It is possible to treat the one-room apartment differently. Anyway, it is better to have it, than not to have in general own housing. If you need to arrange the one-room apartment, then it is necessary to do it with effective use of each centimeter of space.
1. Recently very popularly to turn the decision the apartment into studio. In this case the partition between the room and kitchen communicates. Respectively, the space at the expense of partition thickness increases. Besides at such planning, in kitchen it is possible to arrange bar counter of which many dream. But the studio apartment is relevant only to the person who lives one or for young couple which has no children yet. Besides, demolition of partition between the room and kitchens needs to be coordinated with BTI, providing them the project and not the fact that this project will be approved. If you are not going to make out anything, keep in mind that if learn appropriate authorities about unauthorized re-planning, to you not to avoid penalty. And if the partition could not be taken down, then you will be forced it to restore.
2. One more opportunity to expand the living space is to turn loggia or balcony into additional inhabited meters. For this purpose you need to change at first the window block, to warm walls, to carry out heat-insulated floor on loggia floor, to establish radiator. On loggia it is possible to take out the fridge, to establish the fitted cupboards, and it is possible to turn it into cozy office or even bedroom.
3. In the one-room apartment it is necessary to have multipurpose furniture and the built-in cabinets. The built-in furniture allows to use all space from floor to ceiling, it can be established in any, most inconvenient place: in niches, in places of passing of utilities, having in parallel hidden them where there pass beams and so on. Sliding wardrobes "eating" small part of space, contain in themselves incomparably more things, than cabinet furniture. About it in general forget.
4. In kitchen also install the built-in equipment and cabinets. Cooking surface choose not the 4th konforochny, but the 2nd. Instead of oven, buy the bread machine. It will take less places, and functions at modern ovens weight. Beginning from test batch, finishing with jam making.
5. In the bathroom which is for certain combined with toilet it is also possible to use space effectively. For example, instead of bulky bathtub it is possible to establish shower cabin. So you can save square meter that for the bathroom there is a lot of. On this place park the washing machine. Too choose it, proceeding from drum depth. There are many machines at which the small depth of drum does not affect quality of washing. If you after all do not want shower cabin, then put the machine to the place of sink, and establish it over the machine. There are special models of sinks intended for this purpose.
6. As for berth, choose transforming furniture. It is the sofa bed, chair-bed stored and the developing chairs. For registration of children's corner there are now ready sets in which the bed of the child is on the 2nd floor, and on the first its cabinet, work table, shelves.