Design of a small-sized apartment (90 photos). How to create an original interior of a small apartment - Tips from experienced designers Very small apartment

As practice shows, it is precisely insignificant ones on a lot of apartments, it is possible to create an interior with a recognizable face. Each "trifle" is crucial, starting with the placement of the premises' boundaries and ending with the dimensions of the objects and decor. It is only necessary to use the "reserves" and choose the best solutions. There are several examples of how architects and designers are mastering space up to 36 m 2.

1. One-bedroom apartment with an area of \u200b\u200b20 m 2

Young polyglot woman working as a teacher of foreign languages, acquired an apartment in a former communal. After renovation brick housebuilt in the middle of the 20th century, the former rooms were turned into small-sized apartments with miniature kitchens and bathrooms. To accommodate a small apartment for everyday life, the hostess turned to professionals.

The dwelling structure almost did not change: the square in terms of the apartment with two windows facing south is divided into two rectangular parts. In the larger there is a living room, in a smaller - an entrance hall, a bathroom and a kitchen; The latter are divided carrier wall. The main task was to not only make housing comfortable, but also to enter into it the furniture necessary for storage. For this purpose, the partition between the room and the hallway was slightly extended - thus, in the resulting niche, the room was able to integrate a large wardrobe, and in the hallway to place a volume pouf in the corner for pouche. Another wardrobe is located along the side wall of the hallway.

Architects Natalia Preobrazhenskaya (Head of Design Studio " Cozy apartment"), Inna Makarova. Photo: Anton Vlasov

After the removal of small protrusions of partitions in the areas of openings leading from the residential room in the kitchen and the hallway, there was an opportunity to put the doors, and along the windows to mount the multifunctional one. It includes dining and desktop and storage cabinets. In the bathroom installed a full-fledged font, and small toilet and washbasin helped save space for a washing machine. All interior doors in the apartment are sliding.

Technical data

Before repair: Total area of \u200b\u200b20 m 2, ceilings height 2.65 m

After repair: the total area of \u200b\u200b19.8 m 2, the height of the ceilings is 2.6 m

2. One-bedroom apartment with an area of \u200b\u200b25 m 2

Architect, designer Olga Ulyanova. Photo: Vladimir Martynov

Designing interior on the first floor panel house, the architect managed to fit into a very modest budget, but at the same time create a full-fledged housing for the girl. The apartment has a small entrance hall, separate kitchen, zones for sleep, study or work, as well as for reception of guests. The author complicated the configuration of the partition between the kitchen and the bathroom, creating a multi-level niche. Thus managed to accommodate the bathroom washing machineAnd above it (from the side of the kitchen) - a wardrobe with a microwave oven.

Architect, designer Olga Ulyanova. Photo: Vladimir Martynov

Only in the bathroom installed interroom doorFrom the hallway overlooking the room and the kitchen. The interiors are combined with the help of a color solution (finishing of white color, materials of light shades), in each room there are one or two contrasting parts (wallpaper with a pattern), allowing you to visually deepen space.

Technical data

Prior to repair: Total area 25 m 2 Ceiling height 2.65 m

After repair: Total area 25 m 2 Ceiling height 2.62 m

3. Studio area of \u200b\u200b28.8 m 2

To create a feeling of space and equip all the necessary functional zones, the designer applied. Fortunately, there was no intrahailly on the facility carriers. The author of the project united the kitchen and the room, while highlighted the bedroom in the resulting volume with a large built-in wardrobe. If desired, the recreation area can be isolate, torn the curtain.

Designer Maria Dadiani. Photo: Alexander Kamachekkin

The area of \u200b\u200bthe kitchen-dining room occupies 14.7 m 2, the conditioned border serves as a bar counter (if necessary, it also performs the functions of the dining and desktop). The entrance to the bathroom was transferred, now he looks not at the front door, and in the corridor, whose wall was moved towards the room for about 20 cm. Due to this, the total area of \u200b\u200bthe input group increased by a third, and not only the cabinet, but also a chair placed there. In that part of the hallway, where the entrance to the bathroom used to be intended before, there was a storage room with storage systems and a washing machine.

Technical data

Before repair: Total area 28.8 m 2 Ceiling height 2.5 m

After repair: Total area 28.8 m 2 Ceiling height 2.5 m

4. One-bedroom apartment with an area of \u200b\u200b32 m 2

The apartment plan is the right rectangle. Previously, the undesupply partition separated it to the room and the kitchen, a bathroom and a corridor were located between the last and small hallway. Two windows in the dwelling, you can go to the balcony. After dismantling the old partitions, the designer left the kitchen and the bathroom in the previous places, but changed their layout. Thus, the area of \u200b\u200bthe bathroom was expanded at the expense of the corridor, thanks to which the bath was able to install.

