Living room-bedroom - a combined room, formed as a result of redevelopment or, if necessary, to make two of one room, without erecting a major wall. Zoning is carried out in various ways, most of which are aimed at creating maximum comfort, comfort for each of the residents. The best design options for such rooms are filmed on camera - they are easy to find on the Internet, on design, repair sites.
The bedroom-living room is most often formed from a cramped two-room “Khrushchev”, often having an extremely uncomfortable layout, a small kitchen. The combined room comes out quite spacious - due to the demolition of the "extra" walls there is more space for comfortable movement, beautiful furniture layout, the separation of the living room and bedroom is purely symbolic.
There is another option - a one-room apartment, the only living room of which is limited to an area of 15 or 16 square meters, less often - 17-23 meters. It is problematic to stay here with the whole family, because competent zoning is vital, especially if you have a child. If there is a spacious kitchen, several "squares" are cut off from it in favor of the room, by moving the wall.
Any redevelopment options can disrupt the building structure, which often leads to collapse. Before starting work, the project must necessarily be agreed with higher authorities, and obtain appropriate permission.
Advantages disadvantages
The combination of two rooms into one has its pros and cons.
Positive sides:
the possibility of creating an interesting design;
everything you need for life will compactly fit in a small area;
each member of the family will succeed in highlighting his own corner;
the place where the wall used to be is also fully used;
many zoning elements are easy to remove when they are not needed.
Negative points:
there is no soundproofing of the bedroom;
privacy of the sleeping area is much less than in individual rooms;
difficulties with the correct zoning of the formed territory.
The area, design of each zone depends on the functions assigned to them, the number of residents in the apartment.
Zoning Methods
The most “radical” way to divide the entire area into two parts is to build a wall to make separate rooms, although such a room will no longer be united. When the ceiling height is four to five or more meters, the creation of a two-level hall-bedroom becomes quite possible - at the top then equip a room for sleeping, below - a spacious hall.
What methods of zoning are used by modern interior designers:
coloring of the floor, walls in different colors;
the use of finishing materials that vary in appearance, texture;
installation of thin partitions, sliding screens;
textile curtains;
multiple light sources;
podiums with steps, without them;
multi-level ceilings;
furnishings;
openings, arches, columns;
surround decor.
Occasionally, as zoning parts for large spaces, several large potted plants are placed on the floor in one line, stable figurines of wood, ceramics.
Furniture
Most often, the zones are separated by a rack, a wardrobe. The rack is partially or completely run through, the back wall of the cabinet, which is both relatively short (slightly more than human height) and rests on the ceiling, is made up of shelves. The sofa, designed to receive guests, sleep, is equipped with a countertop attached to the back, forming an office.
Modular kits are the most attractive option for integrated spaces. All elements here are kept in the same style, which greatly simplifies the design of the interior, in which you have to combine many details.
Partitions, screens, textiles
Lightweight drywall allows you to clearly divide the room. Such a structure resembles an ordinary wall, but does not require legalization as an element of redevelopment, as it is easily dismantled if necessary. The material is cheap, has an aesthetic appearance, and is easy to process.On the wall of drywall often make one, several functional shelves. It is either continuous or perforated, blocking only a small part of the room. Partitions look like a sheet of thin plywood, MDF, forged elements, metal sheets with slots.
An interesting building with a two-sided fireplace looks like a real, electric, fake one. Contemplation of such an object creates a peaceful atmosphere. The partition, completely made of glass, is usually equipped with a curtain (textile, roll), so that even on a sunny day in the bedroom managed to create darkness.
Arches, columns of various configurations perfectly zone large spaces. Independent use of curtains is also permissible - the product is mounted on a ceiling ledge that hides a slot in the stretch ceiling or is simply made inconspicuous. If the room is very large, the ceiling is high, the curtains are removed remotely - using a special control panel. Bored curtains are easy to remove, replace with any others. Dense, lightweight curtains, multi-layered are often installed in a niche.
A screen is an easy, mobile option. Its location is easy to change, depending on the mood, the properties that are needed at the moment - in the afternoon, this design separates the mini-office, in the evening - the sleeping place of one of the family members. The screen is usually made of a wooden, metal frame, on which the fabric is stretched, less often there are completely wooden, aluminum, plastic, rattan wicker options.
