Zoning the living room and bedroom in one room

Living room-bedroom - a combined room, formed as a result of redevelopment or, if necessary, make one of the two rooms without erecting a capital wall. Zoning here is done in various ways, most of which are aimed at creating maximum comfort, the comfort of each of the residents. The best design options for such rooms are filmed on camera - they are easy to find on the Internet, on sites for design, repair.

Features

The bedroom-living room is often formed from a cramped two-room "Khrushchev", often having a very uncomfortable layout, a small kitchen. The combined room is quite spacious - due to the demolition of "extra" walls, there is more room for comfortable movement, a beautiful arrangement of furniture, the separation of the living room and the bedroom here is purely symbolic.

There is another option - a one-room apartment, the only living space of which is limited to 15 or 16 square meters, less often 17-23 m. It’s problematic to stay here with the whole family, therefore, competent zoning is vital, especially if you have a child. In the presence of a spacious kitchen, several "squares" are cut off from it in favor of the room, by moving the wall.

Any options for redevelopment can disrupt the structure of the building, which often leads to collapse. Before starting work, the project must be coordinated with higher authorities, to obtain the appropriate permission.

Advantages disadvantages

The combination of two rooms in one has its advantages and disadvantages.

Positive sides:

• the ability to create interesting design;
• everything you need for life, compactly located on a small area;
• each family member will be able to highlight their own corner;
• the place where the wall used to be, is also fully used;
• many zoning elements are easy to remove when they are not needed.

Negative moments:

• no soundproofing bedrooms;
• the privacy of the sleeping area is much less than in separate rooms;
• difficulties with proper zoning of the resulting territory.

The area, the design of each zone depends on the functions assigned to them, the number of residents in the apartment.

Zoning methods

The most "radical" way to divide the entire area into two parts is to build a wall so that isolated rooms are obtained, although such a room will no longer be combined. When the height of the ceiling is four to five meters, more than a meter, the creation of a two-level hall-bedroom becomes quite possible - at the top then equip a room for sleeping, at the bottom - a spacious hall.

What zoning methods are used by modern interior designers:

• paint the floor, walls in different colors;
• the use of finishing materials, differing in type, texture;
• installation of thin partitions, sliding screens;
• textile curtains;
• multiple light sources;
• podiums with steps, without them;
• multi-level ceilings;
• furnishings;
• openings, arches, columns;
• surround decor.

Occasionally, as zoning details for large spaces, use several large potted plants placed on the floor in one line, stable figurines of wood, ceramics.

Furnished

Most often, the zones are separated by a rack, wardrobe. Racking is partially or fully performed through, the back wall of the cabinet, which is both relatively low (slightly larger than a man’s height) and resting against the ceiling, is decorated with shelves. The sofa, designed for receiving guests, sleeping, is equipped with a table top attached to the back, forming an office.

Modular kits are the most attractive option for combined spaces. All elements here are maintained in a single style, which greatly simplifies the design of the interior, in which you have to combine many details.

Partitions, screens, textiles

Lightweight plasterboard wall allows you to clearly divide the room. Such a structure resembles an ordinary wall, but does not require legitimization as an element of redevelopment, since it can be easily dismantled if necessary. The material is cheap, has an aesthetic appearance, easy to process. On the wall of drywall often make one, several functional shelves. It is either continuous or perforated, it blocks off only a small part of the room. Partitions have the form of a sheet of thin plywood, MDF, forged elements, metal sheets with slots.

It looks interesting to the building with a two-sided fireplace - a real, electric, fake. Contemplation of such a subject creates a peaceful atmosphere. The partition, completely made of glass, is usually supplied with a curtain (textile, roll) so that even in a sunny day in the bedroom it was possible to create darkness.

Arches, columns of various configurations perfectly zone large spaces.
Independent use of curtains is also permissible - the product is mounted on a ceiling cornice that hides the stretch ceiling slot or is simply made unobtrusive. If the room is very large, the ceiling is high, the curtain is moved away remotely - using a special control panel. Bored curtains are easy to remove, replace with any others. Thick, light curtains, multi-layered often installed in a niche.

