Each nation is rich in its own traditions and folklore. Echo folk tales can be found in the architecture of any country. What can the West offer? Gothic castles; cozy houses halfling hobbit style with round doors; candy houses, like the one in which Hansel and Gretel found themselves... Rus' had its own fairy tales. Our princesses lived in log mansions with carved shutters and painted windows.
Shorin's estate - Gorokhovetsky district, Vladimir region
This fairy-tale house was built by Ivan Shorin, a large ship owner. At one time, the estate was an example of a bold combination of classics and modernity: asymmetry and different heights were considered fashionable trends in architecture. The businessman was not trying for himself: his son Mikhail lived in the estate with his family (wife, three daughters and son).
Architectural complex "Teremok" - Flenovo, Smolensk region
The philanthropist Maria Tenisheva lived in this wonderful house at the beginning of the twentieth century. The house was built according to her personal order. The building is decorated with traditional characters from fairy tales familiar to everyone from childhood. The firebird, golden-maned horses, mountain snakes, the swan princess, the carved red sun - there was a place for all of them.
It seems that in such a house there must be a room in which Vasilisa the Beautiful lives and lives. And in the backyard - Gray wolf, who is just waiting for the order to go on an exciting journey for bulk apples.
Lace House of Europe - Irkutsk
This architectural structure is the calling card of Irkutsk. It was built back in the mid-nineteenth century, but the name “Lacy” appeared in 1907, when the skillful hands of craftsmen decorated the mansion with aerial carvings.
Amazingly, all this lace of the platbands, shutters and other elements of the facade was made by hand, without pre-stored templates. And the tower belonged to the Shastin family of merchants.
Sukachev's estate - Irkutsk
This luxurious mansion was created at the end of the nineteenth century. Surprisingly, over the past years the house has hardly dilapidated. Still awe-inspiring hipped roof, amazingly crafted fantastic dragons and stylized flowers, carved cornices and ornate fences.
The estate subtly emanates something mysterious, oriental: during the construction of the building, relations with our neighbors - China and Mongolia - were in full swing, so Siberian craftsmen sculpted a masterpiece with a slight touch of oriental architecture. Today the estate is not empty: the building is used for holding literary evenings, concerts, and club meetings, where children are taught to sew dolls, sculpt and draw.
There is only one house left in the entire village of Pogorelovo. But what kind of house is this! The mansions were built in 1903 by the peasant Poleshov. Everything in this mansion is beautiful: the luxurious main staircase, stucco molding, magnificent stained glass windows.
The artist Anatoly Zhigalov has owned the mansion for more than forty years. At one time, he bought this house from the village council, who could not decide what to do with such real estate. If it were not for the artist, who knows what the fate of the tower would be today.
Teremok in the village of Kunara, Sverdlovsk region
And this house was built relatively recently - in the sixties of the twentieth century. Only one person was involved in its construction. Blacksmith Sergei Kirillov devoted thirteen years to the construction. It all started when the master decided to fix the rickety little house he had inherited.
After this, the craftsman decided to decorate the house with carved shutters and platbands, but after that he could no longer stop, and continued to decorate the building until it began to resemble a gingerbread house.
The decor of this mansion is an amazing symbiosis of fairy-tale motifs (heroes, traditional floral patterns, horses) and Soviet symbols (the hammer and sickle are ubiquitous, the inscriptions of that time: “May there always be sun...”, “Our greetings to the peoples of the world”).
Today the master blacksmith is no longer alive, but everyone who knew him says that this man was the same as his masterpiece: kind, open, believed in fairy tales and miracles.
Remember the words from a good fairy tale: “Terem, terem, teremok. It is not low, not high.” Once upon a time I didn’t have my own dacha and I dreamed of at least some kind of house on a plot of the smallest area.
The main thing is that it is your own, where you can come and where to stay for a day or two. Then we had a chance to film country cottage area with a two-story building on the western outskirts of the town of Krasnogorsk near Moscow. Artists settled there and even the actor Mikhail Yuryevich Vaskov became the chairman of the cooperative. It was great to see him almost every day, and sometimes even communicate on dacha matters. But, as they say, nothing lasts forever and we had to leave the apartment, moving closer to the metro to the Mitino station area. But is it possible to change a dream? She dug into her body like a splinter and was not going to let go just like that. In short, six months later I already bought myself a dacha. But it turned out to be located quite far away - one and a half hundred kilometers from the northwestern outskirts Russian capital, where I still work. At first, the car helped out, but later it began to consume so much gasoline that one trip cost three thousand rubles. Now I’m seriously thinking, what if I sell a house in the private sector, which I have in one of the cities? Krasnodar region, resell these six acres with two houses in the Lotoshinsky district, and take a place closer, so that at least you can scurry back and forth by train?