Lighting
Zoning with light is suitable for both cramped and very spacious rooms. In modern times, lighting the only ceiling chandelier is considered an obsolete option - now each logical zone is individually illuminated. Where they sleep, the light is warm, diffused, but when reading is supposed in bed, it is advisable to provide lamps with adjustable brightness.White daylight is made in the office, if it is available, if there is a dressing table, it is equipped with a make-up mirror, which has LED illumination along the contour.
If desired, the living room, sleeping area is separated by a decorative LED strip running along the floor and ceiling. In the same way, it makes sense to distinguish the border between the hall and the bedroom, designing LED arch, plasterboard design. In another version, the “border” separating the rooms is intentionally left almost without light, making it even more expressive.
Finishing materials, colors
Sometimes separate zones are highlighted with color - for example, a bedroom is pasted with light wallpaper in a flower, the room is darker, monophonic. Different materials are also selected: in the sleeping area they put high-quality laminate, in the living room - ceramic tiles. You can create other visual boundaries - a strip of natural stone on the wall, change the direction of laying parquet. Properly selected murals, posters, not only zoning, but also the correction of the poor proportions of the room, its irregular shape. A small sleeping area is distinguished by a soft contrasting carpet. When designing the floor with different materials, it is important to properly organize their docking with each other.
In one room, it is recommended to combine no more than two or three colors, but the closer the room, the more light, warm they are chosen.
The most interesting ideas:
light brown with yellow;
apricot with pumpkin;
basalt gray with beige;
pink with pigeon blue;
pomegranate with smoky white;
turquoise blue with lime;
protective blue with camelopard;
pale chestnut with purple;
marsh with brick;
vanilla with dahlia;
khaki with melon yellow;
cornflower blue with watermelon;
coral with brown-orange;
lavender with mahogany;
creamy mint with azure;
ocher with pearl;
salmon with honey.
Monochrome colors of combined interiors are not uncommon, especially in cases with cramped rooms. Overly contrasting options are encountered - then the visual separation of zones is immediately obvious.
Podiums, retractable structures
Zoning is horizontal, vertical. Podiums are often placed under a berth, serving as a convenient container for bedding, underwear, books, toys, and other things. In another version, the whole living room is located on the platform - a sofa, a coffee table, a console with a TV, a wardrobe, armchairs. Individual elements of the storage system "hide" not on the side of the platform, but open on top. The handles of the “drawers” are made retractable - they “appear” when lightly pressed with a finger, but do not work in the event of a foot step.
Sliding glass doors are convenient in that they can create sufficient sound insulation, but you can re-combine the space by just opening them. To create privacy, each part of the door is formed by a dense rolled curtain, which is also convenient to close-open. There are structures on a special rail, which are like a piece of a wall, a couple of meters wide. The product moves from side to side, if necessary separating either a berth or an office.
Many designers use the difference in ceiling height to highlight areas - in the bedroom it is usually made a little lower, sometimes additionally highlighting in color. It is not recommended to use this technique in rooms with medium, low height, and also at the same time with platforms, it creates a “crushing” sensation, it is very uncomfortable in the room.
Popular styles
The chosen style should be, first of all, comfortable for life - not to interfere with free movement around the house, not to clutter it. Styles such as baroque, empire, are suitable only for very spacious rooms, as they require luxurious, voluminous furniture, plentiful decor,textured drapery. A loft can also not be equipped everywhere - it also requires a lot of space, light.
Styles such as:
classical;
modern;
high tech;
Provence
country;
minimalism;
Art Nouveau;
Japanese;
Scandinavian.
Modern
The main secret here is convenience in everything, the decor is in last place. The interior comes out quite strict, concise, every centimeter of space is fully used. Complex, intricate patterns are practically absent, zoning is done using plain curtains suspended on the ceiling cornice, modular furniture, carpets, state-of-the-art lighting fixtures, podiums of various heights.
Provence
Provence is characterized by an abundance of floral prints, "rustic" motifs. Light curtains in large and small flowers are present here not only on the windows, but also as a drapery that separates the living and sleeping areas. Furniture is chosen light, light, simple, modular designs are practically not used. A folding screen, stylized as a fence-wattle fence, made of real vine, pine roots, rattan, high-quality newspaper tubes, sometimes becomes the zoning design.
