Forever fashionable log house

In the spring and summer, the house literally slows down in colors that are planted around the plot in a huge amount. But in winter, thanks to the complex drawing of wooden structures and the rich texture of an unpainted tree, the building looks very attractive

The owners call their plot "village in the village." At the same time, three buildings on one site do not interfere with each other, but, on the contrary, form a stylistically unified architectural ensemble with a very cozy courtyard

On the wooden porch sat ... All the inhabitants of this cozy Teremka and his permanent hourly - whether Pyratino, whether the woodcutter, or just a house

The only digression from the "wooden" theme in the design of the interior wall, decorated with artificial stone. It looks more effectory

For comfortability, this country house will not give way to most urban cottages and apartments. But it preserves the most importantly atmosphere of simple and patriarchal dacha life

Wooden walls, furniture from an unpainted tree ... Even blinds on the windows and those wooden - is not too monotonous? The owners are confident that there is no, since the tree does not happen much and it can never be tired or bored. Intended house in the house always dominates a pleasant sunny, amber color that raises the mood

Open wooden structures and overlaps not only visually increase the rooms and lift the ceilings, but also invariably attract the look, cause a living interest. This is the effect and sought a designer, choosing such an interior design concept.

The only decoration of this bedroom is copyright paper lamps (designer Aigars Lenkevics). Their subtle translucent material once again emphasizes the harsh beauty of powerful puzzle logs

The window near the staircase allows you to abandon the lighting devices in this rather dark span and revives a simple wooden wall. In addition, still going down the steps, you can find out what they cook in the kitchen

Cabinet in the lobby of the second floor is designed not so much to work as for a pleasant stay alone. Its location and open layout allow you to admire the views outside the window and watch what happens on the first floor in the living room or in the kitchen

A tree today in the credit - it sees environmental friendliness, beauty, reliability. But at the same time, many refuse to build a wooden house, fear of difficulties associated with finishing, departure, preservation of this material. However, if we relate to wood with understanding, responsibility and love, most problems can be avoided

A wide central entrance speaks about the friendly character of the whole house, and perhaps people, in it the livingwalk of this house, located in one of the country's country villages on the edge of Ventspils, is pretty busy. For some six months he survived two births, changed the location and even the owners. It began with the fact that the building was built, fully equipped and separated, contrary to the well-established ideas about working with wooden objects, in just 3.5 months, since it was supposed to represent the architectural and construction company Vitus at the exhibition in Riga. During the exhibition, the house with all its contents bought one of the visitors. So during the week the construction had to be disassembled, transported to a new, already permanent place, and there, already for the two-month, gather and equip it again. At the same time, some details of the interior of the hosts were still changed, but in general the house retained the initial species and designer plan.

Such a squeezed construction dates forced Anita Graves designer, drawing out the interior of the house, is to come up with an decoration that can withstand the inevitable shrinkage of a wooden building. Recall that this process goes at least for a year.

Of course, to avoid such problems, it was possible to build a wood house dried by the factory method. But this would increase the cost of the object several times. Strictly speaking, the inner decoration can be started in the house, which is still not in danger. For this wall and ceiling, they are drying the plasteron, leaving a small gap between the main design and decorative. The plasterboard is applied to plaster, glued wallpaper IT.P. However, in this case, the house will never be filled with such a valuable "woody spirit" - the charm of living, breathing cars will irrevocably leave. Therefore, Anita Grass and offered any additionally not to make internal surfaces, do not sew wood structures, but make them composite, if not the main, part of the interior design.

And the staircase, and all the doors are made by the local wood-manufacturing company Armandi according to the author's sketches of Anita Graz. This is another reason why a typical wooden house has become an interesting designer object "Simple pine logs treated only on the milling machine, which preserved your color, texture, aroma," draw "the whole interior," says Anita. "I could only add Several bright strokes to revive these walls a little, make them look more modern and smart. " By the way, the most ordinary things were used as bright strokes: Plumbing of unexpected blue, motley curtains and bedspreads, copyright paper lamps IT.P.

From the inside to all log walls and the ceiling, only a transparent Pinotex coating was applied (in the bathroom- Aquatex), and the natural linseed oil was also applied. Such impregnation protects the tree from the atmospheric influences, does not give him to sculpt over time. Interestingly, one of the reasons why most of the owners of wooden houses leave them in pristine form, and paint into different colors -

Even in the bathroom, the traditional ceramic tile is only on the floor, and the wooden walls and the ceiling, as in the whole house, are left without finishing. A rather bold solution, but thanks to the water-repellent impregnation, the tree does not darken and does not rejoice, and from aesthetic point of view the bathroom looks very stylish just the desire to avoid darkening of wood. But it is fairly easy to solve this problem, it is necessary to simply cover the walls outside with two protective layers: natural linen or rapeseed oil, and then any colorless (transparent) paint or varnish on an alkyd basis. By the way, the oil impregnation repels not only moisture, but also the dust, which many consider the inevitable companion of the premises decorated with wood. In order to avoid excessive accumulation of dust, it is possible and inside to impregnate wooden walls and a ceiling with linen or rapeseed oil. Of course, such a decision will slightly increase the costs of decoration. Therefore, if the house is not intended for permanent residence, but for several weekends insteps, it is quite possible to refuse from additional "anti -ileva" processing.