Designer Alexander Kononenko. Photo: Sergey Kuznetsov

Right Ot entrance door, in the corner, equipped the dressing room - only she and the bathroom closes the doors, and between the hallway, the bedroom and the kitchen-dining room now there are no partitions (such a layout is not coordinated, since the kitchen with gas stove Must be isolated from residential premises. - approx. ed.). In the niche, at the entrance to the apartment, the wardrobe was built in a wardrobe, and L-sampled kitchen modules separated from the living room of the partition, exactly the corresponding depth of the modules.

Technical data

Before repair: Total area 32 m 2 Ceiling height 2.68 m

After repair: Total area 32 m 2 Ceiling height 2.49-2.6 m

5. One-bedroom apartment with an area of \u200b\u200b32 m 2

Originally in the apartment there were isolated living room and kitchen combined bathroom. The latter performed in a long corridor, narrowing the already widespread passage to the cooking room. For starters, all partitions were dismantled by creating a studio space thus. Then the wet zone is isolated by the newly elevated walls.

Architect Yuri Filatov. Photo: Dmitry Karpov

At the same time, the foot of the bathroom decreased - on the area of \u200b\u200bthe protrusion, which had previously seen the passage to the kitchen. By the way, at first glance it may seem that there are no places for storing things in the apartment. It is not so - to the right of the entrance to the dwelling is equipped with a large dressing room. It was located along the end wall of the living room area.

Technical data

Before repair: Total area 32 m 2 Ceiling height 3 m

After repair: Total area 32 m 2 Ceiling height 2.75-2.95 m

6. One-bedroom apartment with an area of \u200b\u200b34.5 m 2

The initial layout at which all rooms are insulated, the customer has not satisfied. The impression of cramped and closets was present. Therefore, the architect proposed to create a joint space, including an entrance hall, a kitchen and a living room. Each of the zones has its own conventional border. So, the hallway is separated from the living room with a low furniture module. From the side of the hallway, he plays the role of a comfortable banquette, the living room performs the feature of the couch with a TV panel.

Architect Alexander Ostankova. Photo: Andrey Kocheshkov

The module closes the room from the entrance door, but it does not look cumbersome and does not prevent the penetration into the input zone of natural light. The kitchen is visually separated from the common space with a narrow bar counter (30 cm) with built-in compact wine cabinetI dreamed about the customer. The conditioned boundaries are visible in the floor finish - parquet laid in the living room, the hallway and the kitchen contains a clamping with a gaterain that imitates marble. The bedroom remained isolated, but communicates with the rest of the space through sliding structures with transparent glass inserts.

Technical data

Before repair: Total area 34.5 m 2 Ceiling height 3.22 m

After repair: Total area 34.9 m 2 Ceiling height 3.12 / 2.95 m

7. One-bedroom apartment with an area of \u200b\u200b35 m 2

The apartment with two windows facing south in terms of approaching the square, which in the middle divided the undesiable partition. Near the input zone is a rectangular bathing compartment. The loggia only partially performs for the outer contour of the dwelling, and on the initial plan in her two doors were led - from the room and from the kitchen.

Designer Anna Dormushkin. Photo: Evgeny Kulibab

In the process of repair, the non-vacant partitions were removed, the loggia did not adopt to the living area, but the bottomroom block from the living room was dismantled, and the windows from the floor were built instead, so that the insolation was made. The living room (folding sofa also performs the function of the bedroom) separated from the opening between the hallway and the kitchen of the garpester from plaster blocks. The partition can be accessed on both sides. All functional zones except bathroom and loggia have an open layout.

Technical data

To repair: total area 35 m 2 ceilings height 2.74 m

After repair: Total area of \u200b\u200b35 m 2 The height of the ceilings is 2.67 m

8. One-bedroom apartment with an area of \u200b\u200b36 m 2

The former housing structure was changed radically, dismantling all the old partitions (there is no bearing wall inside the apartment). Now through two windows overlooking the south, direct sunlights most of the day illuminate the cozy studio, united the kitchen, a dining room and a living room, and penetrate into the depths of the corridor - there is an open path between the adjacent rooms.

Project Manager Sergey Baharev, Designer Daria Nazarenko, Svadstka Studio. Photo: Evgeny Kulibab

The living room with a folding sofa can be quickly turned into a bedroom. Each decorative motive in this interior has its own continuation in neighboring zones. Elements of finishing (eaves, plinths), the same in all residential premises, rather wide - with them a small apartment does not look like a toy and it looks solid.

