Living room bedroom in one room: interior, separation of zones

Multifunctional rooms allow you to be as comfortable as possible in a small space. One such opportunity is the living room bedroom. This combination is relevant for studio apartments that young people buy or for families who are forced to live in apartments with a small number of rooms. There are a sufficient number of ways to divide the room into zones so that it is convenient and beautiful. 

How to arrange a living room with a bed

When planning the situation when combining the living room and bedroom, one must proceed from the area of ​​uXNUMXbuXNUMXbthe room. Actually, there are several ways.

1. Do not delimit space, but use transforming furniture. In particular, a bed built into a closet or a sofa bed, but not in the old version, but in the new one (one of the examples in the photo).
   

2. To fence off a place for a bed, fencing it off with a stationary or sliding partition.
3. Fence off the bed with a screen or curtains.
4. Use furniture for zoning (wardrobe, shelves, etc.).

If the living room bedroom is small (less than 16 squares) or it is not possible to install a bed and a sofa due to the layout, the only solution is to use transforming furniture. If the area allows, you can use any of the methods.

 How to divide a room into zones

To decide whether you can get two separate zones in a room or not, you must first evaluate everything on the plan. This can be done in design programs that allow you to get a two or even three-dimensional image. If working with programs does not seem attractive to you, you can get by with two sheets of thick paper or cardboard.

To evaluate zoning options manually, you will need a floor plan with dimensions drawn to scale. On it, display where the windows, doors are (also with dimensions). Next, you need to think about where you would like to put the bed, where is the sofa for guests. For the living room-bedroom, these are two key items that they try to put in the first place. It is better to cut them out of cardboard, and also on a scale. From cardboard, it will also be necessary to cut out the furniture that is necessary and must be mandatory. If you don’t already have it, cut it to the size you want. Then you can make adjustments.

The resulting set of “furniture” can be moved according to the plan of the room, finding possible options for the location of zones. If there are several options, sketch, signing where and what you will put, putting down the dimensions of the furniture and the passages between them. Then it will be possible for each to think over what kind of zoning can be applied in each option. The program works in approximately the same way, only the movement is virtual. With the help of a program or layouts, you will understand whether you can distinguish two separate zones, while determining the size of each of them. If it is not possible to single out separate zones, you will have to make do with folding furniture.

Solution for small rooms

Arranging small spaces requires a special approach. Creating an interior is an art, and the design of a small room, and even a multifunctional one, is generally akin to circus art. Even the little things matter here.

Let’s start with what is considered a small room in this case. In general, it is believed that a room with an area of ​​​​14-16 meters is rather big. But in the case of the need to accommodate two zones – a living room and a bedroom – this is really very little. These are the premises – up to 16 squares and will be accepted as small. If the area is 18-20 meters or more, these are already “normal” sizes in which the living room and bedroom can be divided using any zoning techniques.

Use of flexible furniture

In a small area, it is far from always possible to combine the living room and bedroom, while placing a full bed. But you can always put a transformable one instead of a regular sofa. This is not the kind of sofa bed that you can only sleep on conditionally. Modern transforming furniture can give the same level of comfort as a regular stationary bed. There are models with orthopedic mattresses. In width – from single to full double.

In a double bed can turn:

• Closet. When closed, it looks like an ordinary wardrobe, leans back, it turns out a bed.
• Sofa. This type of furniture in the “day” position is similar to a sofa that stands near the closet, in the “night” position the bed is lowered, crushing the sofa under it.

The options described above require a free space of at least 220-250 cm in front of the sofa or wardrobe (depending on the model). And even after the bed is in place, at least a narrow passage should remain. So, in fact, the distance to the transformable furniture should be at least 280 cm. But you get a full double bed. The mattress can even be orthopedic.

There are also options for single or single beds. In them, the base of the bed is attached to the furniture with a long side. They require less free space – no more than 200 cm in the case of a single bed or 150 cm in the case of a single bed.

