Ideas for creating two rooms in one
If you have a fairly spacious main room and you want to divide it into two, the basics for zoning can serve as:
- gypsum board wall;
- fixed screen of plastic or frosted glass;
- high cabinet;
- shelving;
- sliding door - coupe.
If you need to make two separate rooms with an arch or a door between them, you will ideally use a drywall wall. However, in this case it is necessary to provide enough additional lighting in the second room, which will not have a window and natural light.
In cases where you only need to divide the room into functional areas and there is no need for a wall with a door, we recommend using sliding screens. Such a mobile partition can be made of plastic, matte or clear glass and even from natural wood. Moreover, the design of the door-compartment does not take away the precious area.
When organizing the redevelopment of a one-room apartment in a two-room apartment, be sure to consider the area of the balcony. If you remove the partition separating the loggia, then you can increase the space in both rooms. If you insulate and glaze the balcony, and after adding a few square meters of the main square to it, you will get a full bedroom or a children's room. At the same time, the rest of the apartment will serve as a spacious hall.
Design studio
The studio apartment contains a kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom and study, while the whole room is divided into functional areas by low partitions, furniture, color and light accents. Such a stylish design can be created even in Khrushchev.
To create a spacious room, you need to dismantle all the walls that are not carriers in the house. For example, in almost every apartment, you can attach a balcony or dismantle an opening into the corridor. Even a small loggia can significantly increase the total living space, if it is made part of the room. Before the repair, the balcony must be glazed and insulated.
Please note that the room combined with the loggia requires more heat sources. The optimum solution will be the installation of a warm floor, for self-repair it is easiest to choose an electric one. In this case, the house will become warmer, and you do not have to carry the battery under the window. On the formed area it is possible to put a dining table and chairs, to issue a workplace or a rest zone.
You will get the perfect transformation of a one-room apartment into a studio, if you manage to destroy the wall with the kitchen. So you can make the main room lighter at the expense of the second window, and also equip not only a convenient place for cooking, but also put a dining table or a bar counter.
However, the combination of a living room with a kitchen requires the installation of a powerful hood so that household smells do not fill the whole house. In addition, you need to take care of additional bulbs over the work area.
One-room redevelopment projects in the studio should take into account the lighting of each of the functional areas. In the center on the ceiling you can arrange a bright chandelier, above the kitchen zone it is necessary to install several point lamps. Next to the sofa you can put a floor lamp or hang a few lamps with muted soft lighting for the rest time, the same light can be next to the bed.
As you saw, the redevelopment of a one-room apartment can be done even with their own hands and do not spend a lot of money. In the photo below you can see the design options for the studio.