Design of a two-room apartment: space optimization through zoning and redevelopment

Two-room offers will always be in demand, since one owner and a small family can comfortably live in a relatively inexpensive apartment. It is better to order a design project for a two-room apartment from a specialist. But, having familiarized yourself with successful examples, you can try to realize the dream of an ideal home on your own, although everyone has their own idea of \ u200b \ u200bthe idea. Practice shows that at the junction of several other people’s ideas, an exclusive is born, especially if you use the advice of eminent designers.

One owner and a small family can comfortably live in a relatively inexpensive apartment.

One-bedroom apartments are in high demand on the market

It is better to order the design of such an apartment from a specialist.

How to plan the space of a two-room apartment?

When thinking about choosing an interior design for a two-room apartment, it is important to take into account all the “pros” and “cons” of a small living space. There is not much “roaming around” here, you have to combine the functionality of different rooms in each room.

On the other hand, compact housing means less repair and heating costs. Based on these savings, you can afford to buy more expensive finishing materials and custom built-in furniture. This will optimize every centimeter of usable area..

When redeveloping and reorganizing the space in the design project of a two-room apartment, all fundamental functional zones (with options) should be indicated:

When creating a design, it is worth considering all the disadvantages of a small area.

Compact housing – less renovation and heating costs

TABLE

1.	Hallway	A separate room, part of the corridor with a dressing room and mirrors (2-3 meters at the front door), a combined space without a partition with the living room
2.	Hygiene rooms	Combined bathroom, shower room with a tray without a bathtub + separate toilet, a partition with a conventional partition of the bathroom, a washing unit in the toilet, a bathroom with a sink
3.	Sleep and rest area	Full bedroom, separated part of the living room + children’s room, 1 bed in the kitchen on a sofa bed, a large sofa with a layout in the living room
4.	Workplace	Multifunctional computer (work) table, light shelves with a folding table top for a laptop, a corner with shelves at the dining table
5.	Food block	Full kitchen, dismantling the partition between the kitchen and the living room with a bar counter or the back of a high-backed sofa, a small block of kitchen appliances in the dining area
6.	Dining area	Part of the kitchen with a compact kitchenette, a full-fledged dining set in the living room (table + chairs), a combined kitchen with an insulated loggia
7.	Guest Zone	Part of the living room with a seating area, a kitchen equipped for receiving guests, an expanded hall by combining a warm balcony (loggia) with an area

Zoning the main rooms and buying furniture should be justified for those who have to live in a two-room apartment in the coming years. If this is the home of a married couple, replenishment is possible, adult children may soon marry or go to study.

There must be a soft sofa in the living room.

Furniture should be multifunctional

A corner sofa is perfect for a small living room

Lifestyle, hobbies, creative inclinations or technical interests should be reflected in the project when it is planned what the design of a two-room apartment will be..

The arrangement of a child’s bedroom depends on his age and interests..
If the second room is a matrimonial bedroom, it is important to decide how to organize the reception area..
The apartment of a lonely fashionista should have a place for a small dressing room..
If a lonely landlord leads a healthy lifestyle, it is important to set aside space for exercise equipment and sports equipment.

Redevelopment and reorganization of a 2-room apartment

Morally outdated apartments of the Soviet era do not meet modern requirements, although they are still in demand in the secondary real estate market.

Radical redevelopment is an attempt to adjust the distribution of the available living space. To demolish a wall in an apartment building, you need permission from the city authorities, and it is given in rare cases. This is an expensive and unsafe way (part of the entrance may collapse), but by this method they are trying to correct the shortcomings in order to embody a new design of a two-room apartment.

Apartment design in a modern style

Round walls will look very nice.

Partial dismantling of one of the walls of adjacent rooms for the sake of uniting them is an affordable option when dismantling the wall is not recommended. It is best to cut an arch in a panel block with a grinder. It is impossible to destroy the load-bearing walls, but you can partially dismantle the secondary wall, but strengthen the ceiling in this place with metal reinforcement or imitation of columns.

For the sake of comfort, you have to do:

dismantling of secondary walls and piers;
redevelopment of the entire apartment or individual rooms;
attach square meters of an insulated loggia or balcony;
reorganize the usable area with zoning and built-in furniture.

Demolition of the walls is not available if it is a dilapidated building, there are cracks and other signs of subsidence. In this case, the repair is reduced to masking defects, it is better to replace the redevelopment with spectacular zoning and thoughtful reorganization of rooms..

For the sake of comfort, you have to redevelop the entire apartment

Sometimes it is better not to carry out redevelopment, it is enough to make cosmetic repairs

Rooms can be combined into one

The combination of adjoining rooms with an area of a warmed balcony or loggia is made for the sake of expanding small rooms. Often they change the configuration of the hallway or corridor. In these square places, they equip a dining area and a resting place among exotic indoor plants, as in the photo.

