In today’s article, GD-Home has prepared 14 finished projects, as well as some tips on designing a bedroom-living room, which will tell you what and how to arrange.
Bedroom-living room: sofa or bed
Modern apartments can not always please their owners large area and freedom in the implementation of decisions during the repair. The selection of the main functions that each room will perform, determined by many factors and the number of rooms is not the last in the list. Try to combine the future design of the living room with the bedroom features of their own lifestyle. This will allow to receive maximum pleasure from spending time in this room and help make the vacation really enjoyable.
There are two options for the design of such a space. Moreover the choice usually depends on the size of the room. In very small one-room apartments have to combine a bedroom and a living room by buying a sofa bed. If necessary, always can be folded, but doing it every morning gives few people pleasure. The spacious rooms can be decorated and a living room with a soft sofa, and a bedroom with a full bed.
Design by A Studio
Design of a bedroom combined with a living room: what to give preference
Solving the issue of design and arrangement of space, in which you want to sleep and meet guests is a must remember that the main occupation in it is rest. Only in her different parts it will be different, and depends on your style and image of life. The future living room-bedroom should be decorated in one style, you should not perform two parts of it in stylistically different decisions. Otherwise, you will inevitably encounter disharmony in the interior.
The first and determining issue is the location of each of zones. Where will the bedroom be located? Where would you like to put bed – to the window or, conversely, away from a natural source Sveta? Will the living room be larger or smaller than the bedroom?
If you used to wake up with the first rays of the sun and love to see after awakening, not a picture on the wall, but a landscape outside the window, then the choice is obvious and the bed needs to be placed as high as possible closer to the window, equipping it with a full sleeping area.
It is desirable that the sleeping area be impassable and protected from accidental hit by strangers. Intimacy of personal space is the goal of all your efforts in this work. If living room-bedroom 18 sq. m, it is necessary to foresee which zone will be allocated more space, and therefore attention when decorating.
Determine if there should be a TV and related equipment – additional sound equipment, satellite equipment, Internet router, etc. For all this compact locations must be provided for most convenient access and operation.
Work studio Juicy-Hall
Design a bedroom-living room in one room
Limited space – a disadvantage that can be hidden behind cosiness and functionality. Having determined the location for the bedroom, you can focus on arranging the living room using stylish and functional furniture, household appliances and accessories capable of create a comfortable atmosphere. Don’t get carried away buying furniture, oh which you may have long dreamed of. After all, not every sofa will be appropriate in a small room. The interior of the living room-bedroom is optimal decorate and complement a pair of soft chairs or a small sofa in combined with a coffee table. This is a necessary part in practice. with any design of the recreation area. Take a closer look at the small sofa size with a folding mechanism.
Design by Anastasia Barkhatova
Pay attention to the variety of racks and shelves that may come in handy. If you want to equip a workplace in the living room and you need a desk, it’s best to choose an option with a small number of built-in shelves.
Books, flowers, various figurines or significant for you accessories (awards, cups, photos, paintings, etc.) can also fit perfectly into the interior of the living room if you give preference for a partition with niches and shelves on which all this can be placed.
Try not to use contrasting shades in the design walls and floor of the bedroom and living room. This will visually reduce space, and will make your perception concentrate on unnecessary details. The selection of close shades favorably smoothes out all the sharp angles and possible imperfections will help to perceive space as one whole – the design of the bedroom will complement the interior of the living room and vice versa.
Lighting always comes to the rescue of color – how natural and artificial in its various variations. Spotlights on the border of two zones, a floor lamp next to the sofa in living room, lamp on the bedside table, main lighting, separate in the living room and bedroom – and the rest will surely become pleasant and comfortable.
Interior handiwork of Marina Sargsyan
Compact bedroom-living room in a studio apartment
We already casually mentioned the situation when in the bedroom, combined with the living room, you can place the workplace in the form writing desk with drawers. In the conditions of a studio apartment this option becomes a necessary necessity and to the optimal placement of each zone has to be approached with a special scrupulousness.
If your living room is a bedroom of 17 sq. m, then you can combine in everything necessary for her in a modern house for her a small family, and for one person.
Remember the color combination: light colors and shades will be visually increase space and facilitate perception, while bright and dark colors, respectively, reduce the already modest space. It’s better to take calm and neutral tones as a basis, and add bright notes with accessories and parts.
Designer Elena Koroleva
If you really want to have an easy chair in the interior, then from corner sofa will have to give up, and stop choosing small folding. Creating a separate space for work at the desk, take care of the extra lighting for this zone. Table lamp or extra Built-in backlight will not be redundant.
If the room is deprived of natural light in sufficient volume, the partitions separating the bedroom from the living room may worsen the situation and only add pressure and gravity to the image. Then it’s better to choose a milder version of the functional separation in the form of curtains. If you really want to use a partition as a design element, then pay attention to the glass version. So you do not steal such valuable floor space and reach zone demarcation effect.
Project author Roman Safonov
The rules in choosing furniture in a studio apartment more strict: avoid dressers and extra items endowed with low functionality. Take a look at the corner sofas and wardrobes. The latter combine the functionality of a chest of drawers, much more spacious and save space due to the door mechanism.
Zoning of the bedroom-living room: two rooms in one
To achieve the functional completeness of the room in which you you will relax – alone or with friends – possibly with zoning space. Most efficiently split one space into several semantic zones. It is possible if your living room-bedroom 20 sq. m
It is possible to emphasize the living area and separate it from the bedroom help: – textures – furniture used as limiters spaces – partition walls – curtains, screens and various removable partitions
The first option involves the use of different textures in wall decoration in two zones of one room. Not worth using different wallpapers, for example, a wooden panel above sofa or textile wallpaper at the head of the bed.
A combination of different lighting levels will help to enhance the effect. For example, in the living room you can play with brighter light, and in sleeping area prefer bedside lights and muted light to help prepare for sleep.
Design by Ekaterina Nechaeva and Irina Markman
Sliding wardrobes and racks with shelves for various trifles also can fulfill the function of a partition between two zones. Using such furniture, you achieve the goal of distinguishing functionally different spaces and get additional niches for placement all sorts of useful little things. For example, a bookcase can place the front side to the living room, and the wardrobe – the door to the bedroom zone, since changing clothes and choosing an outfit, you will likely become bedroom, and reading a book on a comfortable winter evening will be more pleasant for a cup of hot cocoa in an armchair or sofa.
The most thorough can be differentiation with partitions made of drywall. Leaving a place under the niches and using various invoice materials in the design of this design, you can achieve not only the effect of zoning, but also bring extra functionality. Part of such a partition may become a bio fireplace or a false fireplace.
Using this technology, it is worth remembering that it is simply impossible dismantle or relocate. Deciding on installation of an additional wall, you must be sure that it in this place you want to see her every morning and evening, do not change your mind after a month and do not want to swap the bedroom and living room.
For such cases, removable partitions or screens, a great many of which are presented on the market today. Them You can choose for stylistic decisions, and for the mood.
Moreover, such screens can be changed with the change of seasons, thereby changing the mood in design. For summer, light white fabrics are suitable, and for winter – dense dark curtains. In addition, this option is less costly and usually does not require special skills in installation and operation.
The interior was designed by Alena Ponkratova
Curtains mounted on the ceiling around the perimeter of the sleeping area can become both an independent decision and an attribute of others zoning options. Use of textile materials in decoration will help bring harmony and some sophistication.
The project from the design studio BRO
Leytan Design Studio Interior
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