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Layout of a three-room apartment
How to choose the layout of a 3-room apartment? What is the difference between the organization of space in new buildings and panel houses? Which style should you choose? Everything will be discussed in more detail later in the article.
Criterias of choice
Every person is individual, every family is unique. Therefore, the layout and design must be unique. This does not mean that you need to purchase super exclusive furniture and decor. It is important to organize your living space in such a way that it is pleasant to come home, the interior does not irritate you, you want to receive guests, every thing stands in its place and performs the necessary functions.
Comfortable apartment without unnecessary details
Look around you and think about what you would like to change in your home, bring into it, in order, first of all, to change the quality of life. Well, now let's move on to specifics:
1Decide for yourself how rational the recently fashionable free space will become. Below are the pros and some of the cons of this trend.
More free space
2Are you planning to increase your family? This is not only the birth of a child, the relocation of parents or relatives, but also the appearance of a dog or cat, fish or chinchilla. Perhaps you want to take up sewing, create a website, or organize a mini garden. All this requires proper zoning.
Proper zoning of space
3What colors does the family like? This is not an abstract concept. You may like the color (fragmentarily). But are you ready to paint your bedroom a deep blue and add gold-plated plaster accents to transform your rec room into Madame Pompadour's bedroom?
Gilded plaster elements in the bedroom
4The housewife loves to experiment in the kitchen, cook and come up with interesting dishes. How long does it take? How to place work desks, but at the same time avoid the spread of odors throughout the apartment?
Kitchen and living room layout
And most importantly, what finances do you plan to spend on changing your life.
Think about this as a family before making any fundamental changes, and you won't have to regret that the trendy print wallpaper in the living room irritates your eyes and you're thinking about that instead of the development of the plot of an entertaining movie.
Choose the right wallpaper in the living room
Be very careful about combining elements of classical styles and avant-garde modern ones.
What does the type of building affect?
All old apartments had many shortcomings from the planning stage. They have poor sound insulation due to the minimal thickness of the walls between apartments, old pipes, heating, and this is not to mention the wiring.
Here we can draw an analogy with old cars - not all of them are bad, but time takes its toll.
In European countries, old architecture is being refreshed from the inside - fresh blood is being infused through modern technologies, laying out new communications and optics.
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In this regard, new buildings, their high-quality representatives, are a more long-term solution for life.
At the same time, it is necessary to take into account that the layout of a three-room panel apartment is almost final, because most of the walls are monolithic, and their demolition is prohibited by law. This means that redevelopment cannot be done.
New buildings in this regard are usually much more interesting, because they are built with load-bearing structures - columns, beams, but not solid walls in all rooms.
Layout options
If you are still looking for a successful layout, then our selection of options will be interesting to you.
Layout of an apartment of 60 sq.m in a panel house
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If the area is 80 sq.m.
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We do the arrangement correctly in Stalin
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We plan in Khrushchev
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Design techniques
It is easier for owners of apartments in new buildings with a large area and lack of partitions to realize any fantasies. However, the principles described below apply to any premises. Designers cannot physically change the size of rooms. So they use some tricks that can do wonders.
Design tricks when planning an apartment
First of all, this is the color:
1For adherents of the Egyptian style, be sure to introduce rich blue color into the interior. If you want to fall asleep without sleeping pills, order blue stretch ceilings with spotlights for your bedroom.
Egyptian style in the interior looks quite unusual
2Green in its pure form and all its interpretations help to relax. If you need to create a respectable interior with historical notes, use gray-green shades. Palace charm is guaranteed.
Gray-green in the bedroom interior
3White is a good background for antique, dark and exclusive bright furniture (this is the trend of the last season).
White walls in the interior of the apartment
4 Warm colors (red, yellow) are appropriate in rooms facing northwest, cold colors: blue, purple, green - for rooms facing south.
Cool colors in the living room
And then in more detail about changing the size of the premises.
How to raise the ceiling
It would seem that you cannot move to your neighbors above or below. However, throughout history, architects have used simple techniques to achieve this. The decor should have a vertical direction. I emphasize: these do not necessarily have to be stripes, arabesques and the like are applicable.
You can “raise” the ceiling using vertical lines
A wonderful option: multi-level ceilings, in which the central part is the highest and has upward lighting. The trend of recent years is suspended ceilings. With their help, a perfectly flat surface is achieved. For those who want to increase the height - glossy canvases. To create coziness - matte, with textile imitation.
Matte stretch ceiling to create coziness
Expand the walls
Arched passages give the effect of expanding space. In small rooms, use diagonal laying of tiles, laminate, parquet slabs, the real dimensions of the room are lost.
