Repair of any room in a private house, no doubt,more difficult than repairing a well-maintained apartment. But in a private house full freedom opens for the imagination of the homeowner or designer. For the living room in the house you can arrange a real fireplace, which is unlikely to allow an apartment. 
Repair in the living room of a private house will allowto translate into reality the most daring ideas. If the house is heated inconsistently, then building materials should be chosen taking into account the fact that the house breathes and has significant temperature changes. In general, cosmetic repairs with sealing cracks and wallpapering are not particularly different from repairs in an apartment. To do in a private house, you should decide what you want. Let's dwell on the averaged version without unnecessary complications.
Options for finishing the ceiling of the living room
To repair and finish the ceiling, many ownersuse the grandfather's method, starting with the leveling with plaster, then puttying, and after impregnation with the primer proceed to the application of the finish coat. Such options are considered the most simple and budget. For whitewashing, lime can be used, and alkyd paints are used for painting. Doing repairs in the living room, it is very convenient to use suspended ceilings. 
Scheme of wall plastering. They will close all irregularities and wrong joints of plates, if any. The disadvantage of this design is a significant reduction in the height of the room. To install such a structure, it is desirable to have some skills in installing a metal structure, on which panels of plasterboard will be fastened. The latest novelty in interior decoration is stretch ceilings. Ceilings of film or fabric are stretched on the fixtures mounted around the perimeter of the room. Under the action of the heat gun, the web is stretched and fixed. Such ceilings are beautiful, quite diverse in design, can be matte and glossy, in addition, they can be combined with suspended ceilings, creating a multi-level design. Back to contents</a>
Decorating the walls of the living room
Scheme of installation of a false ceiling. To decorate the walls in a private house using wallpaper, natural or artificial stone, plasterboard, as well as simply paint the walls. The living room is the largest room in the house, and the walls can be decorated according to the classical option - plastered. Now there is a warm plaster, which simultaneously hides logs or brickwork and warms the walls. According to the heat-insulating properties, this plaster is close to the expanded polystyrene plates, which are insulated by the buildings from the outside. Repair of the living room in a private house using plasterboard is perhaps the easiest and inexpensive option. Mount GKL on the walls is very simple, any will cope, then it will remain neatly sealed, and ideally even walls are ready. They can be painted, they can be wallpapered. But sheets of drywall steal space, so it makes sense to glue them to the walls, rather than hang on metal structures. There are also decorative plasters, which are applied to the wall as an independent material, after them it is not necessary to use the finishing putty for leveling. Back to contents</a>
Flooring in a private house
The scheme of gluing wallpaper by one person. Repair of the living room does not do without updating the floor surface. There are a lot of different solutions for finishing the floor. For a concrete floor, any material, from ceramic floor tiles to parquet floors, is suitable. If the wooden floor in the living room does not need to be changed, then remove the upper floor and begin laying the laminate, parquet, solid or linoleum. For the living room, if it is combined with the kitchen, the zoning of the room is characteristic. When repairing, you can delimit the space, separating the kitchen area from the living room, floor tiles. For the finish of the floors in the house sold a lot of flooring. An interesting option is a modular coating, in some ways playing the role of protective coating from moisture and dirt in a private house. The coating is a mosaic compound made of PVC. Modular floors have high resistance to abrasion and beautiful appearance. In homes often used as a floor covering carpet, it is not too expensive for the price, it is artificial, natural or mixed. It does not need to be washed, it is enough to vacuum, and the floors in the private house will become much warmer, especially if the pile of the carpet is tall.