Unusual ways

There is one non-trivial option of how you can highlight the bedroom area in the living room: make a podium, on which to place some area. There you can arrange, for example, several armchairs and a coffee table or put a sofa. Move the bed under the podium.

With this decision, the flooring must be of sufficient height so that a bed can be hidden under it. For such a solution, long and narrow rooms, which are also called trailers, are ideal.

Another option for the young and active: take out the bedroom on the closet. From cabinet furniture (high shelves, cabinets) a square or rectangle of sufficient area is assembled to accommodate a sleeping place on it. You can do this with drywall partitions (as in the photo). On one side, a ladder is built in / attached, along which they climb up “to the bedroom”.

It turns out a living room bedroom without reducing the area of ​​​​the living room. You can even make the room even more multifunctional: arrange a workplace or a mini-office in a space fenced off by furniture. This is a great option for a small studio apartment in which young people live.

All this is good, but it is worth knowing about the shortcomings. First, the solutions are not cheap. Transformable furniture costs a lot, as does the manufacture of a podium with sufficient bearing capacity. Secondly, every evening and every morning, in order to get and hide a sleeping place, you will have to perform certain body movements. It just seems awkward at first. In fact, it gets boring pretty quickly … until it becomes a habit.

Choose a place for the sleeping area

When dividing rooms into a bedroom and a living room, first of all, you need to decide where you want to make the bedroom. Most often, they take the corner farthest from the entrance. This is logical, since the bedroom requires the greatest degree of privacy.

If there is a window in the detachable area, you will have to make sure that there is enough light in the rest of the room. This is helped by glass partitions, separation using screens or curtains, specially created translucent shelves.

In the opposite situation – if the window is in the living area, the situation is somewhat better. First, the bedroom is usually used at night. So natural lighting is not such a necessity. Although we are used to what it should be. There are two solutions: to make the separation so that there is enough light or to add the missing by installing additional lamps.

Zoning the living room-bedroom with partitions

For zoning, plasterboard and glass partitions are used. The installation of both of them is not redevelopment, so it does not require coordination.

Not everyone likes the idea of ​​putting a room divider. But it may not be complete. Very often, a “monolithic” partition is erected to a height of a meter or a little more, and something openwork is made above that transmits light. This solves the problem of natural light and the design does not look as heavy as a wall.

The upper part can be framed in different ways. If you want a physical separation, but without much loss of light, it can be patterned, frosted, colored glass. Do not be afraid that the glass partition is fragile – it can withstand loads greater than drywall.

Other options: various kinds of wood, metal products. There are a lot of options – from functional or decorative shelves, to simply installed in a certain order (or without it) pins made of wood, metal, bamboo, etc.

Separation of zones by screens

You can make zoning in the living room bedroom with the help of screens. This is a quick and inexpensive way to make the living room and bedroom zoning in one room. Do not think that this method is outdated and irrelevant. If you choose the right textures, material, colors, everything looks very stylish, original and out of place.

There are traditional screens – portable, folding. But it is far from necessary that they have an “old-fashioned” look. No, the traditional type of screen – covered with tapestries – is good for classic interiors. And those that come from the “sixties” – painted, made of wood and plywood – look great in a loft or art deco. If you have a living room bedroom decorated in this style, it is generally easy for you to find the right option. But for modern interiors, other materials and textures are needed, and here you have to try.

glass screens

For modern style, minimalism, hi-tech, glass screens are ideal. That’s just the glass you need to choose different. For hi-tech and minimalism, the best option is tinted with a silver coating, resembling a mirror. It will look good white, milky, gray – depending on the design of the bedroom-living room. The Provence-style living room bedroom can also be equipped with a painted plywood screen. But if you don’t like too “rural” option, you can fit a glass screen with photo printing. You can choose one of the landscapes that are typical for the south of France, use colored glass with floral ornaments.