Decorative interior arches in the interior
In narrow corridors, it is enough to paint the gable walls or choose wallpaper two shades darker than the side ones and they will “move apart” before your eyes. A similar feeling is given by decorating with pilasters, vertical rods, long paintings, and lamps placed at the same distance.
Pilasters – luxurious individuality
Use columns, pylons, pilasters with capitals, and decorate the corners of rooms with darker decor: painting, wallpaper, natural or decorative stone.
Fashionable design directions (styles), trends
Marble in different interpretations is used to decorate floors and walls. However, it should not be a banal tile. It is better to use slabs, including those that imitate this material. Complementary items include bedspreads and decorative pillows with a marble pattern. Materials with this pattern are used to decorate countertops in kitchen areas and coffee tables.
Marble slabs in wall decoration
For decoration, leading designers recommend choosing colors and shades: brown-red, purple, blue (sky color), terracotta, blue, mustard, beige, red (fragmentary). As you can see, the range is quite extensive and can satisfy any preference. But still, the king of color this year is Greenery - the color of young greenery, which personifies fusion with nature and energy.
Greenery is this year's trending color
This trend is echoed by collections of ceramic tiles. The color scheme is uniform, with a natural pattern: various shades of ocher and copper are combined with darker shades. Returning to nature requires a large number of living plants. If desired, the room can be turned into a greenhouse.
Shades of nature in the interior of the apartment
A win-win option is all natural colors and shades. Return to nature is the designers' motto.
Arrangement of a three-room apartment
Almost any design is suitable for a spacious apartment. A large area is an excellent option for implementing any bold idea. A suitable arrangement should be chosen taking into account the composition of the family. Interior doors should be of a comfortable width and easy to use. They should open easily and silently. In modern new buildings, sliding options are often used.
For a spacious kitchen, an island or peninsula is suitable. It can also be used as a bar counter or table top. Small living rooms are furnished with small-sized furniture. If desired, the hall can be combined with a corridor.
There should be enough sockets and switches to install all electrical appliances in the room. They should be easy to connect.
How to add coziness to large rooms
Often, apartment owners do not feel comfortable. To prevent this, organize mini-zones: relaxation, watching TV, dining room. This technique relieves psychological stress from a space without walls. Every person needs places conditionally divided by function so as not to feel empty.
Zoning one large room
For relaxation, sofas, a coffee table and armchairs + carpet are grouped together. The dining group includes a slide, a table with chairs, and can be emphasized with another floor covering (tiles).
Grouping furniture by zones in the apartment
For favorite activities, even communicating on social networks, a corner is organized that has a comfortable table and chair. Not to be confused with a full-fledged office. It’s more like a shell that people hide in to communicate online.
Cozy corner for communication
Stalinka
"Stalin buildings" were built in the early 50s. The layout of brick houses of this type demonstrated perhaps the best housing in the Union.
High ceilings reaching three meters, isolated rooms with a convenient location, and a separate bathroom are evidence of the thoughtfulness of the living space.
Ordinary citizens and nomenclature workers could live in the apartments, and the layout of the premises for the latter was characterized by increased comfort. The interior decoration of civil servants' apartments boasted a spacious hall and arched openings; the houses had quarters for servants.
Additional premises
Houses often have small kitchens. To maximize their area, instead of a window sill, order a tabletop that will be combined with a work surface. Order hanging cabinets that go up to the ceiling: you can place items and utensils that you rarely use on the top shelves.
Recently, many housewives do not use ovens. Instead of a conventional oven, install a hob, and turn the space under it into a cabinet.
Additional work surface in the kitchen
It is rational to install a water heater in the toilet rooms. It is easy to hide behind a decorative removable panel. If you are not a fan of long-hour baths and there are no small children in the family, replace the bath with a shower stall or hydrobox. Install a washing machine in the free space.
Shower cabin with washing machine in one room
Khrushchevka
“Khrushchev buildings” were built from the late 50s to the mid-80s (taking into account modifications and the appearance of new modifications). Early versions of the houses did not have a very good arrangement of rooms, the thickness of the panel walls did not provide high-quality thermal insulation, the ceilings were low, and the bathroom was combined. The kitchen, as a rule, was a small area.
Since about 1970, large-scale construction of 9-story buildings made of brick or panels began. The ceilings in the new apartments were located at a level of 2.64 m, and the internal partitions did not bear the overall load. That is why in such houses the redevelopment of a 3-room apartment was common.
