Every room in your house has its ownpurpose: in the bedroom you can rest and relax, in the nursery your child will feel good, and in the living room you can have a pleasant and fun time communicating with family or friends. However, the size of apartments, as well as their layout, often do not allow for such luxury, so zoning the room into a bedroom and a living room is especially relevant. With the designer's technique of combining space, you will not only create the illusion of a major redevelopment, but will also be able to get a practical and multifunctional room as a result.
In the process of zoning the kitchen and living room, you can create the illusion of a major redevelopment, but also get a stylish and multifunctional space.
Zoning Space: Basic Techniques, Tricks, Rules
Start with careful planning, thinking throughand weighing every little thing and detail, because zoning a room does not mean simply rearranging furniture or other objects in the room. Your main goal is to achieve maximum coziness and comfort by combining two different zones in one room. To do this, you need to take into account important nuances and some rules for the proper division of space. Designers classify the following basic principles by which zoning is carried out:
You can separate the living room and bedroom with a sofa.
Return to Contents</a>What else should be taken into account?
You can zone the bedroom-living roomusing different wallpapers or ceiling and floor coverings. Having decided to zone the space, be sure to decide whether this will be a temporary solution that will require further redevelopment in the future, or whether it should be permanent, which means the inevitability of major repairs and demolition of walls. If you have planned global rearrangements, remember that not all walls can be touched. In order not to violate the integrity of the entire building frame and not to damage the structure, under no circumstances should you demolish load-bearing partitions and walls. Moreover, in order to avoid various construction errors and defects in redevelopment, you will have to coordinate your design ideas and desires with various organizations and authorities. And it may even happen that you will receive a refusal. Return to contents</a>
Features zoning room for the bedroom and living room
The result of your actions should bea holistic and harmonious design of the combined room, and each of its zones will emphasize and highlight a special atmosphere. Here are the living spaces that should be included when you:
- wardrobe;
- a place where you will rest and sleep;
- the living room itself;
- place to work.
The main thing when designing an interiorliving room or bedroom - maximum comfort. When planning and creating the interior of your multi-purpose room, clearly define in which part of it each of the zones will be located. First, try to visually divide the room to understand where it is better to arrange the living room and where the bedroom. Each of them has its own tasks and functions. A very important aspect is that the bedroom area should be made impassable. Place it in the back of the room, as far as possible from the entrance. Since the bedroom serves as a place of some privacy and relaxation, the part of the room where it will be located should be separated and isolated. Another mandatory point that you need to consider is lighting. For the bedroom area, the most optimal option is natural, so try to place this area near the window, even if it is the only one in the room. As for the living room area, there are no such special requirements. You can make it spacious or cozy and modest. The entire design and interior items that will be used in it depend only on your personal preferences, imagination, creativity and capabilities. Return to contents</a>
Living room bedroom: design options
Image 1.You can divide your bedroom and living room into zones using furniture. One of the most traditional solutions to the issue of combining space is the use of multifunctional furniture. You can easily disassemble and fold it, even move it to another place, constantly transforming the interior of your room. In this case, you should refuse large and bulky armchairs and sofas, massive wardrobes or large decorative items. Your main guideline should be minimalism. Choose furniture that would make maximum use of all the space in the room, and also be quite mobile and light. Items made of rattan or aluminum, or those that can be moved using built-in wheels, will be very convenient. By turning a wardrobe or sofa perpendicular to the partition, or moving them to the middle of the room, you will create a separate zone using the space limited by furniture. You can also divide the room with a high back of a sofa, a wardrobe, a rack, a long shelf or shelves (see image 1). Return to contents</a>Partitions:real and fake Another way to delimit space is with various partitions. If you are dividing the room into zones temporarily, then mobile options will suit you, because this way you can easily change the design of the room and easily zone the space. And when this is no longer relevant, you can simply remove the partitions and put the furniture back.