Of course, at first you will have to stay in a rented apartment, as you do now. But in a year or two you can build something acceptable. Nothing will change for the worse, but it can easily change for the better. Yes, there is only one problem - if you repair a leaky roof or install new fence Instead of the one that collapsed, I was able to do it myself, then erect a residential building from scratch, the work of specialists. I think so. Why? Yes, because one centimeter to the side and the wall is already crooked. If you secure the block incorrectly, a gap will definitely appear in the most inappropriate place. Or will it leak somewhere during heavy rain, during the spring melting of snow. Anything can happen if an amateur, which I am in the construction sciences, takes on a serious, responsible task. Is there a way out of this situation? You will certainly find it if you first think carefully with your head, and then make the only right decision - turn to specialists.
Someone will still try to save money and turn to jamshut-shabby players. But here the well-known Russian proverb comes into force - “the miser pays twice.” First, woe to the self-taught ones, and then again to those professionals in their field who will redo it. If they even agree to take on the rework.
The above table shows the data construction company"Terem", which operates in the market wood construction for eight years now. Yes, it is one of many, but the name has been around for a long time and the company has not proven itself badly, as far as I know. So why not turn to her for help? Let's check together the range of services offered and the corresponding prices. Do you mind? Go!
What exactly can they build? Where to look? It’s as easy as shelling pears - open the catalog on the official website and study photographs, compare projects, analyze price offers. I can say about myself that the building is too large area I will not fail either at the construction stage or during its subsequent maintenance. The children have long become adults and independent, they have moved away in different directions and they will not care how their parents are living there or whether their roof on the second floor is leaking. Another ten or two, if we survive, and it’s better to forget about the second floors altogether. So, a good-quality one-story home would be enough, where warmth and comfort would be combined.
Perhaps, in this situation, we can stop at the country version. At good insulation a simple wooden prefabricated panel house will warm you no worse than a brick one. If only there were no cracks through which the wind penetrates, snow gets clogged, and rain streams flow. But this company does not bad recommendations that you can trust.
Why not? How do you like the beauty shown in the picture below?
I am simply amazed at the sight of such buildings. How I wish I could create something like this for myself with my own hands. And even guaranteed to cope with many types of work without problems. But to create a single whole that harmoniously combines an affordable price and maximum practicality, sophisticated appearance And interior decoration only capable of those who have extensive experience in similar creative processes. Unfortunately, such a wealth of knowledge and skills is not yet visible behind my back. It was necessary at one time not to go to the Taganrog Radio-Technical Institute (which in Rostov region), and in normal construction college or even in a vocational school, where they would teach how to use the same welding machine. Otherwise, there is a device, a “Chameleon” mask is available, I bought electrodes, but money can’t buy you the right welding seam. Here practice is required under the supervision of a wise mentor.
The same situation applies to wooden building materials. I seem to know how to plan and saw. But all this is at the everyday level - making a shelf for the kitchen, a stand for basins in the bathroom, turning a handle for a file. When it comes to building a house, you should not be arrogant - trust the craftsmen. Therefore, it is better to continue considering the proposed buildings and go straight to the drawings. I was more or less taught to understand them in classes on descriptive graphics and preparing coursework and theses.
Do you want me to surprise you? I did not like. Yes, discounted price. Just five hundred eighteen thousand rubles. But how can you live in such conditions when your bedroom only takes up an area of less than six and a half? square meters? If you place a two-by-two bed there, then what remains - lay a rug in front of it? It doesn't work out seriously. What is the way out of this situation - to combine two bedrooms into one? But in this case, neither invite guests nor put things in secluded corners, because everything will be in plain sight. More likely dimensions six by seven is far from ideal for permanent residence. You can just hang out on weekends, and even then, with my neighbors in the dacha, everything looks much cooler and they have somewhere to sit at the table, where to lie on the soft sofa. And here you can’t even bring the sofa in, because there are narrow passages everywhere.