Screen - easy, mobile option. Its location is easy to change, depending on the mood, the properties you need at the moment - in the afternoon this design separates the mini-office, in the evening - the sleeping place of someone from the family members. The screen is usually made of wooden, metal frame, on which the fabric is stretched, less often there are completely wooden, aluminum, plastic, rattan woven options.

Lighting

Zoning with light is suitable for both cramped and very spacious rooms. In modern time, the lighting of a single ceiling chandelier is considered an obsolete version - now each logical zone is highlighted individually. Where they sleep, the light is made warm, diffused, but when reading is supposed to be in bed, it is advisable to provide lamps with adjustable brightness. White daylight is made in the office, if available, if there is a dressing table, it is supplied with a make-up mirror having an LED backlight along the contour.

If desired, the living room, sleeping area is separated by a decorative LED strip, launched along the floor, ceiling. In the same way, it makes sense to distinguish the border between the hall and the bedroom, by issuing an arch and a plasterboard construction with LEDs. In another version, the “border” separating the rooms is intentionally left almost without light, making it even more expressive.

Finishing materials, colors

Sometimes, individual zones are highlighted in color - for example, the bedroom is plastered with light-colored flowered wallpaper, the hall is darker, monotonous. The materials are also selected different: in the sleeping area lay high-quality laminate in the living room - ceramic tiles. You can create other visual borders - a strip of natural stone on the wall, change the direction of laying parquet. Properly selected photo wallpapers, posters, not only zoning is performed, but also the correction of unsuccessful proportions of the room, its irregular shape. A small sleeping area is distinguished by a soft contrasting carpet. When making the floor with different materials, it is important to properly organize their docking with each other.

In one room it is recommended to combine no more than two or three colors, but the narrower the room, the brighter, warmer they are chosen.

The most interesting ideas:

• light brown with yellow;
• apricot with pumpkin;
• basalt gray with beige;
• pink with pigeon blue;
• pomegranate with smoky white;

• turquoise blue with lime;
• protective blue with camelopard;
• pale brown with purple;
• marsh with brick;
• vanilla with dahlia;
• Khaki with melon yellow;
• cornflower with watermelon;
• coral with brown-orange;
• lavender with mahogany;
• creamy mint with azure;
• ocher with pearl;
• salmon with honey.

Monochrome colors combined interior - not uncommon, especially in cases with cramped rooms. There are overly contrasting options - then the visual separation of zones is immediately obvious.

Podiums, sliding designs

Zoning is horizontal, vertical. Podiums are often placed under the bed, serving as a convenient container for bedding, underwear, books, toys and other things. In another version, the entire living room is placed on the platform - a sofa, a coffee table, a console with a TV, a wardrobe, armchairs. Separate elements of the storage system "hide" not at the side of the platform, but open from above. Handles "boxes" are made retractable - they "appear" when lightly pressed with a finger, but do not work in the event of a foot attack.

Sliding glass doors are convenient because they are able to create sufficient sound insulation, but you can re-unite the space just by opening them. To create privacy, each part of the door is decorated with a thick rolled curtain, which is also convenient to close-open. There are designs on a special rail, which seems to be a piece of a wall, a couple of meters wide. The product moves from side to side, if necessary, separating the sleeping place, then the study.

Many designers use a ceiling height difference to highlight zones - in the bedroom it is usually made a little lower, sometimes standing out in color. It is not recommended to use this technique in rooms with medium, low height, as well as simultaneously with scaffolds - a “pressing” feeling is created, the room is very uncomfortable.

Popular design styles

The chosen style should be, above all, comfortable for life - not to interfere with the free movement around the house, not to clutter it. Styles such as baroque, empire, are suitable only for very spacious rooms, as they require luxurious, voluminous furnishings, rich decor, textured draperies. Loft can also be equipped not everywhere - it also requires a lot of space, light.

In the best way such styles as:

• classical;
• modern;
• high tech;
• Provence;
• country music;
• minimalism;
• modern;
• Japanese;
• Scandinavian.

Modern

The main secret here is convenience in everything, the decor is in last place. The interior is quite strict, concise, every inch of space is fully used. Complicated, intricate patterns are practically absent, zoning is done using one-color curtains suspended from the ceiling eaves, modular furniture, carpets, modern lighting fixtures, podiums of various heights.