The most common type of redevelopment is the demolition of the partition between the living room and the kitchen. At the same time, it is undesirable to transfer the gas stove, sewer with a sink to another wall. But an effective exhaust hood and a conditional delimitation of the food block and the dining area in the adjoining living room are required.

If the living room is large enough, you can put a dining table

Combining adjoining rooms with an area of a warmed balcony or loggia is made for the sake of expanding small rooms

Features of apartments of different types of layouts

The transformation of housing and the modern design of a two-room apartment can be multifaceted – partial modernization or complete redevelopment. Making minor repairs, it is impossible to leave in the same form worn out communications, which after a while will make themselves felt. Dismantling a landline telephone, hidden wiring (cable TV, Internet) and a pipeline, equipping with “smart” systems – all this will add comfort with the same configuration of rooms.

Two-room apartment of the Khrushchev era. These projects are considered the most inconvenient, where the architects spared the most on the area of the bathroom, hallway and kitchen. Some options have a pantry, but most often they are replaced by mezzanines of narrow corridors. Redevelopment is the most problematic.
Stalinka – the most spacious proposals of the old fund, which are easiest to adapt to the modern interior design of a two-room apartment. A large living room with two windows can be divided into 2 bedrooms, and a space for a linear dressing room can be separated in a wide corridor. There are no load-bearing walls inside the apartment, and high ceilings provide more options for choosing a style.
Brezhnevka is a cross between Stalin and Khrushchev. A more comfortable option for living with a larger kitchen area. Most of the walls are load-bearing, so it is difficult to make a good redevelopment. You can reorganize the bathroom and take a few meters off the corridor for adjoining rooms and auxiliary rooms.
Apartments of the P-44 and P-44T series are easier to adapt to the modern design of a two-room apartment of 44 sq.m. They were built with high quality, therefore, leveling of surfaces and elimination of defects are not supposed. Usually they only combine the balcony or reorganize the bathrooms and you can “cut” a little from the corridors. Zoning is possible using low podiums with low lighting, as well as multi-level and stretch ceilings.
New buildings with a new layout are offered in fairly good options, but it all depends on the preferences of the owners, who often want to change the interior of a small two-room apartment. Conversions “kopeck piece” mainly concern functional zoning, since each option takes into account the composition of the family and the lifestyle of each of them.

New buildings with a new layout are offered in fairly good options.

There are a lot of offers on the market, you shouldn’t buy what you don’t like

The living room can be combined with the kitchen with a small partition

The offers on the real estate market are so diverse that it makes no sense to buy something that does not suit you in many respects..

The design of a small 2-room apartment involves the choice of the type of rooms:

living room combined with the bedroom, the most popular option if there are more than 2 people in the family, when the smaller room is given to the child;
a living room and a study in the same room are preferred by those who work from home, inviting visitors;
living room in its purest form – for single people who can be content with a full bedroom;
living-dining room with a dismantled kitchen partition, a popular option for those who often receive guests;
living room-cinema does not require complex reorganization, it is a popular design of a small 2-room apartment for sports fans, football fans or fans of TV series, where the basis is a large plasma screen and multi-seat upholstered furniture;
a living room with a dressing room behind the sliding doors of the built-in wardrobe is convenient for families, where mostly women, living in a small apartment.

Living room-cinema does not require complex reorganization

living-dining room with a dismantled kitchen partition, a popular option for those who often receive guests

The choice of style

“Indefinite” style, retro Soviet era or complete eclecticism are not in vogue today. Design projects of apartments with a two-room layout, where the style is quite recognizable, look much more interesting..

Now there are a lot of programs for visualization

When choosing an interior design, it is important to consider comfort

Apartment design in a modern style

When choosing a particular cultural tradition, reflected in the interior, it is important to consider how comfortable all family members will feel in such an environment. Today there are special programs for visualization of interior design, with which you can simulate any idea. Most popular styles:

minimalism (classic and modern, Japanese and Scandinavian);
country (Provencal style, chalet, ranch, Russian tower, Ukrainian hut);
ethnic styles (African, Oriental, Indian, Moroccan);
retro (vintage, grunge; shabby chic);
classics and historical styles;
fusion;
urbanism (loft, hi-tech, techno, futurism);

It is very good when the room will be filled with natural light.

It is not difficult to create the desired apartment design, it can be ordered from specialists

The service of visualizing the design project of any two-room apartment is offered not only in an expensive design studio, but also by private specialists who have mastered programs at an amateur level. But you can do without them by looking at the illustrations in the photo gallery in order to understand what you like the most..