Once the Parisian attic was the dwelling of the poor, a haven for impoverished bohemians. Over time, it became a full-fledged living space of high-rise buildings, and in country cottages it became a source of additional square meters. Accommodation in the under-roof bedroom space is a good option for arranging a private recreation area inside a private household. Therefore, the design of the bedroom in the attic is an interesting task, the solution of which can be elegant, strict, luxurious or elegant, according to the tastes of the owners.
Attractiveness of attic space
The construction of a cottage or a mansion with an attic instead of a full-fledged second floor will significantly save financial resources and labor costs, however, getting almost the same total area. When refitting non-residential attic space, the advantages are more significant:
- square meters grow;
- the number of rooms increases;
- A small country house can accommodate more guests or expand the space for a family holiday.
In the first case, at the project stage, the roof should be raised and the low walls should be erected above the 1st floor. So it is possible to maximize the use of floor space under the bevels of the roof to house the furniture. The second option, where the roof bevels are adjacent to the floor (if the attic of an old village house is rebuilt) reduces this opportunity - it is convenient to move around where a person can stand upright. However, this small inconvenience can be a serious advantage. Built-in storage cabinets that fill the triangle between the floor and the sloping ceiling will help to hide many of the necessary things.
A huge advantage of the mansard room is the possibility of tapping into the roof of windows. Experts recommend not to be limited to a single opening, but to design a combination of several windows lined up with a square or a strip from the floor of the bedroom to the ridge of the roof. In addition to additional natural lighting, such a construction will become a source of emotional pleasure, a real window into the world through which you can watch the running of clouds, falling snow, and streams of rain.
The design features of the attic make this room originally cozy, filled with a special atmosphere, so the arrangement of the bedroom is a good opportunity to create a room where a quiet night rest will be provided.
Layout
Roof room can be given under the bedroom as a whole. Then the location of the furniture takes into account the presence of end windows, ventilation pipes, a chimney flue, a staircase and fencing. This option involves placing the bed under the bevel, which is not very convenient. It is possible to avoid discomfort if the attic is divided across a light partition or a transparent shelving.
Most of the room will remain a sleeping area, the bed will become a headboard to the partition, which will ensure that it approaches from both sides and the opportunity to admire the view of nature. It is easy to move the bed from the headboard to the window, but natural light will make it difficult to get enough sleep in the morning, and moving the curtains every day, moving around the mattress is not very convenient. If the bedroom owners insist on this option, then there is a way out - installing curtain rods with a control panel.
A smaller part of the attic can take a dressing room with a dressing table, a mini-office. If you plan a global redevelopment with the laying of sewer and water pipes, then a small compartment will take a bathroom (shower). A bathroom with a window is a real luxury, which is quite rare, a dream worth realizing.
If the area of the house is significant, and the mansard space is planned to be divided into several bedrooms facing a small corridor, then the placement of large pieces of furniture is made relative to the walls, lined up along the ridge of the roof, taking into account the door and window openings.
Give up the idea of putting the bed in front of the front door, better move it a little to the side. At a subconscious level, a person does not feel protected if his bed is on a straight line with the entrance, which means he cannot sleep well.
Options for the sleeping area: guest, children, adult
Thinking through the design of the bedroom in the attic, you should start from the purpose of the sleeping room, which can be:
- guest;
- child or individual;
- master bedroom (couples).
The first option means that the room is open when guests stay overnight. Often attic guest are empty. The owners use the space of the lower floors, and these rooms are not in demand. The second is for one person or a child (several children). The third is a closed recreation area, which is used only by an adult couple (home owners).
Given the nature, age of the owners of the room, the frequency of use of a country house (holidays, regular visits, permanent residence) to the bedroom interior are different requirements.
Guest assignment determines the minimum area of the room, the use of neutral finishing materials, the lack of special decor, as well as a small number of pieces of furniture necessary for guests. The room must be:
- bed;
- bedside table (surface for a mobile phone, a book, a glass of water);
- a small chest of drawers for clothes if the visit is scheduled to last for several days;
- chair, chair, bedside bench (the opportunity to sit down, put the shot things).
To make visitors feel comfortable, the decoration of the guest attic bedroom should be done very discreetly. Add a cozy ascetic furnished room can properly selected lamps, soft bedside rugs, curtains, throw pillows, wall composition of framed photos.
Picking up a photo for guest rooms is better to give preference to landscape or animal images. Especially interesting are black and white pictures or made in sepia.
Children's kingdom: give the attic in full possession
"All hands on deck!" - sending a similar team of children to sleep, be sure that they will instantly be inside your room, if you were engaged in the interior together and created there a pirate ship, a training ground, a fire fighting tower, an academy of wizards.
