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.

The bride and her bridesmaids at the bachelorette party usually think about how to decorate their own entrance on their wedding day. 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 the door handle or decorative wreath from 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.

Usually residents apartment buildings They plan to renovate only 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-mounted 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 daylight the plants still got it.

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 it on the staircase houseplants. 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 the place common use, this 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 highlighted the staircase area with the brightest fuchsia color, emphasizing window hole. 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

A management company from Yekaterinburg has figured out how to tidy up the entrances of old houses across the country using simple design elements.

Design solution typical landscaping of an entrance apartment building (Photo: “League of Housing and Public Utilities”)

The independent management company (MC) "League Housing and Public Utilities" from Yekaterinburg is preparing to put open access collection of inexpensive design solutions for landscaping "Entrance Designer". Thus, the authors plan to create a publicly available tool for converting appearance common areas in old standard houses, Ilya Sotonin, development director of the League of Housing and Public Utilities, told RBC Real Estate.

There are 23 apartment buildings under the management of the Housing and Public Utilities League in Yekaterinburg. The company also plans to enter the market utilities Moscow region. “It’s quite expensive to create your own design project for each entrance and hire a designer. Therefore, we decided that we needed a constructor - a certain set standard rules, approaches, materials, which will allow you to quickly create beautiful entrances“Ilya Sotonin explained the motives.

“Every person has a comfort zone. For many in Russia, it is limited to the doors of their apartment. The entrance, the yard - it’s no longer mine, it’s someone else’s. And I treat this as if it were someone else’s,” Ilya Sotonin explains the concept of the project. — Maybe many are ready to change their attitude. But the condition of the entrance prevents this. Iron door at the entrance, bars, dark stairs, scribbled walls - it’s very difficult to recognize such an entrance as “yours”.” (Photo: “League of Housing and Public Utilities”)

The “Entrance Designer” collection is planned to be made publicly available. “Anyone can design a driveway and evaluate the possible results. It's like a stencil. You can apply it to any entrance and make the slightest adjustments based on the characteristics of the place or a specific house,” continued Ilya Sotonin.

Typical entrance of a five-story apartment building: before and after Photo: “League of Housing and Communal Services”

In one of the first projects for improving the entrance to a typical five-story building, which is included in the “Entrance Designer”, the authors propose using aluminum doors with glass, wood for façade cladding, as well as color and lighting solutions. “The author of the first version is designer from Yekaterinburg Igor Kuznetsov. He designed the Sol coworking space, which, according to the American magazine Inc.com, was included in the top 10 coworking spaces in the world,” said Ilya Sotonin. According to him, the Housing and Public Utilities League is already improving two entrances in Yekaterinburg using Konstruktor tools. “We want to show people that these are not only beautiful renderings, but also possible in reality,” Sotonin clarified.

“Porches and courtyards can and should be made so that the comfort zone extends to them. Don't just paint it an unpleasant color and put in a cheap playground, it won't help. It is necessary to create courtyards and entrances such that a person, just entering the yard, feels like he is on his own territory,” continues Sotonin (Photo: “League of Housing and Public Utilities”)

The estimated cost of improving one MOP will be from 70 thousand (doors) to 200 thousand rubles. (doors plus entrance group). "Pay for the repair of your own entrance There will always be a resident of this entrance. We went through communism, and because of it we got the problems that we are now solving,” explained the development director of the Ural Management Company.

“I think this whole topic is not only about beauty. When expanding the comfort zone, the area of ​​responsibility of each person automatically expands. He feels not only the apartment, but also the entrance as his own. Then the yard. Then the microdistrict. Then the city and the country,” concluded Ilya Sotonin.

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 cells or using 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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After a successful marriage proposal, the young couple begins planning their wedding. They spend many months planning the event and selecting the necessary personnel, searching for the venue and wedding dresses, determining the menu and decorating the banquet. And when there is little time left, the moment comes to decide how to decorate the entrance to the wedding. It shouldn’t be put off until later; it’s better to think through the details of room decor in advance.

Decorating the bride's entrance for ransom with your own hands

If you want to create a festive, cheerful mood for the groom from the very morning, take care of the traditional entertainment - the bride price. This ritual takes place on the way to your home, so it’s worth thinking through the details of how to decorate the entrance to your wedding. So that, when looking at the walls, people do not pay attention to the worn paint, and the windows do not seem small and sad to them, you need to place the accents correctly.

Determine the main problems of your entrance, disguise them, making them invisible, and turn the attention of the guests and the groom to the advantages of the room. For example, easily cover up peeling paint on the walls with a beautiful fabric, ribbons, and focus on clean steps. If the problem is in the entrance field, then it is better to cover it with a carpet or lay out a path of petals. Draw the groom's attention to the staircase by decorating it with unpretentious decor. Believe me, if you try, you will be able to create a joyful mood for all those invited.

When decorating your entrance, consider the routes leading to you, including the elevator, the main entrance, the area near the apartment, and not just the entrance stairs. The groom should take the initial steps with bated breath from the beauty that will grow as he approaches you. Don't forget that the decor you choose should match the main color of the wedding. Motley, too bright wedding decorations at the entrance or at the entrance to a private house will not fit into a gentle, romantic celebration.

