The second floor in a one-room apartment or a bedroom on the mezzanine

Customers - a married couple, bought this apartment in the suburbs, planning to use it as a dacha: garden joys were not tempted, and it seemed too troublesome to have a country house. Therefore, the project was originally designed taking into account that this is not a place for the permanent residence of the family.

The apartment is a studio in the attic. One of the conditions for the designer was - to arrange a bed in such a way that at the entrance to the apartment he was not visible. On these two points - an apartment as a summer residence and a hidden bedroom, and the concept of interior design was built.

bedroom on the mezzanine

Before the beginning of all the works the room looked like this:( picture 1).

Fig.1. Premises before the start of the work

At the highest point, the ceiling had a height of 3800 mm. Based on the photos of the construction of the house from the developer's site, it was suggested that if you remove the gyro, you can get a total height of four or more meters, and this will be enough to create a two-level space. Given the layout of the apartment - the attic floor and sloped ceilings, and the fact that in the upper level there should only be a bedroom, where most of the time people are lying down, it was decided to arrange mezzanines - a semi-storey built into the volume of a double-light room.

Example of the mezzanine floor Another bedroom design in the form of a semi-floor

From idea to implementation of

After dismantling, the theoretical assumptions about the construction of the roof truss system were fully confirmed. The rafter system was made of metal beams, tightened with bolts. Considering the material of the rafters - metal, the rafters were located in steps of 4.5 meters. That is, over the area of ​​the apartment was only one rafters. And two more passed over the walls. In the photo, after dismantling, a bolt made of two metal corners is visible.

Fig.2. Photo protruding bolt

For the embodiment of the idea of ​​the mezzanine, the bolt was obstructed. And to remove it simply because it interferes, it is impossible, otherwise the design of the rafter system will be violated. To be able to arrange the mezzanine and not to break the strength of the roof, we decided to cut off the bolt, and the rafters to support the beam with a metal pillar, which will later become the support for the mezzanine ceiling.

But it's easy to say and hard to do. The required length of the metal beam for the pole was greater than it could without difficulty raise into an apartment located on the fifth floor. Therefore, the pillar was made composite: the upper part of the pipe section 100x100 mm was welded to the beam of the rafters, and the lower( the missing lower section) from welded reinforcement. The lower part of the reinforcement was sewn into the formwork and poured into the solution( Figure 3).

Fig.3. Compound supporting beam

The upper part of the wall, which did not exist, because the ridge beam rested not against the wall directly, but on metal supports, which in turn leaned on a brick wall, were laid with foam concrete.

Overlapping of the mezzanine

The overlapping of the mezzanine according to the project is based on the resulting pillar, the wall and the later partition, which separated the fireplace and the cupboard.(Figure 4 and Figure 5).

Fig.4. Overlapping of the mezzanine

Fig.5. Construction of the support frame

To support the wall in a brick wall, a 150 mm wide bar was made, where a board was mounted, measuring 150x50 mm. To this board the wooden beams of the ceiling were fixed. The assembly board was drowned in the wall so that the force was transferred to the entire wall, and not just to the anchors of the board fixing. To the metal pillar, the wooden beams of double planks 150x50 mm were bolted( Fig. 6).

Fig.6. To the metal pillar, the wooden beams from the double boards of 150x50 mm were bolted to the

. The plywood was laid in two layers on the beams of the overlap; mineral wool was placed in the ceiling to prevent soundproofing( so that the steps from above could not be heard)( Fig. 7).

Fig.7. The photo shows plywood flooring, under which the mined

is laid. About the accompanying works of

. The device in the second-level apartment required more interference in the construction of the apartment. Since the apartment is located on the top floor, under the roof, enclosing the structure from above, is not a concrete overlapping, but rafters, wooden crate, heat insulation, wind, hydroprotective and vapor barrier membranes, as well as metal roofing.

As a thermal insulation in this house used ecowool material - finely pulverized cellulose, and to be precise, waste paper, old newspapers. Material, maybe good, I can not say anything. But in this case, it was clearly laid out with irregularities, because it ceased to have a dense structure. The ground cellulose is impregnated with a special compound and blown out with a strong stream of air. Impregnation glues the particles, and the air compresses them into a dense layer. In this case, the heater hung between the boards of the crate, loose cushions, which were held only by the vapor barrier inseted from below. In some places, the heat insulator was wet. Therefore, it was decided to replace the entire section of the roof above the apartment with two layers of foam 100 mm thick. The total thickness of the insulation - 200 mm.

Other

structures The upper part of the metal pillar was sewn into a box of gypsum. Below the ceiling, a metal pole was sewn with a wooden frame with foam plastic to prevent the formation of condensation.(Figure 8) and lined with wooden panels( Figure 9).

Fig.8. Frame with foam

Fig.9. Finishing with wooden panels

A drywall was made from the gypsum board, along the ceiling cut-out. This box hides the air intake duct( Figure 10).

Fig.10. In the photo - gypsum plasterboard box

In addition to these structures, a chimney duct of the fireplace located on the first floor, as well as a pipe of the heating duct of the fireplace, is hidden in the gyro box( Fig. 11).

Fig.11. The box conceals communications

Finishing

After the main installation works have been completed, the finishing has begun.

Floors

The floors in the bedroom on the mezzanine are made of lap pile and lacquered.(Figure 12) On the mezzanine, apart from the bedroom, it was possible to allocate a shower room as well. On the whole mezzanine floor - both in the bedroom and in the shower room, the floors are wooden, from the larch. The entire floor of the first level is finished with natural stone.