Image 2.False partitions or decorative screens are a lightweight option for separating a bedroom and a living room. False partitions and decorative screens are a lightweight option, acceptable for creating a cozy corner. You can also borrow sliding doors from a wardrobe, which are great for zoning and are an excellent alternative to solid partitions (see image 2). If you are separating a small area, the contents of which you do not want to display, then make the doors opaque. Although panels with glass or analogues of Japanese shoji made of translucent rice paper look very beautiful. If you decide to radically separate the bedroom from the living room by building a wall of plasterboard, then be prepared for the fact that it will visually reduce the room and make the interior cramped and constrained. Try not to make a solid partition. It is better to imitate a bar counter, a rack or a screen, thanks to a low and not too long "half-wall". A semicircular or curved shape will significantly expand your possibilities and enrich the design. Curtains can also serve as a kind of partition. You can opt for a thick fabric that will help to reliably hide, for example, a bedroom behind it, or you can prefer a light and weightless curtain that only conditionally divides your space into certain zones. Make sure that the curtains that you use as a partition match the color and texture of the fabric of the curtains framing your windows. Depending on the general style maintained in the interior, you can even use blinds or original curtains made of beads, bamboo, threads. Return to contents</a>Various decorative elements One of the mostelegant room zoning techniques is an arch. An arched or rectilinear arched opening will decorate not only the living room, but also any other room in your home. These elegant structures often do not take up floor space, so they will be appropriate in apartments of any size.
Image 3.If there is enough space in the room, you can install large-scale decorative structures in the form of niches, aquariums or fireplaces. By choosing a certain width and shape of the arch, you will either only mark the boundaries of the desired area with its help, or significantly increase its privacy. You can even create combinations of arches and decorative partitions. Remember that their style should match the overall design of the entire room. If you have enough space, you can decide on large-scale decorative structures in the form of niches, fireplaces and aquariums. This is very beautiful, although quite troublesome (see image 3). A podium or columns visually move the center of the interior and regroup different zones. If you are ready for such changes, then you should decorate your living room this way. A bay window is often created on a loggia, which allows you to expand the footage of the room, narrowing the boundaries of the balcony. The height of the podium depends on your preferences. It itself defines a separate zone (see image 4). Moreover, it can be used as an additional storage space for various things, such as bedding, etc. And if you surround the bed on the podium with a canopy, you will get a truly royal bedroom. The multi-level ceiling and floor will also help to hide the necessary parts of communication technologies by reducing the height of the ceiling and increasing the floor to a certain level. Return to the table of contents</a>Color, light and other subtleties
Image 4.You can separate the living room from the bedroom using a podium that raises the bed to a small elevation, thereby separating the bedroom from the living room. To separate the space, make color or light accents. The living room should be more intense and bright in design, so that it is the place of main attention and attraction, and not an intimate bedroom. You can use colors in the same range, just take a tone lighter or darker for the sleeping area. The option of combining contrasting colors is also possible. You can choose both paint and wallpaper (or photo wallpaper). You can use horizontal or vertical zoning. In the first case, use horizontal stripes of wallpaper of a darker color for the lower part of the wall and a lighter one for the upper one. This will help you visually expand the space. Using a vertical pattern, you can give the room height. By combining different colors for a separate wall or its parts, you will visually highlight the space. The lighting scenario also needs to be well thought out. A common chandelier in the center of the room will not work here. Zoning with light is done correctly: make your own lamp with a separate switch for each zone. For the bedroom, a floor lamp or several sconces above the bed will be appropriate, while for the living room, a ceiling pendant over the coffee table and another floor lamp by the sofa will work well. A beautiful chandelier above the center will also look good in the guest area, and in the bedroom, you can experiment with ceiling lamps and bedside lamps. You can also make visual accents with carpets, flooring (contrasting colors or different materials). Return to contents</a>
Instead of concluding
When combining two workspaces, you need totry not to dissolve them in each other, but to complement each one as much as possible at the expense of the other. Therefore, take this into account when planning. By adding functionality to the room, you will make your apartment more fashionable, modern and even exclusive, because redevelopment is possible not only in large houses or cottages. Careful preparation, thinking through all the details, a detailed plan, design and estimate will help you create your own universal space, in which you can subsequently enjoy comfort and coziness.
