How to combine a bedroom and a living room?This question most often arises for families living in one-room apartments. And it is also often asked by large families living in ordinary two-room or three-room apartments.
Combining a bedroom with a living room is not that difficult,you just need to choose the right furniture. The solution only seems complicated at first glance. But if you carefully think over the interior, study all possible options, it turns out that combining a bedroom and a living room is not so difficult. There are many solutions, the simplest of which is installing a built-in bed in the room (Fig. 1). This miracle of modern interior is only gaining popularity, but its advantages are simply undeniable.
Figure 1.The easiest way to combine a living room and a bedroom is to install a built-in bed. You can order a bed-wardrobe at the same time as all the other furniture. During the day, exquisite and roomy wardrobes will decorate the living room and no one, not even the most picky guest, will guess that one of them hides a comfortable double (or single) bed. When night falls, just open the wardrobe, pull the special mechanism, and the living room will easily turn into a bedroom. This solution has only one drawback: the high cost of the design. Craftsmen can assemble such a bed themselves. For those who cannot save up about 50 thousand to purchase a ready-made device or make it themselves, other solutions will come to the rescue.
How to combine living room and bedroom with furniture?
How to combine 2 in a small spacefunctionally different zones? These 2 zones are already united by a common space, so you will have to visually separate them rather than combine them. Many owners of small apartments do not risk arranging a full-fledged bedroom and prefer to sleep on the sofa. After all, the appearance of a large double bed does not decorate the common area, revealing the intimate secrets of the homeowners. But in the living room, you can arrange a bedroom so that the bed is hidden from prying eyes. In this case, no redevelopment of the apartment is required. The bedroom and living room can be combined in several ways.
Figure 2. You can separate the living room and bedroom using a short partition and a sofa.
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Curtains, screens and other tricks
It is possible to combine the living room and bedroom withoutusing furniture. Partitions that do not carry any functional load (except for dividing the premises into zones) look very beautiful. They are valued for their aesthetic component.
Figure 3.To divide a room, you can install a furniture wall, which will serve not only as a partition, but also for storing things. Glass, plastic, openwork partitions, blinds, if you choose the right shade, they can not only separate the bedroom and living room, but also fill the room with light. Curtains will also help to separate 2 rooms. Their variety is great. The simplest option is to hang ordinary curtains made of thick fabric. But in most cases they look bulky, visually reducing an already small room. Translucent roller blinds will be much more appropriate. They will decorate the room, hide the resting place. They will also help to give the room color if they are repeated in the interior of the living room. Photo curtains will help to combine 2 rooms of different purposes in one space. This new product, like built-in wardrobe beds, is becoming more and more popular. The reason for this is that photo curtains do not just visually divide rooms into zones. They help to expand the space, turn the living room into a cozy street, a fairytale garden, replace the view of the bed with a beautiful sea or mountain panorama. Can you imagine that a stunning cosmic landscape hides an ordinary sleeping place? Installing a screen is the easiest way to zone a room. Light partitions can be installed during the day and removed at night. However, the cost of a good screen can be many times higher than even the price of photo curtains. Therefore, it is better to assemble it yourself. Another convenient, fashionable way is to install sliding doors. If such doors are mirrored, they will make the room lighter and visually larger. Return to contents</a>
Podium for Sleepers
Figure 4. Drawing of a podium bed.To combine a place for receiving guests with a place for night rest, it is not at all necessary to install partitions or hang curtains. The bed can be "disguised". There are several such methods.
These are far from all the techniques that allowcombine 2 different zones in 1 room. However, it is important to remember: even technically flawless work on the installation of podiums, partitions or pull-out beds will not be able to give the interior the necessary aesthetics and harmony. In order for the combined room to look attractive, you need to take into account some rules. Return to contents</a>
Do not disconnect, but merge
If it is not possible to zone the roomIf you do not want to spend money on technical improvements without the help of partitions, you can do something very simple: arrange different lighting in these areas. Subdued lighting is suitable for the bedroom, and bright lamps can be installed in the living room. Just do not forget to install a sufficient number of pass-through switches: they are much more convenient. Visually, walls painted in different colors or different floor coverings will help to separate the rooms. These zoning methods can be used together. In this case, it will be appropriate to repeat the colors in the interior of all functional areas - this is how harmony is maintained. It is good if it is possible to use furniture on wheels when arranging such a room: in a small room it can be easily moved from place to place. When arranging a small apartment, remember: it is not at all necessary to separate the bedroom and the living room, install a bed. You can simply put a modern comfortable sofa in the room and use it instead of a bed.
