The ransom is an interesting wedding tradition that has its roots in the deep past. The groom's thorny path to his beloved often begins at the entrance of a high-rise building: unfortunately, shabby and painted walls look far from festive, so the issue of decoration is more relevant than ever. How to decorate the entrance before the ransom? - let's figure it out.
Decoration of the entrance to the wedding entrance
A gloomy and unpleasant metal door will not put anyone in a good mood; it is often decorated with unpleasant inscriptions and strange paintings by courtyard artists, so your task is to bring the entrance into a divine appearance. The easiest way is balloons; you can use them to make intricate compositions or simply hang them in a chaotic manner. It is recommended to use no more than 3 colors.
Another thing is holiday posters and paper applications. Cheap and cheerful. These can be floral ornaments, funny collages, photoshops, a code of rules for the groom, and wish poems. You can also use colored crayons, but swear to your neighbors that you will wash everything off.
You shouldn’t be too zealous, your task is banal: to hide the dirt and lack of repairs and at the same time create a minimal ambience. Further more!
Entrance steps
Of course, no one has the right to demand a red carpet from you, but if you have come up with tests during which the groom will have to come into contact with the floor, at least cover it with homespun rugs, which are not needed in the house, and it would be a pity to throw it away. You can also use light, cheap fabric for these purposes.
Applications made from paper or foil also look stylish: hearts, daisies, stars, small confetti, etc.! Inexpensive, but interesting way transform boring gray steps.
You can decorate the stairs with stencil designs, rose petals, and burning candles. Lay out funny quests, wishes and signs, arrange floral arrangements: even ordinary plants in pots will give the stairs a completely different look.
If the bride lives high up, the elevator will also need to be decorated: even minimal decor from balloons and artificial plants will give it a well-groomed look. If the walls look really creepy, you can stick strips of wallpaper using double-sided tape: but the bride won’t have to worry about the safety of her outfit.
Decorating the staircase railing
Most often, railings are decorated with light fabrics, artificial flowers, colorful balloons. You can make your own paper garlands, hang satin ribbons and bows. Additional accessories include electric garlands, banners, LED strips, but such equipment cannot be called cheap, and it is unlikely to be worth it.
pay attention to color scheme, best options - pastel shades With bright accents, which will not irritate the eye.
How to decorate the walls of a wedding entrance
All kinds of collages will look great: comic drawings, congratulations, funny parting words: they are easily attached with double-sided tape and do not spoil the surface of the wall.
You can also experiment with photographs of the newlyweds: make a garland of drawings, starting with children’s ones and ending with joint ones. In computer editors, go a little crazy: for example, try on unusual images or attach the heads of newlyweds to the bodies of fairy-tale creatures.
If you know an artist, that’s great; he can design the wedding newspaper. You can cut out the initials or names of the newlyweds, words of congratulations from colored cardboard, make funny garlands (from old wallpaper, postcards, newspapers), the shape can be arbitrary - from crescents and rings to flags and angels. At least cut out the bats! - as long as it matches the style of the buyout.
The bride's door is decorated with balloons, flowers, and ribbons. You can make a beautiful wreath from branches or wildflowers, or make an unusual arch. You can place figures of the bride and groom made from balloons on the landing, and later use them to decorate the banquet hall. Place flowers in pots on the windowsills of the landing.
It happens that jewelry may not be useful at all if the groom happens to be particularly creative. For example, like this:
Be that as it may, the process of decorating the entrance itself should not be complicated or cause a lot of trouble. There is no need to decorate it with greenhouse flowers or exquisite figurines: everything should be simple, cute and tasteful!
Residents apartment buildings Often you have to deal with such a state of entrances that you don’t even want to enter. Of course, the situation is better in new buildings, but even there the entrances can be boring and unkempt. However, there are many examples of how beautiful and unusual an entrance can look.
The simplest example is flowers. This is Kazan, in the entrance of this high-rise building, for many years now, the apartment owners themselves have been carrying out houseplants to decorate places common use. If the entrance is heated, then such beauty can stand and hang all year round, enlivening a usually very boring interior.
This is already a house of exemplary order in Orenburg. The order is truly exemplary, there is even a picture on the wall, softening the overall decoration. In such cases, the attitude of the residents themselves is very important, because in order for there to be no garbage and the “aroma” of a public toilet in the entrance, the established order must be maintained.
The example is, of course, thematic. This entrance in Novogireevo was decorated for the New Year. But such decoration can be done before every holiday, for example, on March 8, Victory Day, and so on. And the flowers definitely stand on the windowsill all year round.
