The one-room apartment - one of the most popular and running views of housing. It is connected with the fact that it is compact and at the same time costs much cheaper, than two-room. However often one-room apartments are too small. Besides, it seems to many owners of such living spaces that there is not enough space for creation of interesting repair. Designers assure that it not so. Also offer various versions of projects by means of which it is possible to change small-sized housing easily.
With design and repair of one-room apartments there can be many problems. Often such apartments have tiny kitchens and small bathrooms. At the same time on small dimensions it is necessary to place huge number of the modern equipment and furniture. Modern designers assure that to make such project not and it is difficult. The main thing to consider and think over all nuances.
What should be considered by drawing up the design project
First of all it is necessary to remember that in the small room surely all areas, corners and ledges have to work.
The standard one-room apartment has the small hall equal of 3-4 sq.m., the small size kitchen - from 6 to 10 sq.m. and the living room from 13 to 22 squares. And on these square meters it is necessary to make both the living room, and the dining room, and the bedroom. The special complexity is represented by development of design of the one-room apartment for family with the child. Sometimes it is simple not to do without re-planning.
The only thing, it is necessary to remember that under re-planning works which are carried out with not load-carrying structures mean. Otherwise you risk to make the dwelling hazardous and dangerous to accommodation.
One of optimal variants of repair of the one-room apartment which is suitable for family of two people is to create studio. For these purposes take down partition between kitchen and the room. Such measure promotes increase in quadrature of the apartment and gives the chance more logically and correctly to place furniture, floor lighting, etc. It is also possible to delimit berth. It is possible to put screen and to hide for it bed with bedside tables or sleeping sofa. And on the rest of the room to issue the living room. The only minus of such planning is that there is no noise isolation. In case the family with the child lives in the apartment, it is possible to transfer kitchen to corridor, and on its place to make the small bedroom. However, such option is possible only if in the apartment the electric stove. The space in the apartment needs to be separated correctly. various curtains, dense blinds, sliding partitions will help with it. Finishing can be good example of zoning of space in the small-sized apartment, i.e. in each functional zone there has to be the floor and ceiling. For otgranicheniye of children's zone it is possible to use racks which will be filled with books, magazines, etc. As option, it is possible to increase the area of the apartment at the expense of loggia or balcony. It is enough to demolish wall or to turn it into small wall. Warm warming is carried out, and the balcony turns into the separate room (for example, the bedroom).
Be ready that it is necessary to pass through consultations with experts and long coordination to issue such repair and re-planning.
By drawing up the design project of the one-room apartment it should be taken into account properly and question of lighting. It is the best of all to make several points where lamps will be located in the room. It is necessary to count arrangement of all bulbs so that over each functional zone there was the lighting. Be attentive that there was no dead dark zone left in the apartment. Well and, of course, together with light it is necessary to think over also arrangement of sockets in the apartment. If they are not enough, to be necessary to employ experts who will carry out to you additional wiring and will install new sockets in the places, right for you. Of course, it is necessary to think over also repair of bathroom. Everything that is here - plumbing, lockers. the washing machine, etc. has to fit into the general design of the bathroom and toilet most harmoniously. Sometimes the bathroom is tried to be increased due to transfer of wall towards kitchen. However such repair operation demands permission of special bodies and set of coordination.
Furniture and equipment
In the design project of the one-room apartment it is necessary to consider also arrangement of furniture. Various sliding wardrobes, multipurpose racks and regiments will become optimal solution for the small one-room apartment. Also today there are beds which represent not only the vacation spot, but also storage for various small subjects, type of books, vases, dry compositions, etc. As for wall-paper, it is the best of all to choose that light color. They visually increase space. Besides, try to get rid of excess things. They become the real stuff and considerably encumber the apartment. For kitchen it is better to choose furniture glossy. It at the expense of the glaring surfaces also considerably increases space. Also it is necessary to remember that furniture also have to be light. The kitchen made to order will become optimal variant - it will be ideal in parameters and will not take too much place. One more question which concerns arrangement of kitchen raises the question of arrangement of the equipment. Experts claim that the equipment in the one-room apartment with small kitchen has to be built-in.