Living room-bedroom

The issue of space zoning is relevant both for the owners of standard "odnushki" and for the owners of the now fashionable studio apartment. Even the happy owners of "kopeck pieces" and "three rubles" sometimes face the need to make a bed in the living room, allocating a separate room for grown-up children. Many people have to equip the living room-bedroom. The options are very different, the main thing is to take into account useful recommendations and have good taste.

The most radical way is to separate private and public space with a wall, but:

• Not everyone is allowed to do this by the size of the apartment. Unfortunately, many people face this problem.
• In most cases, the redevelopment of the premises must be coordinated with the BTI.
• Many will simply be psychologically uncomfortable in two cramped rooms instead of one, but spacious.

First, it is worth discussing the positive and negative aspects of association. It's nice that:

• A transparent, incomplete or movable wall will not cause you to feel cramped. You can do without barriers altogether.
• Even in a small apartment you will have your own cozy personal corner.
• You can fit everything you need in a small area.
• Every centimeter of the allotted space is used effectively.
• The design of the combined room can be even more interesting.

Minuses:

• Insufficient sound insulation of the bed.
• The bedroom will no longer be as private as if it was behind the wall.
• You will have to work harder on the interior than when decorating a separate living room and bedroom.

So, if there is no way to divide the premises with a "real" wall of brick, foam concrete or glass blocks, you can think of other zoning options:

• drywall;
• glass partition;
• sliding;
• a screen;
• furniture;
• curtains;
• columns and openings;
• using podiums.

A light plasterboard wall is a good way to divide one room into two, without running around. Its weight is so small that the installation does not even require permission from the BTI. It is also worth noting that the installation of such a partition is within the power of any owner. Drywall is easy to install, relatively inexpensive and allows you to create designs of a wide variety of shapes.

In a spacious room, a solid barrier in the form of a rack will look very organic.

In a small space, it is better to limit yourself to an incomplete or low fence.

And in this interior, a compact fence with shelves hides the cabinet.

A partition with a double-sided fireplace can be installed between the different areas. The contemplation of the firewoods, peacefully burning in the fireplace, perfectly relaxes.

For better illumination of the room, use a glass wall. Equipped with curtains, they will shelter the bedroom from light or prying eyes when necessary.

With the help of a sliding partition, you will change the interior and lighting, simply by closing or opening it.

A simple screen can become a good way of dividing space, a highlight of the interior.

Mobile partitions, somewhat similar to screens, are also interesting in this regard.

Today the market offers many different options for mobile partitions: plastic, glass, wood, plasterboard, custom made and standard ready-to-install.

Another attractive way of dividing zones is curtains:

• it's simple;
• most can afford it;
• annoying curtains are easy to replace.

Blackout curtains for a sweet dream or light options to create an airy atmosphere or symbolic curtains - it's up to you!

And behind this curtain there was a place for both the bedroom and the study.

You can zone the space both horizontally and vertically using the podium. He is able to store your things, be a bookshelf. On it you can arrange a living room, an office area or a bed.

You can divide a room with one or more columns.

Arches and openings also zone the space well.

Even such a symbolic partition is enough to hide a sleeping place.

In fact, a hint of dividing zones is enough for the eye to stop noticing a bed standing right in the living room. But the most popular and functional zoning method is furniture separation.

It is better to choose furniture for a combined room as compact and functional as possible. If the table is mobile, the chairs are folding, the dining table is folding, the clothes rack is mobile. Sofa bed available. Owners of small apartments should take the choice of furniture as seriously as possible.

If you choose furniture for the living room-bedroom, then you need to start with a berth. In the design of a small apartment, a correctly selected sleeping place is already half the battle:

• The first thing that comes to mind is sofa beds and transforming beds. This is a convenient solution for small rooms in which only one sofa or one bed can fit (or you need to arrange two berths and a living room in a room with low ceilings). The downside of folding beds and sofas is that most of them are not so comfortable to sleep on. The only exception is the chair-beds with orthopedic armor.

An invaluable purchase for a tiny apartment is a folding bed. During the day it hides in the wall, "pretending" to be a locker, and at night it unfolds in one movement.

The bed is also conveniently placed on the podium.

And if the height of the ceilings allows, then on the second tier.

Even an ordinary loft bed allows you to increase the usable area by one and a half times!

Some examples in the interior:

• You can divide the dwelling into zones with a rack or wall, thereby obtaining both a partition and a storage system at the same time.

