All about the renovation of a two-room apartment

Correctly organized renovation of a two-room apartment will make it possible to make a comfortable and stylish home even out of an outdated "Khrushchev" apartment. One of the main stages in working with apartments of the old fund is redevelopment and zoning.

Repair of a two-room apartment in a new building, as a rule, can be done without much difficulty. Houses of this type have a fairly large kitchen and rooms, a spacious bathroom, as well as a balcony or loggia, which, if necessary, are endowed with certain functions. As a result, redevelopment of such a 2-room apartment is often not required.

All the features of the repair are in choosing high-quality finishes, creating a holistic design project and conducting actual zoning... In some cases, to save space, sliding doors are installed in the apartment, and quite often the balcony is insulated.

but in old houses the repair process is more complex. To begin with, two-room apartments in such buildings rarely have an area exceeding 50 square meters, but they often have an inconvenient layout. In the event that an apartment is purchased or inherited in a satisfactory condition, you can limit yourself to cosmetic repairs - change the wallpaper, renew the paint on the ceiling and purchase new plumbing fixtures. Unfortunately, in most cases, such the old kopeck piece requires a costly overhaul.

A two-room apartment in an old building has serious drawbacks. Very low ceilings are found in "Khrushchev" and "Brezhnevkas", but in "Stalinkas" the height of the premises can reach about 4 meters. Narrow corridors do not allow to place all the necessary furniture, and it is often impossible to expand them due to the presence of load-bearing walls. Old kopeck pieces often contain separate bathrooms and bathrooms with very small footage.

Small kitchens, especially in "Khrushchevs", force the owners to go to all sorts of tricks to create comfort in this important area. It should also be mentioned that apartments with cracks in the walls, worn-out ceilings and unsatisfactory noise protection are regularly exhibited on the secondary housing market. In 2-room "Khrushchev" buildings, load-bearing interior walls prevent redevelopment and movement of openings. In this case, in order to make the home more comfortable, the kitchen is combined with a corridor or with one of the rooms.

Arrange repair in "Brezhnevka" relatively more convenient, because most often there are separate bathrooms and kitchens in kopeck houses with an area of ​​up to 8 square meters. Even without redevelopment, housing turns out to be beautiful and comfortable, but with preliminary leveling of walls and replacement of outdated communications. However, it should be remembered that in this type of house there are interior load-bearing walls and ventilation shafts that cannot be transferred.

It is customary to repair a two-room apartment either capital or cosmetic.

Major repairs are most often carried out when moving or when cosmetic repairs are not enough. This type of repair consists of a large number of stages and necessarily requires the involvement of specialists. Experts recommend initially making a major overhaul with a design, that is, with the preliminary development of an individual design project, including even the arrangement of furniture and the installation of lighting fixtures. In most situations, this will avoid a lot of trouble. Concerning the concept of "renovation", it is customary to understand it as an ordinary capital, occurring without the accompaniment of a designer or with him, but with the use of better and more expensive materials.

Redecoration is more budgetary, as it consists in an easy renovation of the interior without alteration of communications, windows and doors. Within its framework, no redevelopment is carried out and the wiring does not change. Most often, everything is limited to painting pipes and heating elements, changing floor coverings and repainting walls or re-pasting wallpaper. Sometimes, within the framework of "cosmetics", tiles in the bathroom are also shifted. Despite the seeming simplicity, this type of repair still takes a lot of time, since it requires preliminary dismantling of all coatings.

Repair in a two-room apartment it is customary to produce in stages.

It all starts with the removal of furniture and the dismantling of the old coating. At this stage, it is necessary to remove old wallpaper, parquet, laminate or carpet, tiles, plaster, and sometimes windows. All doors, switches, sockets and plumbing are immediately removed. For convenience, it is customary to tighten the entrance openings and openings between rooms with a thick film. If the project of an apartment implies redevelopment, then it is usually customary to demolish partitions right now. Upon completion of the dismantling, it will also be necessary to remove the bulky waste.

Electrical work usually includes wall chasing, installation of wiring accessories, and cabling. This usually takes 5-10 days. Then you can go to creation of new sewerage, water supply and heating. Already at this stage, the further placement of the washing machine, plumbing and heated towel rail is determined.

