Renovation as the killer of individuality. What should it be, really? Bashny.Net

Renovation is sweeping across Russia. Renovation comes to every home. The last 20 years is not repaired "Euro" my apartment, except that stuck in the mathematical clues Perelman.

When and who decided that "European" look great plasterboard walls, false ceilings (preferably level 3) embedded in a series of lamps and plastic frames from every window? More typical features of European-Turkish tile, granite and laminate. In favor of the latest massively from all apartments tear off half a century of birch parquet. And the floor? Old pine to the dump. Instead of plastic consumer goods.

In the heat of the views of European life, as the best proportion, we fell into the trap of marketers-scoundrels. Now hardware stores are full of nomenclature "evromaterialy", "lining", "evrobalt", "ebrochure"... Are these words non-translatable to foreigners. Moreover, our pride Asian, multiplied by the envy of the Western neighbors, will not allow you to buy just the bolt. The spirit of consumption possessed and dictates: — Take the product with the prefix "Euro"! More expensive? It's not just. Now you're in the class of Euro-premium.

A purely negative role was played by pop magazines, a La "ideas of your abode". Now the Soviet desire to have carpets on the walls we, today's Russians, sublimated in must to be in the flat vulgar sliding wardrobes, the illumination on the diodes.

Categorically berating white color Russians — a dull beige, beech or wenge. And ceilings without our plastic moldings for years... TSAT, as can not do. One apartment is similar to another like a noisy team of Tajiks, Moldovans, Uzbeks traveled, repairing the country in one sitting.

So what is this - the present repair is the European way?

Look, it's a very old house. Him 140 years



Europeans scoff at his story. Not to knock the window, break the door, do not uproot all the wiring and plumbing. Euro mayhem — national Russian trait



 

In Europe, the overhaul is a delicate thing. To correct, to patch up, to find a similar original... look at those doors. How long have our uncle Vanya stood would they? What would he have replaced? Steel doors from China metal two millimeters in thickness, I'm guessing? ))

 

Look at the floors. Linoleum and laminate are not here respected. Simple unpainted Board. The owner will starve, but Paul Astelit natural wood.

 

The basic requirements of the repair is to keep comfort and functionality. If the Russians fill the house with a pseudo-luxury, the European convenience.

 

Simple materials — boards, metal and glass. Europe denies the false. Artificial bits of stone/brick on the walls? No. This is a purely Russian know-how:

 

Russia — the first in Europe by number of plastic skirting per capita. More precisely, we are the only Europeans who, instead of wooden skirting boards screwed the plastic.

 

Last-rasposledny bad in Russia — bathrooms and toilets with solar cells, including the light above the bowls and led strips to each shelves.

 

Like Cannibal Elochki competing with a billionaire, eager to "Euro-style" do not have the Finance to cover the real wood window frames. As a result, fake fixings-dividers of plastic. Especially loved gilt — Asian idea of beauty as splendor, makes itself felt. No gold in any way.

 

Wardrobes wenge, beech, teak, and aluminum profiles — the echo in us is indestructible Soviet thrust to the "walls". And be sure to mezzanines and along the entire room. But so many will put junk. )) See, European built — in furniture -:

 

The cupboard in the hallway is not required. Enough under shelf for hats and umbrellas to tie such hooks.

The fireplace is the same age as the house, as I understand it. No vulgar veneer fake brick.



 

Wallpaper, but without the gold glitter vinyl.

 

By the way, ceiling tiles, moldings foam at the junction of walls and ceiling — the national sport of the Russians. However, as and curved drywall ceilings.

 

Glazed balconies? Bollocks. Europeans, even those that live North of us, and not ugly balconies. High — prikleyut insulation doors.

Only Russian shy water pipes so that morout them under the tile so that the plumbing nor to look at nor to touch. It remains only a tile apart.



 

The Europeans are not sealed with silicone joints between the bath and the wall. I understand them, the silicone will darken, behind.

 

Russian shy real masonry. We have uncle Vanya this fireplace plastered, and after Nalepa corners-ogryzek of artificial stone.

 

Well, about our favorite curtains with pelmets. Europeans are obsessed with clean Windows. The rooms with views, and wooden frames, often, curtains are not needed. If you want some privacy, European hang blinds neutral tones or the color of the wall. Same with the walls of plasterboard. Europeans do not abuse them as we are.

 



 



 



 

Photos by Bjurfors. PS. I have Pets architectural journalist Artem Dezhurko. He once said, "it seems wrong universal habit completely to the concrete skeleton, to clean the apartment from all the wonderful archaeology that has accumulated there over decades, and settle in it as homunculi after the atomic blast, as if we had no history, no ancestors, no childhood."

I subscribe to every word of it. We need to learn to honor the history of his family, his country. Let bit by bit, even if only in small things. After all, the old grandmother's chest of drawers oviet warmth and memory rather than a bedside table, purchased at IKEA yesterday.published

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