• Just make sure that the cabinet, placed across the room, is well secured and is not going to fall.

• An original solution for a combined room is a revolving wardrobe.

• Even an ordinary bedside table or sofa set with its back to the headboard will create the necessary separation.

• If we replace the bedside table with a computer table, we will get a place for an office.

• A bed or sofa with a podium is also a good place to store things.

• And this podium serves as a living area, while inside there is a luxurious bed.

• A very functional thing for a small apartment is a secretaire. It is a storage and home office.

• The tables follow the same rule as the rest of the furniture: compactness and functionality.

• The folding table is your best friend! (No, this is not a synthesizer stand).

• And this coffee table will fit all sorts of little things. If you put a pillow on it, you get an ottoman.

• Or, conversely, an ottoman can replace a coffee table if necessary.

Modular furniture sets are standard size furniture sets. Such furniture can be purchased as a set or as separate items.

Modular furniture is a rather attractive option for a combined interior. All items of the set are designed in the same style - this makes the design complete. Modular shelving is great for zoning a room.

Here the rack is assembled in the form of a multi-level partition, the high part of which covers the sleeping place, and the low part lets in light from the window. Racks on wheels are a great movable partition!

Some manufacturers on their websites open access to programs in which you can "play" with the arrangement and color of furniture, even filling the lockers. And when you get the environment that you will unconditionally like, the program will give you the final price - taking into account promotions, discounts and delivery. This way you can change the environment without making a lot of effort.

You will be pleased with:

• Cheapness.
• Ease of assembly.
• An infinite number of combinations - this is how you can create a unique design even from standard elements.
• This design is easy to change if you don't like it. Without any redevelopment - just swapping the table and bed.
• When moving to a new location, it is easy to add new items to an existing headset.
• Such furniture is convenient if the family has small children. You can easily change the interior in accordance with the current needs of growing kids by purchasing new elements that will be in harmony. And you don't have to get rid of anything.
• Modular furniture designers keep an eye on fashion trends.
• In almost every city there are shops of companies producing such furniture. Most often these will be Ikea, Dyadkovo, Stolplit and Shatura.

The only frustrating thing is that:

• All furniture is of a standard size and configuration. If a couple of shelves are not satisfied with the whole headset, and you want, for example, to replace them with drawers, no one will alter anything especially for you. If during the placement there is a noticeable gap between the cabinet and the wall, how to fill it is completely your problem. All lockers in the catalog are standard sizes.
• Often, due to the large flow of orders at furniture factories, there is confusion with the picking of parts. Sometimes they bring the wrong thing to the buyer, but they change it for a long time.
• In pursuit of cheap production, large companies forget about the "people for people" principle. No individual approach. The furniture, created especially for you, will be one of a kind.

It can be noted that modular furniture is very similar to Lego - yes, the pieces are standard, but almost anything can be assembled from them. So the Tetran company has delighted consumers with its creation inspired by Lego:

This apartment will hardly ever have a storage problem.

The standard area for a bedroom-living room is 18 sq. m and more, but even in a smaller room, you can organize the necessary space with some effort.

And this 14-meter living room turns into a bedroom at night.

The stakes are going up - 12 meters, gentlemen!

When planning a combined room, it is necessary to take into account both the size and shape of the apartment area, and the number of zones required on it.

In a one-room apartment, the only room is simultaneously a bedroom, a living room, a nursery, an office, and a dining room. In a two-room apartment, it happens that one room is set aside for a child's or parent's bedroom. The interior of the second then, willy-nilly, will have to be combined.

If you need to place two bedrooms in the hall, take care to provide a secluded corner for each.

And here the loft bed is also an irreplaceable assistant.

As in the layout of the hall, combined with the nursery.

Especially if the child is not alone.

The children's corner can be separated from the living room with curtains or any other of the previously discussed methods.

Or you can not fence off, just isolate the bed so that it is not in a walk-through place.

If the room has two or more windows, you can put a partition between them or divide the room with the help of light by rearranging one of the zones closer to the window.

A narrow rectangular apartment is common in older dwellings. It seems that this is not very convenient, but there are no barriers to creative imagination! A sliding wardrobe or a rack in the form of shelves will delimit the room.

You can do the same with a square room in a small Khrushchev.

If the wall between the living room and the kitchen is not solid, it can be removed, thereby expanding the future living room area. This does not even require the permission of the BTI.

