family of Dechman consists of four people, but they are more often chosen on nature with friends. Therefore, besides two master bedrooms on the first floor, there are two large guest bedrooms in the second floor. Raising the stairs, you get to the site, with which the living room is completely visible. The playground serves as a small hall for two bedrooms. The premises of the second floor are actually located in the attic, so instead of the walls and the ceiling here - inclined planes. To finish the floor and rods, the boards are used. Achetoba rooms did not resemble wooden boxes, the walls of the walls are plastered and painted into light tones. Each bedroom is illuminated through a narrow high window in the roof end and two attic windows. Furniture for guest bedrooms is made by the same Latvian company, but already in the style of Country. A storm bedroom is an elegant and very warm cast iron stove, which will not give frozen cold nights.

Construction and finishing materials were chosen on the principle of naturalness and, if possible, non-standardity. For example, the use for the roof of such a natural material, like a tree, not very usually. The wooden ceiling cover is processed by a transparent veil that does not hide the natural pattern of a tree, but having a random-brown tint used in the interiors. Moreover, this sikkens owner of the owners themselves brought themselves from Germany - they could not find the right tone in domestic stores.

Refrigerator, washing and stove are in the vertices of an imaginary triangle. This location is most convenient: everything is at hand and at the same time not too close. Large desktops allow all family members to participate in the preparation of dinners, the house is supplied with water from an individual well. Electric boilers are used to prepare hot water, one of which is located in a boiler next to the bath, and the other, small, in the kitchen. Sewer system autonomous, with septic and soil filtering. Water purified in septic is sent to the ground, and the accumulated waste takes a special machine.

It is heated by a house with the help of a fireplace, a wood-burning furnace on the first floor and "burzhuyki" on the second. The comfortable temperature also provides warm floors arranged under the ceramic tile of the first floor. For insulation of the floor below the extruded polystyrene is used. Save warm helps and high-quality performed glazing: wooden windows with double-glazed windows and appropriate doors (all - from the Latvian stali company). The architecture of the house is not particularly difficult, and it looks attractive and natural through the use of natural materials characteristic of this region.

Enlarged cost calculation of the construction of a two-storey house with a total area of ​​245 m2

Name of works	Units. change	Number of	Price, $	Cost, $
Foundation work
Geodesy (applying axes and marks, including control over earthworks)	H.	0.5	32.00.	1600.00.
Pre-layout, ground removal for foundation (tape), soil refinement	m3.	107.00	19.3	2064.
Horizontal and vertical waterproofing	m2.	270.	3,4.	924.
Formwork, reinforcement, concreting	m3.	46.	60.	2760.
Device monolithic overlap	m3.	42.	60.	2520.
TOTAL	9900.
Applied materials on the section
Crushed stone granite, sand	m3.	23.	28.	644.
Hydrokhotloizol	m2.	300.	1.20.	360.
Bituminous polymer mastic	kg	180.	1,60.	288.
Concrete Heavy 300.	m3.	88.	62.	5456.
Rolling steel, fittings, knitting wire	T.	1,70	390.	663.
Timber, nails, consumables	set	one	720.	720.
TOTAL	8130.
Walls (box)
Installation and dismantling of scaffolding	m2.	170.	3.50	595.
Masonry of outdoor and inland bearing walls and partitions	m3.	58.	38.	2204.
Mounting frame design, plating board	m2.	160.	twenty	3200.
Installation of overlaps (on wooden lags)	m2.	109.	12	1308.
TOTAL	7300.
Applied materials on the section
Blocks (ceramzite concrete)	m3.	58.	40.	2320.
Lumber	m3.	12	100	1200.
Rolling steel, fittings	T.	one	390.	390.
Solution, rubberoid, nails, electrodes, consumables	set	one	500.	500.
TOTAL	4410.
Roofing device
Installation of the rafter design	m2.	180.	nine	1620.
Farmers, Svezov, Fronton, Side	m2.	34.	eleven	374.
Installation of waterproofing	m2.	180.	1.40	252.
Wooden roofing device	m2.	180.	eight	1440.
TOTAL	3690.
Applied materials on the section
Board (tipped)	m3.	4.80	230.	1104.
Hydrokhotloizol	m2.	400.	1.20.	480.
Lumber: timber 100150 and 20050, fasteners, components, etc.	set	one	780.	780.
TOTAL	2370.
Warm outline
Installation of insulation and vaporizolation film	m2.	260.	4,1	1066.
Installation of window blocks	m2.	thirty	25.	750.
Installing entrance doors	PC.	7.	60.	420.
TOTAL	2240.
Applied materials on the section
Insulation isover	m2.	260.	2,60.	676.
Vaporizolation and wind-hydro-proof film	m2.	260.	1,70	442.
Window Blocks and Doors Stali (Latvia)	m2.	44.	160.	7040.
Foam assembly, fastening material, fittings, consumables	set	one	430.	430.
TOTAL	8590.
Engineering systems
Drilling well, installation of the water supply system, installation of the filtering system	set	one	-	6200.
Sewage Installation (multistage cleaning system)	set	one	-	5000.
Construction and installation of the fireplace and ventilation systems	set	one	-	1800.
Electric installation work	set	one	-	3200.
Installation of heating system (electric heated floors)	set	one	-	390.
TOTAL	16600.
Applied materials on the section
Sauna Finnleo (Germany) complete	PC.	one	3200.	3200.
Electric water heater Siemens (Germany)	PC.	2.	160.	320.
Material for the construction of a fireplace (shaft, mixtures, mortgages)	set	one	one	1300.
Plumbing and electrical equipment Firms of Germany, Italy, Sweden, metal-plastic pipes, sewer pipes PVC, electrical materials (wire, peavercraft, fasteners, etc.)	set	one	one	18000.
TOTAL	22820.
FINISHING WORK
Installing interroom doors	PC.	nine	fifty	450.
Device board floors	m2.	108.	eight	864.
Stitching ceiling (boards)	m2.	180.	10	1800.
The device of inter-staircase and mezzanine	point	one	700.	700.
Wall plastering (including facade), cement-sand tie, steps	m2.	240.	fifteen	3600.
Facing walls and floors with tiles on polymer cement mastic	m2.	sixteen	170.	3060.
Staining of the walls (including the facade) with preliminary shtkock	m2.	210.	7.6	1590.
Treatment of wooden surfaces (floors, ceilings, decorative elements)	m2.	340.	four	1360.
TOTAL	13430.
Applied materials on the section
Board (Pine)	m3.	6.	120.	720.
Ceramic tile Emil Ceramisa (Italy)	m2.	170.	22.	3740.
Plywood waterproof, paints and varnishes Tikkurila, Beckers (Sweden), varnishes and impregnation for wood, fragments of wood and metal trim, dry mixtures, etc.	set	one	one	18000.
TOTAL	22460.
Total cost of work	53200.
Cost of materials	68800.
TOTAL	122000.