Lack of sufficient living spaceturns out to be an unpleasant and negative phenomenon for a large number of residents not only of apartments, but also of private houses. This is due to the fact that even an extra 1.5-2 m can almost completely change both the interior of the room and the life of the inhabitants of a particular home. A workplace (Figure 1), a recreation area or a play area for a child often do not find a place for themselves in a small apartment, so you have to work at the dining table, relax on the sofa in the living room, where children play at the same time. But interior design with a niche will help to cope with the problem of lack of space in the apartment.
Figure 1.A niche can be used to organize a separate workspace. A studio apartment, a small room and limited space lead to the fact that apartment owners try to increase the useful area of the premises in a variety of ways. A niche in an apartment allows you to cope with the inconveniences caused by limited space in a particular room, while allowing you to use all the available space and correctly divide it into active zones.
Interior design of a room with a niche: the main design options
In the process of working on the interior designIt is necessary to take as a basis for the work the need to create a holistic interior for the entire apartment, therefore, even in a small room, one functional zone should smoothly flow into another, creating a harmonious atmosphere.
Figure 2.A niche in the kitchen can be used for a refrigerator or a pantry. In this case, interior design offers many options that allow you not only to make the room functional, but also to decorate the interior of a one-room apartment with a niche. In this case, an important and fundamental point is choosing the right style and implementing it yourself. There are quite a large number of wonderful and suitable options that transform and decorate the interior design of a room with a niche. Of course, the most popular is the design in a niche of such areas as:
- small office;
- sitting area for the bed;
- children's;
- game room;
- wardrobe;
- compact home gym;
- kitchen.
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How to transform the interior design of a room with the help of a niche?
The niche can be of any design, shape andsize. If this part of the interior is installed during planning, it can support heavy objects: mirrors, lamps and other items. When decorating it, you need to pay attention to the color scheme of other rooms in the house. At the same time, you also need to remember that if you make the niche darker than other interior elements, it will lose its shape and visually decrease.
Figure 3.In a children's room, a niche can be used to highlight a play or sleeping area. The shape of this detail should create a certain contrast in the overall perception of the room's design, especially in the case where the niche is a separate functional area, and not an extension of it. The interior of a room with a niche depends on your goals. One of the simplest and most obvious options is a niche in the kitchen as a bar counter with built-in cabinets. In this case, there is no need to buy bulky kitchen appliances; you will cope with the need to store dishes and other kitchen utensils perfectly. Here you will need only one small corner where you install a sink, gas stove, refrigerator. The rest of the space is occupied by the dining area. You can see an example of such an interior in Figure 2. If you want to furnish a children's room, then it is best to organize the niche using more substantial items - screens or shelves. This method is presented to your attention in Figure 3. This will allow you to organize a personal space for the child, because sometimes he needs to relax, be away from everyday life, alone with himself, with his thoughts, without being distracted by additional things. The same applies to the recreation area for adults, because everyone should have a small corner for privacy. Thus, in order to design the interior of a room with a niche, you should take into account several important rules. It is imperative to pay attention to the colors in which other details of the room's interior are decorated.
