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Interior design is not an easy task. In small areas, it is complicated by the need to look not only for beautiful stylish solutions, but also not to forget about functionality and compactness. Therefore, not all pros undertake the design of a one-room apartment: there is a lot of trouble, not much money. In principle, the owner can also design the interior of his 1-room apartment – everyone knows the set of rules, design techniques, in general, are also not a secret. You know what you want from your own home, so no problem. We are trying to make one on our own.
Determining the style
One-room apartments, of course, come in different sizes … for some it is about 20 squares, and for others -50 or more, but in any case they require conciseness. It is unlikely that bulky heavy wooden cabinets or huge sofas, numerous draperies or lush frills on the curtains are appropriate in such a room. All this requires space, which a small, and even more so small-sized, one-room apartment simply cannot give.
The ideal style for decoration will be directions in which the lines are strict and clear, without an abundance of trifles. This is primarily minimalism, high-tech, some areas of ethnic styles – Scandinavian or Japanese-Chinese, for example. Since small apartments are mostly bought by young people – single or young couples without children – they, as a rule, are satisfied with these styles. For creative people, it may be interesting to be art deco, but more conservative, probably closer to the classics. But the classic in its purest manifestation still requires more space than a one-room apartment can usually provide, although some of its elements successfully fit into small spaces.
Color spectrum
The most winning colors in the design of any small room are light. A one-room apartment is no exception. Both walls and furniture use light colors. If you really want dark furniture, then the walls, floor and textiles should be very light. When developing a color scheme, you can use the standard palette of matching colors, just choose those palettes in which light tones predominate and use them as the main ones, more saturated ones will go as color accents – small inclusions.
For those who are unfamiliar with the table, let’s say that by choosing the palette you like, you can use only a part of the colors that seem most attractive to you.
To select the color of furniture and textiles, it is more convenient to use another table. According to it, you can choose the main color for the existing furniture, or vice versa – choose the appropriate color for the furniture under the selected wall color.
As you can see, everything is quite simple. You can choose a win-win color combinations yourself. Now the task is to find the finishing materials of the required color, and also to think about what and where to put.
Layout
Deciding on the gamma is not everything. Still need to think about the layout. Not to “transfer walls”, but in the sense – to put something where. You need to start, probably, with the placement of a bed. There are two options – a folding sofa bed or a standard bed.
How to place the bed
Let’s start with a more difficult question: where to put the bed in a one-room apartment. Few people want to leave it in sight, because on vacation you want solitude and privacy. The conclusion suggests itself – to close it with something. If the area allows, put drywall partition. She can close the bed only partially – so as not to divide the room, but this is already enough: the feeling of a separate corner has already been formed.
One variation of this method is to install furniture that covers the bed. It can be a bookcase, shelf, etc.
If possible, part of the room is separated, creating a separate bedroom. This can be done with sliding doors. If the doors interfere too much, you can hang curtains – filament or Japanese ones create the illusion of a separate room, and move apart if necessary.
If the area is very small, but the ceilings are high (at least 2,7 m), in order not to share a small room, the bed can be moved “to the second floor”. Two options – in the photo.
Another non-standard solution is to install a rising bed. During the day, it looks like an ordinary closet, and in the evening it lowers and becomes a bed. An interesting and practical solution that immediately solves many problems. Moreover, today there is more than one option – there are different systems and types, and domestic manufacturers have also appeared.
The same idea is implemented in the projects of the Russian manufacturer. The video gives options for transforming beds from them.
Organize the work area
The second difficult question that has to be solved when developing the design of a one-room apartment is how and where to organize a workplace. If earlier it was relevant for students and people of certain professions (teachers, for example), today you can’t do without a work area: you need to put a computer or laptop somewhere.
Option number one. We expand the window sill. If you approach the matter correctly – put a wide window sill-tabletop and pick up a high chair or armchair – it will turn out conveniently.
Option number two. Organize the second floor. If the ceiling in the apartment is 270 cm and above, this is possible. For example, as in the photo.
The most economical option is to combine the workplace and the bedroom. How? Make a podium, on it is a workplace, and under it is a bed that moves out on wheels.
More traditional can be considered leaving and rising tabletops – folding parts of the table. This technique has been known for a long time and is quite widely used.
There are practical solutions that can be implemented if the furniture is made to order: you can design it so that part of the table top hangs over lower details. Shelves can be placed on top. Convenient and practical.
Arrangement of furniture
Once you have figured out where the bed and work area will be, you can start arranging the rest of the furniture. You definitely need a closet – you need to store clothes somewhere. It would be nice to put a sofa or at least one or two armchairs, and a coffee table next to them would not hurt.
Not all odnushki fit this set. You can find this out on the plan of the apartment. Draw it on a scale, cut out your existing or planned furniture on the same scale from colored cardboard and sit down at the table with this stuff. On the plan, you need to shade those areas in which nothing can be put – near the door or cabinet doors, be sure to mark the window – there is also little that can be put. After playing around like this, you will decide what and what sizes you need.
If there is or will be folding furniture, be sure to look at the plan so that in the unfolded state it also fits into the free space.
If conditions permit, make the cabinet built-in. It can have everything – from an ironing board to leaving baskets, falling from the ceiling of shelves, spinning boxes. All this allows you to use every centimeter of volume up to the ceiling. But all these mechanisms are not cheap. And so much so that the filling can be almost more expensive than the body. Here everyone decides for himself whether he needs it or not. But even just a built-in wardrobe with ordinary shelves and drawers is already a couple of square meters plus. Why? Because his doors are sliding, and he still uses the place better than usual.
If there is a built-in wardrobe, order doors, if finances allow, with mirror inserts – they will increase the space due to reflection. If the mirror is too expensive, make the doors light and glossy. The reason is the same: it visually makes the room bigger.
Lighting
There should be a lot of light, and it should be zoned. This means that in addition to general lighting on the ceiling, it would be very nice to install lamps above the bed, in the work area, near the sofa, etc. As a rule, the overhead light is rarely used then, more often they turn on local lighting. It’s more comfortable, it gives the impression of a large space – you are in a lighted circle, and behind it is semi-darkness and the walls are almost invisible, especially if they are light.
Another way to expand the boundaries with lighting is to make a glossy ceiling. Gloss can only be fragments, not only a completely shiny ceiling pleases, but its elements really push the space apart. It’s also not worth overloading it with details, but well-underlined zones and appropriate lighting can give the whole interior a single sound.