Ekaterinburg. An exhibition of children's crafts and drawings in an ordinary entrance. All parents want to brag about their child’s achievements, including to their neighbors. Such exhibitions can be held regularly, for example, showing autumn crafts from chestnuts and leaves. Guests will definitely linger along the way to view all the exhibits.
Tolyatti. Residents of this entrance decorated it themselves and took part in a competition for the title better home cities and won. The prize of 100 thousand rubles was spent on decoration the remaining five entrances of the high-rise building, some were left to replace old windows.
Permian. A local artist decorated the entrance with characters from the cartoon “Three from Prostokvashino.” He did this at the request of one of the residents, who decided to please the children and whitewashed the ceiling at his own expense. According to the master himself, about eight hours were spent on all the work.
In general, painting can be called one of the simplest and available ways decorate the plain walls of the entrance. This is Chelyabinsk, where the residents of the house themselves took care of the adjacent territory, which became a real park, and did not forget about the entrances.
This is Kyiv, Troeshina. The entrance was called patriotic, because it was decorated with a traditional Ukrainian historical rural landscape. The adjacent area with a flower bed and a brightly painted urn and bench also looks neat.
Minsk. The pensioner, at his own expense, without the help of neighbors, began landscaping the entrance, including the front door. The painting is in the same style inside the house; an artist was hired to create it.
No other city in Russia probably has as many historical entrances left as in St. Petersburg. No! Not entrances, in the Northern capital they say - front door. In pre-revolutionary houses, the entrance to the house and the staircase to the apartments were truly ceremonial, richly decorated and non-trivial.
It's clear that this unusual house! This is the entrance to the legendary high-rise building, which is located on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment in Moscow. It’s immediately clear that it was not built for ordinary people who can come here as if they were visiting a museum.
And finally - Kyiv again. Another restless and caring pensioner turned as many as three landings from your entrance in a nine-story building to a luxurious palace. There are stucco moldings and paintings, and the former garbage chute has become a snow-white column. All the work took 15 years, but now newlyweds even come to this Kiev entrance for a photo shoot.
Usually residents Apartment buildings are planning renovations only in their own apartment; only a few are ready to invest in public housing. Many are afraid of theft, vandalism, are not friendly with their neighbors, and simply do not consider it necessary: “let the housing office try” - there are many reasons. The Village has some advice for those who are ready to fight for a beautiful staircase.
Plants
Of course, you can send the excess of your indoor plant growing to the stairs - unloved ones, overgrown flowers, etc. But they are unlikely to decorate the site. If you decide to buy something right for decorating a flight of stairs, look for shade-loving plants that are tolerant of irregular watering. Contrary to the misconception of many, these are not cacti. Your choice is asparagus, fern, scindapsus (this is a liana), ficus and monstera (they can grow gigantic and make a jungle out of the entrance). Of course, you need to water and feed them, but not often: once a week on weekends is quite enough. What kind of stands? It’s better to have wall planters so that the neighbor’s child on a scooter or mom with a stroller won’t be angry at your phytodesign. It is advisable to hang it on the wall, away from drafts, but so that the plants still get daylight.
Walls
To start a mini-repair at the entrance, you need the consent of the neighbors. If no one has any objections, the management company cannot hinder your initiative. But still utility services It is better to warn about the proposed repair.
If you decide to change the color of your walls, you may have to devote an entire weekend to it. The recipes have not changed since “Soviet times”, only the materials and tools have improved. Now you can paint not just like that, but in stripes. The stripes can be anything - single or all over the wall, regular or not, vertical, horizontal, narrow and wide: masking tape easily solves the problem of a straight edge. And systems for tinting the base paint in any shade of the RAL palette will allow you to revive, and not completely repaint the strange green or blue melancholy imposed on you by the Housing Office. Not sure of your own taste and can’t find interesting color pallets? Better to paint it white. But before you start painting, it is very important to clarify what exactly the walls of your entrance are covered with: water-based and acrylic paints will not lie on top of oil paints.
If you have already tried stencil painting, you can do this. We are, of course, not talking about a border of roses along a flight of stairs, but about large pattern on one wall. The cheapest stencil is a circle. Make one wall “polka dot” and your staircase will be unrecognizable. A couple of hours and an aerosol can of paint are enough.
