Reversible ladder — a device simple and reliable. But only in ideal conditions, and when the floor is smooth and wall is straight. And if you have to work, say, in the stairwell on the stairs, in the garden, collecting the harvest, or on a high pole? In such cases the best way out is modernization of the reference elements of the design ladder.
Country house
THE LADDER AT THE SUMMER HOUSE
In the cottages to place a convenient staircase to climb to the loft difficult. And the output, it turns out, there is. He is to use long-known designs parallelogram mechanism which is sometimes used for attachment of the wall lamps. Only in our case we need two such devices, connected by rails. It is convenient to use as rungs of a wooden rolling pin. At their ends, holes are drilled where the glue is placed on the metal studs. The ends of the amplified thin aluminum rings. Step of the steps is selected so that would the stairs were easy to climb and big and small.
POND AND WATERFALL IN THE GARDEN
On a hot day, so want to swim or just sit in the shade near the water. But most of the garden plots are located away from ponds and rivers, and swimming can only dream of. But if one were to build a simple pond right on the site? Decorative pond with a diameter of about two meters and a depth of 80-90 cm is easy to build for one or two days. And need for building only greenhouse polyethylene film or roofing felt (for waterproofing), clay and sand.
STOVE “HOUSEKEEPER”
Wonder how good Russian baking! The sweet bread from it, most nourishing soup of it. She and the heat in the house will remain, and herbs for the winter, dried, and pottery, saverchenko on a Potter’s wheel, bring to a merry peal. She and bath, and warm bed. In a word, not a primitive heating device that came to us from ancient times, and as now would tell, a universal unit.
WATER IN A COUNTRY HOUSE
It is difficult now to imagine urban and rural life with no running water. Well, if the centralized water supply there, and the next well, the simplest solution is to use to lift water the pump. However, this is half the battle. The water supply system of the house should include a holding tank, and elements of the automatic control pump, and supplies network. Because of that design decision here can be very diverse. About some of them today to tell our readers.
ACTIVATOR FOR SEEDLINGS
It would seem that there is nothing more habitual than water, and yet nothing is more mysterious than she is. Remember: from the spring to the ocean — the forms of its existence in the liquid state; the trickle of steam from the kettle and clouds in the sky — she is in a gaseous; fluffy snow and solid ice all the same water; and the physicists know that even the so-called heavy water, which promises a substantial contribution to future energy. It was always known that frozen water breaks pipes and vessels. And suddenly the mystery: in capillaries thinner than a hair and it stays in the cold liquid. How many more secrets in it?
UMBRELLA FROM THE SUN
Nice in the summer, sitting comfortably on a bench, in a chair, read a book, chat with friends. To protect the resting place from the sun, we offer you to build beautiful and easy “umbrella”: a graceful gazebo.
DESIGN SHADOW
Undeservedly forgotten in the garden plots of the so-called architecture of small forms. For example, pergolas and trellis — light openwork structures, usually overgrown with plants and forming a freestanding green wall, gazebo or covered alleys. Seamlessly blending into the surrounding greenery, they create cozy nooks that are protected from direct sunlight.
GARDEN “HAIRDRESSER”
I worked as a mechanic gardening vehicles, or simply petrol lawn mowers. Often had to cut the grass and shrubs in inconvenient places, and in restricted areas. And the existing braids and large manual shears are ill-suited for such work. So I decided to ease your work — to come up with a portable hand tool for cutting bushes, flower beds and lawns. Asked domestic and foreign experience of construction of such mechanisms, sketched some sketches mowers with various actuators, including electric. However, before the reali-
organization of ideas was far away: we were not satisfied with a single node, then the other.
LACE HOUSE
The decoration of houses, carved wooden items — the traditional folk decorative arts — widespread in our country. Remember how much joy the eye gives light and elegant, beautiful trim casings, shutters, cornices, skates roofs and rural, and still-preserved city houses the Central part of Russia, the Urals and Siberia. Here you can find the most difficult kinds of thread complex forms, using vegetal ornament and fantastic images of all kinds of birds and animals. In the North widespread simple geometric patterns. from shallow pits and grooves: they are not afraid here abundant precipitation, which quickly would lead to destruction. intricate carving.