The house with an area of ​​only 130m2 (along with terraces) from the very beginning is designed for a small family, maximum with one child. There are only two bedrooms: very small (5,6m2) on the first floor and large (20m2) on the second. True, each bedroom has their own fairly spacious bathrooms and wardrobe rooms, and on the first floor there are even a separate sauna. Most of the second floor there is an internal balcony, or an open gallery (19m2), and the first traditionally housed a kitchen, a dining room and a living room with a fireplace. An interesting feature: the kitchen adjoins not traditionally to the dining room, which is slightly away, but to the living room. Such a configuration of the premises looks quite logical here, since a huge fireplace plays the role of a link, resembling a focus for cooking, rather than a decorative element of a modern country house. The fireplace and kitchen rooms are doubled, there is an internal balcony of the second floor, and a spacious terrace passes around them outside.

Floor plan

Plan of the second floor

Explication

Ground floor

1. Cap 2.Tollain 3. Guests 4.Kushnya 5.P.N. 6.Sanose 7.Desome 8.Saun 9.Garce

Second floor

1. Cap 2. Single 3.Garked 4.Sanose

The brutal design of the fireplace came just by the way in a simple wooden room. But he was not placed on the order specifically for this house, but attracted the designer in one of the salons. The finished fireplace cost much cheaper than custom-made, but at the same time did not fall from a single concept of registration the interior idea, which laid the basis of the organization of the internal space - openness. As you know, in wooden houses all the walls carrying, so very often planning sin is sick of excessive isolation of premises, abundance of walls, partitions, corridors. Here, the architect's designer moved the desire to combine all parts of the house, create the most open residential space. "We can say that I wanted not to dilute the inhabitants in my rooms, but, on the contrary, to collect everyone together near the fireplace, - comments the project of Anita Grassa. - For this on the second floor, an open mezzanine is made, and a single style is decorated in the decoration of the whole house. .

Please note that there is not a single utility room in the building. It is quite natural for the exhibition object, but in this case, such a state of affairs arranged for the owners, since they already have a winter house with a basement, a garage, a bath and a whole set of all sorts of storage rooms, as well as a small shopping building, in which the entire technical system is located, serving pool. As for communications, they correspond to the country's country's country's appointment. Water swings from their own well (120m depth) on the plot; Sewerage is also autonomous, type "septic"; Electricity, however, common to the entire village. Over time, when the village is completed and populated (just a few families live here), there are also other communications for the house and water pipeline to the house. Opportunities for connecting them are provided. However, the owners are not going to refuse from the "natural" water, as it is very clean here, although a little harsh. The problem of softening it is safely solved using special filters.

Separately makes sense to talk about heating, as for wooden buildings it is a sore question. Very often in buildings without internal sheat, it is impossible to get rid of drafts, the cause of which in poorly fitted or triggered from time logs. The air penetrating the gap blows all heat upstairs, under the ceiling, and at the bottom of the room, at an altitude of the floor, almost impossible to maintain a comfortable temperature. For the house, similar to that we talk about, this problem was even more acute, since half the rooms of the first floor have the second light, and to protrude such a huge amount at a minus temperature on the street is very problematic. To avoid troubles, the owners decided not to be limited to electrical convectors on the walls and equip additionally floor with electric heating on the entire lower floor. For this, however, it was necessary to replace the coating of laminate with ceramic tiles, which was somewhat influenced on the interior design. But now, according to the inhabitants of the house, they are always very warmly so much that it is practically not even in winter to use the wall heaters. Electric heating, of course, is not the cheapest solution for the country house, but in this case there were no other options. After all, in the building there are no utility rooms and an extension capable of hiding in their depths, for example, a boiler.

By the way, the project manager and the entire construction process of Aivars Zvirbulis is confident that the house turned out to be truly warm not only because of the floor heating system on the first floor, but also due to a well-thought-out log. It must be said that, firstly, the area of ​​the joints is very high here, and secondly, the logs are driven to each other as close as possible. There is nothing secret in this design in this design, it is possible to embody it only if even a typical house is built individually, not on the stream, and each log is adjusted to neighboring in high-precision factory machines, and not under the place.

Open terraces and balconies talk about mostly summoning this house. However, thanks to the well-thought-out design of the compound of massive logs, the comfortable temperature is maintained in it even in cracking frosts

The staircase designed so that the steps can be differently deployed around the support post, it is capable of successfully fit into any space. Aea Laconic design serves as an additional decoration of the hall of the first floor

Woven Gallery of the Second Floor All Lower Rooms are visible as on the palm. This technique allows you to combine the whole house, does not give walls and ceiling, even in such small rooms to put pressure, delay the movement of air and the sun

For some reason, many people believe that the wooden house is much cheaper than folded brick, but the service life will be much smaller. In fact this is not true. A high-quality modern building from the tree is unlikely to cost less brick, which concerns the service life, the goodwood wooden house is able to sing all 150-200 years. If we talk about the price of this object, then the whole house, including finishing, furniture and even blinds on the windows, cost the owners of $ 80 thousand. The price would be somewhat lower if the building was built immediately under specific customers, and not bought at the exhibition. Then it would not have to spend money on the assembly, disassembly, transportation and replacement of floors on the first floor. Well, how many years the building will delight their owners and their children - will tell time. However, the designer Anita Grass, and the head of the Aivars Zvirbulis project in one voice declare that they give home a guarantee at least 100 years. Since everything is done according to the rules, at the most modern level, and most importantly, with a soul.