Why is order on Russian balconies such a rarity?

The balcony is part of our home. All owners of additional premises agree with this statement. And those people who do not have a balcony are incredibly jealous of the owners of this “spare room”. However, such “rooms” are not always as tidy and tidy as the rest of the apartment.

How Russians use balconies

Indeed, homeowners with these areas have much to envy. After all, they receive not only additional meters, but also additional opportunities.

• Create a wonderful place to relax, handicraft or work.
• Install storage systems and use the extra space as a neat and decent storage room.
• Join to room, increasing its area.

But is this potential being used in such a way?

Such different Russian balconies

In general, if you do a little research and look at your own loggia, as well as the loggias and balconies of friends and neighbors, you can understand that all Russians are divided into three completely unequal groups.

Room

• The smallest community of people united by passion to design a balcony as a separate room. What can they manage to create from a small space? This is a cozy dining room, a bedroom in relatively fresh air, a children's room, and even a small living room.On the balcony you can wonderfully arrange a study or a lovely room for handicrafts.

REFERENCE. All this splendor will not require any special trouble, especially if you are making a summer room.

All you need to do is disassemble the landfill and make some minor repairs. And if you apply the loft style, you can further reduce costs.

Pantry

The second group of people is slightly more numerous. These are those comrades who have already been inspired by the ideas of great decluttering, but still adhere to the idea of ​​​​creating a drying rack and a small storage room “at hand” on the loggia.

Such places also look quite neat.

Dump

The third category of people is the most numerous. These are Soviet-trained people and the citizens who joined them.

They have everything in the extra space. Here you can easily find a children's pot and a dried ficus, broken skis and a goalkeeper's uniform, three-liter jars with huge spiders and pieces of wallpaper, boards, panels, construction glue and buckets from under it.

All this splendor is completed by a disassembled bicycle, a Moskvich fender and an old coat with a moth-eaten collar. Occasionally they try to dismantle such a dump, but this does not help much.

Why were balconies turned into storage areas?

This custom most likely came from communal apartments. Their tiny rooms were unable to accommodate everything the residents tried to store.

Then came era of general scarcity, when garbage received not only a second, but often a third life. And a bunch of useful things could be made from an old bicycle, and glass jars were widely used for homemade preparations.

Then she came it's time for mass glazing, when the dump on the balcony received almost legal status.

IMPORTANT! In accordance with current laws, glazing of balconies must be approved in accordance with the established procedure and included in the floor plan.

Currently, balconies are most likely cluttered out of habit. Although the young, advanced generation is trying to get rid of trash immediately and forever.

How do they treat balconies in our country?

Unfortunately, having become the owners of this special square, most of our compatriots does not bother to restore basic order on the balcony.

Therefore, balconies become not a decoration of the building, but its problem. Even if these are glassed rooms. The trash that has accumulated over the years cannot be hidden behind glass.

Management companies are no different in their responsibility. It is they who must ensure the proper condition of the protruding slab. However Balcony collapses have become commonplace.

Is there any other way?

The answer is clear: yes, you can! To be convinced of this, just look at foreign balconies. They look like lovely pictures. Decorated with wrought iron grilles and bright flowers, such open spaces become a delight to the eyes of those passing by and a source of pride for the owners.

A foreign balcony becomes a full-fledged relaxation room, where people usually sit on warm evenings or work on frosty days. An insulated room becomes an extension of the room or kitchen, a “green corner” that residents of large and small cities so desperately need.

Doesn't it look attractive?

I would like to hope that over time we will be able to see such balconies in Russian cities.