In everyday life, the kitchen typically serves as both a kitchen and a dining room: breakfast and dinner are eaten here, children are fed here, because everything is at hand. But sitting down at the table with a large family or numerous guests is preferable in a spacious room. This means dishes need to be Read more…
The journal “Modelist-Konstruktor” has more than once published materials about homemade “refrigerators,” where natural cold is used for storing food, of which there is more than enough in the middle latitudes of our country, not to mention its north. In all these devices, when the frost is too severe, the optimal temperature is maintained by Read more…
As is known, food products are smoked in the smoke from burning hardwood. The smoke generator is usually placed at some distance from the cold smoking chamber and connected to it by a flue, so that most solid particles, tar, and a number of other substances formed during combustion and considered carcinogenic do not reach Read more…
The times when caring for people’s health in our country was a state matter are long gone. The quality of free medical care now depends only on the doctor’s conscientiousness, while paid care depends on the amount you can “fork over,” and even that’s not always the case. Therefore, I advise taking care of your Read more…
A model housewife always has a supply of various spices in the kitchen, designed for preparing delicious, appetizing dishes — whether it’s first course, second course, baked goods, or dessert. And, of course, it’s good if you don’t have to search for all this in cabinets and shelves, but have it, as they say, always Read more…
In small families, the kitchen is most often used for meals: it’s quick and convenient—everything is at hand. But most kitchens are cramped—you can’t fit a normal “family” table, say 900×900 mm, there. It would seem that the solution is to use a folding (for mealtime) design. However, transforming such a table from small to Read more…
No matter how beautifully the walls and floor of the bathroom are decorated – the overall pleasant picture is disrupted by the gaping space under the bathtub itself, which is usually installed on legs and is not covered by anything. It is no coincidence that the industry has recently started supplying a special panel device Read more…
Everyone knows the wonderful properties of a steam bath. It helps healthy people maintain vitality, harden themselves, avoid illness, and excellently restore the body after nervous and physical stress. During the bath procedure, a person, along with sweat, is freed from toxins and salts, which is why doctors recommend sweating daily—from physical exertion or from Read more…
On a hot summer day, when the scorching air stands still in the absence of a breeze, neither an open transom nor even a wide-open window brings the desired coolness. It’s good when there’s a built-in window fan. Well, for those who don’t have one, I offer a way to quickly install a removable fan Read more…
A bedside table for bedding usually consists of a narrow box with a lid or a folding flap covering half of the front panel. The bedside table option proposed by the Hungarian magazine “Észermester” also looks almost no different externally. However, upon closer inspection, we’ll see that not only the upper half of the front Read more…