High tech
Zoning of rooms decorated in this style is made using transparent or frosted glass, metal screens, multiple light sources, different shades of the self-leveling floor. Highlighting in hi-tech is rare - then the bedroom becomes darker, dull, and the room more glossy, lighter. The main colors here are silver metallic, bluish gray, steel, dark brown, black. The furniture is modular - it’s easy to divide the room into zones, arranging it differently each time.
Modern
In the modernist interior there are many smooth, ornate lines - the zone is separated from the zone by them.There are arches and columns, fireplaces and carved furniture, prints with plants and dragonflies. The main colors used are gray, golden, brown. Natural materials are preferred. Zoning of the combined room in the Art Nouveau style is also carried out using stained-glass windows, wrought-iron gratings, and sculptural ensembles made of wood.
Minimalism
There are extremely few items, but they are all strictly functional. Stylistics is ideal for very tiny rooms - strict geometry will easily balance any available space. Of the zoning elements there are open shelving, highlighting, screens, screens, lightweight sliding structures. Colors are used "pure" - white, gray, black, red. The materials selected are the most modern - laminate, plastic panels, polystyrene, metal-plastic.
The choice of furniture in the living room-bedroom
Comfortable furniture is most important for cramped spaces. A transforming cabinet, a folding table, a coffee table-ottoman will become the most convenient solution to the combined dwellings. For proper zoning, part of the furniture is placed in the middle of the room in one line - a rack with a work desk, a chest of drawers with a wardrobe, dressing room. It is important that large furniture items do not block access to windows, do not completely block the path of street light into rooms, and do not interfere with free movement around the apartment.
A standard sleeping room has one or more beds, one or two bedside tables, a chest of drawers, a wardrobe, dressing table or a work desk for the computer, if you plan to create a small office. In the hall there is at least one table, sofa, wardrobe or narrow console for a television screen, a pair of armchairs or ottomans.
Tips for choosing a bed
A sleeping place is one of the most important elements of any apartment. The number of beds depends on the number of family members.For children, if there are several of them, a two-story structure is acquired, adults in a cramped room often sleep on a folding sofa. If there are often guests in the house who stay overnight, it makes sense to purchase one or two armchairs-beds - this element in the folded state will not take up much space.
A folding bed is ideal for a very small apartment. They lay it out at night, during the day they clean it against the wall. When folded, the design resembles a narrow cabinet. Every time to make-to-make a bed laziness, a product is purchased, equipped with straps, elastic bands that gently hold the blanket and mattress on a vertical plane.
A single or double bed located on the podium allows you to conveniently store all kinds of things in several drawers under it. An attic bed is a convenient solution with a ceiling height of three meters or more. The height of the second floor from the ceiling should be sufficient so that an adult can sit normally on the top shelf. A single catwalk bed is able to hide another sleeping place underneath, which, if necessary, is simply pulled out from under the main berth. In the case of a double, below are immediately two separate or joint places for sleeping.
When arranging a two-story bed for a child, the stairs to the second tier must be equipped with handrails.
Storage systems
When the apartment is very cramped, and there are relatively many people living in it, it is very important to think over a storage system. A mini-dressing room will be located in the part that plays the role of a bedroom - here you will find a corner or direct closet, the height up to the ceiling, in which there are clothes, shoes, and haberdashery. If there is a warmed balcony, a loggia, the dressing room will be located there - then, in addition to hangers and pantographs with clothes, boxes with shoes, a vacuum cleaner, skis, dumbbells, rarely used household appliances, other things will fit here.If there is a nursery in the room, then clothes and shoes, books, toys of the child are stored in one cabinet.
The most underutilized things are recommended to be stored on mezzanines under the very ceiling, what is used constantly - a maximum of one and a half meters from the floor, for children even lower. A rack usually plays the role of both a storage location and a zoning element. It is important that it is very stable, cannot fall, even with a sufficiently strong blow. A spinning cabinet is a bold solution for spacious rooms, a wardrobe with doors on both sides is also very convenient.
To easily get things from the top shelves, use a stepladder, a special transformer stool, a wooden structure of several steps.
Design Ideas, Their Features
The bedroom-living room can be located in almost any room - a one-room apartment, where only the kitchen and bathroom are hidden behind the wall, a large passage room, if it is necessary to allocate a secluded place for sleeping there. Sometimes the room where adults live has to be separated from the children's bedroom so that the baby has a small personal space.