And again, do not think that glass is fragile. They use hardened or laminated (duplex and triplex) for such products, and they are stronger than many sheet materials.

From other materials

If you still don’t like glass, you can make or look for partitions made of plastic, wood, etc. In a wooden house, you can make a wooden screen. If you know how to work with wood, this will not be difficult, since the design is straightforward. You can imitate a wall, you can make a lighter, openwork design. Again, all the envy of the style in which the living room is decorated bedroom.

If wood is only found in some decor items, frames are made from it, and the filling is selected according to one’s own taste. After all, it could be fabric. The same as on curtains or upholstery. You can use fiberboard laminated to match the furniture, plywood or thin chipboard. You can even assemble such a screen from drywall and wallpaper it or paint it – there will be a movable wall.

For a modern style, you can use well-aimed branches painted in the main or one of the additional colors. From attached to the frames along or across, get a translucent screen. Bamboo, metal rods, etc. can be fixed in the same way. In general, as usual in interior design, this is a creative process.

Sliding screens

A few more words about sliding screens. They come in a separate class, as they are not as “nailed into place” as stationary partitions, but also not as mobile as portable screens. A very good option for zoning the living room bedroom in one room if you want to have a secluded area to relax.

Sliding screens can be of three types. They can move like compartment doors, fold like a book or an accordion. For all, for the bottom you need guides that are mounted either on the ceiling, or on the floor, or on the floor and on the ceiling at the same time. There can only be screens with a lower guide not up to the ceiling, but they are the most unstable. If you have children or are not sure that you will use them carefully, it is better to use floor-to-ceiling models.

The material for screens of this type is any sheet: glass, plastic, laminated fiberboard, MDF. Similar systems can be found in companies involved in sliding wardrobes. Doors for sliding wardrobes are made according to the same system and the partitions are no different.

Zoning with curtains

An even more inexpensive way is the living room bedroom divided into zones with curtains. All that is required is to select and fix curtain rods. Then – pick up fabrics and sew panels of the right size. The fabrics used are the same as on the windows and they do not have to be dense, although this option is also possible.

Drapery can only cover the “clearance”, or it can also go along the walls, creating a cozy atmosphere. But this option will still require enough funds, since a lot of fabric is needed.

Such zoning of the bedroom and living room combined in one room is nominal, but creates the required sense of privacy. It can be used in the version with portable screens as a temporary option – if you can’t decide exactly where to place the bedroom and living room areas, how to distribute the area between them.

Use of separation furniture

It is far from always possible to allocate even a small piece of space in a small room under a non-functional partition. Moreover, furniture can perform the same task. Usually this is a closet or high shelves.

Most often, the lower part of the furniture is made without gaps (about a meter high). I make this part in the form of a cabinet or chest of drawers. The top is usually done with through gaps. So the furniture does not look so bulky and does not “load” the space. In addition, this solution allows you to save natural light in both parts of the room.

When developing a concept for such furniture or looking for ready-made options, keep in mind that all horizontal surfaces perfectly collect dust. Each shelf is a dust collector. If they are not planned for use, it is better to make as few contour lines as possible. It is better to hang a few decorative items in between the racks. They collect much less dust, and look, perhaps, more original.

Living room bedroom: additional zoning techniques

In addition to physical separation, the zoning of the living room-bedroom in one room can be carried out using:

• Floor and ceiling changes. For example, the bedroom area can be slightly raised, and to emphasize the separation even more, you can use different flooring. It can be the same in color, but different in texture or material. For example, lay laminate in the living area, carpet in the bedroom area. You can also use different colors.
• Decorate the walls in different colors. You can use wallpaper in two colors, but with the same texture, paint it in a different color, etc.
• Different wall textures. In the living room, for example, decorative Venetian plaster, in the bedroom – liquid wallpaper.

These techniques, along with separators, emphasize the different purposes of the zones. But when choosing colors, one must be guided by the principles of color compatibility. Then it will turn out to create a harmonious interior.