But everything said above is in no way a reproach construction organization. Their portfolio includes other offers with larger areas, even for single-story buildings. You need to dig around and choose the most suitable one, which is what we will do. It didn't take long to search. I propose the following - to install a two-story building six by eight:
As a result, your rooms will be eight squares each, and on top of that the attic will be eighteen square. If you don’t want to spend many hours of your life in it, organize an attic storage room there and drag all your trash there so that it does not interfere with breathing below ecologically clean air. Just ventilate at least occasionally, otherwise unpleasant old odors will spread throughout the entire home. Good luck to you! ;-)
One log at a time: how to build a tower in the Kostroma forest
26/08/16, 15:00
For five years now, businessman Andrei Pavlichenkov has been restoring a beautiful wooden house from the early 20th century in the Kostroma region. I was convinced that the tower was worth a trip to the wilderness.
Some will call this story a business project, others an eccentricity and an unnecessary undertaking. For me, this is a story about how the interests of a particular person, his business and the desire to preserve what has not yet perished came together at one point.
“We have a hobby - looking at a crumbling province. Since the late 90s, we have been traveling to the Kostroma region, it is considered one of the “best” in terms of abandonment in Russia,” Andrey Pavlichenkov talks about how he found the tower. “We are talking about Astashovo "We read it in some album of monuments in the provinces. We went and looked. We didn't intend to do anything. But it so happened that we moved from contemplation to the need to do something."
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
In the abandoned, or rather, already disappeared, village of Astashovo, Andrei found a mansion from the beginning of the twentieth century, which was built by the rich peasant Martyan Sazonov for his young wife. The house was not ordinary at that time either. But local peasants, who made fortunes from the timber trade, were not shy about demonstrating their income. The tower in Astashovo was beautiful, but not the only one unusual house in these places.
After the revolution, the mansion was, as they would now say, a local business center: a savings bank, a cinema, a post office, a library, a paramedic station. Then, when the villages began to empty out, they simply put a lock on the door.
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
IN beginning of XXI century, the miracle house was almost overgrown with forest. This is hard to believe today, but can be seen in photographs taken during the first year of restoration work, when it was completely dismantled.
Now the work in the tower is nearing completion. An amazingly beautiful house, which could have literally disappeared in the Kostroma forests, has been almost completely restored externally. They decided not to even recoat the old parts with anything, but they painted the new ones. Work on the interior decoration is currently underway.
The restoration involved not only professional restorers, whom Andrei chose long and carefully, because the beauty of such a house is in the details. Several volunteer camps were held in Astashovo. One of them - in the summer of 2015 - was international. Students from South Korea and Hungary, together with Russian enthusiasts, worked, sometimes in the rain, drowning in soggy clay.
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
In general, Astashovo is one of those places where, having arrived once, you definitely want to return, despite the difficult path that needs to be covered. And it’s not just the beauty of the almost restored tower. As often happens, the secret of the attractiveness of such places is in the people.
© Photo courtesy of Andrey Pavlichenkov
The new owner, who happily poses for a photo in a tacky colorful cap, talks fascinatingly about the first owner Martyan Sazonov, about the people who inhabited these places, about the terrible collectivization, war and the exodus of people from the villages.
The revival of Astashovo is not only the restoration of the house, but also the search, collection of documents, restoration of antique peasant furniture that can still be found in abandoned houses, work to create a museum here (it should open in the fall of this year). The museum will tell you about the history of the places, where such a house could have appeared in the village and why these places became extinct in 100 years.
I come from the very heart of Crimea - Simferopol. She lived there all her life until the moment when she met her husband, who lived in the north of the Russian Federation - in the Arkhangelsk region. We made a decision to make it easier to move to my parents and to move to the center of our Motherland - Moscow. Honestly, let the Muscovites forgive me, I didn’t want to live in the city itself, such noisy megacities are not suitable for us to live in, so we chose the city at random (we opened Yandex maps of the Moscow region and, with our eyes closed, found our small town near Moscow - the city of Chekhov ).
I remember how we were traveling with two suitcases; we had no friends or relatives. We decided that we want to achieve everything through our own work and not be dependent on anyone in the future.
Arriving in the city, we started looking for an apartment, and eventually found it for 15 rubles a month + 1 ruble for a communal apartment somewhere. After 2 weeks I was lucky enough to find a job where I still work today, but my husband had to look (long story)
No matter how hard it was for us, we did not look for help and looked only forward - towards our goal, and we had one goal, we wanted to buy land and build our own house. By the way, my husband is a carpenter (he builds houses from wood). He soon started making acquaintances, where he met his current colleagues at construction business with whom he works. I’ll say right away that we wouldn’t even be able to buy a plot of land with my salary, so we made a decision: my hard-earned money goes to renting housing + food, and we’ll put it off.
So we lived for 2 years in a rented apartment, having already managed to change our place of residence, changing to another district of the city - the price is the same, the city center is the same 10 minutes by bus. By a good coincidence, a friend at work told me that a plot of 4.5 acres of land was for sale in their area.