Provence

Provence is distinguished by an abundance of floral prints, "village" motifs. Light curtains in large and small flowers are present here not only on the windows, but also as a drapery separating the living and sleeping areas. Furniture is chosen light, bright, simple, modular designs are practically not used. A folding screen, stylized as a fence fence, made of real vine, pine roots, rattan, high-quality newspaper tubes, sometimes becomes a zoning design.

High tech

Zoning of rooms decorated in this style is made with the help of transparent or frosted glass, metal screens, multiple light sources, different shades of the self-leveling floor. Highlighting in the high-tech is rarely present - then the bedroom becomes darker, matte, and the hall more glossy, bright. The main colors here are metallic silver, bluish-gray, steel, dark brown, black. The furniture is used modular - with it it is easy to divide the room into zones, each time arranging it in different ways.

Modern

In the modern interior there are a lot of smooth, ornate lines - the zone is separated from the zone by them. There are arches and columns, fireplaces and carved furniture, prints with plants and dragonflies. The main tones used are gray, golden, brown. Natural materials are preferred. Zoning of the combined premises in the Art Nouveau style is also carried out with the help of stained-glass windows, forged gratings, and sculptural ensembles of wood.

Minimalism

There are very few items here, but they are all strictly functional. The style is perfect for very tiny spaces - strict geometry easily balances any available space. From the zoning elements there are open shelves, color highlighting, screens, screens, light sliding structures. The colors used are “clean” - white, gray, black, red. Materials are selected the most modern - laminate, plastic panels, foam, metal-plastic.

The choice of furniture in the living room-bedroom

Comfortable furnishings are most important for cramped spaces. A wardrobe-transformer, a folding table, a coffee table-ottoman will be the most convenient solution for the combined dwellings. For proper zoning, part of the furniture is arranged in the middle of the room in a single line - a rack with a desk, a chest of drawers with a wardrobe, a dressing room. It is important that large furniture items do not block access to the windows, do not completely block the path of street light in the rooms, do not interfere with the free movement of the apartment.

A standard sleeping room has one or more beds, one or two bedside tables, a chest of drawers, a wardrobe, a dressing table or a desk for a computer if you plan to create a small room. In the hall there is at least one table, sofa, cupboard, or a narrow console under the television screen, a couple of chairs or ottomans.

Tips for choosing the location of the bed

Berth - one of the most important elements of any apartment. The number of beds depends on the number of family members. For children, if there are several, a two-story structure is purchased, adults in a cramped room often sleep on a folding sofa. If there are often guests in the house who stay overnight, it makes sense to purchase one or two chair beds as well - this element in the folded state does not take up much space.

A folding bed is ideal for a very small apartment. At night, it is laid out, in the afternoon - cleaned to the wall. Folded design resembles a narrow locker. When every time to make a bed — to lay out a bed — laziness, a product is purchased that is equipped with straps, rubber bands, which gently hold the blanket and mattress on a vertical plane.

A single or double bed, located on the podium, makes it possible to store all kinds of things in several drawers under it. An attic bed is a convenient solution for a ceiling height of three meters or more. The height of the second floor from the ceiling should be sufficient so that an adult can normally sit on the upper shelf. A single bed-podium is able to hide under one more berth, which, if necessary, simply extends from under the main bed. In the case of a double bed, there are two separate or joint sleeping places at the bottom.

At arrangement of a two-story bed for the child, the ladder on the second tier is surely supplied with hand-rail.

Storage systems

When the apartment is very small, and there are relatively many people living in it, it is very important to think over the storage system. The mini-dressing room will be located in a part of the room playing the role of a bedroom - here you will find a corner or straight closet, all the way up to the ceiling, in which there are clothes, shoes, haberdashery. In the presence of a warmed balcony, a loggia a dressing room will be located there - then, in addition to hangers and pantographs with clothes, boxes with shoes, a vacuum cleaner, skis, dumbbells, rarely used household appliances, and other things will fit here. If the room is provided for children, then in one locker store clothes with shoes, books, toys of the child.

