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London builders: bathroom, apartment glass ideas. Part one.

Glass partitions? If you consider this to bepartitions. If to glaze, for example, part of
something featureless and office-like, younarrow corridor, it becomes lighter and looks
still know very little about ability of glassnot as a long dark room, but as part of the
to create warmth and comfort! Today you willsystem of connected vessels. The same effect
hardly be surprised by the panoramic glazingcan be achieved by building the transparent
- the megalopolis residents are accustomedpartition between the tiny anteroom and sole
that the apartment can have one or even fewdwelling room: if necessary, apartments can
fully transparent external walls. Architectsbe visually insulated by Roman shades or
successfully use glass in the interior ofscreen. Unlike ordinary glass, glass blocks
municipal housing and achieve shockingare less transparent and a little distort the
results.image, making it less evident and
mysteriously diffusing it. Therefore, even if
Glass partitions are often used: in shoppingyou do not decorate the wall from transparent
and office centers, fitness clubs, privatebricks at all, you do not feel yourself as in
interior. And no wonder! In fact, glass isan  aquarium.
ideally suitable for partitioning of
apartments.Modern glass blocks can be mat, coloured and
grooved. Nowadays designer salons also offer
You divide apartment space according to yourglass bricks, on the surface of which the
desire. As a result, you obtain a functionalpicture from the smallest coloured glass
and comfortable area. Daylight comes freelybubbles is formed. Such glass blocks can be
and makes rooms brighter. Furniture fromelements for whole pictures with landscapes,
stainless steel well underlines modern designabstract pictures, images of animals or birds
of apartments. One of main features of glassand even portraits. A particular type of
partitions is safety. Their compositionglass blocks is blocks that imitate the
includes 10 mm hard-tempered glass. Temperingstructure of the natural stone (for example,
allows increasing durability of glass by 5-7marble, malachite, granite, agate), linen or
times and makes it safe after breakage -jean fabric, mica, sun glints on water. The
glass scatters into small pieces. Usage ofrecent novelty of the market is glass blocks
the high-impact film forms the "triplexfrom the "baked" coloured glass. In fact,
effect" - glass fragments remain on the film.every block is a multicoloured stained glass,
which changes depending on the time of day
Strictly speaking, glass blocks are activelyand illumination. Though the process of
used as the fully-featured constructionmanufacturing of such glass blocks is very
material for a long time. Modern glass blockscomplicated  and  costly.
did not loose their excellent technical
properties (durability, fire and moistureIt is possible to build single-colour and
resistance, unique heat and soundmosaic walls from coloured glass blocks.
insulation), but also became beautiful. AndMeanwhile producers offer "bricks" of various
today only few interior designers do nottinctures - from pale-beige and greenish to
include at least few glass "bricks".brightly-orange, cornflower blue, navy blue
Transparent walls are appropriate both toand violet. Clearly, such bright tones
housing with large area and to a smallpractically fully hide everything that takes
apartment. Nowadays glass blocks are used forplace on the other side of the glass wall,
decoration of ceilings, floors and stairshowever, at the same time such partitions
(sometimes even stages), for enclosure ofadmit natural light and in darkness look like
winter gardens, for construction of columns,the magic lantern due to illumination.



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