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How to make the apartment comfortable, stylish and functional? How do I redeem emerging pockets of anger in it? And what, pereplaniruya apartment, do not do in any case? Here are some design tips and “antisovetov \\”. Try it - should help!

1. Zoniruem large space
otalnaya fashion free layout, apartment-studios and combined kitchen-dining room has its own pitfalls. Any architect will tell you that just to demolish the wall - is not enough. Not divided into subzones a large area very soon may begin to oppress. Remove the partitions between rooms, combine them with corridors and kitchen - and you will get a totally new place, how soon find you do not like to live. Why? Because purely psychologically, we need a few different places for different classes.

We need to have some, albeit conditionally delimitation of areas where we could easily network and lunch, no feeling behind the backs of twenty meters of empty space that has a cozy corner where we could retire with a book, and so on.

The first rule of planning open space - at least visually divided zones of different functional purpose - cooking, eating, watching TV, work, recreation, communication … This can be done with:

a) different floor textures;
b) the height of ceiling or archway between kitchen and living room area;
c) multiple columns;
d) a light curtain (usually a canteen covers more brightly, and the kitchen is in shadow, lit only with the working surfaces);
d) \\ “bar \\”, or any other interior acting as a barrier.

2. Casteth smells, the sounds cuts off

Studio - this is certainly good, but there is one ‘but’. When we cook, we prigorayut chops, milk runs, etc. The situation - as in advertising, only accurate to the opposite: “And the smell! That smell! ..” We have something with you all right, air out - and forgotten. And furniture? A carpet? A portieres? Fabrics absorb smells like a sponge. If you often cook at home, make a sliding partition between the kitchen and living room area - at any time, the kitchen can be cut off. In addition, the bulkhead - and it sounds a screen.

3. Furnish the spacious rooms

In a very large space to arrange the furniture is not solely on the perimeter.

Why do you need room resembled an army parade ground or tantsklass? Fill center can “lunch group” or just guest sofa.

4. \\ “Expands” a small room

You have a model apartment with a tiny kitchen and not very spacious rooms? Visually enlarge the space can be of assistance:

a) longitudinal direction or pattern parquet flooring;
b) doors with glass, mirrored shutters closet and a mirror;
c) the dispersed light.

There is a widespread view that the bright colors visually expand the space. But in very small rooms, for example, the 8 square meters, white wallpaper will not solve the problem. On the contrary, many small, bright room operating burden, resulting in association with an outpatient facility or a john. Small room is better to make a bright as the casket.

And if you are afraid of color “reloading”, leave one light and one-wall.

5. ‘Lifts’ ceiling

If you want to visually increase the height of the ceiling, you can make it a multi instance, in the corridors below, and in the rooms above. Understated the ceiling at the entrance of the room creates the illusion of higher ceilings in the residential part of the apartment.

Another way to visually “lift” the ceiling - to select wallpaper with a vertical cut pattern - for example, in a classic stripe.

6. Repetitive elements

If you use plastic in the interior elements - arches, curved walls, curved podium or desk - always somewhere repeat the line again. The golden rule designer interior: all the expressive details must be an echo in the neighboring, while watching the elements.

But do not build too many arches - you did a modern apartment, rather than the palace suite.

7. Choosing the doors and windows

If you like sliding doors - choose a compartment in the two guides - the top and bottom. A door with one upper anchorage is very unstable: the slightest draft - and she ‘walks’. With this you have a coupe and it’ll wake up at night from the chatter to the contrary.

Whatever you choose, all the doors that are visible at the same time, must be in one style.

Door discordance “very spoils the overall impression.

The same applies to windows. Incidentally, it is best to look good with the symmetrical binding of the window - do not seek to asymmetries of windows wherever possible to avoid it.

8. What is worth doing in the kitchen

Cooking is an arena where one can observe the “unity and struggle” three oppositions - stoves, sinks and refrigerators. Each of these elements must have at least a minimum space of its own, but at the same time, they do not have to defend far from each other. And do not put their obstacles impeding move - this will create in your kitchen a source of constant irritation (here it is - part of the reason for “cooking” family quarrels!).

If you decide to put in a kitchen suite with a separate ‘island’, rasplaniruyte its place so that all four sides of the passages were not less than one meter - otherwise they would be inconvenient to use - and you are guaranteed a further source of irritation.

The walls of the kitchen, you can close the so-called kitchen “aprons”.

The board is relevant primarily to older houses, which often visits utilities - to change the wiring, batteries, gas pipe … When you install a kitchen Headset not stop dead in the access to these communications. Please note that lift tselikovy \\ “boot \\” plastic is much easier than to break tiles.

9. So whether you need a podium?

akaya like a beautiful piece of stage often leads to disjointed joints and broken children’s knees. Many people, arranged in their own homes “step \\”, complaining that it was very uncomfortable. If there is a possibility zonirovat space as something else, sex is best left without the drops.

In addition, higher than the floor, the ceiling below. And, consequently, the air is so valuable in urban areas, less.

10. Fighting floods

Do not raise the floor in the bathroom and toilet: water is leaking down the property. And if in your absence, God forbid, burst pipe or tap - might be affected parquet floors, laminate, furniture, neighbors below … To prevent this problem is easier than to solve it: make a small porozhek. If the average small (eg, potek valve), and the seams around the perimeter of zadelany watertight, a “tank” filled no earlier than 12 hours - the same man comes into the bath, on average, every 4-6 hours, so it is likely until the case is not the flood comes.

And finally: do not forget that the toilet is not just you.

If you started a re-tracked to a bedroom is not near neighbor bath. The noise of water lander would be for you is hardly the most enjoyable tunes. Although one of my friends, remember to comfort ourselves that it is all very “natural” sound of technical urban noise.

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