Technical data

Before repair: Total area 36 m 2 Ceiling height 2.6 m

After repair: Total area 36 m 2 Ceiling height 2.45-2.55 m

Design small-sized one-bedroom apartment - This is a compromise search between functionality and comfort, improvement of the ergonomics of the premises, an attempt to transform the original uncomfortable planning to more acceptable. The deficit of the area puts its uncompromising conditions when the account is every centimeter. At the same time it is necessary to remain a realistic - design small-sized apartments-sts are better to spend in Scandinavian style, minimalism, loft or fusion, but for decorating in baroque style Elementary does not have enough space.

Expand the space: ideas for small apartments

Receptions that allow expanding space can be divided into two types:

• radical (redevelopment)
• visual

Among the radical redevelopment options is the most popular - union in the overall space of the kitchen and the adjacent room. The remnant of the wall in a separate bathroom will give an additional couple of square meters of the square, and the bubbling of the bath in favor of the shower cabin is the ability to place a washing machine. Additional area for the bathroom can be allocated due to corridor. (hallway). Not unnecessary meters obtained by joining the loggia room.

But all these radical methods have several material minuses:

• opportunations are limited by the presence and location of bearing walls
• the need to match all redevelopments with relevant control bodies

Visual methods do not give a physical (measured) vacuum of space, but due to optical illusions, the visual effect of increasing space is created. First of all, due to the correct selected color solution: all warm and light shades help optically expand the space, and this rule acts for walls, and for furniture.

And colored accents and dark inserts will help to prevent the conversion of the room into an inexpressive monolithic bright spot. Prevailing dark colors They will absorb the interior of the room - because of this, it will visually shrink.

Tip! The wallpaper pattern will optically adjust the volume of the room - the horizontal pattern will make it longer, vertical - "raise" the ceilings.

A few more techniques that allow "to play" with space:

• mirrors are a win-win reception, a mandatory attribute for a small apartment. The mirror doors from the ceiling to the floor of the cabinet wardrobe will add "half" the room. And the mirror located opposite the window will add in the light room

• rejection of massive dark wood - oak furniture will absorb all the space
• replace chandeliers, not even too impressive, on the built-in lamps

• no deaf facades - doors, racks, shelves must have glass transparent doors, it will allow unload space

• light, more light - do not immerse the room in the twilight, well-lit room looks spacious

• suspension glossy ceiling will save from the feel of hanging ceiling

Interior design in a small apartment: get rid of extra

The rational use of the room - the concept is wide enough, often dependent on the habits of its owners, lifestyle, taste preferences, mentality and even national characteristics. Often there are too many things in our apartments that are absolutely not used. They just occupy a place, turning the apartment into some similarity of the old woman's warehouse - the habit of not throwing things with the calculation "but suddenly it will come in handy" leads to elementary climbing of the apartment. It is enough just to remove the garbage - and the places will be much larger:

• let's start with small - photo albums, occupying, at best, one shelf in a bookcase. But the photo can be digitized (scan) - in this form, they practically do not occupy space

• the object is bigger - the balcony, which is often turned into a warehouse of unnecessary things, from children's sled to waiting for furniture repair. We just need to get rid of the rubble, insulate the balcony and combine it with the living room - and get extra residential meters. And the balcony square is quite enough to arrange enough isolated and secluded on it workplaceWhere the day you can do lessons (which is very important - with natural daily lighting), and in the evening - to parents to do their affairs.

• another reception is to replace old cast iron batteries More modern and compact radiators. And in order to increase the efficiency of their heat transfer, the place of installation (more precisely speaking is a wall) is to install a heat transfer screen made from foil. This will free up along the wall of an additional 6-10 cm space.

Planning the interior design of a small apartment, it is worth providing dismantling of old windows and replacing them with a metal-plastic analogue. This will not only increase the heat efficiency of the room, but also allows you to effectively use the windowsill.

Traditionally, the windowsill, due to its modest sizes, was used either for accommodation flower Gorshkovor just empty. Window replacement allows windowsill transform to a functional element:

• in the kitchen, a wide windowsill can become a working area, and for a small family you can turn it into an analogue of the dining table

• in the room, the windowsill can perform in the role of a working area or a written table

Useful advice

SAMI a big problem Little apartments are that with a great desire you will not get to post everything you want in it.

However, if you use some designerheathsti. You can place at least all the necessary things, and even save a bit of place.

Here are several useful ideas and tips, how to save place in a small apartment, as well as several beautiful examples of small European apartments with original design:

Save place in a small apartment

1. If you need only a laptop for work, you can put it on the shelf, instead of purchasing a whole desktop.

You can also use a shelf on which you can put not only a laptop, but also other necessary things, thereby saving a lot of space.

2. With the help of a curtain or screen, you can easily separate the kitchen from the rest of the room.

3. Separate workplace From the bedroom you can with the help of ordinary plywood or a small shelf.

4. Also separated the kitchen in a small apartment using the old window.

You can also order a "window" that is suitable in size and install it so that it is depicted the border between the kitchen and the rest.

