Apartments remained all over the entire territory of the post-Soviet space and even whole houses that preserve the life, way and spirit of the Soviet era. Named in honor of the general secretaries, faceless and harsh "Stalinkins", "Brezhnevki" and "Khrushchev" are filled with the same tasteless and the same type of interior items, which will be discussed in this material.
Infinite doors with reinforced glass. Viewing windows in the bathroom and toilet
Long corridors like sausage cut-off doors from DVP, with built-in rectangular glasses. Sometimes these glasses are completely transparent, but more often - matte, with an inserted metal grid. For insulation from noise and maintain heat, plywood doors were estimated by the foam rubber and a layer of leatherette. The top layer was carefully fixed around the perimeter of the door countless rivets. Viewing windows under the ceiling in the bathroom - a studio topic that deserves the attention of psychologists. The horizontal and vertical surfaces of Soviet hangers were borred by black dermatin, but today it is more often you can meet more "harsh" options for hangers: black bars, crossed by the type "Christmas tree".
Chandeliers and lamps
Everyone is familiar with the subject of grandmother's pride - "Crystal" chandelier from glass or plastic elements. Natural Czech Crystal could afford very few. The bulk of women was content with ordinary glass, which quickly darkly, "disguised" flies or losing the form. Special attention deserve lamps for five horns with terrible plastic or glass flashes in the form of flowers.
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Survants with glass shelves and glass sash
The standard servant consisted of two parts: the lower part was a plywood tumbon on the legs, where they could be both horizontal and vertical boxes. Bed linen, mail, written accessories were folded here, the old photos were kept. The upper tube had glass flaps and inserted glass partitions. These departments were used equally throughout the territory of the Soviet Union: the famous crystal vases, glasses and photographs of the heart of people were placed in them.
Sofas and armchairs with bedspreads, fabric reproductions
In the USSR, it was not customary to sit on the "naked" sofa or chair. In order for the furniture to remain on the century, it should be covered with special mats with scenery or ornament. Wall and floor carpets, mats and tracks, as well as all sorts of bedspreads sometimes occupied the entire living room or bedroom hosts, collecting piles of dust. To clean such a number of fabric was very difficult: the vacuum cleaner met far from every family. They had to be taken out into the street, throw over the horizons or pipes and knock out special plastic sticks similar to tennis rackets.
Mass reproductions of Pictures of Shishkin, Aivazovsky and Vasnetsov hung not only in the frames, they were printed on carpets and bedspreads.
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A very low uncomfortable bedside table on the legs covered with cheap varnish, with the same uncomfortable boxes and towering on a meter mirror rectangle - another object of our grandmothers headset. Nowadays, this cheap thing looks terrible: unclosed boxes, praying fittings, a darkened mirror.
Why it is worth getting rid of such a Soviet legacy
The described interior items are only a tiny part of the Soviet heritage, which can not be attributed to the subjects of the antiquity, nor to things that have imprint of history. Cheap and faceless mass consumption products have long been removed from their own century and should be taken out to the landfill without regret.Article on the topic: Vinyl stickers: Creative use in the interior
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