The least used items are recommended to be stored on the mezzanine under the ceiling, what they use all the time - a maximum of one and a half meters from the floor, for children even lower. The rack usually plays the role of both storage and zoning element. It is important that he was very stable, could not fall, even with a fairly strong blow. A rotating locker is a bold solution for spacious rooms; a wardrobe with doors on both sides is also very convenient.

To easily get things from the top of the shelves, use the ladder, a special stool-transformer, a wooden structure of several steps.

Design ideas, their features

The bedroom-living room is able to sit in almost any room - a one-room apartment, where only a kitchen and a bathroom are hidden behind the wall, a large walk-through room, if it is necessary to allocate a secluded place for sleeping. Sometimes the room inhabited by adults has to be separated from the children's bedroom so that the baby has a small personal space.

It is recommended to make the bedroom far away from the entrance to the joint room so that this place is not walkable, quiet, comfortable.

In a one-room apartment

One-room space, where together, in a single space, the hall and bedroom are located, will also be cozy. Жилое пространство "однушки" редко превышает 16-18 метров, потому его хотя бы зрительно нужно расширить. Для этого используются глянцевые поверхности мебели, светлая окраска стен, зеркала, легкие разделительные элементы.

The easiest way to sleep area is to separate the curtain - it is easy to remove it if necessary. Glass partitions also fall into the “theme”, a high-back sofa, which is placed almost in the middle of the room, will also easily cope with the task of zoning. If the division requires a purely symbolic, then in the bedroom or living room simply lay the carpet covering almost the entire surface of the floor in the selected area.

In the entrance room

Passing room, where together, that is, in a single space, both the living room and the bedroom are located, most often formed in a two or three bedroom apartment. A vivid example is Khrushchev's “vest”, where the hall sometimes has to be divided in half.

Zoning elements here are preferred not decorative, but functional. It is not advisable to overcrow such a space with furniture - it will be difficult to navigate through it. The sleeping area is done where they go least - in the presence of a warm balcony, loggia, a spacious niche, it is reasonable to equip it there. Dividing into zones using light will be most convenient.

Living room, children's bedroom

In the children's bedroom, no matter how big it is, there should be enough space for games, this is especially true when there are more than one children. The bunk bed partially solves this problem - for two children, only sleeping places will fit here, one will be able to arrange an attic bed, under which a workplace or a wardrobe is usually made. The nursery settles in a warm, bright corner, where there are no drafts. It has a bedroom, workplace, a wardrobe with toys and clothes that can separate this space from the adult room.

Combining a living room with a loggia / balcony

In the presence of a loggia in the combined room, a balcony, they are heat-insulated, connecting them to the living space. This option allows you to increase the usable area by two to four square meters or more. m. When there are two balconies (loggias), the union is made with one or both.

On the loggia, "warm" balcony place:

• dressing room;
• cabinet;
• nursery;
• parents' bedroom;
• guest area.

When a children's balcony is located on the balcony, a loggia should consider a version with shatterproof windows - a child, playing, is able to break a window with a ball, another object, which will lead to injury.

Arrangement of the working area in the bedroom-living room

Compact mini-cabinet equip in a niche, any convenient corner of the room. The workspace includes a computer desk, which, when necessary, easily becomes a toilet - the tabletop rises, opening a mirror under its surface, convenient drawers with cosmetics, perfumery.

The secretary is a convenient design suitable for storing the office, as well as for paper, computer work. Sometimes a small office is located in a structure resembling a corner wardrobe - all necessary office equipment breaks in here, and the border is made in the form of plastic folding curtains, sliding doors made of frosted glass. It is easy to separate the cabinet with a narrow rack with a folding top - when there is very little space, this option is best suited.

Conclusion

The real design of the bedroom living space is chosen based on personal preferences, the available area. A studio of any size, if properly zoned, will become comfortable, beautiful, conveniently accommodating everything you need for a full life, work and leisure. Making such a room with your own hands is not difficult, but if you still have some problems, professional designers will come to the rescue to help you decide on the placement of all the necessary zones and even describe in detail what the living room will look like in a three-de format.