Not all people are lucky enough to become the owner of a three-room apartment. Most have to be content with tiny Khrushchevs, in which there is nowhere to turn around. The situation is especially bad if the owners make the following mistakes when decorating their housing (spoiler: they hopelessly spoil a one-room apartment).
1. Divide an apartment into rooms
Russians are accustomed to “thinking” in rooms, so the first desire they have when entering a new one-room apartment is to build new walls. In their opinion, this technique will help to separate private and public space from each other, so that the bedroom is separate, and the living room for receiving guests is also separate.
In fact, the walls further reduce the already tiny area, and "eat up" valuable square meters. Therefore, it is better to refuse to divide rooms in this way. It will be much more profitable to use visual zoning. Curtains, shelves, screens, partitions, accent walls, podiums and other techniques can help you with this. With their help, you can select several functional areas, for example, a bedroom and a living room, without cluttering the space.
Advice: If the apartment has a large niche, then use it to place the bed. Thus, you get a separate "bedroom", which will be hidden from prying eyes. In the corner it will be possible to put a table for work, and, thus, organize a comfortable workplace.
2. Mindlessly combine kitchen and living room
The inhabitants of Russia are very well characterized by the phraseological unit “to rush from one extreme to another”. If they can't build walls, they will go the other way and try to combine the kitchen with the living room to increase the space. In some cases, such a decision is quite justified, and with a competent approach, you can get an excellent studio apartment. But if the kitchen is gasified, then it will not work to combine it with the living room.
Before redeveloping, soberly assess the size of the room: do you really lack space or are you just fired up with the idea of decorating a fashionable studio?
The disadvantage of housing, which consists of one continuous room, is, first of all, that there is no personal space left. Therefore, if two or three people live in an apartment, then such a decision will not be justified. In addition, you should consider whether the smell of food will interfere with you. A high-quality hood is usually installed in a studio apartment, but even it does not always save you from soaring aromas.
3. Place a large amount of furniture
In tiny Khrushchev houses, a large amount of furniture is an unaffordable luxury. Therefore, forget about massive wardrobes, bulky armchairs, a large bed and other bulky pieces of furniture.
So that you have where to turn around, choose transforming furniture for home furnishing, for example, a couch that turns into a double bed, or a cabinet that transforms into a desk. Also Novate.ru advises to pay attention to multifunctional pieces of furniture. The most popular among them are ottomans, supplemented with storage compartments, shoe racks with a folding seat and shelves, and so on. By the way, the same ottoman can be used not only for its intended purpose, but also as a footrest, a coffee table.
4. Install plasterboard ceilings
The owners of one-room apartments face several problems:
• how to place furniture to leave room for maneuvers;
• how to decorate an apartment to make it seem light and spacious;
• how to visually make the ceilings higher.
Let's dwell on the last problem. If you have low ceilings, in any case, do not use drywall structures, as they will make the room even lower. And this is impermissible when it comes to small dimensions. In addition, plasterboard ceilings have long gone out of fashion. Now people are more and more striving for simplicity, brevity and freedom, and multi-level plasterboard structures only load the space and do not allow them to "breathe freely."
The optimal solution for a small size will be a standard leveled ceiling. You can also opt for a hinged one, but only if there are no heavy plasterboard structures.
5. Give up the bed
There is a certain stereotype that it is unprofitable to place a bed in a one-room apartment, as it takes up too much space. Instead, they usually choose a folding sofa, which is more compact. However, after a while, the owners of the apartment come to the realization that the sofa cannot replace the bed, if we are talking about the comfort of sleep.
To combine convenience and compactness in one piece of furniture, pay attention to transforming beds, which in the morning can be "closed" in a closet, or retractable sleeping places.
You can also try to highlight the sleeping area and arrange a traditional bed in the room. Choose a podium or niche as a place for placement. Also, the space for sleeping and relaxing can be separated from prying eyes with a partition or curtains.
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6. Make beige interior
Despite the fact that beige is considered the safest color, which excludes any mistakes when decorating an apartment, it is also included in the list of anti-trends. The thing is that this color makes the apartment boring, dull and formulaic, leaves no room for imagination and self-expression.
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Owners of odnushki most often choose it with the expectation that it can visually expand the space. But here the nuance is revealed: yes, beige is light, but also warm. And such shades are not able to enlarge the room.
Better stop your choice on white, milky, blue, light gray or any other shade that falls into the category of cold pastels.
Also, do not forget about bright accents: original lamps, interesting posters or picture frames, carpets and curtains to match the interior. They will help make your apartment more stylish, cozy and personal.
Useful information on the topic is waiting for you in the article 6 interior trends that look beautiful in the picture, but are punishment in life
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