Open plan
Often fashion magazines and design programs advertise a studio version of organizing space. Before you tear down all the partitions, think about your comfort for tomorrow. In fact, the designers propose removing interior partitions and organizing visual zoning. Let's look at the pros and cons:
- Open spaces provide more light and air.
- You can implement interesting, even classic styles.
- Connecting several functional areas allows you to save time when moving between them.
- It's easier to choose furniture.
Combining bedroom and living room
However:
- The bathroom combined with the toilet really becomes larger, but if there are more than 2 people in the family, then a queue in front of the door of the hygiene room is guaranteed.
- Living rooms combined with kitchens are saturated with the smells of food. The same applies to the kitchen area flowing into the hallway. All things will smell, if not of cutlets, then of risotto. But this will not add Italian charm to the housewives.
- In order to connect rooms with a balcony or loggia, you need to install double-glazed windows with increased heat-saving properties and organize insulation of the floor and walls. As an option, lay part of the balcony with gas blocks (they have a double advantage: they hold temperature well and are lightweight).
- You cannot organize “wet zones” at your own discretion. If you install a bathtub in the bedroom (the area allows), even a small overflow of water will cause a flood among the neighbors. To prevent such a disaster during the construction of a house, special waterproofing belts are installed in bathrooms and toilets.
Combine the bathroom and toilet to increase space
The supporting structures must not be dismantled, otherwise deformation of the ceiling slabs may occur.
Nuances of redevelopment
If you are planning a major renovation in a Khrushchev-era apartment, then before creating a design project you must take into account several important rules. Firstly, any redevelopment is a fairly radical way, allowing not only to visually expand the space, but also to radically change the overall configuration of the housing.
Of course, it is unlikely that anyone will be able to change the total footage of a room through redevelopment, but it is quite possible to significantly increase the usable area of an apartment or redistribute it in the most rational way. Internal partitions in Khrushchev-era apartments usually do not bear the overall load, so they can be demolished if necessary.
It is also strictly forbidden to expand the kitchen if it is equipped with a gas appliance.
In this case, it is recommended to replace the gas stove with an electric one or use lightweight sliding partitions to divide the space.
Please note that any changes to the configuration of walls and partitions require the creation of a special project for the redevelopment of the entire premises, since any changes in the general structure of the building must be registered by the relevant authorities.
How to visually combine separate rooms
If you decide to keep the basic design of an apartment with separate rooms, there are some tricks with which you will achieve the effect of open space. Remove all mezzanines, they steal height.
Create arched passages. Remove the doors in the living room and expand them literally by 20 cm. Make desu-deports above all the doors (for more details on what this is, Google will help). On the one hand, similar details give a feeling of repetition, which in turn changes the parameters of space.
Arch between kitchen and living room
Choose the right lamps. All devices that are visible with the doors open must be in the same style. This does not mean that you need to buy exactly the same lamps. It is enough that they have similar shades, shape, color, but different sizes and lengths.
Kitchen and living room with lighting in the same style
Choose a base color that will be repeated in different interpretations in each room. If you want some drive. Decorate your bathroom in a special way. This room is intimate, it can stand out from a single decorative thread.
Design your bathroom in a special style
If the apartment is small, try not to choose large pieces of furniture. Instead of large walls, install a wardrobe in the hallway and bedrooms. You are lucky and your apartment has a storage room, ruthlessly throw out all the trash from it and make a dressing room.
Organize a storage room for a dressing room
In small rooms, decorating one wall (for example, behind a sofa) with wallpaper with large printed patterns gives an interesting effect. If you decide to do this decoration, we frame all other walls with plain wallpaper, painting or plaster. It is necessary to choose a color that is in harmony with the color option.
Decorating the wall behind the sofa
Design project and plan of a three-room apartment for a family with children
The design of a three-room apartment is made in accordance with the requirements of the homeowners: functional design of the space in light shades, with the presence of spot color accents without any frills.
It is advisable to design an apartment with children in light colors
By nature, such an interior should be very restrained and calm, but at the same time cozy thanks to natural materials. Children's rooms must be designed taking into account the individual needs of children. The environment should be appropriate for their age.
Let yourself dream
It is important to move away from the templates and plan your own home not like friends, in fashion magazines or because it is a trend of the season. First of all, you need to understand that you want to live in it. But at the same time, move away everything that is already covered with dust. Think about what will make me happy today, now and will make me happy tomorrow. Buy a round table or an unusual floor lamp. Often such details become basic, around which the entire interior is built.
Unusual floor lamps as basic details in the interior
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