Floor

Having decided to place the main emphasis on the floor of the entrance, think through several wedding options. Scarlet rose petals express passion, pink ones - tenderness, white ones - trust and purity. If you are having a creative wedding, then images and inscriptions made using a spray can using stencils will look original in the entrance. For a gentle, sensual celebration, choose a luminous, light fabric for the floor (guipure, mesh). Secure it with candlesticks. For a luxurious wedding, laid out origami figures covered with shiny paint are suitable.

Ladder

If your house does not have an elevator, then in the wedding decor for the entrance staircase, show all your imagination, embodying your desires, and not standard schemes. Do you like the tradition of bride price? Then on the steps of the entrance there should be game wishes, quests, tasks that the groom is able to complete. If you want your lover to be in full anticipation when approaching you, then you should approach it from a romantic angle. Use candles in the entrance flower arrangements in pots, delicate fabric, paper decorations, hanging joint photographs on the railing.

Walls

Place general photographs on the walls of the entrance, if you have not already done so on the railings. This way the groom will be able to remember the places and locations mentioned in the pictures. If the wedding takes place in game version, then think about where to find large stickers-posters “Love is...”. Original garlands in the shape of hearts, balls, triangles in the colors of your wedding will look great, masking the inappropriate color of the entrance walls. Secure them to the ceiling with tape.

Doors

The last obstacle on the groom's path is the door of the bride's house. They should be the final line in this difficult morning journey through the entrance. Wedding flower wreaths look harmonious, elegant, and laconic. Use better plants, which according to the wedding season will fit into the main thematic color. If you choose artificial flowers, this wedding wreath will last you a long time. An original solution The inscriptions “I agree” and “Your soul mate” will appear. Flower bouquets in a flowerpot - great idea for a boho or eco-friendly wedding.

The best design and decoration ideas with photos

To make your entrance a unique, exquisite work of art, it is not necessary to hire decorators, florists and wedding planners. You can become a great designer yourself. If you are afraid that you will not have time to physically decorate the entrance, ask your girlfriends for help. The main criterion is to create jewelry with love and a piece of your soul. Coming up to you, the groom should feel that you are waiting for him before the wedding.

There are many options for implementing wedding ideas. Even with a minimal budget, it’s easy to create a fairy tale in your entryway on your wedding day. You will need tape, scissors and paper, from which you will need to create three-dimensional installations in the form of balls, flowers, and geometric garlands. Or use balloons at your wedding. If your budget allows, do not lose sight of fresh flowers - they are beautiful in any entrance.

Ribbons and bows

A trip to the altar in a magnificent wedding dress and a rich banquet await you on the best day of your life? Then the morning before the wedding should be no less large-scale and voluminous. Using ribbons for decoration has always given this effect. Dark red bows in the Marsala shade are suitable for a wine wedding. Soft pink ribbons along the walls and railings of the entrance are an excellent start to a most tender ceremony. Small bows in ivory or champagne shades will fit perfectly into the sunny windows of the entrance. Complete the front door of the bride's apartment or home with a wreath with a bow made in the theme color of the wedding.

Balloons

Weddings go beyond the traditional boundaries of decorating with the standard red and white balloons. This is the "last century". If a wedding agency offers you the idea of ​​decorating the entrance with balloons, you should not refuse until you present the final picture. The main advantage of this option is its modest budget and grandiose appearance.

Balloons not only release caustic, bright colors, but also the most delicate shades. Light pink, peach, ivory, mint, burgundy, emerald, sea blue... and this is not the whole list. The original decision at the wedding will be Balloons filled with sparkles or secret notes giving the groom tips on how to quickly solve the bride price puzzle. Mini airships are made using fabric and attached to a thread to the ceiling of the entrance. Toys and flowers are added to the baskets, which the groom presents to the bride.

Flowers

Flower arrangements in the entrance - extraordinary, stylish, real. Any florist will be happy to create miracles for you. If it’s easier for you to entrust the job to a master, then do so. Brides who are ideological inspirers, constantly learning new basics of creativity, need to try themselves as a florist for the first time, using the entrance premises. Flower bouquets, installations, single buds - everything can be easily placed in decorative vases, jars, flowerpots, boxes and other devices that are at hand.

Scarves and garlands

If you like bright wedding solutions, then scarves and garlands are suitable for decorating the entrance. Start from the main thing theme color. Take scarves that, when combined, will create a smooth gradient, tie one on a string - a beautiful wedding background in the entrance is ready. Garlands are made using paper, cardboard, flexible fabric, old wallpaper, magazines. You need to take a suitable material, cut out the same geometric figures, string on a thread, hang on a piping.

It’s easy to choose your material: if you have a vintage wedding, then floral wallpaper with peonies will suit better than others. Is your choice a celebration in the style of the movie “The Great Gatsby”? Use gold glitter or paint over the paper circles. If your wedding coincides with Valentine's Day or the main theme of the wedding is a certain flower or fruit, then you will certainly find wallpaper with such a pattern.