Design of a room with an area of ​​18 sq. m in a studio apartment

Odnushka is one of the most affordable options on the housing market. Young families with a child also take it: at first, such cramped conditions are not catastrophic, but after a couple of years you can think about expanding. Those who understand that it will not be possible to expand quickly, buy spacious one-bedroom apartments with the possibility of redevelopment or zoning - in fact, rebuilding into a two-room apartment. Therefore, starting one-room housing should always be regarded as a chance, and not as a loss of the best benefit.

One-room apartment with a room of 18 sq. m can become a cozy nest, but literally every centimeter will have to be thought over in the project. If the layout involves a large hallway and a corridor, you can consider the option of "pinching off" a couple of meters from this, not so important space in favor of increasing the room or kitchen. Or make a dressing room in the corridor: there will be a very small, but still separate storage for things.

Zoning is always a creative process.

• Rack - a popular option for dividing the private and front areas, which cannot be completely isolated in a 1-room apartment. It is beneficial in that it is considered a storage location.

• Glass partition - also a popular interior element, actually dividing the room into two parts. One remains a mini-living room, the second turns into a bedroom (or a nursery, or an office).

• Screen - it should be light, light, quickly removed if necessary. Much depends on the shape of the room, the size of the window, the sunshine or shade of the room.

• Podium - and nothing more. This may be sufficient for visual distribution of zones. Moreover, there may be a bed or storage boxes inside the podium.

If the apartment has a balcony or loggia, they can be insulated and the room (or kitchen) expanded by attaching this part. For a small kitchen, this is a good option for expansion, and the former window-sill part becomes a bar counter, which divides the kitchen into two zones, simultaneously connecting two previously dissimilar rooms. But even more often a one-room apartment with a room of 18 squares is turned into a studio, combined with a kitchen. Not a bad option for a young family. And if the apartment has high ceilings, you can think about the second level. Thus, the room can be divided into two in a vertical way.

The renovation will allow you to get a single one from a neutral space: warm, cozy, comfortable. Experts assure that all plans, repair costs must be recorded, tabulated in special programs. So you can understand what the most money is spent on, whether it will be possible to save money without forgetting about the original plans.

It all depends on the initial condition of the floor. If it is a wooden floor on logs, the boards are likely to remind of themselves with a creak. If this is an old coated screed and has not been repaired for a long time, it can manifest itself with rustling sand, creases and instability of the topcoat. In a word, if such serious defects are noticed, the floor will have to be changed. Sometimes everything is cleaned up, a new screed is poured in. Let's analyze which floors to lay.

• Wooden ones are the most environmentally friendly option. Such a floor is laid on logs, between which a heater and a sound absorber are placed.The boards themselves are stacked either on logs, or on plywood placed on them.

• Laminate - made of wood-polymer composite. It is a beneficial imitation of natural materials. Differs in classes (that is, quality) and a huge number of colors. You can lay it yourself without involving specialists. In most cases, requires a backing.

• Linoleum - attracts the buyer with an affordable price and relative ease of installation. Laying can only be done on a perfectly flat surface.

In some apartments, the plank floor requires a slight "upgrade", after which it can be painted (and not at all brown, but in the popular white, for example), and it will be inexpensive, natural and modern.

The version with wallpaper remains the most popular so far. For a small room, this is a one-day job, unless, of course, you use complex combination techniques.

You can decorate the walls in a one-room apartment not only with wallpaper.

• Paint. The option has become very common, because this method is considered simple, modern, and self-sufficient. In case of any defect, the paint layer in this place can be renewed. Moreover, you can use a combination of two colors in a horizontal way.

• Use decorative plaster. An option for an amateur, but often this is exactly what you need. True, experts advise avoiding textured surfaces in a small apartment, so you should not get carried away.

• Apply liquid wallpaper. The warning is the same as above. With a small child, it is also not always the best option; such a drawing on the wall can make the child want to pick out such an interesting surface.

Stretch ceilings are losing ground. If you want to focus on Western models, where there is a lot of environmental friendliness, perfect simplicity and naturalness, then it is better to just level the ceilings and paint, whitewash. But tension structures, multilevel ones, are becoming something from a series of "European-quality repairs" that are outdated.

Not very voluminous decorative beams may appear on the ceiling, significantly adding comfort to the room. But dividing a room into zones using ceiling zoning is also a thing of the past, although if you really like it, why not do so. True, at 18 meters you don't want to "eat" a single extra centimeter, and frame ceiling structures force you to do this.

