The typical layout of our apartments does not always correspond to the wishes of the owner. Therefore, owners often independently make its partial modification by various methods - the installation of stationary or movable partitions, flooring, shelving. It all depends on the size of the room and the desire to divide it into specific zones.
Glass partitions have recently become quite active, although these products are somewhat unusual in this capacity. After all, such concepts as fragility and fragility are associated with it. But if we consider that this is not about ordinary glass, but about special, shock-resistant, its advantages over such materials as plywood, plasterboard, chipboard( and a number of others) become obvious.
Features of glass partitions
- Easy installation. There is no sense in explaining how much time and effort will be spent on preparing and installing, for example, plasterboard sheets. A spread out in the apartment brick( or from cellular concrete), the inner wall of those who want to find a little.
- No need for external finishing and systematic updating( repair).
- Simple care. Like any glass, such partitions are easy to clean.
- Durability. You can forget about such problems as the appearance on the surface of mold, fungus, rust and so on.
- Increased strength. Plywood or GCR is not difficult to damage, and impact-resistant glass easily withstands quite strong mechanical effects.
- If partitions from other materials after their installation obscure the room, then transparent glass does not reduce the level of illumination at all. And visually absolutely any room as if increases, "moves apart".
- Elegance. Glass is perfectly combined with any setting, regardless of the style of decoration of the room and other factors.
- A variety of products - products sliding, radial and stationary, mirror, with a pattern, with a tint and so on. This material allows you to create not just an internal wall, but an entire artistic composition. At least, with this design, any room looks very stylish.
- You can hear that glass partitions have a drawback - they do not hang anything. Such arguments, most likely, from ignorance of the properties of tempered glass. It is well bored, but its high strength has already been said.
- Complete trauma safety. Special film coating eliminates the scattering of fragments when the material is damaged.
- Given the small thickness of such walls, it is clear that they practically do not reduce the useful area of the apartment.
- The ability to organize color highlighting, which is not achieved when using any other material.
Such designs are most popular among owners of "odnushek", although they will help solve problems with changing the layout and in apartments with several rooms. Let's consider some variants of such re-planning.
Division of a large room into separate zones
If a student has his own room, then with a glass partition it is possible to equip his work place where he will do his homework, work on a PC without distraction. It is enough in this "compartment" to install a desk and chair, and a full-fledged office is ready.
It can be organized for an adult who often works at home. After all, any partition can be additionally equipped with a door made of the same thick glass. This excludes the penetration of sounds from outside, will create a working atmosphere, or even simply retire to pursue your hobby.
Kitchen separation from living area
Now in fashion includes studio apartments. They have many advantages, but there are a number of shortcomings - we wrote about this. For example, smells from cooked food are carried "in all corners", and the owners have to decide the issue with installing a powerful hood.
Decorative "zoning"
The big plus of glass designs is that they can be made not only of any size, but also of different configurations. Even the installation of a small, wavy, for example, upper section of the partition near the coffee table will effectively decorate any room.
The device of a separate room for a baby
Using tinted glass, you can even equip a full-fledged children's bedroom in a one-room apartment, which is especially attractive for young families.
There is no point in enumerating all possible variants, as each person has his own "flight of fantasy".But here "the price of the question" is interesting to all. The final cost depends on many factors - the size and number of canvases, the variety of fittings, fastening methods and so on. According to experts, the glass partition will cost 1.5 times more than the internal wall of gypsum board. Taking into account all the advantages, everyone will determine the expediency of such re-planning himself.