How to equip a small apartment

5. Box or chest can play two roles at once - the role coffee table, and places where you can store various things.

6. If you lean the sofa or armchair to the bed, it will save you the place and will look beautiful.

Smart use of small space in the apartment

7. No room for the sofa, where can guests be located? Just use large pillows in a free place.

8. Here is such a folding table you can buy or make it yourself. It is attached to the wall, and it consists in order to save a lot of space.

9. In a small apartment you can put such a children's room with a sleeping place, a work desk and a wardrobe (he is the same secret room).

Registration of a small apartment

10. Picture that turns into a table.

11. The newsmeal, which can also be used as a hanger.

12. Chair and shelving 2 in 1.

13. Compact folding kitchen.

14. For a small room, this design is perfect, which combines the mirror, a wardrobe and ironing board.

15. Another example of a folding table, only now with a folding chair is perfect for a small kitchen.

16. Such a workplace occupies quite a bit of space, while being very convenient. Suitable for both a schoolboy and a student and an adult.

17. If you decide to make a staircase, you can embed a lot of storage boxes in various things.

Storing things in a small apartment

18. Narrow shelves will save place, while they will be very comfortable, both in the kitchen and in the rest of the apartment or at home.

If you attach some of them at the right height, then under the shelf you can put a stool so that it does not occupy an excess space.

19. Here is another example, as you can share the kitchen from the bedroom.

A small wall of plywood, does not share the space completely, and looks pretty beautiful.

20. This bathroom, though small, but very effective.

Small apartments (photo)

21. This apartment has an area of \u200b\u200b44 square meters. meter. But it fit all the most needed, including a bedroom, a kitchen, a living room and a balcony.

Light tones visually expand the space and make an apartment lighter - the sun rays are reflected from the light walls, well lighting the apartment.

22. Little apartment in Paris.

Stylish interior of a small apartment

23. Smart design in a Swedish apartment with an area of \u200b\u200b21 square meters. meter.

24. Competent use of space in a small apartment with high ceilings.

Little apartment design

25. Smart design in a small apartment in Barcelona.

26. Little apartment in Stockholm.

Little Apartment Design Studio

27. Cute little apartment with thoughtful design.

28. Cozy design In a small apartment.

Modern small apartments

29. Smart design in the Paris apartment of 23 square meters. meter.

30. Amazing use of space in a small one-room apartment.

Create ergonomic I. stylish design Small-sized apartment - the task is quite complicated. After all, on Compact Square you need not just to place the necessary things, but also keep the balance of lines, proportions, shades. To achieve an ideal result with minimal spending time, resources and forces, descending close premises, it is advisable to be guided by some simple recommendations. You can learn about them in more detail and see photos with illustrations in this article.

General Little Apartment Design Rules

The biggest problem of small-sized housing is, oddly enough, not at all the deficit of square meters, but the wrong filling. Adhering to the laws of harmony and artistic taste, even the most compact apartment can be turned into a comfortable apartment. First of all, it is necessary to take into account the following nuances:

Color solutions

Role color palette In the interior it is difficult to overestimate. Different combinations of shades drastically change the atmosphere of the same room: pastel colors expand the space, bright - fill it with heat, dark - add dimensions and visually shifted the boundaries. The smaller the area of \u200b\u200bthe room, the more carefulness should be taken to the selection of colors. The win-win version - when 70-90% occupies a neutral light background, and the rest of the space is assigned to saturated accents. In order to avoid superfluous varnish, no need to combine in one room more than 3 colors (except in a small decor).

Texture

As you know, the reflective surfaces create the effect of depth, as if moving away from the observer. This property is widely used by designers, for example, for the design of "dark" corners, where does not fall sunlight, too narrow corridors, low ceilings. Just do not furnish with mirrors and gloss all the apartment, otherwise it will remind, rather, the laboratory or the side of the starship from a fantastic film. Light more closely looks like light textures with light glitter - satin, silk, smooth skin, lacquered tree.

Storage systems

Sort things in a small-sized apartment will be much easier if you provide for each little thing a separate shelf. For this purpose, spacious cabinets are suitable for ceiling, all kinds of mezzanine, drawers (including located under the bed or inside the podium). It is desirable that the doors of storage systems are tightly closed, and not swing sash, but on the principle of the coupe. Racks and open shelves for small rooms are not very convenient, because they leave in sight of objects that not only accumulate dust, but also violate the integrity of the space.

How to choose an interior style

Slipping housing, people are primarily focused on personal preferences, seek to surround themselves with things that cause pleasant emotions. For this reason, it is impossible to limit the fantasy of the strict list of design directions suitable for small rooms, however, a similar list can be a good base and help navigate in the question, what style to choose that a small-sized apartment becomes the most beautiful and comfortable in everyday life. And remember that in the easiest interior you can easily add individuality, showing a little bit of creativity and courage when decorating it.