It is recommended to make the bedroom away from the entrance to the combined room so that this place is not aisle, quiet, comfortable.
In a one-room apartment
A one-room space, where together, in a single space there is a hall and a bedroom, will also be cozy. The living space of "odnushka" rarely exceeds 16-18 meters, therefore it should be expanded at least visually. For this, glossy furniture surfaces, light-colored walls, mirrors, and light dividing elements are used.
The sleep area will most easily be separated by a curtain - it is easy to remove if necessary. Glass partitions will also fall into the “theme”, a sofa with a high back, which is placed almost in the middle of the room, will also easily cope with the zoning task.If the separation is purely symbolic, then in the bedroom or living room just lay a carpet covering almost the entire surface of the floor in the selected area.
In the passage room
A walk-through room, where together, that is, in a single space, are a living room and a bedroom, most often formed in a two or three bedroom apartment. A striking example is the Khrushchev "vest", where the hall sometimes has to be divided in half.
Zoning elements here are preferred not decorative, but functional. It is not advisable to clutter such a space with furniture too much - moving around it will be difficult. The sleeping area is done where they go the least - if there is a warm balcony, a loggia, a spacious niche, it is reasonable to equip it there. Division into zones by light will be most convenient.
Living room, children's bedroom
In a children's bedroom, whatever size it may be, there should be enough space for games, especially when the children are more than one. A bunk bed partially solves this problem - for two children only sleeping places will fit here, one will be able to equip an attic bed, under which a workplace or wardrobe is usually made. The nursery settles down in a warm, bright corner, where there are no drafts. It has a sleeping, working place, a closet with toys and clothes, which can separate this space from the adult room.
Combining a living-bedroom with a loggia / balcony
If there is a loggia, balcony in the combined room, they are qualitatively insulated, attaching to the living space. This option allows you to increase the usable area by two to four or more square meters. m. When there are two balconies (loggias), the union is made with one or both.
On the loggia, the "warm" balcony is placed:
dressing room;
cabinet;
nursery;
parents' bedroom;
guest area.
When the nursery is located on the balcony of the loggia, one should consider the option with unbreakable windows - the child, playing, is able to break the window with a ball, another object, which will lead to injury.
Arrangement of the working area in the bedroom-living room
A compact mini-cabinet is equipped in a niche, in any convenient corner of the room. The workspace includes a computer table, which, when necessary, easily becomes a dressing - the tabletop rises, revealing a mirror under its surface, convenient drawers with cosmetics, perfumes.
The secretary is a convenient design, suitable for storing the office, as well as for paper, computer work. Sometimes a small office is located in a structure resembling a corner sliding wardrobe - all the necessary office equipment fits here, and the border is made in the form of folding plastic curtains with accordion, sliding doors made of frosted glass. It is easy to separate the cabinet with a narrow rack with a folding tabletop - when there is very little space, this option is best.
Conclusion
The real design of the sleeping-living space is selected based on personal preferences, available space. A studio of any size, if properly zoned, will become cozy, beautiful, conveniently containing everything that is needed for a full life, work, rest. Making such a room with your own hands is not difficult at all, but if you still have some problems, professional designers will come to the rescue to help you decide on the placement of all the necessary areas and even depict in detail how the living room-bedroom will look like in a tri-de format.
Living room-bedroom - a combined room, formed as a result of redevelopment or, if necessary, to make two of one room, without erecting a major wall. Zoning is carried out in various ways, most of which are aimed at creating maximum comfort, comfort for each of the residents. The best design options for such rooms are filmed on camera - they are easy to find on the Internet, on design, repair sites.
Content
Features
The bedroom-living room is most often formed from a cramped two-room “Khrushchev”, often having an extremely uncomfortable layout, a small kitchen. The combined room comes out quite spacious - due to the demolition of the "extra" walls there is more space for comfortable movement, beautiful furniture layout, the separation of the living room and bedroom is purely symbolic.
There is another option - a one-room apartment, the only living room of which is limited to an area of 15 or 16 square meters, less often - 17-23 meters. It is problematic to stay here with the whole family, because competent zoning is vital, especially if you have a child. If there is a spacious kitchen, several "squares" are cut off from it in favor of the room, by moving the wall.
Advantages disadvantages
The combination of two rooms into one has its pros and cons.
Positive sides:
Negative points:
The area, design of each zone depends on the functions assigned to them, the number of residents in the apartment.