To increase living space by combining it with a loggia, you will need the following:

• First of all, call a specialist who will measure the supporting structures and draw up a consolidated construction estimate. He will also draw up documents for approval for engineering and construction work.
• The next important step is a thorough check of the declared for demolition of the fence and walls of the future living space. The cracks and cracks found during inspection are carefully covered with polyurethane foam.

The stages of repair and combining the loggia with the room can be seen in the following video.

A high-quality insulated loggia can itself be a bedroom.

If there is a bay window, a living room area is traditionally located in it. But you can also have a bedroom.

Before drawing up a detailed plan, you need to think about the following in advance:

• How many people will live and sleep indoors.
• What zones are needed in the room. If, in addition to the bedroom and living room, there is also a study here, then you will need a place for a desktop.
• Where there will be a TV or fireplace.
• How to choose a color scheme.
• How everything will be covered.
• What kind of furniture do you want to put.

A computer program for room design will help you visualize everything, but you can draw it yourself. A suitable alternative is to draw room plans, cut out pieces of furniture from paper, and then just "rearrange" until you like it:

• Design project of an apartment of 18 sq.

• The layout of the apartment is 24 sq.

• The layout of the apartment is 24.44 m.

• Design of a small studio apartment 25 m.

• One-room apartment project 43.16 sq.

Different illumination of zones is another way to visually delimit space. Different lighting will be needed in the living room area. It is more convenient to arrange lamps so that they do not violate the intimate atmosphere of the sleeping corner.

The dimmed soft light of a sconce and a table lamp is more suitable for the relaxed atmosphere of the sleeping area, and it is better to fill the living room area with the bright light of a large lamp.

Thoughtful finishing is your assistant in space zoning. It is possible to separate the zones from each other only by the difference in textures. In the loft style, for example, one area can be finished with imitation bricks, and the other one can be limited to plaster. A carpet in one of the zones will also help make it stand out.

For wall decoration, try to choose plain wallpaper without a large pattern. You can decorate the walls with paintings and photographs, even a decorative fresco. Some people choose columns.

Silk-screen printing is popular now, as well as wallpapers with nature views or monochromatic - sand-colored. Use wall murals with caution. Better to use them over the head of the bed or behind the sofa. Here is an example of a rare exception, when a large drawing fell into place in a small room.

Even the difference in height and color of stretch ceilings can visually divide a room.

Decorating a combined interior is not an easy task. Due to the limited space, it is better to choose light colors, and design minimalism. In order not to get bored, add bright touches to the decor - pillows, paintings, ottomans.

In 2017, bright colors close to natural colors are in fashion.

The following shades are popular:

• Niagara blue is similar to classic denim blue and sea at the same time.

• Greens: grini (apple color) and kale (kale color).

• Good for accents and the current color of yellow primrose this year:

• And "pink yarrow":

• The only neutral color on this year's palette is Hazelnut. But it can be combined with anything.

Let's consider the main ones:

• Minimalism no doubt suitable for a combined room. Without bulky pieces of furniture, extremely functional - he good for its elegance and simplicity.

• Classic in the design of the living room-bedroom involves the use of a large number of bright additions - vases, a lamp or a picture frame. Accessories are chosen solid, strict and graceful.

• Modern interior Are unusual shapes and practical furniture. It combines classics, minimalism, hi-tech. Today's design "loves" polished surfaces, glass, stone, mirrors. Calm tones are used - white, gray, black, silver, sand with bright accents (art objects, handmade).

• However, clean high tech can look cozy too.

• Style provence suitable for those people who like simple but cozy decoration, reminiscent of the French countryside. The word “provence” itself means a province, so hardware, small pillows with decorative pillowcases, provincial-style lampshades are fine.

• Style loft does not tolerate fences. An industrial setting accepts only the aesthetics of open spaces, a layout that preserves freedom of movement. The sleeping area is not limited by anything, the hall is spacious and bright. Various textures of walls and floor coverings are used for zoning.

• Modern will help to realize the most daring design fantasies - even with minimalism in the interior.

• Ethnic motives will give the room an incomparable flavor.

Good ideas for designing a living room-bedroom (like any worthwhile ideas) come in the process of working on a project.

Here are some fun examples to spark your inspiration:

• A soft padded ottoman and a compact sofa are better than a bulky sofa.

• Color contrast will accentuate the distinction.

• Here, the clock and the picture do not even emphasize so much as create zones.

• And such a light and pleasant design will appeal to a young couple.

• Children's corner behind the curtain.

• A few more ideas.