What child does not dream about having his own house? Attic provides such an opportunity. Separated from the rest of the house by a staircase, the room becomes an individual space where not everyone can have access. Here, the child feels master, here he can play, create, play sports (if the weather is bad), read, be himself. Here fantasies become reality: a sea chest and a telescope transform a wooden floor into a high-speed corvette deck, dormer windows become a mirror of a telescope so that a young astronomer can observe distant galaxies, the Swedish wall and the rope allow the brave firefighter to do their work.
It will be optimal to provide the child with all the attic of the summer cottage at home. If there are several children, and multi-day visits of their friends are common, several beds should be provided (or a full bed and a folding bed, which are assembled and then stored inside the closed compartment). They can be placed under the roof bevels, then the free central space will remain playable.
One part of the attic should be equipped with elements of a sports corner, instead of using standard chairs, use benches, chests, bean bags, a table for practice should be placed along the window.
If in the attic there is such an architectural structure as lucarn, then in the recess near it, think over a bench with cushions and a rug - a place to read with the ability to observe the beauty of the garden will be one of your favorites.
A children's bedroom, as part of a private home, does not require a large amount of furniture - most of the time the child spends on the street or with his parents in the living room. Several colorful details (drawings, maps, photographs of family travel) can give the necessary mood to this room.
Romantic bedroom for a girl
According to the Russian tradition, the rooms of unmarried daughters were always located on the upper floors of buildings under the roof. While working on the bedroom interior for a modern young girl, a teenage girl, you can recreate the image of the luminaire or its light replica using the appropriate color scheme and furnishings. Also, skillfully combining several style trends (shebbi-chic, Provence, a la Russe, eco-style), you can get contemporary, or you can maintain the room in a strict style unity.
If the owner is not keen on Gothic motifs, and the room is needed, above all, to relax, then her coloristic solution is better to perform in light shades. Particularly spectacularly whitened tones appear on wall surfaces (when finishing a room with a tree or preserving the main material of the supporting structures open), covered with thickening, tinting compounds, which make it possible to see the wood structure.
Selecting textiles (curtains, bedspread, upholstery, decorative pillows), you should focus on soft, structural fabrics. The deep folds of light translucent curtains, decorated with grabs, will not obscure the sunlight, but will be able to mute it a bit, adding privacy to the room.
For textile design technique of patchwork "patchwork" is well suited. Wall panels, bedspreads, pillows, rugs will make the bedroom bright, elegant, slightly "rustic", emphasizing the belonging of a country house.
Selecting pieces of furniture, try to pay attention to the openwork metal. The wrought-iron headboard and armchairs near the bureau, the gracefully curved legs of the bedside bench, the bedside table with wrought-iron details and glass surface, the transparent shelves on the constrictor consoles - lightness and some fun items filling the bedroom create the necessary atmosphere for a cozy corner of girlish dreams.
Master bedroom: luxury behind closed doors
You should not think that only simple, unpretentious rooms can be arranged in the attic bedroom. According to the size of the space, following the wishes of the owners, the task to create a unique, rich, luxurious interior is quite feasible to emphasize the purpose of the room and the status of the couple as the owners of the whole house.
Playful rococo, gilded baroque does not fit the attic architecture, requiring high ceilings and large windows. However, using natural eco-friendly materials (wood, leather, fur), you can create a feeling of luxury, reproduce the surroundings of a five-star spa hotel or a mountain resort, especially if you can see a beautiful view behind the main window, and you can see stars through the windows.
The rich, deep colors of the textile design of the bedroom, wall and floor decoration materials, cobalt, burgundy, dark brown with the effect of aging or frosting, silk-chocolate are designed to emphasize the purpose of the room, the prevalence of night over the day. Bed linen is selected under the dominant color of fabric with a slight sheen (silk, satin, satin). Several rows of pillows, leaning against the headboard of the bed, which is better called a bed because of the size, massiveness, quality of material and craftsmanship, silver fox fur blanket, lined with silk, substituted bedside bench form a real "island" of rest. The bed becomes the focus of luxury, comfort, brutal pomp, typical of the era of the Capetian or Scandinavian kingdoms.
Heavy curtains on the eaves, repeating the shape of the window (arch, triangle, oblique opening, circle) are designed to shelter private space from the looks of neighbors. In the absence of such, a window opening can be left open by installing a frame that is painted from the inside to match the color of the room. Hidden lights, hidden in the walls, will provide directional light where lighting is required. Point light sources can be mounted flush with the floor covering around the perimeter of the room, creating an intriguing play of shadows.
The detailing design of the attic bedroom for the couple through touching the smooth skin, flowing fabric, fluffy fur, time-honed wood surface, will give the owners a taste of maximum comfort, bliss and sensual pleasures.
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