5 cool tips on how to turn "odnushka" into "kopeck piece"
Everyone can make two apartments in the apartment from one room, without interfering with its layout. It’s enough to connect your imagination to the work and take as a basis several design tips that will help turn “odnushka” into “odushka” by rational zoning.
Use glass sliding doors
Sliding glass doors are a good option for turning a room into two separate rooms. They will not clutter up the interior and outline the workplace or relaxation area. Sliding glass doors as partitions have several advantages:
- simple installation: you only need to select the necessary doors and install guides for them;
- They look attractive and modern;
- visually do not reduce the footage of even a small room;
- glass doors perfectly transmit light, in the daytime they can be opened and filled with separate rooms with natural light, and in the evenings - to close them.
Glass for such a partition can be opaque or transparent with patterns.
Create partitions and drywall screens
A partition or a screen made of inexpensive and durable drywall is a worthy alternative to the construction of a blank wall, which reduces the already small area of the room. Lightweight construction from this building material will divide one room into two.
Mount the partition by attaching metal rails to the walls. Drywall sheets are installed on them. It is being built in just a few hours. It does not have to go with a continuous canvas, rest against the ceiling. In this case, the window will remain in one room, and the other will be without natural light. Then in the wall you can cut a window or make the partition shorter than the height of the room. This design can be done:
- semicircular appearance, with original bends;
- with shelves;
- with niches with backlight.
Corresponding recesses should be provided in the partition for placing books, flower pots, and figurines in them. Due to this, the design will become functional and fit better into the interior. A similar partition can be erected to fence off:
- sleeping area;
- children's room;
- Desktop.
The partition is papered or painted.
A drywall screen refers to portable structures that can be folded, moved from one place to another. If it is beautifully decorated, it will not only divide the room into two parts, but also enliven the interior. A screen can be fenced, for example, a berth.
Use furniture to separate rooms
The quick transformation of odnushka into kopeck piece is achieved by using furniture to zoning the space of the room. The delimiters can be:
- cabinets;
- book racks;
- sofas and other furniture.
They are not located near the walls, but in the central part of the room. They should not be redundant in the interior and too large in size so as not to clutter up the room. You can consider such options using furniture as a partition:
- expand the sofa, its back will separate the living room from the rest of the space;
- put a bed behind a large wardrobe;
- shelving with books is appropriate to fence off a workplace with a computer desk.
Raise or lower the floor of the room
Raising (lowering) the floor a little in the room is another interesting solution in order to obtain additional usable space in a one-room apartment. Often a podium is used for such zoning.It allows you to divide the room into two parts due to different floor heights. You can put a bed on the podium. Design advantages:
- gives the room a glamorous look;
- useful space is not lost, the inside of the podium is designed to store things.
In a similar way, you can visually separate the living room, children’s, kitchen area or bedroom.
Make a duplex apartment
This option is good for use in apartments with a floor to ceiling distance of at least 3 m (pre-revolutionary, Stalin-era buildings, some new buildings). Otherwise, it will become difficult to walk in full growth at both levels. Such an idea is realized by dividing the space of the room horizontally into two parts:
- Upstairs on the second floor (under the ceiling) you can get a wonderful bedroom. It is not necessary to walk here, it is only necessary to easily climb onto the bed and lie down on it. Climbing to the second floor will help a stationary (straight, spiral) or folding (retractable) staircase.
- Since the bedroom will be upstairs, below it will be another room where it is nice to arrange a living room with a dining room, a children's corner.
To make the second floor look like a full-fledged building, the mezzanine is fenced off from the lower floor by a staircase with decorative railings or a plasterboard partition. In an apartment with a high ceiling, such a solution will allow:
- additionally free up useful space;
- will provide an opportunity to retire from the rest of the family: relax, go about their business.
So, guided by these simple tips, everyone can create more comfortable living conditions for themselves or their family: turn a one-room apartment into a two-room apartment.
