Project author Olga Kushnareva This house has already got partially ready. The building was built, and even some of the finishing materials were purchased. But the work stopped. During the years that the house was built, the owner, who first wanted a project in the modern spirit, fell in love with the classics. He parted with the bureau, which designed the modernist architectural solution, and for design work invited other architects who invented the Italian interior with an abundance of marble. However, this project is not set. Finally, friends recommended that the customer contact Olga. She invited him to make the house typically English, and the classic interior needed to be somehow incorporated into the already existing modern architecture. In the heritage from it there were unusual breaks of walls and open planning of the first floor, completely alien to the classical direction. They tried to carefully disguise.

The interior turned out to be absolutely classic and purely English. Each room refers to a particular style, to a particular tradition in British art. For example, the billiard room - a special pride of designers and customers - is framed in the spirit of medieval abbeys. The walls are completely covered with tapestries, as it once was in castles. Unconditional know-how is the ceiling designed by Olga. This is a wooden, caisson structure, and each square-caisson is decorated with a ceramic insert with a complex ornament, the central part of which is a composition of traditional medieval trefoils. All furniture is decorated with carvings using this motive. There is in the house and classic Chippendale a dining room, and a Georgian-style bedroom, and a colonial lounge, and, of course, an indispensable male study. In its decoration, the tree of warm tones is combined with the traditional Scottish tweed (they decorated the walls). Furnishing - antique in half with massive leather furniture.

The decor of the house as a whole is built on the finest tonal transitions and mixing of textures. For example, the living room, located on the ground floor, is decorated in a honey-blue tones. The walls are covered with a gray silk fabric with a pearl blue rapport. This shade of blue - noble, royal - was offered to the customer by Olga. It is repeated in the upholstery of the pouf and the wardrobe, in the pattern of the carpet and in the accessories, and it is in harmony with the tree of warm, golden-red tones, which is used in the decoration of the fireplace and balustrade of the second floor, facing the room, and in the parquet. The living room enters the kitchen, also decorated in pale blue tones. The kitchen, in turn, flows into the front dining room. And these two rooms are also connected with the help of an identical wall decor - hand-painted light-turquoise wallpapers with golden tie. In the dining room, they serve as an ideal backdrop for a setting made of wood of an incredibly beautiful shade — deep brown with reddish hues. “English interiors are distinguished by exquisite colors,” says Olga. - This is the art of literate, verified combinations. We followed him in this project. ”

Project author Olga Kushnareva: “In this project we combined modernist architecture and classic interior. We wanted to recreate the atmosphere of a traditional English mansion and used techniques typical of British interiors. For example, wall decoration with textiles (and, in particular, fabric with a Scottish cage) "