If you have a narrow room and you don't know howplace everything you need in it, read this article. In it, architect Nadezhda Kapper shows using a real example that, if desired, even in such a room you can place almost everything Narrow rooms are the scourge of many Soviet-era apartments. Even if their area is decent, there are still problems with the arrangement. We asked architect Nadezhda Kapper to give her recommendations on the layout of a narrow room. Nadezhda Kapper, architect Graduated from the St. Petersburg College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. From 2002 to 2007, she worked at LENNIIPROEKT. In 2007, she moved to Moscow, worked at the Intars bureau, Lyzlov Architectural Workshop, and Kirill Istomin Interior Design & Decoration. Now she is engaged in private practice. "Modern architects have an unwritten rule when developing a layout: it is undesirable for the length of a room to be more than twice its width," says Nadezhda Kapper. "But there are apartments in which this rule is violated. For example, in former communal apartments, you often come across "wagon-shaped rooms" - long and narrow. What should you do if fate has brought you together with such a room with such complex proportions?
You can group furniture in this way,so that the symmetry axes of these groups are perpendicular to the long side of the room. Thanks to this, from one elongated space we get mental "2 squares". You can separate, for example, a dressing room with partitions, cutting off the excess length of the room. You can expand the space by placing mirrors or photo wallpaper along the long wall. You can zone the room with shelves, curtains or lamps, or you can divide it with the textures of the floor and wall coverings. In general, the more complex the problem, the more interesting the result of its solution can be.
My friend wanted to combine 2 narrow, long andand high rooms. At the same time, it was necessary to get a full-fledged sleeping place and leave a fairly spacious living room. The height of the room allowed us to look for a layout solution not in 2, but in 3 dimensions. We decided to use a loft bed, freeing up as much space as possible for guests below. Moreover, both the bed and the sofas are located along one wall, so that the TV is clearly visible from any level. There is a cozy chill-out under the bed. The symmetrical composition of the TV area emphasizes the visual axis, perpendicular to the long wall of the room, which also expands the space. Parquet boards are usually placed with their ends facing the window so as not to emphasize the pattern of the seams, but in this case the windows face the north side, so there is no need to worry about shadows from the joints. In this case, I would recommend placing the parquet pattern across the room as well."
What to do with a narrow room: an example and advice from the architect Nadezhda Kapper
