In order to renovate a country house, it is not necessary to start a major overhaul. You can use 9 simple ideas and "freshen up" the interior. HouseChief editors will tell you what materials to use to renovate your country house.
Read in the article
- 1 Strengthening and updating the stairs
- 2 Visual enlargement of windows
- 3 Combining kitchen and living room
- 4 DIY fireplace
- 5 Pantry arrangement
- 6 Painting the kitchen set
- 7 Textile renewal
- 8 Replacing lighting
- 9 Replacing the floor or choosing linoleum
- 10 Finally
Strengthening and updating the stairs
The first thing to do to renovate a country house is to pay attention to the stairs: both the entrance one and the one inside the house. Stairs it is installed once and lasts for decades, but if it is too old, it can significantly spoil the interior.
The easiest and fastest way to update the look of a staircase is to paint it. For metal stairs, use a special metal paint that protects against corrosion. Remember to secure rugs or wooden steps to help you climb.
If the staircase is wooden, it must be strengthened and then painted. stain or paint for wood. You can also replace the railings to update the interior.
Visual enlargement of windows
Small windows cluttered with furniture often do not make the best impression, and also "hide" sunlight, and the room becomes too dark. The solution to this problem is very simple - remove all unnecessary furniture, if possible, remove the heating radiators if they go directly to the windows, and hang light curtains.
Combining kitchen and living room
Expand the dining area in your holiday home by combining the kitchen and living room. If in your house these two rooms are separated by a non-load-bearing wall, feel free to start redevelopment, having previously received permission from the BTI.
For a successful rework, choose one of several options:
- divide the room in half by installing a bar counter;
- place a kitchen set in the center of the room, and place a sofa and armchairs around the edges;
- install the headset along one wall, and on the contrary, near the other wall - a sofa and a table;
- install kitchen islands in the middle of the room.
Keep in mind that the optimal size of the kitchen is 5–7 m. It will be convenient for you to cook in a room with such dimensions. If the kitchen was originally too small, it can be expanded with a living room.
DIY fireplace
Fireplace in the country - a great opportunity to make your home more comfortable, this is important not only in winter, but also in summer. It is not necessary to buy an electric fireplace or install a regular one, you can only do beautiful imitation and fill it with garlands or candles.
Follow the instructions:
- Take a large cardboard box, form the frame of the future fireplace, it is best if it has a rectangular shape. Make a semicircular hole at the bottom.
- Cover the box with paper or spread it with a thin layer of plaster. Dry the structure.
- Start laying out "brickwork". To do this, use brick-shaped cardboard cuts or lay out special tiles that are sold in hardware stores.
- Cover everything with a layer of primer and dry.
- Paint the fireplace white.
To make the structure more stable, use a wooden plank for the platform on which it will be mounted, and also make a mantel made of wood. If you doubt that the fireplace will be stable, you can glue it to the wall using double-sided tape or special metal corners.
Pantry arrangement
There must be a pantry at the dacha, especially if you grow vegetables and fruits and live outside the city for a long time, occasionally visiting a large supermarket. Storing large quantities of food in the fridge and cupboards won't work, so decide how best to arrange your storage area.
It can be a small storage room-shed on the street, a full-fledged room in the basement or the country house itself.
For the construction of a utility block, you can use:
- wood;
- metal profile;
- metal profile + LTSK system;
- corrugated board.
Decide in advance where you will build the pantry. The best places: in the dead end of the corridor, in the vestibule or in the overlap of the first floor - in the basement area.
Painting the kitchen set
If it is not possible to purchase new furniture, then you can update the kitchen by simply painting the headset in a new color. Try to choose the right paint - it is best if it will be combined with other pieces of furniture and interior.
To update the kitchen successfully, follow the instructions:
- Take everything out of the cabinets, degrease the surfaces.
- Sand the shelves and doors — all areas that you will be repainting.
- Remove all dust remaining after processing and degrease the surfaces again.
- Start painting over the doors. In some cases, you can do without removing the doors from the hinges, but if you have complex fasteners or an unusual shape of furniture, it is better to unscrew all the nuts in advance and paint the doors of the headset separately.
- When everything is dry, collect the headset.
You will need no more than 2-3 hours to paint furniture, but you will get a completely new kitchen with very little money on paint and consumables.
Textile renewal
For those who do not want to use paint to update the interior, the ideal option is to buy new textiles or make do-it-yourself blankets, carpets and pillowcases.
To make the interior in the country house "play with new colors", you can update:
- pictures and posters;
- curtains;
- tablecloths;
- carpets;
- covers for sofas;
- linens;
- napkins for tables and shelves;
- flower vases.
It is not necessary to spend a large amount of money and change all textiles at once. Start with carpets, then get new bed linen and bedspreads, and then start decorating the walls.
Replacing lighting
Think about how you can add light to your holiday home. If you have skylights, be sure to open them, and remove dark curtains from ordinary windows on the walls. But if this is not enough, use additional light sources.
It is best to combine 3-4 lighting options in one dark room, for example 1 ceiling lamp, 2 wall lamps and 1 table lamp.
Replacing the floor or choosing linoleum
The general appearance of the entire interior depends on the condition of the floor in the house. If you have beautiful designer furniture, but the floors are old and shabby, you will not be able to make a good impression on the guests, and you will not be able to enjoy the view yourself. It may seem that replacing the floor is a costly undertaking. This is true - high-quality boards are expensive, and besides, you need to pay for the work of the master.
However, there is a solution - lay a carpet or linoleum. Modern linoleum models are made of such high quality that it is often difficult at first glance to understand what is underfoot - natural wood or its replacement.
Finally
There are many budgetary ways to update the interior in a country house - choose one or several options and start translating them into reality. Think in advance which zone in the country house is framed the most weakly and what you would like to change. Even for the smallest rework, make a plan so you can avoid mistakes and be happy with the result.
Do you like our ideas? Write your own ways to quickly update the interior in the country.
