Interior of the month: wooden cottage with winter decor in Istra

The owners first wanted to demolish this old wooden cottage, but, fortunately, changed their mind. As a result of the reconstruction, the house received a rebirth, and on the eve of the New Year holidays it turned into a real winter fairy tale

New Year’s decor is the work of the florist Vera Markova, @verflower. Almost all the toys on the Christmas tree are homemade. Paper ornaments are cut out of powdery shades of craft, garlands are assembled from macrame cords, forest cones and music paper soaked in coffee. Wooden toys on silk blue ribbons, Svetlana Cherkashina, @deko_lanka.

Photo: Dina Alexandrova

Project: reconstruction of an old wooden cottage

Square footage: 75 m2

Location:Istra district of the Moscow region

Author of the house reconstruction and interior design project: Vera Fedchenko, @old_new.home

Christmas decor: florist Vera Markova, @verflower

Vera Fedchenko, the hostess of the house @old_new.home. “I baked ginger men for the holiday, which instantly filled the house with the aroma of the holiday.”

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There is even an old gramophone in the house.

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“A few years ago, my husband and I bought a plot. At first, the summer house standing on it without any amenities was not even considered as a serious structure and they wanted to demolish it. But, having looked more closely, we decided to breathe new life into it—” Vera Fedchenko says. “My husband was responsible for the technical part, I was responsible for the aesthetic part.”

During the holidays, the bathroom turned into a thicket of golden marsh grasses, creating a sense of unity with nature.

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Photo: @old_new.home

Vera is a logistician by profession, her husband Dmitry is a financier. “But for as long as we can remember, we have always been happy to equip the space around us, be it a new apartment or even a room in an old Soviet sanatorium, where we moved in no other than with beautiful dishes and flowers brought with us,” Vera says. — In this house, one decor was not enough. To begin with, it was necessary to carry out a serious reconstruction of all engineering and structural systems. But today I want to tell you about the winter decor that we created together with the florist Vera Markova.”

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The house has turned into a real winter fairy tale. The facade was decorated with spruce branches and bunches of cones on jute ropes. With the first frosts and thaws, this decoration is overgrown with icicles, which look fabulous in the light of evening garlands. And not only outside, but also inside the house – through the dining room windows.

Photo: Dina Alexandrova

Photo: Dina Alexandrova

Vera Markova created her own special decor for each room, using hydrangeas frozen in the garden, forest branches, cones, acorns and herbs collected from reservoirs in the forest near Moscow.

Under the lampshade in the tea room is a composition of pine branches and cones collected in the forest.

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Considering the style of the house, we decided to use only natural materials for winter decor

The “yellow bedroom” on the ground floor is dressed in snow-white lace.

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The “white bedroom” is on the second floor. An antique Finnish rocking chair and a handmade lace bedspread became the perfect background for the Christmas decor.

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The “White Bedroom” was decorated with large floral panels assembled from jute rope and dry stems of marsh grasses. Pine branches and fir cones are used as decoration.

Photo: Dina Alexandrova

Photo: Dina Alexandrova

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“Using mostly local natural materials, we managed to create a real winter fairy tale, our own small, cozy and unique world,” says the hostess. — It was so nice to hear the words of the driver who brought us a live Christmas tree. “It was like I got into another dimension when I saw your house—” he said. “This is some other, fabulous reality.”