Chalet is a warm and cozy home in the mountains

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Since ancient times, shepherds lived in the Alps, who sought to build the most comfortable and reliable homes for their families. A chalet is a rural house in the mountains.

Specialists believe that the first chalet appeared in the south-east of France, near the border with Switzerland and Italy. True, the French consider it a “Swiss house”. Therefore, chalet-style house designs are rightly called alpine.

Quite quickly, small residential buildings in the mountains became very popular. The same can be said about the interior decoration of this kind of houses. Over time, the interior of the chalet became more and more solid, but at the same time its design features and traditional characteristics did not change. Chalets are still very warm, reliable and somewhat romantic houses. According to psychologists, such houses in the most beautiful places near the mountains are built by romantics.

Another weighty argument in favor of the growing popularity of the chalets can be considered the mass enthusiasm of many people for various types of skiing and active recreation at resorts and ski resorts.

Today, such houses are being built everywhere in Canada, Germany, the USA and, of course, in Russia. They are erected even where there are no mountains and nearby. A striking examplesuch a development is the Moscow region, where entire villages are built in the Alpine style.

It is quite natural for a person to want to live in environmentally friendly housing. Alpine houses are built only from solid wood. Their decoration also allows the use of only wood, excluding plastic or metal. In some cases, stone or brick can be used to finish the ground floor.

A chalet is a house that even looks different from other rural buildings. It has a special roof: gable, strongly protruding above the walls of the building. This design is not accidental - it reliably protects the house from getting wet and heavy (in the mountains) snowfalls.

There are also special features in the interior of the chalet. This is primarily rural comfort and simplicity. Previously, from the inside, the surface of the walls of the alpine house was not additionally processed - natural stone and wood were the decoration of the dwelling. Later, the walls began to be plastered, and in some cases even painted, and the wooden walls were decorated with carvings and varnished.

However, despite some changes in the interior, chalet-style houses, the projects of which are already being created by modern specialists, invariably retain their characteristic features. This is a kind of country style. Alpine motifs can be easily seen in its interior: coniferous trees, mountain flowers, etc.

These motifs can be reflected in textiles, floor and wall decor (skins and horns on the walls emphasize the style). Doors are usually decorated with wreaths of dry mountain plants - herbs or flowers. Usually in the kitchena large number of clay dishes.

Specially aged floors of the chalet are especially attractive. The flooring in the alpine house is a massive board, not painted, not varnished. In the kitchen, bathroom floors can be tiled with natural stone tiles.

The ceilings in the chalets always have large solid beams - dark, not bleached. The ceiling is also wooden.