In a typical "Khrushchev" panel house most often the living room is combined with the kitchen, especially if a small apartment does not exceed 40-48 sq. m. Brezhnevka often produces unification of the bathroom, and in a large "stalinka" area of ​​54 square meters. m can be found and studio with an attic bedroom, resulting from the demolition of all interior partitions. All these options are possible in other configurations of a two-room apartment, but subject to the absence of load-bearing walls and obtaining official permission.

Before starting redevelopment, you need to find out all the technical data, including the location of utilities, the distance to the ceiling and the age of the building itself. Of course, it is determined which walls are recognized as load-bearing, and which are not forbidden to be demolished or moved.

If the owners of a small-sized apartment plan to combine two rooms of a small footage, then this, of course, will create a spacious and comfortable room, but also will require the use of thoughtful zoning. For example, this may be the location of the sleeping area on the podium in the enlarged living room and the additional use of lighting.

Often the kitchen is combined with the living room, which allows you to increase the working area for cooking and even allocate a quite spacious area for eating. In some cases the living room is combined with the bedroom, but then the sleeping place should be hidden from prying eyes as much as possible. Cramped bathroom and toilet it would be more correct to connect to a more spacious room. Possibly also "Fusion" of the kitchen and the corridor.

Ceiling alignment usually occurs using plaster, unless the room has been selected tension cloth. First, it is the ceiling that is leveled, and then the walls, openings and slopes. The procedure is carried out in two stages: on the first surface they are covered with a primer-primer, and after it dries, they are treated with a plaster compound. At the second stage, minor defects are masked with a putty, and the entire surface is primed.

The floor screed can be carried out either on a cement-sand or gypsum base. In the first case, the coating itself can be laid no earlier than in two weeks, and in the second, the tile is laid after three days, and other types of coating - after a week.

Before the start of finishing, plasterboard structures are also mounted, if any in the design project. For example, it can be niches or arches, boxes that hide plumbing communications or partitions.

The materials used for finishing are determined depending on the interior style chosen for the apartment. For example, a modern loft necessarily requires brickwork on the walls, and also allows you to leave communications open. Country style will not do without wooden flooring, and a minimalist apartment will look good with simply painted walls.

The classic solution in floor design is laminate or other wood flooring for living rooms and kitchens, as well as the use of tiles in the bathroom. The interior looks unusual, in which part of the corridor at the front door is decorated with the same tiles as the bathroom. It is not forbidden for budget repairs use and linoleum.

For a standard two-room apartment, it is recommended to use multi-level cladding, and this applies not only to the ceiling, but also to the walls. Having freed the surface from irregularities, it can be painted with paint or even paste over with wallpaper. A good solution is and stretch ceiling, suitable for both spacious housing in a new building, and for a small "Khrushchev". It will look great in a large "stalinka" building with high ceilings ceiling lined with wooden beams.

If the area of ​​the apartment is small, then the walls are better painted in pastel colors. However, the presence of an accent, brighter surface will even come in handy. The idea of ​​making one of the walls textured, and then painting it in the same colors as the others, looks unusual.

In any case, the design of the walls is largely depends on the dominant stylistic direction.

After completing the renovation and proceeding to selection of furniture for a two-room dwelling, every detail must be carefully considered. The fact is that in a small space, especially houses of the old fund, furnishing elements not only fulfill their key functions, but are also responsible for zoning. Better to choose multifunctional items, providing a thoughtful storage system.For example, a bookcase can not only accommodate all the owners' literature, but also separate the sleeping area from the living room area.

Ready-made options always help you navigate and imagine how best to equip your own home.

• Looks very unusual two-room "Khrushchev", after the renovation of which the kitchen and living room were combined into one, and the refrigerator was located in the former corridor. Thanks to the "merger" of the two rooms, there was enough space for both cooking and eating, and the living area itself, even when it became smaller, did not suffer at all. For all rooms, a single floor and wall covering was chosen, which transformed the disparate areas into a single whole. Nevertheless, the necessary zoning was carried out not only with the help of furniture, but also with the lighting system. Furniture for the apartment was chosen light and rather compact.

• In another renovated two-room apartment, you can clearly see how to select the finish and furniture for small spaces. Using the example of a corridor, you can make sure that preference should be given to light, pastel colors and discreet patterns, and the furniture may even be white. The presence of two mirrors allows you to visually expand the space, as well as a well-thought-out lighting system.

A video review of the repair of a two-room apartment is presented in the following video.