Proud ancient Romans or refined Greeks knew how to appreciate beauty. Even millennia later people admire their works and wish to add a refined antique note to the interior of their beloved home. Moldings or statuettes are often not enough, I want something more grand and grandiose. That's why decorative columns in the apartment were invented. Invented as an additional support for the ceiling, these elements in our housing now serve often more as decorating the room, performing a purely aesthetic role.
What do decorative columns make of?
Now you can meet in the interior, as decorative columns of plaster, and decorative columns of polyurethane, stone or wood. Over time, natural materials are gradually replaced by artificial ones, because if you use these constructions only for beauty, then it is absolutely unnecessary to load your house with tons of concrete or granite. In addition, gypsum, for example, makes it very easy to create things of the most fantastic form. But there are some limitations, if the design will stand outside, then a decorative gypsum board will not last long. But granite, marble or artificial stone, even in the rain and snow, will last for decades.
Basic materials for decorative columns:
- gypsum;
- marble;
- polyurethane foam;
- tree;
- malachite;
- different types of plastic;
- granite;
- concrete;
- fake diamond.
Decorative columns in the interior
Much in the choice of material for the construction of these elements of the interior depends on the style. If you need to emphasize the technogenicity of the situation (loft, underground), then there is absolutely no need to decorate them in some way especially. The apartment will fit even rough decorative concrete columns, devoid of exquisite finishes. But here in the historical interior (classicism, baroque ), these things look inaccurate. Here, decorative columns of foam plastic, plasterboard, wood, marble or other material decorated with gilding, lined with chic stucco molding, are relevant.
There are several ways how to use decorative columns in their surroundings:
- Set the column in the center of the room.
- For the zoning of the premises you can create colonnades.
- Placement of columns in pairs. In this case, decorative wooden or other columns are placed on the sides of the window aperture, fireplace, staircase.
- The use of semi-columns - structural elements that simulate a real column, but protruding only half from the wall, to frame windows or niches.
We hope that the techniques listed here will help you decorate your interior with decorative columns, making your house stylish and extremely beautiful.
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