There are styles that are especially fashionable this year, but they are rarely mounted with a single piece. For example, bright and textured, bold maximalism. However, if one person lives in a one-room apartment, he will be able to afford such a luxury. There are other, more popular styles for 18-meter single rooms.

• Minimalism. It is characterized by the absence of useless items, the most functional use of the room. Light colors are diluted with a contrasting minimum - black, brown. Modern minimalism is characterized by beige tones and more natural materials (wood, bamboo, clay, etc.).

• Scandinavian. The interior in this style preaches a small amount of furniture, light finishes. Combines minimalism and eco-style. Lighting devices are used as decorative elements, as are textiles and houseplants.

• Ecostyle. Only natural materials are used in the decoration, the design assumes a bright open space.In such an interior there can be no natural fur and leather, stretch ceilings, and even instead of a laminate, a natural wooden floor is preferable.

• Japanese. Warm beige and brown are preferred colors. The room can be zoned with a screen; built-in furniture is often used. Then there is japandi, a mixture of Japanese and Scandinavian, which is very fashionable today.

Usually, they try to choose furniture in odnushki that will be used actively, capable of being built in and transforming. It can be placed in wall niches and alcoves. It can be a bed with a lifting mechanism that can only be deployed at night. If not such a bed, so a sofa that serves as an ordinary roomy sofa during the day and folds out like a bed at night. The room can have a transforming table - a coffee table that can be expanded into a dining room. It is very convenient on the days of receiving guests, and the rest of the time does not take up extra space.

An almost safe option in an 18-meter room is considered to be light walls with light furniture. But so that the space does not look shapeless, there are contrasting accents: chairs, frames, textiles and more. It is easier to arrange furniture on 18 square meters around the perimeter, with the exception of the coffee table, which will be pulled out closer to the center of the room.

The main modern requirement for lighting is that it must be kept in one color temperature. Combining warm with cold creates an undesirable element of theatricality. Unless accent lighting can be different - illumination of paintings, mirrors. You can see the value of the light temperature on the package with the device: the higher it is, the colder the light.

Other principles of lighting organization:

• exclusion of direct contact of lamps with the eyes;
• lighting of functional areas;
• accent lighting is a chandelier in the center of the room, which is also a decor.

How to arrange, how to furnish, what to emphasize, and from what to distract attention - the most capacious answers to these questions are photo examples.

Here are these 10 single rooms that are tastefully made and available to repeat.

• Fragments of the room, illustrating the division into front and private areas. For L-shaped rooms, a very good option, a baby's bed can also fit there.

• A partition with a part of the shelving separates the living room from the bedroom, which are located in one room. Part of the bedroom also accommodates a work area.

• And this is a variant of a one-room apartment turned into a studio. The apartment is decorated in eco-style, which adds dynamics to even the most uninhabited space. The colors are combined very well, the decor is chosen optimally. All parts of the apartment look organic, and the space even visually seems larger than it is.

• An interesting example of how the corridor is separated from the living room - not by a wall, but by an airy glass partition. Furniture and greenery create coziness. The walls are decorated in whitewashed gray, a very calm and soothing color.

• The mirror element works to expand the space. The bedroom is fenced off with a curtain and taken out "around the corner". The color of the wallpaper is warm, but you can speculate and imagine how the room would look in lighter and cooler colors.

• There is so much light in this space that it is better than any decoration, any decorative delights. The rack divides the room, while the lower part is very spacious. The wallpaper above the bed visually distinguishes the private area and darkens it a little.

• An example of a private corner in a room is bulky drawers at the bottom and overhead storage instead of a bulky cabinet next to it.White color plus any shades of wood, especially light ones, always give rise to a cozy union.

• The living room in a single room, partially combined with the kitchen, makes the space open. At the same time, the sleep zone remains behind the curtain, with its own illumination, isolated. In such a layout, it is important that the same finish is noted in all parts of the apartment.

• Another merged space that completely transforms the standard one-room apartment. White and dark blue are a very pleasant combination, refreshing and soothing.

• A small apartment is clearly zoned with an unusual shelving unit and a small curtain. Whatever one may say, such small rooms need a white color, which creates the necessary visual effects and eliminates the feeling of crowding.

Enjoy your choice!