Ceilings

The sloping ceiling of the bedroom, however, like in the whole apartment, is trimmed with an ordinary clapboard( Fig. 13).

Fig.13. Finishing the ceiling with a lining

As a decorative coating, we used acrylic white lacquer. On the tree it does not look dazzling white, but slightly beige-pink. Through the varnish, the texture of the wood remains visible. The lining as a finishing material was chosen for three reasons.

1. The first is to support the design concept of a "country house".
2. The second reason was quite utilitarian: the layout is such that in most of the ceiling, due to the fact that it is inclined, the ceiling surfaces can be touched by hand. Therefore, to make it normal - doom to quick pollution. A wooden ceiling, if it gets dirty, you can just wash it.
3. The third reason - the frame for installing drywall "will eat" a lot of precious space. Obreshetnetnik for lining is much more compact.
   More about the ceilings: the ceiling of the resulting living room and hallway - space under mezzanines, also wooden. For him used plywood, also covered with white lacquer. Walls

Walls in the bedroom did not turn out much. Only two. On the outside, the mezzanine is protected by a wooden grate. This solution allowed to localize the bedroom space and at the same time not to close it with a blind wall, which in conditions of a small area, low sloping ceiling and lack of natural light would turn the room on the mezzanine into a deaf and uncomfortable cupboard.

The end triangular wall is finished with a textured plaster and painted in very light color. Finishing coating - a transparent layer of pearlescent azure, makes the wall surface richer in tone. The same finish is made of plasterboard on the mezzanine and covering most of the walls of the first floor.

The largest part of the bedroom walls is decorated with a cloth with a pattern in the form of ancient roses( Figure 14).

Fig.14. Decorating walls with a cloth

The fabric used to decorate the wall is the most common - it is sold in a shop for sewing bed linen - poplin from 100% cotton. Since the fabric is designed for bedding, it has a very successful width of 2.2 meters. Therefore, the canvas was enough without seams from the floor mezzanine to the ceiling - the height of the mezzanine in the highest part - 2 meters.

The fabric is glued with a regular wallpaper glue, keeps well. Adhesive for wallpaper, even impregnating the fabric through, does not leave a trace on it after drying. And the surface does not get covered with a film: after drying, when touched, the texture of the fabric is felt. If not too zealous, such a coating can be washed with a damp cloth. Considering that in this way the bedroom is finished, it is not threatened to get very dirty walls. And in ordinary cases, the walls can be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner.

The head of the bed is a wall panel and at the same time the wall is decorated( picture 15).

Fig.15. Headboard

The panel is made of 12 squares of plywood, painted with the same translucent acrylic lacquer as the ceiling. Only in this case, the varnish is not tinted in white, but in blue. Plywood sheets are glued directly to the wall, and the seams are covered with wooden slats. Panno-headboard is allocated on the wall by pilasters - small protrusions. In addition to the spatial planning value - the allocation of the bed area, one of the pilasters "hole on the wallpaper closes" - carries a completely utilitarian role: under it is hidden part of the metal bolt of the rafters, which could not be removed.

About furniture and light

In addition to the bed, this small bedroom did not plan any furniture. The standard bed did not fit and did not fit. So the bed was made right on the site. It is a wooden podium on which the mattress rests( Figure 16).

Fig.16. A bed consisting of a mattress that rests on the catwalk

. Although this is not quite true: the wooden podium hides the standard metal bed base with wooden slats. Mattress is quite ordinary, double. And as a headboard is already described above wooden panel. The construction of the podium from a birch furniture board with a thickness of 40 mm is painted with the same varnish as the panno-headboard on the wall - in blue.

More from the furniture in the bedroom - wooden shelves in the niche formed by the ledge of the chimney duct box and the duct in which the ventilation duct is located. Behind the bed is a drawer, a drawer opening up. One part of the locker is for things. There you can add extra pillows and blankets. The second part, which also looks like, hides the fan of the fireplace hood, which is located in the mezzanine ceiling above the fireplace. And the pipe from it passes under the bed into the ventilation duct in the wall behind the blue panel.

Light in the bedroom - two lamps on the ceiling above the bed. They are switched on separately, switches are placed on pilasters.

Another light source that can be used in the bedroom is one of the lamps above the stairs. Its plafond, like a large crystal vase, stands on the railing of the staircase guard.

In addition, through the fence in the bedroom gets light from two chandeliers in the living room on the first floor: they hang just opposite the grate. And both chandeliers and two lamps above the stairs have double control through the through switches to turn on the lighting device at the bottom, and turn off - at the top, climbing the bedroom up the stairs( Figure 17).

Fig.17. Fencing and lighting

Each of these luminaires is switched on separately: you can turn on the left or right chandelier, or both. Also included are two sconces above the stairs.

Over the sofa, which is under the mezzanine ceiling, there are three ceiling lights.

This is the second floor. The area of ​​the apartment has increased by almost twenty meters, and the number of rooms of a one-room studio apartment has reached eight. True, the real rooms, on all sides with limited walls, of them can be considered only the toilet on the first floor and the shower on the second. And the hall, kitchen, dining room, study, living room and bedroom are a single space, zoned with furniture, various finishes and structures such as stairs and staircases. The last photo( Figure 18) was taken from about the same angle as the first one, before the work began. You can compare how it was and how it became.

Fig.18. The result of

This object, in my opinion, demonstrates that with a careful approach to design, you can achieve significant results in the formation of even a small space.