Small-sized apartment in the style of minimalism

This style seems to be created for compact premises. It is characterized by concise forms, straight lines of furniture without distracting the attention of details, smooth surfaces and achromatic colors. However, the classic combination of white, gray and black can be replaced with almost the same weathered beige-brown tones or afford cheerful paints: Salad with orange, yellow with pink, turquoise with black.

Small-sized apartment in Scandinavian style

Reflecting winter landscapes, the nordic interior looks as spacious and calm as possible. It prevails a white gloss with inclusions of gray. Cozy strokes stands light tree, Woven mats from red and blue yarn, linen furniture upholstery, ethnic patterns, patchwork tile. The absence of curtains and decorative elements may seem unusual, but it is at the expense of this small apartment becomes more spacious, bright and open.

Low-sized apartment in the style of Provence

Of all County directions, Provence is the most gentle and delicate. Pastel tones, small floral patterns and thin laces soften the "office" view of a small apartment, filling it with homemade comfort. Such a design is suitable for romantic agents, who love the leisurely dimension of the village summer, are fond of needlework and are inspired by the natural beauty of the French province.

Small-sized apartment in Japanese style

Economical and practical Japanese are suitable for interior design with extraordinary accuracy, which can be observed in design examples. They combine minimalistic functionality and aesthetics inherent in the country of the rising sun. Japanese style geometry is clearly defined rectangles in a narrow framework. Coloring Natural and Pleasant: Gentle cream or beige background, dark treeBamboo textures, which are harmoniously complemented by cherry-red accents, echoing with necessarily present in the decoration or decor a branch of flowering sakura.

The correct design of the walls, gender and ceiling can completely transform a small apartment and visually increase it by filling with light. For this, of course, it is recommended to choose the most natural squalled tones. Easy glitter is always welcomed, but it is not necessary to abuse mirror effects. Materials must respond to security criteria, be environmentally friendly, high-quality and durable, so that the repair serves as long as possible.

Ceiling

Given the fact that the height of the ceilings in small-size leaves much to be desired, the optimal solution will align the surface and paint it into white. Hide small cracks and other disadvantages will help fiberglass - thin wallpaper-web, which are stuck on top of plaster and strengthen it.

If the ceiling is uneven and there is a need to hide communications, you can stay on stretch film. A real reduction in height in this case levels snow-white purity and glossy brilliance of a material that is capable of protecting the rest of the repair during the flood from the neighbors from above, simply collecting water inside.

Walls

Changing the walls in a small apartment you can, whether it is painting, hand painted, wallpaper, textured plaster, Wooden or plastic lining, bamboo panels, cork, ceramic tile, mosaic, etc. In some cases, the combination of textures will be quite appropriate, but only vertically, since the horizontal will reduce the height of the ceiling.

IN modern design It is not customary to execute all the walls of the room equally - they can be in the same color scheme, but decorated different materials, with some accent inserts, or differ in color, while maintaining a single surface format.

Floor

For Paul B. residential rooms Parquet, laminate in neutral wood shades without any patterns. A warmer option - carpet, carpeting, and a plug. In zones where you have to clean and much often gets moisture, such as an entrance hall, bathroom and kitchen, most practical ceramic medium-sized ceramic tiles without contrasting transitions. Alternatively, you can also choose a porcelain stoneware or make a bulk sex.

Furniture

By purchasing or ordering furniture kits for a grind apartment, it is recommended to pay attention to strict minimalistic models. Rich carving, panels, large drawings and noticeable accessories will look inappropriate with modest room dimensions.

The doors of cabinets ideally must be sliding (coupe), and not swing so that when opening does not take a third of the whole room. Kitchen headsets and walls in the living room are worth buying with smooth facades without pens and, if possible, without open shelves. In this form, they will seem to be a smooth wall, without disturbing the proportions of the room.

As for the tables and chairs, in small rooms it is more convenient to use lightweight structures on thin legs, aluminum, plastic products, and shockproof glasses, a "bar" furniture (narrow and high rack, corresponding seats). Separate mention deserve all sorts of transformers - folding, folding, folding furniture items, which can be hiding if necessary, freeing the place for something else.

Design of small-sized apartment - Photo

Much more original ideas For the design of a small-sized apartment can always be found in the photo gallery on our website. The selection published below includes many interesting decisions and useful designer techniqueshelping to distribute square meters With maximum benefit.

In the collection of ready-made solutions for the design of small rooms, it is easy to choose the option in the soul and, adapting it to your conditions, to implement. Successful to you repairs, and let the new interior surpass your best expectations!

June 27, 2016
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The design of small-sized apartments almost always takes into account the arrangement in one space of different functional zones.