Silhouette stickers serve the same role as a decorative accent. With their help, you can place painted flowers, a bicycle, and so on above the stairs. That is, to complete life. By the way, modern stickers can be glued to any surface. And most companies are ready to make them to order, according to your sketches and to the size you need.
steps
Gray steps can be painted any cheerful color. And so that the coating does not wear off after six months, the stairs are first primed with concrete contact. Do this every two days, one step at a time, because you and your neighbors need to walk somehow. Floor and staircase painting can be entrusted to a special company (search the Internet for “concrete painting”). Experts will draw you at least a Persian carpet, but one that will not be erased by the time the house is demolished. But the offer price is an order of magnitude higher than manual painting as part of a general apartment cleanup.
A bright idea is to decorate only the risers (this is what the vertical wall under the step is called). You can paint only them or lay them out with colorful tiles. The part of the step on which the foot stands is called the tread. If this very tread hangs over the riser, then the resulting canopy looks interesting painted - you will get a striped staircase, the simplest, fastest and a budget option decoration.
Convenient devices
Hooks for heavy bags They are sold at any hardware store and cost pennies. Spend not only on your own - buy at once for all your neighbors in the stairwell. And don't just buy it - screw it on. You return from work with a bunch of children’s backpacks, spare shoes, Auchan bags and try to find the keys with the free finger of your busy hands. And here is a gift from fate: a kind neighbor who wished to remain anonymous screwed a hook for your bag.
Think about newspaper girl or about a wall-mounted metal holder for books and newspapers. It will be useful for those who, despite all the fines and prohibitions of the Ministry of Health, continue to smoke and read on the staircase. And he smokes without an iPhone - the old fashioned way, with a book. At the same time, support the bookcrossing movement, in other words, share with your neighbors the literature that you have already studied.
Availability ashtrays guarantees that an unextinguished cigarette butt will not fly into the garbage chute. Consider a tobacco odor absorber. Neighbors who smoke in the stairwell often annoy non-smokers. It's simple: pour odor absorber granules into a beautiful container and place them next to the ashtray on the stairs. They are inexpensive, you can change them yourself. But there is no headache with “spraying”; you don’t need to count on your neighbor to remember to ventilate - the smell is neutralized without your participation.
Bulletin board can make your life easier. For your personal announcements on the seventh floor. Hang it near the elevator doors. Can be used as a regular one cork surface attach a sheet and tie a pencil, you can hang a beautiful marker board: Give the opportunity to write and respond. Here - any announcements that you ask to ventilate after smoking, water flowers, invite you to participate financially in raising funds for painting a flight of stairs - bring the money to apartment 222. And so on. It wouldn’t hurt to attach a pocket under the board for leaflets about the delivery of sushi, pizza and other spam, which are regularly pasted around the entrance. Sometimes he is needed too.
Larisa Bokareva
interior designer, design bureau "4rooms"
I myself live in a five-story Stalinist building built in 1956. There is no elevator and there is no space for a concierge. There is a small vestibule and in the second flight a place where mailboxes hang.
What did we do in our entrance? The first is cleaning. Organize it, then you will want to think about a fresh design. If the entrance is painted with scary green paint, then you can refine everything with a stencil and white paint. You can do this on weekends by connecting children from neighboring apartments. The main thing is to wash them before taking them home.
The entrance also has windows - you can buy the simplest cornices and the simplest fabrics treated with a fire-retardant compound - and the windows will create coziness. Don't forget about framed paintings and posters.
If we talk about decoration, I would suggest laying carpet tiles 50 to 50. The tiles can either be glued or placed on clips. Standard size The tiles and ease of installation make it easy to lay out any design. Depending on the texture and collection, carpet tiles can be laid in one direction or in different directions.
For walls, you can use stencils (paints are applied using a sprayer to the walls of the entrance) or ready-made wall stickers. As an option, glue inserts from photo wallpapers or paint one of the walls in a more
bright and rich color, thereby enlivening the interior.
And, of course, put indoor plants on the staircase. It is better to arrange a green corner at the entrance on the first floor or near the elevator. Suitable for entrance large plants, not requiring special care: abutilon, ficus, fatshedera, hibiscus and some dracaenas. Among the more compact ones, you should choose aspidistra, oxalis, coleus, begonia, billbergia, dracaena, ferns, pelargonium, cyperus and sansevieria. If there are no window sills at the entrance, then it is better to choose hanging plants, which are placed in flowerpots, racks, and so on.
The inter-apartment stairwell is the very place where you can use your limitless imagination and everything that remains from the renovation of the apartment. What you no longer need, but it’s a shame to throw it away. The staircase space is a common area, which means that nothing can be done without the consent of all apartment owners on the floor. But this can be a big plus: team up with your neighbors, make friends when discussing the design and during its implementation.
