Not so long ago, summer residents and builders were racking their brains on how and what to fix the seams and cracks in buildings with the greatest efficiency and at the lowest cost. Any suitable materials were used, up to light industry waste. And now everyone is puzzling how to choose the right one from the whole variety of different sealing materials and compositions presented in stores. The problem, changing focus, remained. Indeed, dozens of manufacturers offer the same mounting foam in different packaging, color shades and with a price that is different at times. How not to get confused here? We’ll try to figure it out.

For many city dwellers, the fireplace in the living room seems like a pipe dream - building a real hearth in the apartment is not possible - there will be a lot of problems that are almost impossible to cope with. Real wood fireplaces were usually built by owners of private houses and cottages. But the desire to give attractiveness and comfort to the interior, to add aristocratic notes to it, has led to the spread of fashion to false fireplaces. It’s not at all difficult to make such a fireplace out of drywall with your own hands, there are few skills to handle the simplest construction tools.

Soil cultivation in summer cottages today remains no less relevant than it was in previous years, albeit the food focus has changed to landscape, but you still need to dig the land. Only doing this has become much easier than 20-30 years ago, because in the service of the modern summer resident there are accessible mechanical units of motoblocks (or motor cultivators, as they are sometimes called). And the choice is such that your eyes run wide! And since this technique is quite complicated and costs much more than a shovel, you need to choose the device very carefully, taking into account various factors, in order to purchase the best walk-behind tractor, one that will be optimal for your site. The surface area and soil characteristics are essential criteria that must be taken into account when choosing a walk-behind tractor. In this article, we will consider the dependence of the required unit parameters on these criteria and tell you how to choose a walk-behind tractor that meets your specific needs.

According to landscape designers, a rockery, or a rocky flower garden, is an element that can give a boring leveled summer cottage a volume comparable only to the 3D effect. Rockery is a landscape composition, the purpose of which is an artistic combination of living plants and stones.

How convenient and pleasant when the doors in the store, office, staircase close independently, quietly and smoothly. And all thanks to such a simple, at first glance, mechanism, like a door closer. What is a door closer, where and how is it used and how can it be correctly selected and installed independently - our article will give answers to these and many other questions.

A talented French architect, Patrick Aurigin, calls his amazing, alien ship-like buildings, a glimpse into the future. But in order to understand the reason for the idea of \u200b\u200bbuilding round houses, one should turn to studying the history and forms that nature creates - it does not know strict lines and right angles: everything that it created has a rounded shape: shells of mollusks, bird nests, shape eggs from which the chick emerges, etc. It can be assumed that a person whose first months of life pass in a spherical house - the womb, and in adulthood it will be much more comfortable to feel in a house with smooth round shapes.

A two-wing version of interior doors is usually used in two cases, a large doorway and a small room. Compared to one canvas, they take up much less space in the clear. There is another reason for this choice of double-leaf interior doors look very elegant, especially modern models of products. Their canvases can be oar and sliding. There are still swinging models, but they are used extremely rarely. How to install a double-leaf interior door? Installation of double-leaf products is simple, but it requires a certain sequence and knowledge.

You can transform the room, give it a perfect and attractive look by installing stained glass windows instead of ordinary glasses in window frames. Modern technologies for manufacturing stained-glass windows allow using them not only as window or door glasses, but also for creating original lamps, partitions and screens, ceilings, columns, bookcases. What is stained glass on glass and is it possible to make it with your own hands? It is about this, or rather about one of the rather simple and cheap manufacturing technologies that we will try to tell you in this article.