In his own house, the volume of which is determined only by you, you can afford to take isolated premises for guest, kitchen, bedroom, dining room, children's room, office. There is no such possibility in a small apartment. There is a tough rule - you want a maximum of functional zones, it was delivered by the space that already exist. I will give bright examples.

1. The tiny kitchen and the hall, as a rule, want to combine to save the precious centimeters of the square.
2. Separate case - family poor people having children. They do not have anything else, how to give one room to beloved Chad (so that it calmly grow), and in the second room to organize real plows: at the same time the parent bedroom and the guest room, and the dining room and the office.

I really want to facilitate the position of the owners of small apartments, so I bring to your attention specific recommendations and design solutionsaccumulated by me for 20 years of construction activities.

How to get a life extra space

First of all, working on the interior design of his small apartment, think about the methods of expanding its useful space. Only then start picking for rooms color gamut, Furniture and accessories.

At the moment, the options for redeveloping close dwellings and changes in the geometry of the rooms invented a lot of:

• accession to them balconies, hallways, storage rooms, corridors;
• transfer kitchen on the loggia;
• combining it from the living room;
• expansion of the bathroom at the expense of the hallway, etc.

The choice of a particular way depends on the configuration, layout and features of your apartment. So, I can advise you here.

In most cases, the loggia or balcony is used as a storage room for unnecessary things: old skis, skews, bicycles, as well as waste paper, glass containers, broken furniture, etc.

1. However, if you attach the loggia to the residential premises, then on its square you can equip the office, a seating area, a dining room or a fairly comfortable kitchen and even a bedroom.

I want to prevent you in advance that this simple and effective method of expanding residential space apartments in practice has its underwater stones when implementing.
The main snag here is that the joining of the balcony and the loggia is strictly regulated by the Housing Code of the Russian Federation.

1. Difficulties, usually causes dismantling of the window simpleness, expanding the opening between the balcony and the residential premises, as well as the transfer of the battery. This should obtain permission.
2. However, all these difficulties can be overcome. Part of the supports between the loggia and the room are saved and beat. For example, they can be converted into a bar rack, columns, shelves, racks.
3. To preserve the established microclimate in the house, install the transparent partition.

Tip # 2: Align the kitchen and a corridor (hallway) with a living room

The design of a small-sized one-room apartment is often formed on the basis of kitchen combining and guest. A similar studio version of the organization of housing space is now popular in our country, and not only in the West.

When combining the living room and the kitchen, there are all the same rules and requirements voiced in the Housing Code:

1. For example, the law prohibits removing the bearing walls and structures, as well as place the "wet" zones above the residential premises of neighbors living on the lower floors.
2. It is almost impossible to obtain permission to branch the gas pipe from the riser. Based on this, when transferring the kitchen to the loggia or in the living room, it is better to immediately put an electric cooking stove.

Practically undeveloped square meters of the corridor or hallway can be combined with a guest room. This option will give the opportunity to significantly expand the volume of residential premises. On the attached area, as a rule, the kitchen area is equipped.

Tip №3: Actrian Talk space vertically

1. Arrange in it a second level, for example, use bunk furniture.
2. The second tier can be organized with the help of mezzanine. They can be practically salvation for small-sized apartments. Engage this option in the children's room, if you have two children.
3. This solution is quite appropriate if the apartment is one-room. Then the Andresol will play the role of a bed (the so-called "attic" bed).

Tip №4: Use niches in the walls and window sills

When organizing the space of a small apartment, try to use each niche at the maximum.

1. For example, in a wall deepening, you can mount the built-in wardrobe.
2. There can be put kitchen set, Sofa (if a niche is large enough). It will give the opportunity to free up an additional area in the living room.

Recreation of a small dwelling interior, optimally use every centimeter of its space.

1. Refuse unnecessary excesses, what are the windowsill, in favor of the compact working table or the seats for reading and relaxing.

1. Usually the windowsill, due to the small size, is used as a stand for flower pots or empty. When replacing windows, equip them with wide windowsill. Then they can be used as functional elements.
2. Design of small kitchens for small apartment supplies work zoneplaced by the window. If the family is small, the windowsill can be transformed into a dining table.
3. In the residential room it is easy to turn into a workplace or writing desk.
4. Free volume under the windowsill can be turned into a storage system, placing a small locker, shelves, racks there.

Tip №5: Sliding, Folding Doors-Partitions and Thin Batteries

1. Sliding, folding doors, in contrast to analogs with swollen canvases, in the disclosed form almost do not take place. For a small apartment, their installation will be optimal.
2. Another example of rational use of space. Replace massive heating radiators From the cast iron on the analogues of compact and modern, for example, aluminum, bimetallic. So you can free up about 10 centimeters along the walls.