Let's put everything we have into action. For example, after renovation we have a lot left different paints, sometimes a whole bucket, and sometimes just a little. We collected all this and most bright color fuchsia highlighted the area of the flight of stairs and emphasized the window opening. We painted the walls with the paint that was left the most - each completely in its own color. We also had a lot of paint buckets of different diameters left over - we cut out the bottoms of them and, to enliven our design, using a can of black paint we painted circles of different diameters, randomly scattered on the wall. In fact, we didn’t spend a penny on the design - all the cans were collected from our neighbors. Modern paints are environmentally friendly finishing material, so you can safely involve not only adults, but also children in the work.
Text: Svetlana Volina
Our home does not begin from the threshold of the apartment. It starts much earlier - at the entrance. And if the apartment is a cozy nest, then the entrance, the common property of all residents, often looks different. And what to hide, many, many can only dream of a clean entrance without inscriptions.
As many residents of city high-rise buildings are familiar with the sad picture of the state of our entrances: walls painted in dull colors and almost immediately peeling off, painted with vulgar inscriptions and painted with obscene drawings. Dirty steps bad smell, broken light bulbs and a dirty elevator. In general, there is a heavy aura that we involuntarily carry into our apartments upon returning from work. It turns out that instead of a normal rest after working day we receive a charge of negative energy from a short stay in our entrance.
Many residents do not want to put up with this. They organize initiative groups of active residents and with their own hands put the entrance area in order, simultaneously decorating it as much as possible. It turns out that it is not at all as difficult as it seems, you just have to want it. Well, enlist the support of the administration of management companies and members of the HOA boards. Some people take the liberty of decorating the entrance alone, but then you need to be prepared for additional difficulties.
First of all, it is necessary for the person in charge to take the initiative and organize a group of activists who will begin to restore order. Looking at them, the rest of the residents will also join in. At the first stage, you need to tackle the walls: peel old paint and whitewashing, leveling the walls and painting them or whitewashing them in bright and cheerful colors, installing metal doors with combination locks. Such work is carried out by specialized organizations that are hired by the HOA or management company. IN in this case initiative, unfortunately, is punishable, so such work should not be done independently.
Decoration of staircases
With a clean and tidy entrance, sooner or later thoughts arise about how to decorate the entrance to the house. To do this, you don’t need to invent something supernatural, everything is very simple: first you need to invite your neighbors and discuss with them the upcoming events to improve the entrance. A common cause brings people together, many interesting and unexpected ideas appear.
At a meeting of residents, the issue of decorating walls and placing flowers in the common area should have been raised. If flowers and paintings usually do not cause objections among the living, then graffiti on the walls can cause active protest among some conservative-minded people, and this issue must be discussed. It is advisable to keep minutes of the meeting, at which all those present will sign in agreement with the discussed design of the entrance.
We offer several ideas for decorating the entrance. Perhaps our readers will also like something: older people will prefer a cozy entrance with rugs and chairs on the platforms; those who are younger may like more stylish ideas.
1. Decorating the walls
If you have received the consent of your neighbors to decorate the walls, then you can start decorating them. There are several options. The first is for those who have artists, not necessarily professional ones, living in their building. The walls of the entrance, which have become an art gallery, will be cherished by both residents and guests.
For this purpose, you can also attract students from an art school or any studio folk art. If there are no residents who know how to draw, then the walls are decorated by drawing on squares or stencils. Another option – posters – is ideal for those who prefer modern styles registration
2. Windows
After decorating the walls, we will begin decorating the windows. After washing the glass and frames, you should, if necessary, touch up the peeling frames and window sills. Decorative curtains made of bright fabrics that are made independently are hung on the windows.
3. Flowers
Posters and flowers will become a laconic decoration. Flowers can be placed on window sills, on the floor, in flowerpots or on racks. Unpretentious flowers that can survive in artificial lighting and low temperature. These can be small trees - hibiscus, ficus, dracaena, or small, compact plants - begonias, oxalis, chlorophytums, tradescantia, ivy.
4. Elevator
Let's not forget about the common area - the elevator. It must also be clean. Decorations include a practical mirror, lighting and posters.
5. Entrance-museum
In cities, people know little about their neighbors. Therefore, you may be surprised that special people live or lived next to us. Among the elderly neighbors there will be those who will willingly share stories from the life of the entrance. One of the design themes can be a museum, as in this video.
