In the conditions of modern Russian apartmentsalways manage to allocate a separate room for the living room and bedroom. Most often they are united in one room. At the same time, it is necessary to provide not only all the necessary functionality, but also to create an interior, the design of which will bring an atmosphere of coziness and comfort. 
Often the apartments do not have a separate room for the living room, so it must be combined with the bedroom.
Zoning of one room
When planning design, you need to put before yourself a number of questions:
Picture 1.Furniture transformer will help to save space and keep the balance between the beauty and convenience of the room. The answer to these questions depends largely on your future actions. The easiest way to buy a room that combines the functions of a bedroom and living room, a folding sofa. At night, it will serve as a bed for the hosts, and in the daytime serve as a place for rest and reception of guests. But this simple solution has a number of significant drawbacks:
- The sofa is not a specialized furniture for rest and sleep;
- During the day, the opportunity to lie down and fully rest;
- This furniture has to be dismantled (at the same time it blocks the space).
Therefore, it is wiser to think over the design of the room,so that there is room for a full bedroom and living room. With certain skills and skills, this can be done even in a small room. In order to balance the beauty and convenience of the room, you can use the furniture transformer. It is this bed that is shown in Fig. 1. It takes up much less space than the sofa (even in disassembled form). In addition, it provides the ability to use the compartments as storage space. And this will also help to save the necessary space. With the help of such a furniture module in the afternoon, the room will become a fully functional living room, and at night it will turn into a bedroom. In this case, you will not be affected by the thoughtful design of the room. Back to contents</a>
Selecting a zone for the bedroom
Figure 2.Zoning with a curtain is convenient because the curtains can be moved or extended at any time. If for some reason you cannot afford the purchase of specialized furniture, then you can select. Usually, different types of partitions are used for this. They can be of the following types:
- stationary (for example, erected from plasterboard);
- mobile (screens);
- curtains and curtains.
In a small apartment, the last 2The kind of use is preferable, since they do not clutter up space, and at any time you have the option to remove them. At the same time, the design of such elements can be very different. Curtains and screens can not only zonate the room, but also set the general style of the interior. For example, as shown in Fig. 2. Bamboo portable screens are great for rooms made in Asian style. And textile panels are suitable for classical interiors. In this case, you will have the opportunity to close the bedroom area in case you accept guests. The same technique can be used when parents divide the bedroom with children. The screen will close the bed from the light of the night lamp, but at the same time the mother will see the baby's crib. If you decide that the partition does not ruin the design of your room, then give preference not to full walls, but to small partitions whose height does not exceed 50-70 cm. In addition to visually dividing the room, such elements can be used as furniture items . If you make the partition stepped, it will serve you as additional shelves. 
Figure 3. Divide the space in the bedroom-living room can be a bar, a curbstone or a small number. The niches in the walls of the partition will become places for storage. A horizontal surface can be designed as a bar stand, a small table, a cabinet for a TV or a stereo system. At the same time, the design of such a septum completely depends on your taste. Most often they are collected from plasterboard, and then covered with paint. This is the simplest and cheapest method. But you can use transparent blocks, prefabricated structures, colorful glass. An example of such a partition is shown in Fig. 3. As a division into zones, it is entirely permissible to use furniture. For example, racks for flowers, books, souvenirs. But you need to make sure that the distance between the shelves is large enough. Otherwise, the objects placed on them will prevent access to sunlight. Back to contents</a>
Rules for the design of small rooms
When thinking about the future design is worthadhere to certain rules that specialists have developed. They are simple, and it is not difficult to observe them. Such recommendations will allow you to equip a beautiful and functional room: 
A narrow room is zoned across a long wall.
In addition, when decorating the room should be avoidedfinishing materials too bright or dark, saturated tones. They will make the room even smaller. Do not clutter the bedroom-living room with furniture, modular walls. Give preference to individual cabinets, drawers, chests of drawers, which are chosen according to style. Place them so that there is as much free space as possible. Choose multi-function furniture. For example, a chest of drawers can be used as a stand for a TV.