You can increase the efficiency of the thermal recoil of a similar device.
To this end, on the wall at the installation site, mount the foil reflective heat screen.

How to visually expand the space

As a rule, when designing the interior of the housing, you have to use the means of visual correction of room space. Naturally, in fact, these methods do not increase the size of the premises. So you do not add physically space. But thanks to the optical illusions, reproduce the visual effect of expanding rooms.

In this part of the creation of a small apartment design, I can recommend the following:

First of all, competently pick up the color range of the premises:

1. All bright and cold colors, tones and shades are visually capable of expanding the room. This rule is really both for floors, walls and ceilings and for furniture items. All dark I. warm colors, tones and shades affect the viewer with accuracy on the contrary.
2. Bright accessories and decorative details will be able to diversify the interior colors palette.
3. Color accents and dark contrasting inserts stop the degradation of housing design in an inexpressive, monotonous bright spot. At the same time, remember that the space of the room is prevailing the space, that is, it will be illuminated.
4. Light colors and tones are especially efficient in combination with panoramic window sides and. They reflect the sun's sunshine well, thanks to which the room optically seems lighter and large in the area.

In Khrushchev homes are close and low rooms.
Choose wallpaper with a striped pattern for them, it will help visually adjust the volume of rooms.
Horizontal strips will make the room longer, and the vertical - "raise" the ceiling.

Tip # 7: The more glass and mirrors in the interior, the better

A good choice for the interior of small-sized - these are big mirrors, sometimes they occupy the entire wall plane. Such a reflecting surface perfectly expands the space, of course only visually.

1. If you put two large mirrors on opposite walls, they will create a real "space" corridor.
2. The mirrored door canvases from the floor to the ceiling on the wardrobe can be able to add "half" the size of the room.
3. The mirror located opposite the windows, reflecting the rays of the sun, make the room lighter.
4. Try not to use deaf doors and facades on the furniture. Doors of cabinets, racks, shelves, door leafs, countertops, etc. Make transparent - glass or plastic. This will give the possibility of unloading space and filling it with light.

Tip number 8: some more techniques allowing to play with space

1. Refuse the massive and dark items of solid wood furniture. They will "eat" all the space.
2. Change with your own hands bulk chandeliers on the sconce, built-in and dot lamps.
3. In general, the more light in the rooms, the better. Well lit room seems more spacious.
4. If you mount the glossy stretch design at the top, it will increase the height of the walls and will save you from the feeling of the "gulling" ceiling.
5. Insert the "French" floor windows. They will make the room lighter, fill it with air and ease.

Methods of zoning a small apartment

In the case of the design of small-sized housing, the same room can be intended for different purposes, that is, to carry several functions. Based on this, it becomes necessary to distinguish between different zones. That's what I can recommend you as a means of this very distinction.

Stationary partitions are a simple and convenient means for zoning rooms.

1. In particular, there will be such a common, if the apartment is studio, then you will just need to distinguish sleeping place and guest zone.
   In order not to interfere with the natural light, I advise you to use transparent, lattice, patterned, low or narrow (not on all space between the walls) partitions passing the rays of the sun.
2. You can use mobile sliding partitions. Usually, they are used between the kitchen and the living room or between the guest and the bedroom. Such simpleness absolutely do not interfere with the survey of the living room from the kitchen and vice versa. However, both zones look isolated.

Shirma can decorate not only the "Japanese" or "Chinese" interior of a small-sized apartment. It looks great in neoclassical aesthetics. Almost, it can be divided, for example, in the bedroom a seating area and a boudoir. In the living room, Shirma is out of the cabinet border, and if it is combined with the kitchen, then the dining area.

1. Curtains, curtains are the easiest and most universal means for zoning. They are effective not only for residential premises. If the bathroom is large enough, the curtain will help separate the plot for hygienic procedures from mini-boara.
2. If you want the interior to look at the air, select a slope of light translucent fabric. When you need to recreate the form of a deaf partition, use the dense material.

You can instead of the stationary partition to distinguish between the space on the functional zones to select through racks and consoles. Thanks to this reception, additional storage systems appear indoors.

Tip №12: Podium delimit the zone and helps store things

Podiums can be found in the interior of apartments, decorated and in historical and in modern style.

1. Such a construction is perfect for the arrangement of a bedside place in the aesthetics of baroque or classics. For example, you can put a bed with a canopy.
2. The living room, kitchen and loggia can also be separated by the podium.
3. When choosing a modern style inside the podium, you can hide a rolling bed. At night, it can be put on the elevation, and the day to clean and equip the dining area on it, putting the table and chairs.

1. As a rule, the lines of the guest room and the kitchen area put a dining table. It means and forms a tabletime, simultaneously plays the role of means for zoning area.
2. In addition to the dining table, to designate the border of the cooking zone, you can also apply the bar counter or furniture kitchen. They will allow to equip a zone in the home for fast and light snacks.

