A photo: Sergey Dzhevahashvili- My husband Eduard and I have invented everything in our house. I can not even remember which year I finished building. I'm a leisurely person. I do not need it to be done once. I went shopping, I gradually chose everything, bought. Probably, it was necessary to erect a stone house, but we live in a city in a stone. And the tree still gives a different sense of space. So we stopped on it. Osobo glamor in the interior there. A natural summer residence, but with a certain charm, because often here I take friends at a big table in the living room. I can not live here all the time. From Moscow the villa is far away. To get there in time and slip through the traffic jams, you need to get out of here at five in the morning, and otherwise three hours will moo. True, the construction of the central ring road has now started, which may improve the situation, but because of it we have a dilemma. Stay here or move? We fled here from people, civilization, and suddenly she caught up with us. Eight lanes of road will be. I just wanted to fix something in the house, I'm an amateur to remodel. Now we froze in anticipation. Like cobra before the blow. We'll wait when the road appears, see how it affects the ecology, and we will decide. Now there are a lot of birds in the forest, moose sometimes go out, but what will happen next ...
The Old Russian fireplace was the first that we built when we finished the house. Photo: Sergey Dzhevakhashvili
Two hundred roses and fir trees
— Our plot is large, as much as 50 acres.You don't have to go far to take a walk. You can even hide here. Behind the fence is a mixed forest, and along its edges there are solid birches. Sometimes my husband brings old trees from there and chops them down for firewood. There is a special firewood house in the yard. Crocuses have already started to sprout on the plot, snowdrops have grown. They didn't die, even when the frost hit. I have flowers everywhere. At first, we made a winter garden in the house itself, but we laid the glass incorrectly, there were cracks. As a result, when the cold weather started, we froze badly along with the flowers and redid it. Now the garden has scattered all over the house. But the main pride is outside. There are all my experiments, botanical delights. For example, recently I was in the "Apothecary Garden" and found jasmine growing all around, we made an arch out of it there. I am trying to build the same in my yard. I also have about 200 roses, they smell incredible, fir trees, cedar, willows, viburnum. You name it.
Canadian Christmas trees and cedar planted themselves. Next to them is our home dinosaur museum. They built it for my boys, because they were addicted to these animals and did not get out of this museum. In the wooden tent every spring there is a solemn display of dinosaurs on the shelves. Photo: Sergey Dzhevakhashvili
I dream of banish the TV
— I have some kind of dislike for corners, so inthe guest room has a rounded wall. If a sharp corner appears, I have to smooth it out, cover it with something. The chest of drawers is slightly crooked. And all this is to hide the corner. This is probably because I am a non-confrontational person. I need everything to be peaceful. I have a secret dream of driving someone out - removing the TV from the living room. Because people come, especially small children - my grandchildren, nine-year-old Nikita and seven-year-old Stepan, start watching it, eat at the same time, and the spoon hangs somewhere in the middle. The TV is distracting, but everyone is against moving it. By the way, no matter how much I try to seat guests at the large dining table, for some reason everyone gathers at the bar counter in the kitchen. Apparently, because you sit high up, you can see far. I like this place myself. And the grandchildren like to sit under the counter.
I have a friend-inventor Tolya Podarin. He helped with the interior design and proposed to build a guest bamboo in the guest walls. Photo: Sergey Dzhevakhashvili
I keep things with meaning
— The house only has those interior items,that I love. And I throw away everything I don’t like. To be honest, I had an incredible number of souvenirs on the shelves. But they collected so much dust that I dumped them in a huge box and put them away in the closet. I’m starting to give them away little by little. I understand that I used to be happy about these little things and details, but now they make me angry. Only behind the glass in the chest of drawers are there toys, figurines that my mother and girlfriends gave me. These things have meaning, they carry a special spirit. I keep them. I do the same with clothes. In principle, I have a lot of them because of my work. There are those that are dear to me, but I’m tired of them. I don’t throw them away. Sasha Vasiliev (fashion historian, host of “Fashion Sentence” - Ed. “Antenna”) once told me: “Arina, keep the things you love, fashion will come back.” And he’s absolutely right. I allocated a special suitcase for them, where I put them and store them.
