How to choose an apartment: Top 6 terrible layouts

The apartment seems to be perfect, and you are willing to pay several million rubles for big yardage, good location and view from the window. Later it turns out that the plan failed, and 100 square meters can not fit even the normal kopeck piece.

1. Free planning

Usually apartments with free planning are more expensive than usual. Inside the only load-bearing concrete walls or columns, and everything else the owner can supposedly do on your own. In fact, open-plan does not exist, and to plan for the location of the BTI always wet areas - the kitchen and bathrooms - risers, ventilation terminals, the number of rooms. Any alterations will still have to negotiate. Therefore, when comparing apartments guided precisely to the BTI plan, rather than supposedly free plan, which shows the developer.

2. Not enough windows

In new buildings can still be found variants with 2-3 windows 90-100 squares. Well, if these windows are panoramic, and provide enough natural light. But it happens that the dark part of the apartment is much broader light. Comparing plan, learn that the area of the windows should ideally be 1 / 5-1 / 8 of the total floor area. 1/10 - is the minimum that is registered in the building codes. Therefore, in the flat area of 100 sq. m should be from 6 to 12 standard windows height of 1.4 m and 1.2 m wide.

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3. Too large balconies

It seems that everything is fine - panoramic windows provide maximum light and air into the apartment. But only if the balcony will be able to connect to the apartment and to legalize this redevelopment. With all types of apartments is usually clear in advance - a project or open for accession by the balcony, or it does not. When buying a monolithic or monolithic-brick buildings is necessary to address the author of the project at home or in the design office, which it is designed to clarify the possibility of redevelopment.

4. Rooms irregular shapes

People are so tired of the standard layouts in the Khrushchev and "brezhnevki" that apartment with intricate layout instantly in vogue. The intricate - the better! In fact you are paying for all the sharp corners, ledges and niches, but it is virtually impossible to use functional. Even at the stage of buying an apartment can be estimated, where will build a cabinet or kitchen, and what area will be unused for any layout. Sometimes it turns out that the apartment at the area comfortable and spacious, and even allows you to fit more rooms.

5. round the house

In pursuit of external beauty buildings Architects sometimes create completely unsuitable for apartment life. Usually in the form of rounded houses they constitute a "slice" - sector of a circle or an oval. Depending on the curvature of the outer wall in one or all of the rooms will be present a semi-circular wall. It is difficult to use in the interior, along it does not establish a typical furniture - only made to order. Problems may arise, and if you want to reallocate space and, for example, do three or four rooms of two-three.

6. The only riser

If the plan BTI recorded only one riser communications, forget about remodeling kitchens and bathrooms. Usually they can be expanded at the expense of non-residential space and even moved to the other end of the apartment. For example, instead of making two bathrooms - guest in the hallway and master bedroom with bath. Sometimes it is more convenient to move the kitchen into the hallway and living room combined with that in its place build another bedroom. But if the riser in the apartment is only one, all these ideas are unrealistic. Ideal if on each side of the doorway there is a supply of communications - so do not have to raise the level of the floor, to "throw" the wet zone to the other half of the apartment.