What should be furniture

The problem with the deficit of the area in small apartments To some extent, it can be resolved with furniture.

In close premises, it is better not to use bulky items having a large size.
Choose easily transformable and mobile furniture.
Optimal folding sofas, two-tier structures, objects of simple, ascetic forms in modern styles.

Council №14: bunk beds and transformable items

In the photo - a children's room with a bunk bed-cabinet.

The bedroom usually in small-size is very small. Bunk bed It will be perfectly saved in it:

1. Most often, such designs are put in children's premises for two and more children. In the room, equipped for one Chad, such a building will also serve well. For example, at the lowest level, not only a sleeping place can be placed, and the sofa, the storage system is either a working, gaming, training zone.
2. In the interior of small-sized transformable furniture. So, it can be a folding sofa, which is additionally playing the role of the bed. Thanks to him, at night, the guest area is easy to convert to the bedroom.
3. There are also beds-cabinets, transformer tables, "attic" beds, etc. All these furniture items are perfectly saved by the occupied area.
4. During the interior arrest, you cannot do without the organization of basic storage systems. Most often these cabinets. The optimal option is if their hulls are built-in. Thus, you will avoid space overload.

1. Chairs made in modern style have a mobile and lightweight design. Therefore, I recommend using them for your small apartment. For example, folding chairs are perfect for combined dining-kitchen. You as needed to easily fold and remove them.
2. I will give you another recommendation: Pick furniture items (chairs, sofas, baffies, tables, chairs) on elegant and thin legs. They are heard easier and less than solid counterparts.
3. An excellent choice for small-sized transparent furniture will be. She will "dissolve" in the rooms, making them visually more free.

Now manufacturers offer many aesthetic tempered glass models, acrylic, plexiglass. This furniture is quite durable, safe and does not require much courtship.

My main instruction concerning furniture in a small apartment: Think unusable. Limited area should make you find non-standard and interesting solutions.

At the same time, do not forget that the furniture should be multifunctional, technological and comfortable. Give examples for clarity:

1. The suspended modular locker will solve the problem of storing things and will take the empty area above the sofa
2. Use the racks instead of the bedside tables. They take away the same amount, but the last is much spacious.
3. Do not allow the doors to be empty. Hang the shelf on both sides of the canvas place a pair of narrow racks.
4. If children live or older people live with you, put one or two boxed puff in the hallway. They will be comfortable to sit, shooting or putting on street shoes. And inside you can store minor useful things.

What style to pick up for the interior

I want to warn you right away that even if one-sized one-bedroom, its design will not be successful on the basis of historical styles (antiquity, baroque, rococo, ampir, classic). These areas require spacious premises, high ceilings, massifices, richness of furniture and decor.

On the contrary, neoclassic, modern styles, unassuming Provence does not need interior interface, nor in the enfilad of huge rooms.

Tip №17: Neoclassica is well suited for small-slickers

And in a small apartment you can find a place for classical aesthetics, chanting the rich aristocraticity of the decor, the naturalness of the finish and the expanse of residential space. In this case, you can use modern style branch, in other words - neoclassic.

It allows for the use of artificial materials in the decoration of rooms and furniture, as well as the use of modest decorative parts. With the help of neoclassical techniques, you can recreate even a small apartment atmosphere of a cozy and aristocratic dwelling.

Modern styles are optimal for the design of very small housing. Most popular among them are minimalism and high-tech. For these areas, the layers of lines in compositions, as well as some asceticism and ergonomics of solutions are characteristic.

The interiors of small-sized apartments are decorated in modern styles, do not accept magnificent decoration. The furniture in them is distinguished by the simplicity of forms, the color range is to monochromicity.

Modern or Art Nouveau, as designers are more often called, is another modern style. Now in its pure form it is infrequent.

As a rule, only individual aesthetic elements of this direction are added to the interior of the premises. If you approach correctly, the modern will help to convert a small home in chic apartments, without significant investment.

Council №19: For nostalging on the past - Design "A la 60s"

Style "A la 60s" is now at the peak of fashion. It will become the optimal choice for those of you who cannot or do not want to invest serious money in the rent of the dwelling.

This area will not require significant financial costs from you, the price of its aesthetics is quite modest. The finish and furniture here differ simplicity that compensate bright colors and stylish decor elements.

This direction will fill the small rooms with fresh and natural nature colors of the south of France. It will bring the village of European province to the apartment interior.

Provence combines the simplicity of rustic life and bohemian gloss. The style to some extent reproduces the representation of the aristocracy about the countryside. Choosing Provence for apartment decoration, you recreate a cozy and aesthetic interior that will not be ashamed to demonstrate to guests.