Zoning Methods
The most “radical” way to divide the entire area into two parts is to build a wall to make separate rooms, although such a room will no longer be united. When the ceiling height is four to five or more meters, the creation of a two-level hall-bedroom becomes quite possible - at the top then equip a room for sleeping, below - a spacious hall.
What methods of zoning are used by modern interior designers:
Furniture
Most often, the zones are separated by a rack, a wardrobe. The rack is partially or completely run through, the back wall of the cabinet, which is both relatively short (slightly more than human height) and rests on the ceiling, is made up of shelves. The sofa, designed to receive guests, sleep, is equipped with a countertop attached to the back, forming an office.
Modular kits are the most attractive option for integrated spaces. All elements here are kept in the same style, which greatly simplifies the design of the interior, in which you have to combine many details.
Partitions, screens, textiles
Lightweight drywall allows you to clearly divide the room. Such a structure resembles an ordinary wall, but does not require legalization as an element of redevelopment, as it is easily dismantled if necessary. The material is cheap, has an aesthetic appearance, and is easy to process.On the wall of drywall often make one, several functional shelves. It is either continuous or perforated, blocking only a small part of the room. Partitions look like a sheet of thin plywood, MDF, forged elements, metal sheets with slots.
An interesting building with a two-sided fireplace looks like a real, electric, fake one. Contemplation of such an object creates a peaceful atmosphere. The partition, completely made of glass, is usually equipped with a curtain (textile, roll), so that even on a sunny day in the bedroom managed to create darkness.
Arches, columns of various configurations perfectly zone large spaces.
Independent use of curtains is also permissible - the product is mounted on a ceiling ledge that hides a slot in the stretch ceiling or is simply made inconspicuous. If the room is very large, the ceiling is high, the curtains are removed remotely - using a special control panel. Bored curtains are easy to remove, replace with any others. Dense, lightweight curtains, multi-layered are often installed in a niche.
A screen is an easy, mobile option. Its location is easy to change, depending on the mood, the properties that are needed at the moment - in the afternoon, this design separates the mini-office, in the evening - the sleeping place of one of the family members. The screen is usually made of a wooden, metal frame, on which the fabric is stretched, less often there are completely wooden, aluminum, plastic, rattan wicker options.
Lighting
Zoning with light is suitable for both cramped and very spacious rooms. In modern times, lighting the only ceiling chandelier is considered an obsolete option - now each logical zone is individually illuminated. Where they sleep, the light is warm, diffused, but when reading is supposed in bed, it is advisable to provide lamps with adjustable brightness.White daylight is made in the office, if it is available, if there is a dressing table, it is equipped with a make-up mirror, which has LED illumination along the contour.
If desired, the living room, sleeping area is separated by a decorative LED strip running along the floor and ceiling. In the same way, it makes sense to distinguish the border between the hall and the bedroom, designing LED arch, plasterboard design. In another version, the “border” separating the rooms is intentionally left almost without light, making it even more expressive.
Finishing materials, colors
Sometimes separate zones are highlighted with color - for example, a bedroom is pasted with light wallpaper in a flower, the room is darker, monophonic. Different materials are also selected: in the sleeping area they put high-quality laminate, in the living room - ceramic tiles. You can create other visual boundaries - a strip of natural stone on the wall, change the direction of laying parquet. Properly selected murals, posters, not only zoning, but also the correction of the poor proportions of the room, its irregular shape. A small sleeping area is distinguished by a soft contrasting carpet. When designing the floor with different materials, it is important to properly organize their docking with each other.
In one room, it is recommended to combine no more than two or three colors, but the closer the room, the more light, warm they are chosen.
The most interesting ideas:
Podiums, retractable structures
Zoning is horizontal, vertical. Podiums are often placed under a berth, serving as a convenient container for bedding, underwear, books, toys, and other things. In another version, the whole living room is located on the platform - a sofa, a coffee table, a console with a TV, a wardrobe, armchairs. Individual elements of the storage system "hide" not on the side of the platform, but open on top. The handles of the “drawers” are made retractable - they “appear” when lightly pressed with a finger, but do not work in the event of a foot step.
