Apartment with free planning: how to choose the perfect option
Do It Yourself / / December 19, 2019
Irina Yazev
Architect leads blog in Instagram.
Housing choice requires time, effort and nervous energy. And before you throw in the hot embrace of the mortgage, it is worth a closer look, and what you get there is a buy. When it was all happy - the area, the view from the window, next to the metro station, in the courtyard of the school, and even the ceiling height - need to do one more test.
From the experience of architects - just one of our customers for all time turned to us for advice before buying an apartment. Usually we are told nothing of the fact: "That bought the apartment. See what you can do "look - and everything is bad. Apartment of 50 m², two windows, a family of three people. At this point there is no architectural idea will not help.
Not everyone has an architect friend who will give advice at the right moment. I propose you a small check list for buying an apartment with a free lay-out, which will help you understand how good it is for you.
1. Determine the number of living rooms
Ideal - Number of bedrooms + 1. Kitchen do not believe.
There is an option to combine the kitchen and living room. For example, a family of two adults and two children - a master bedroom, children's and general family space. The number of windows in the apartment must match the number of rooms. No window - no room!
2. Place the residential area in the plan
Let's try to put this area on the plan of the apartment with a colored pencil. If the apartment is not over, or non-residential premises on the ground floor, you can not move or expand bathrooms and the kitchen at the expense of the living rooms. Thus all wet zone can be moved or expanded due to the residential premises (corridors, storage).
redevelopment issues are a lot of subtleties. Licensing documents for your application can be requested from the state authorities. Any redevelopment of apartments should be agreed before the start of work, initiative is fraught with penalties and recovery of the original plan. One leak, visit neighbors' - and you got caught.
Between regions should be able to arrange doorways or sliding partitions. Here is an example of zoning options for apartments, located above the non-residential floor.
Option 1
Adults and children are given a separate room. The area is enough to arrange bedroom and jobs, storage. Fine! But it is impossible to living room, large kitchen only.
option 2
So it is possible to zone the apartment with the transfer of the kitchen. Again, we get a decent bedrooms, moreover they are separated, which is very convenient. Living room and kitchen-dining room is enough to make everything fit. It is necessary to further evaluate the orientation of the flat to the cardinal to the people most of the day were in a brightly lit room. Children's roomLounge - here need more sun.
option 3
Option to transfer the living room and kitchen and dining area in the long, narrow room. It can be conveniently divided into zones, but pull away from the hood food in a riser (he is now in a small bathroom). Bedroom next, between them can be placed built-in wardrobes.
option 4
Living room, kitchen, dining table - area can accommodate all. parent bedroom It separated from the common areas. Children's small, but it is possible to attach a loggia and put there work tables, is only necessary to install a sliding partition of the insulating glass unit between the balcony and the bathroom. And between the child and the living room sliding doors will fall well.
In this embodiment, also need a powerful extractor fan in the kitchen.
3. Draw the arrangement of furniture in the selected option
So, you have several layout options to choose from and understanding that, in principle, this apartment suits you. Choose the plan that is best suited for your family habits, family structure, lifestyle.
For a firm confidence in the correctness imagine how the selected option will be located furniture, and mark it on the chart. It will look like this:
Placement of furniture can be a long time to redraw: moving a kitchenette and dining table, look for a built-in cabinets and so on. Repeat this procedure until all will not be happy.
Finally - one more useful tip
Maximize the use of space capabilities to help you custom furniture: beds, catwalks, individual wardrobes, headboards for beds with storage space, cabinets, closets and sliding partitions. These solutions not only create additional space for things, but also to form a space, become an art object and make it possible not to spend money on interior decoration.
You can create your own unique, modern and comfortable house with basic interior - make high-quality flooring, light colored walls and good "scenario" lighting. Such interior easily give any mood with the help of details and accents - textiles, decorative lamps and unusual accessories. Anything is possible - from strict classical to violent ethnic. Do not be afraid of unusual solutions. You have also a new life in a new apartment!
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