6. Holidays
On special days you want to transform everything around you. We will offer several ideas on how to decorate the entrance to your home for the New Year holidays.
Restrictions
It is worth remembering that cabinets, large flower pots and carpets should not be placed in hallways, as these items will violate fire safety and may interfere with the evacuation of residents in case of fire.
So, let's summarize some results. To maintain cleanliness and order in the entrance you have designed, the following actions are necessary:
It is advisable to carry out all these activities if there is a metal doors With combination lock, excluding the appearance of strangers in the territory you have decorated. To maintain cleanliness and order, it is necessary to periodically hold cleanup days, attracting the maximum number of residents. All your actions should be coordinated with representatives of the management company or HOA.
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Date: 08/12/14 / 19:12
Entrance decoration for a wedding. Decorating and decorating ideas
It is impossible to hold a wedding without capturing the happy faces of the newlyweds and invited guests. The presence of a photographer or videographer at the celebration has become a tradition. And the bride price and a whole set of funny tests for the groom are a custom rooted in the deep past. But unlike the ancient Russian customs of ransom, which began at the entrance to a village or village, modern grooms go through a thorny path to their favorite, climbing the steps of the entrances. And wedding photos against the backdrop of shabby walls are far from the most picturesque sight.
How to decorate on your wedding day own entrance usually thought of by the bride and her bridesmaids at a bachelorette party. And right on the day of the celebration, from early morning they begin decorating the walls, floor and ceiling. However, there are always companies that offer a similar service for a fee.
How and what to decorate the entrance to a wedding
Not everyone can boast of renovations on all floors and a clean elevator. apartment house. Let's look at how to add solemnity and hide existing defects with decorations.
Each entrance begins with a door. The front entrance decorated with a garland of balloons or fabric drapery looks very elegant. But, if such a volumetric design is unacceptable, you can decorate the walls and the door itself with colored posters with funny inscriptions and wishes, paper and cardboard figures with traditional wedding symbols (including individual cardboard letters). The most modest decoration can be a wide silk ribbon and a tiny bouquet of flowers, fixed on a door handle or a decorative wreath of flowers, leaves, sweets, etc. However, you can combine all of the above, not forgetting about a sense of proportion and style, then the groom simply will not have a chance to drive past without recognizing his fiancée’s house.
Balloons, both helium and ordinary ones, always create an atmosphere of celebration and fun. You can combine a variety of shades or choose 1-2 contrasting colors and decorate the entrance with them.
Helium balloons look beautiful tied with colored ribbons to the railings of staircases or released right up to the ceiling. Balloons filled with ordinary air can be arranged into flowers by tying 4-5 balls together and securing them to railings and walls with ribbons or double-sided tape. To make the compositions more successful, you should use balloons different sizes– large for “petals” and small for “cores”.
Our parents decorated the entrances with traditional posters drawn on large Whatman paper back in the days of their weddings. But it is precisely such decorations that most completely hide the shortcomings on the walls. An alternative to outdated posters are ready-made posters from stores, as well as homemade letters and words (for example, Love) on separate sheets of paper of any size. Simply print them out and secure them with double-sided tape. Don't forget to pay off your grumpy neighbors with candy and a couple of glasses of alcohol.
Garlands are an inexpensive and creative decoration. They are not difficult to make yourself from fabrics, paper, cardboard, tulle. You can hang garlands not only along the walls, but also on the windows, as well as across flights of stairs, blocking the groom’s path to his beloved.
How to decorate a railing? It’s very simple - secure drapes made of organza, tulle, ordinary gauze or other fabric with ribbons, add some bows, balls, flower bouquets or wrap the railings with colored ribbons.
One of the most creative options is to hang tiny vases (medicine bottles, used light bulbs, glass baby food bottles) with fresh flowers on the railings.
Video - Buying the bride and decorating the entrance to the wedding
Of course, making repairs on all floors of the entrance before the wedding is expensive and pointless. Yes, and decorate absolutely all the spans too. It's enough just to transform front door, the first floor and the stairs in front of the door of the bride’s apartment, so that the redemption event is fun and unusual, and the wedding photographs do not show random writing on the walls or peeled paint.
It is recommended to wash or sweep the entrance floors, and then either cover them with a carpet or sprinkle them with rose petals, confetti and sparkles. Paper signs on the steps will tell the groom how close he is to his goal, and colored hearts and stars will add romance and a festive atmosphere. To everything else, add a little imagination, a large share common sense and a sense of proportion, do not forget about the sense of style and those ransom competitions that you will prepare for your loved one.