Sliding glass doors are convenient in that they can create sufficient sound insulation, but you can re-combine the space by just opening them. To create privacy, each part of the door is formed by a dense rolled curtain, which is also convenient to close-open. There are structures on a special rail, which are like a piece of a wall, a couple of meters wide. The product moves from side to side, if necessary separating either a berth or an office.
Many designers use the difference in ceiling height to highlight areas - in the bedroom it is usually made a little lower, sometimes additionally highlighting in color. It is not recommended to use this technique in rooms with medium, low height, and also at the same time with platforms, it creates a “crushing” sensation, it is very uncomfortable in the room.
Popular styles
The chosen style should be, first of all, comfortable for life - not to interfere with free movement around the house, not to clutter it. Styles such as baroque, empire, are suitable only for very spacious rooms, as they require luxurious, voluminous furniture, plentiful decor,textured drapery. A loft can also not be equipped everywhere - it also requires a lot of space, light.
Styles such as:
Modern
The main secret here is convenience in everything, the decor is in last place. The interior comes out quite strict, concise, every centimeter of space is fully used. Complex, intricate patterns are practically absent, zoning is done using plain curtains suspended on the ceiling cornice, modular furniture, carpets, state-of-the-art lighting fixtures, podiums of various heights.
Provence
Provence is characterized by an abundance of floral prints, "rustic" motifs. Light curtains in large and small flowers are present here not only on the windows, but also as a drapery that separates the living and sleeping areas. Furniture is chosen light, light, simple, modular designs are practically not used. A folding screen, stylized as a fence-wattle fence, made of real vine, pine roots, rattan, high-quality newspaper tubes, sometimes becomes the zoning design.
High tech
Zoning of rooms decorated in this style is made using transparent or frosted glass, metal screens, multiple light sources, different shades of the self-leveling floor. Highlighting in hi-tech is rare - then the bedroom becomes darker, dull, and the room more glossy, lighter. The main colors here are silver metallic, bluish gray, steel, dark brown, black. The furniture is modular - it’s easy to divide the room into zones, arranging it differently each time.
Modern
In the modernist interior there are many smooth, ornate lines - the zone is separated from the zone by them.There are arches and columns, fireplaces and carved furniture, prints with plants and dragonflies. The main colors used are gray, golden, brown. Natural materials are preferred. Zoning of the combined room in the Art Nouveau style is also carried out using stained-glass windows, wrought-iron gratings, and sculptural ensembles made of wood.
Minimalism
There are extremely few items, but they are all strictly functional. Stylistics is ideal for very tiny rooms - strict geometry will easily balance any available space. Of the zoning elements there are open shelving, highlighting, screens, screens, lightweight sliding structures. Colors are used "pure" - white, gray, black, red. The materials selected are the most modern - laminate, plastic panels, polystyrene, metal-plastic.
The choice of furniture in the living room-bedroom
Comfortable furniture is most important for cramped spaces. A transforming cabinet, a folding table, a coffee table-ottoman will become the most convenient solution to the combined dwellings. For proper zoning, part of the furniture is placed in the middle of the room in one line - a rack with a work desk, a chest of drawers with a wardrobe, dressing room. It is important that large furniture items do not block access to windows, do not completely block the path of street light into rooms, and do not interfere with free movement around the apartment.
A standard sleeping room has one or more beds, one or two bedside tables, a chest of drawers, a wardrobe, dressing table or a work desk for the computer, if you plan to create a small office. In the hall there is at least one table, sofa, wardrobe or narrow console for a television screen, a pair of armchairs or ottomans.
Tips for choosing a bed
A sleeping place is one of the most important elements of any apartment. The number of beds depends on the number of family members.For children, if there are several of them, a two-story structure is acquired, adults in a cramped room often sleep on a folding sofa. If there are often guests in the house who stay overnight, it makes sense to purchase one or two armchairs-beds - this element in the folded state will not take up much space.
A folding bed is ideal for a very small apartment. They lay it out at night, during the day they clean it against the wall. When folded, the design resembles a narrow cabinet. Every time to make-to-make a bed laziness, a product is purchased, equipped with straps, elastic bands that gently hold the blanket and mattress on a vertical plane.
A single or double bed located on the podium allows you to conveniently store all kinds of things in several drawers under it. An attic bed is a convenient solution with a ceiling height of three meters or more. The height of the second floor from the ceiling should be sufficient so that an adult can sit normally on the top shelf. A single catwalk bed is able to hide another sleeping place underneath, which, if necessary, is simply pulled out from under the main berth. In the case of a double, below are immediately two separate or joint places for sleeping.
