Why starts the theater know everything. But where does our apartment begins? If you ask this question to a woman, she will most likely answer that with the kitchen; Male, in most cases, will prefer the room in which there is a cozy sofa and a TV. But in fact, our apartment begins with the hallway, moreover, it is her ends. After all, this is the last premises that we see leaving the house and the first at our return. But at the same time, it was long that it was so he was like that an entrance hall is one of the most uncomfortable premises of our house. In communal apartments, her role was performed by a common corridor, in Khrushcheki, it is so small that it is difficult to call it a separate room. Yes, and in modern houses it is not very complaining - sometimes there is a feeling that the hallway exists only in order to separate our apartment from the staircase.
Visual tricks increase in the hallway
But whatever it was - long and narrow, more like a square, low or high, it still has, and therefore we, using the achievements of modern design, should try to change it so that it becomes more pleasant, cozy and comfortable.
Given the limited space here you can not post a lot of furniture, but without some minimum still can not do. In the hallway, at least there must be a closet for outerwear, preferably built-in, because it takes less space; Komot or locker for shoes; The ottoman, to which you can sit down and rumming, if there is still a little place left, another locker for small things - gloves, hats, shoe brushes and creams. Setting the furniture It is worth remembering that the passage should be at least eighty centimeters, otherwise you will constantly accumulate on anything and never get rid of bruises and bruises.
There are many ways to visually increase the hallway. Among them is hardly the first - an increase in the amount of light. Several wall braids or point lamps and you will immediately begin to seem that your hall has become more. The second method is the correct selection of the color scheme. It is best to use light tones, while it is desirable that the floor is darker than the walls, and the ceiling is much brighter than the latter. And thirdly, hang in the hallway a large mirror, in full growth or even more, in combination with the light it will give an incredible depth of this room. And at the end a few smallest things. Designers do not advise small details in the interior of the hallway, especially in large quantities. It is better to use the figures and vases of the medium size, and if you like to decorate the walls with photos, then also prefer greater format.
And yet, whatever visual tricks we use, physically increase the hallway, we will not succeed, no mirror, nor the wall figures spread. What to do? It remains only to combine this room with some other. Preference, most often, is given to the kitchen, but today we will reverse your eyes to the other side, towards the living room.
Combine: for and against
But before you begin to drastically change the planning of the apartment, it is worth weighing both negative and positive moments.
Many opponents of this option argue that the living room combined with an entrance hall is definitely dirt in both rooms. In fact, this is the smallest of the problems - the carpet of the door is able to solve it almost instantly. But still, the factor of the street with bills is not necessary. In the summer, wherever nothing went, but in winter, when the window comes to minus thirty, it should be considered that coming home, we will let the cold air in both premises, because now we have an entrance hall with a living room and there is no door between them Delay. Also, with such a planning, drafts are possible, so you first it is necessary to make sure that when opening the entrance door you will not blow out of the living room, and even as if redeveloping and improving the interior, it has led to a deterioration in health.
Regarding external factors, it is almost all the shortcomings that you may arise. But there are some other internal, no less important to which it clearly should pay attention.
If the circumstances have developed so that someone from family members have to use the living room instead of the bedroom, it is best to forget about combining, because this person will be completely deprived of personal space - it's not so pleasant all the time to be in sight, and if someone else It goes too early or returns very late, then even a calm dream will become an unreserved dream for him.
And the last argument against. Take care carefully to myself and members of your family. If you have an order in the hallway if the outerwear after arrival is hanging into the closet, and the shoes fold into the chest of drawers or at least neatly in the angle, if all other details of the wardrobe also have their place, then everything is in order, you can start redeveloping. If not, be prepared for the fact that in a short time your living room will become the second hallway - a jacket or coat will be cozy on the sofa, the hat with gloves occupy the table, and the wet umbrella will find a place in the corner.
Nothing from the above is not afraid of you? Then it's time to get acquainted with the positive parties to combine the hallway and the living room.
