Our Cottage - наша дача. Just at the skirt of the bustling city center by the huge nature reserve is a beautiful line of restaurants and resorts. Among them is my favorite Nasha Dacha. Much like Amatto, this restaurant calls me in more for the environment inside. The food is a giant plus.
The restaurant runs along with the theme of their name, cottage-style interior design. It is a cottage of a grander scale. Enough to host over 70 guests at once. Right now there is a lot of little holiday decorations added to the main design itself.
My favorite place in the restaurant is the bar. I am not a drinker but the bar just looks so good! I'd think such big bars don't practically have a place in cottages, but I'd imagine it'd look something like this if there'd be one.
The rustic wood bar is on the west end of the main hall. It has this old, faded-out look to it. The real treat is in the details. A very old looking table lamp. The kind I used to have at home when I was a kid. A few scattered pots and jars, which look like they are made of clay.
On the wall hangs a sepia picture with a wooden frame along with a few other black and white picture frames. The whole thing looks so well planned out and specifically to serve the theme. The shelf also is the same rustic wood with the extra top shelves filled with books.
Nasha Dacha is a double storied building. Every inch of the restaurant including the stairwell pushes to follow the cottage style look. The handrails are painted in soothing blue and made of wood. The stairs are covered with wood stickers to match the theme.
There are some featherweight paintings hung on the wall on the stairwell. Not too heavy to distract you, but strong enough to acknowledge and brush past. It's a great way to add some flavor to the rather bland and huge white walls that do nothing.
The walls in the restaurant are the furthest away from bland and boring. The stairwell wall is the most mundane it will get. Almost all the walls in the dining hall are lined with these tall cozy shelves. Some are white, the others are pasty green.
Just like a typical country cottage house, the shelves are packed with comfortable escapes. They are all lined with books. Endless books. These aren't just for show, these are actual books! I picked a few out of curiosity but couldn't find any in English.
Since this is Ukraine, Kompot is obligatory. On the shelf by the bar, one corner is packed with Kompot. Different kinds of kompot, all the flavors that you can imagine. Some yellow, some red, some brown. Ah, I can smell them here while writing this post.
Some spaces of the shelves were used so creatively. In some spots, they stuck a TV in. In some, they added dried fruits and vases. Occasionally you could come across an old antique table lamp. I must say it is a very creative use of shelves and a great way to entertain the guests.
The blue theme follows all the way from the handrails to the doors. I really love these doors. Tall, bulky, and with glass. The frame with the upside down lip on the top is my favorite. I am not sure is it because of how fond I am of the neoclassical windows on the buildings in Kharkiv, but I am very attracted to that specific design.
The restaurant is very well lit. There are, however, no visible light bulbs or tubelights. There is a multitude of small chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. They look so gorgeous. I have noticed most of the interior designs of cottages on the internet have similar chandeliers. Small and nothing grandiose about them. Yet elegant. Come to think of it, the shelves also play a significant role as a light source. Clever!
Tell me you noticed the triangular ceiling. Most cottages have angled roofs, no? I liked this touch a lot. The building itself has a flat roof, but on the inside, it is made at an angle. I really appreciate the tenacity of the designer, sticking to the theme all the way!
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