Storage systems
When the apartment is very cramped, and there are relatively many people living in it, it is very important to think over a storage system. A mini-dressing room will be located in the part that plays the role of a bedroom - here you will find a corner or direct closet, the height up to the ceiling, in which there are clothes, shoes, and haberdashery. If there is a warmed balcony, a loggia, the dressing room will be located there - then, in addition to hangers and pantographs with clothes, boxes with shoes, a vacuum cleaner, skis, dumbbells, rarely used household appliances, other things will fit here.If there is a nursery in the room, then clothes and shoes, books, toys of the child are stored in one cabinet.
The most underutilized things are recommended to be stored on mezzanines under the very ceiling, what is used constantly - a maximum of one and a half meters from the floor, for children even lower. A rack usually plays the role of both a storage location and a zoning element. It is important that it is very stable, cannot fall, even with a sufficiently strong blow. A spinning cabinet is a bold solution for spacious rooms, a wardrobe with doors on both sides is also very convenient.
Design Ideas, Their Features
The bedroom-living room can be located in almost any room - a one-room apartment, where only the kitchen and bathroom are hidden behind the wall, a large passage room, if it is necessary to allocate a secluded place for sleeping there. Sometimes the room where adults live has to be separated from the children's bedroom so that the baby has a small personal space.
In a one-room apartment
A one-room space, where together, in a single space there is a hall and a bedroom, will also be cozy. The living space of "odnushka" rarely exceeds 16-18 meters, therefore it should be expanded at least visually. For this, glossy furniture surfaces, light-colored walls, mirrors, and light dividing elements are used.
The sleep area will most easily be separated by a curtain - it is easy to remove if necessary. Glass partitions will also fall into the “theme”, a sofa with a high back, which is placed almost in the middle of the room, will also easily cope with the zoning task.If the separation is purely symbolic, then in the bedroom or living room just lay a carpet covering almost the entire surface of the floor in the selected area.
In the passage room
A walk-through room, where together, that is, in a single space, are a living room and a bedroom, most often formed in a two or three bedroom apartment. A striking example is the Khrushchev "vest", where the hall sometimes has to be divided in half.
Zoning elements here are preferred not decorative, but functional. It is not advisable to clutter such a space with furniture too much - moving around it will be difficult. The sleeping area is done where they go the least - if there is a warm balcony, a loggia, a spacious niche, it is reasonable to equip it there. Division into zones by light will be most convenient.
Living room, children's bedroom
In a children's bedroom, whatever size it may be, there should be enough space for games, especially when the children are more than one. A bunk bed partially solves this problem - for two children only sleeping places will fit here, one will be able to equip an attic bed, under which a workplace or wardrobe is usually made. The nursery settles down in a warm, bright corner, where there are no drafts. It has a sleeping, working place, a closet with toys and clothes, which can separate this space from the adult room.
Combining a living-bedroom with a loggia / balcony
If there is a loggia, balcony in the combined room, they are qualitatively insulated, attaching to the living space. This option allows you to increase the usable area by two to four or more square meters. m. When there are two balconies (loggias), the union is made with one or both.
On the loggia, the "warm" balcony is placed:
Arrangement of the working area in the bedroom-living room
A compact mini-cabinet is equipped in a niche, in any convenient corner of the room. The workspace includes a computer table, which, when necessary, easily becomes a dressing - the tabletop rises, revealing a mirror under its surface, convenient drawers with cosmetics, perfumes.
The secretary is a convenient design, suitable for storing the office, as well as for paper, computer work. Sometimes a small office is located in a structure resembling a corner sliding wardrobe - all the necessary office equipment fits here, and the border is made in the form of folding plastic curtains with accordion, sliding doors made of frosted glass. It is easy to separate the cabinet with a narrow rack with a folding tabletop - when there is very little space, this option is best.
Conclusion
The real design of the sleeping-living space is selected based on personal preferences, available space. A studio of any size, if properly zoned, will become cozy, beautiful, conveniently containing everything that is needed for a full life, work, rest. Making such a room with your own hands is not difficult at all, but if you still have some problems, professional designers will come to the rescue to help you decide on the placement of all the necessary areas and even depict in detail how the living room-bedroom will look like in a tri-de format.