If you say half-one, then such a planning will give you the opportunity always, being in the living room, to see who came or left. And if seriously, this is primarily an increase in space as an input zone and the whole apartment as a whole, that is, the space. Now the hallway will not put on you with walls. But nevertheless the main advantage of such combination in the light. As a rule, the brightest room in the apartment is a living room. The hallway is practically devoid of daylight. By aligning them, we will be accelerated to get a severity of the hallway by the hallway. Now you will not only be able to save on electrical lighting, but also to decorate the hallway with greens, about the earlier and dreaming did not dare. Just imagine a huge amount of vases hanging on the walls, a big palm somewhere in the corner will delight the eye when you are tired of returning from work.
Divide and rule
Weighing everything in and against you can proceed to work. But you still have doubts. If you can't imagine how your apartment will change after the redevelopment, how will the hallway, a hallway, made by professional designers, will come to help. Moreover, they will help the Council concerned about the necessary, for the purpose of the goal, materials.
Now, when we combined the living room with an entrance hall, it's time to hear that it is enough to hear, to deal with their division, or rather zoning. After all, though, now we have a premises like one, the functions they still perform different. Sometimes you can use the original design - entrance hall, living room, as well as some other rooms, for example, the kitchen is decorated in one color scheme. This option, of course, has the right to life, but still do not abuse them. And adhering to one style in the interior still one should remember that the kitchen should be a kitchen, well, and the living room, respectively, you know.
For this purpose, it is worth separating the premises to individual zones so that it was easier to navigate in space. To do this, you can use:
- Floor.
- Ceiling.
- Walls.
- Curtains.
- Furniture.
- Partitions.
In our case, it is easiest to divide the rooms on the floor coating functional areas. In the hallway to lay a tile, but it follows only if there is a heated floor, otherwise the legs will freeze, if there is no such thing, give preference to the laminate - it is able to withstand both physical damage and high humidity, which will necessarily be present in the crude and rainy weather. But in the living room you can use carpet, parquet or the same laminate, but another coloring. If you want the floor to do not differ from the floor in the living room, divide them with a low podium.
Ceilings can be multi-level, suspended or tensioning. The use of ceiling structures allows not only to draw zoning, but, if necessary, hide some engineering systems, like cable, wiring or ventilation pipes.
If you do not have a desire to change the floor and you fear that after repairing the ceiling will collapse you on the head, you will be thrown over the walls - it is cheaper, easier and more reliable. There are also many different options here. Enough, for example, just paint the hallway and living room in different colors and the problem will evaporate. You can also use wallpaper. The same principle or different in different premises, or in one of them glue the wallpaper, and in the other painting the walls. Another example - you can use wooden panels in the hallway, then when you return home, you will have the feeling that you are from a village hut or a country house with some miracle suddenly fell into the city apartment. Fold out, fantasize, try, experiment. Here the main thing is to stop in time, the family budget has the property to be exhausted.
There is also one, perhaps the cheapest zoning option, with curtains or tulle. In this case, you will have the opportunity to choose any color or pattern, and you can hob these accessories as you like. It is not so expensive and the distinction of the zones with the help of furniture is true, provided that you will use you already exist. The bar stand is originally found on the border between the hallway and the living room. If you do not want to visit friends and familiar to you, you do not quite correctly perceived this design element. Use the shelving, rack or flat aquarium.
And the latter in the list, but not the latter in terms of solving zoning tasks is the partition. The partition between the hallway and the living room should not only separate the premises, but also look aesthetically. The range of these products today is simply huge - sliding, plastic, plasterboard, mirror, translucent. There are also different sizes - it is possible to install the floor partition to the ceiling, and it is possible to half a half of human growth, it's like you already please. In addition, if desired and elementary skill, the partition can be made with their own hands.
In conclusion, I would like to note that exclusively you choose the interior. Living room, entrance hall, other premises of your home belong to you. You live in them and only on you depends on how they will look, will be cozy and comfortable. Design is not proven by someone axiom, design, this rule in which there is always an exception. So look for these exceptions and write new rules, to joy yourself and people around you.
