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Editor’s Letter
People who live in the South are lucky — they can renovate their houses all year round. In Russia everybody is renovating and redecorating mostly in the summer. That is the time when, if you open your windows after repainting your walls to get the smell of paint out, you are fairly sure you won’t freeze to death. And it is because of this redecorating fever that the main topics of our July issue are kitchens — and color. These are hard times economically, and we try to renovate our homes within budgets; we do what is really necessary and try to save as much as possible. Kitchen is a place that requires a lot of attention, we renovate it even if we don’t touch much else in the house. Our pages are full of inspiring kitchen design ideas. I would advise you, dear reader, not to save money on kitchen design — believe me, a lot of things in your house depend on a comfortable kitchen. If you want to save money, save them on walls: simply repaint them. This is the cheapest and totally foolproof way of refreshing the interior: if you don’t like the result, or if something went wrong you can always repaint the walls again. It is summer, after all — we can open our windows as wide as we want to. The smell of fresh paint would be gone soon, yet freshness and brightness of the new design would stay with you for a long time. Till your next renovation urge, that is.
Eugenia Mikulina
It Is In Your Chromosomes
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