Kiev pensioner turned the entrance to the museum. A PHOTO. VIDEO

In Kyiv, on Raduzhnaya Street, 11-a, pensioner Vladimir Chaika turned 3 landings of his 9-story building into a real museum! He decorated the walls along the stairs with wonderful stucco with “gilding” and portraits of women from the Middle Ages, and decorated the walls with photo wallpaper in the form of panels with palm trees, swans and fountains. Now the 3 floors of the house are more reminiscent of Versailles or the Hermitage, says “Today«.

In love with the story

“Dad is simply in love with architecture and painting. This is all his doing! He did not create all the beauty in one day. It took 15 years of painstaking work! I helped him a little financially with materials and casting of stucco. He helped install some heavy parts, 20-30 kilograms, on walls and ceilings,” Andrei Chaika, the master’s son, tells us.

Louvre on 7 floor. It looks like a cage of the usual 9-floor with stucco. Photo: segodnya.ua

“My father is very interested in history, and he likes the period of the 10th-XNUMXth centuries. He himself found photographs of ladies from the XNUMXth century, and we already printed them in large format for paintings in the front door. There are up to XNUMX of them, there is even a portrait of Mona Lisa. Many of my friends came to my dad and asked him to do such renovations in an ordinary apartment, but he doesn’t want to make money from it and take money from people,” Andrey tells us.

Clinical death

65-year-old Vladimir Vasilyevich himself says that he had a long-time dream to do something that others do not have.

“I worked as a foreman in the capital’s metro, then moved to the depot in Obolon and was involved in the repair of buildings and structures. There I met one wonderful person, he was engaged in modeling. It was he who showed me how to cast different figures, and when he retired, he gave me his molds for casting stucco. And in 1997 I experienced clinical death... And from that time I wanted to do something beautiful, unusual for people and myself. Some people say that the style of my work is similar to baroque, but I disagree - it’s just my style (laughs). I often reworked my work. For example, I redid the ceiling on my floor 4 times until I liked it,” Vladimir Vasilyevich tells us.

The pensioner says that arranging the landing is his hobby. “When I do this, I forget about everything in the world, about all the problems. It brings me pleasure. The neighbors like it too, and I try to please them again and again. By the way, I didn’t do such renovations in the apartment, everything is normal there. Only at the dacha I made a fireplace in the same style, now my wife and I warm ourselves next to it,” says Vladimir Chaika.

Elevator. Get out of it - and immediately get into a fairy tale. Photo: segodnya.ua

Rubbish chute

The pensioner is especially proud of the garbage chute, which he converted into an antique column with atlases. There are angels and the sun on the ceiling. “I’ve been planning to make this place iconic for a long time. There I have reproductions of children's fairy tales. In Chernovetsky’s time they said that all the garbage chutes would be welded shut, so I made it in the form of a column - why should good things go to waste? There are flowers nearby - my wife is looking after the roses. The common one and the Chinese one are growing and blooming! I also want to make a fake fireplace near the radiator. But it’s very old - I’m afraid it will break through and ruin all my work. By the way, the garbage chute is still working, although some neighbors are embarrassed to throw garbage into it,” says the foreman, smiling.

Vladimir Chaika says that for now he has no plans to redo all the staircases in the house. “My pension is not enough for this (laughs). Now gypsum and decorative paints have risen in price by 3 times. I want to finish everything we started from the 6th to 8th floors, and then we’ll think about what to do next. If people ask, I will do it! By the way, gilding on the walls is an ordinary decorative paint. I once offered to remodel our first floor, which was shabby, but people didn’t want to,” recalls the master.

Now Kiev residents often come to the house on excursions just to look at the master’s work. And they have to be surprised right away at the elevator on the 7th floor, which resembles the entrance to the Louvre. “Even newlyweds come to us for photo sessions, they say, let’s tell everyone that we live here. And we don’t pay attention to those who call it “Pshenka-style” - they are envious!” says one of the master’s neighbors.

Stairs. You can, walking, admire the pictures. Photo: segodnya.ua

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