Having lived for 2 years already, we saved up money to buy a plot worth 300 thousand. We were lucky, the plot was sold cheap because... The sellers urgently needed money to build their home. Sometime in May last year we made deals and we became the proud owners of a flat rectangular plot. We had to work hard to get it in proper shape.
We dig up birch trees together
In the meantime, I planted some of my greenery on my long-awaited land...
That's what came out of it)
To build anything you need electricity. We had to work hard, going through all the authorities to get the lights turned on for us! 2 months later - here it is!
Paying monthly rent to my aunt for an apartment, we decided to start building something on the site. My husband offered to build a shed and move there, but since I understood that I would not survive in such conditions in the harsh winter, I refused such an idea. After talking with my husband's parents, they offered to transport us old bathhouse from logs that are already about 25 years old, in order to somehow save on lumber. After thinking a little about whether we had enough money and whether it was possible to somehow add something to it, we decided to purchase northern forest, because... even including transportation, it turned out to be cheaper and of better quality than what is sold in local markets under the guise of “northern” goods. We paid about 1200 rubles for transporting 1 cubic meter of timber + our neighbors wanted to join in the purchase of northern lumber.
While the car was driving from the north, we began to screw in the piles - 2500 rubles per turnkey piece (last year's prices).
We started tying up the Bani House.
I already painted it)
Something is already emerging...
As I wrote, the bathhouse is made of logs, the future kitchen and the second floor are made of frames, where the logs were unsuitable - they were replaced with timber
During the day we work at our main jobs, and in the evening before it gets dark we go to work at our place.
Mostly my husband worked and I helped as much as I could...
For heavy work invited friend Lekha, who worked exclusively on beer)))
Flooring on the first floor
Oh, what a surprise it was for me. when I personally tried to insulate the kitchen... Honestly, not a very pleasant job, anyone who has encountered this will understand
A tower made of rounded logs is a house decorated in the Russian style and reminiscent of an old manor. The article will tell you how to build a modern antique building, what are its advantages, who to order the tower project from, and how to decorate the interior to emphasize the overall style.
Features of antique wooden buildings
Terem is a log house with several floors; it often combined the main living quarters with outbuildings. This made it possible to group everything necessary under one roof and provide the building with maximum strength and durability.
Nowadays, the development of such a project is a complex and expensive matter, because this structure consists of several simple log buildings with carefully designed connections and transitions. However, as a result you will get a spacious building with a garage, a bathhouse, summer kitchen and other outbuildings.
A classic tower house made of rounded logs is built according to several principles that have been proven over centuries:
- The basement of the building is high, it protects the logs from rotting. For middle zone Russia is characterized by long winters and damp and cold springs and autumns, so it was important to protect the log house from excess moisture.
- The traditional center of the Russian hut has always been the stove. Today it is often replaced by a more compact fireplace, and stove heating– modern heating boiler. But if you want to recreate the original Russian atmosphere, you need a classic wood heating. The stove was located in the middle part of the hut so that it could heat all the rooms as much as possible.
- The walls have no interior or exterior decorative finishing And additional insulation. To seal the cracks between logs, use moss or other natural materials, but there is no need to cover the walls with plaster.
- The design of the building inside and outside plays a big role. A classic mansion must have a carved porch with wooden decorations, shutters, a special shape of the roof, by which it is easy to determine the style.
If you want to get a Russian tower, you will have to build a house from a log according to individual project. It is necessary to calculate the dimensions of the building and the connection of all its elements; this is a job for professionals. You can assemble a structure from a ready-made house kit yourself, but it is still better to entrust many types of work on laying communications and installing heating to specialists.
Interior in Russian style
If you are interested in building houses from logs, one-and-a-half towers - The best decision to get a building with maximum area at low cost. The top floor-attic can be decorated like an old room, it can be equipped as a bedroom or a children's room. In interior decoration, you also need to follow certain principles:
- Maximum naturalness. Should not be used artificial materials, plastic and linoleum in wooden house just inappropriate.
- It is not advisable to use PVC windows. Despite all their advantages, they violate the natural environment, so it is better to install frames made of wood. As a last resort, you can put plastic window, but cover it with wooden overlays.
- For finishing the floor choose parquet or simple boards, the ceiling is also sheathed with boards or clapboard. The walls are sanded and coated with translucent varnishes to preserve their natural color.
The large tower house will turn into a real family estate, in which both the children and grandchildren of the first owners will feel comfortable. And further interest in wooden buildings will only grow.