The big room: a reality or illusion?
In the cosiest place on the earth, namely – in own room, by all means it would be desirable to combine «all and at once»: a fashionable wardrobe, a beautiful little table, the big plasma TV, moreover and dream of all life – a huge convenient sofa... And thus, as you understand, indoors it is supposed though any, minimum movement... I Dare to assure you, there is nothing impossible!
«Walls, of course, will not escape anywhere, and here to move – quite can!» - the constant guest of a "house" heading – architect Elena Balyberdina does not doubt. By means of its councils – our magic wand – even the small-sized room becomes a spacious hall. And it is not so difficult, just as time, two, three... So, at your service: Magic №1. Optical illusions.
Imagine, any space can be narrowed, expanded, raised or lowered. Visually. Here so, at one stroke, to change it allow:
- Colour illusion;
- Illusion of the invoice of elements of an interior;
- Illusion of light, its sources and directions of beams.
* Colour illusion
It is absolutely unessential to you to be the true artist and to be able to mix colours. Simply enough to divide them on light and dark. The first - visually expand a premise: white, beige, is gentle-yellow, blue and pale-green colours. Therefore "light" walls do a room is more spacious, and ceilings above.
Any dark colours in a small premise to use it is not necessary: they "narrow" space. Similar effect of isolation create: black, dark brown, dark blue, violet, orange and red colours.
There are also neutral colours, they do not change perception of space: green and grey.
Illusion secret: the sensation большей heights turns out at a choice of more sated colour of a floor in relation to other parts of a room (a wall, a ceiling). Red and all its shades will make an interior effective, blue will add open space, and yellow – light brightness.
* Invoice illusion
«The premise invoice is, actually, that« fills »your room: finishing materials, features of placing of so-called scenery: visual lines, drawings and interior subjects», - the architect explains.
Illusion secrets: pluses and minuses in use of various scenery:
| Horizontal strips in a decor of walls (any colour and width) | Vertical strips in a decor of walls (any colour and width) | Small ornament | Large ornament | White subjects on a dark background | Narrow high pictures, frames, the floor lamps, the "extended" wall fixtures | Finishing materials with glossy shine, varnishing | |
| The space increases | + Deep into | + In height | + | + At width and deep into | + | + | |
| The space decreases | + In height | + Deep into | + |
* Light illusion
Any standard apartment does not do without light, to be exact – its sources. Certainly, can be and exceptions, then – one of two: or it is connected since especially life, or at you houses have disconnected the electric power. In all other cases «it is possible to correct room space easily. As this very fascinating employment, it is necessary to begin! - Elena convinces. – that« to deceive »own eyes, it is necessary to allocate simply with light the necessary sites of a room». For optical increase in space light accents concentrate on a ceiling is more often:- Refusal of a "trailing", bulky chandelier;
- Use of the built in fixtures (there is an effect of "soaring" of a ceiling over a room);
- False ceiling creation (with obligatory internal illumination);
- Use of light cold tones in colouring, registration;
- Creation of a brilliant structure for a surface or use of mirror glass (about it hardly later).
Illusion secret: if in regular intervals to illuminate small fixtures of a wall and the bottom corners of a room then it will visually seem more spacious. And in general it is possible to experiment illumination sources fine: for example, instead of habitual illumination to create romantic twilight. Here will see, it necessarily is pleasant to your significant others!
* Mirror illusions
«Reflecting surfaces – one of the most widespread and at the same time simple optical illusions. Reflecting light and elements of scenery of a room, the mirror as though creates one more space, - the expert speaks. – in it, probably, everyone has had time to be convinced at least time of a life. Recollect, for an example, a room of curve mirrors».
Illusion secret: Depending on where you establish a mirror, it is possible:
- To "move apart" walls or to add still a couple;
- Visually to "dissolve" volume furniture;
- To increase premise height practically indefinitely, having made a ceiling one big mirror.
Magic №2. Multipurpose furniture.
1. The Sofa bed
It is that variant «two in one» when under various circumstances the same subject of an interior plays a different role. The Sofa bed happens several types:
- "Folding bed" (it is pushed forward): «the French folding bed» – with a wooden armour or «the American folding bed» – with metal springs;
- Sofa-book (it is displayed on a longitudinal axis);
- Sofa with folding боковинами.
More often at small space use folding beds – they are considered more convenient. However, and a price level in Chelyabinsk on them above – from 10500 roubles. However, popularity in small-sized rooms now starts to use and last variant – with folding боковинами, it is looked where is more modern, and in cost does not surpass a folding bed – from 7500-8000 roubles.
Council of the architect: as much as possible to use small space, get sofas with the built in system of storage (for bed-clothes).
2. A collapsible table
One more find which helps to "save" precious square metres. Often consists from 3, sometimes 4 table-tops. "Concealed" серединка during the necessary moment (unexpected arrival of visitors, for example), does a habitual table in 2 times more.
Council of the architect: if to speak about tendencies – in interiors even more often there are tables with glass components, but you would not choose what variant, in any case – pay the attention on качественность the goods, its integrity, reliability and work of ALL mechanisms. To find a table to liking it is possible in ТК Calibre from 3000 roubles, also works to order here are offered any complexity.
3. Chairs
They too can be collapsible. And for the reasonable price – from 250 roubles in ТК «Маркштадт».
Council of the architect: it turns out, what even each centimetre is used optimum: easy, convenient and strong enough, and in need of them it will be practically easy to "hide" collapsible chairs in any place of apartment.
4. A rack
It is a little to "expand" space it is possible and by means of a rack which represents system of open shelves. This element is better to do to order: proceeding from the concrete sizes of a premise. In trading furniture complexes service will manage a minimum in 2200 roubles, in small firms («the Furniture to order») on 500 is cheaper than roubles.
Council of the architect: «I – for simplicity in an interior, therefore appreciate only most« necessary »furniture. In very small rooms I do not recommend to establish a rack, it though makes impression of ease, however all the same occupies the certain space. I advise to use this subject of an interior, when houses at the person (or families) many various souvenirs, elements of any own collections... In general, that you will not throw out, but also in a distant case you will not throw – here the similar design even is necessary, all regiments are opened, they do not close a kind of a room and get into itself very many things».
5. The Case-compartment
Probably, it is possible to name the keeper of an interior a case. Often here there are necessary and not so clothes, sometimes footwear, well and absolutely in rare instances – a vacuum cleaner. In general, select the size of a case-compartment, proceeding from quantity of your things, and the finance count at least on 10000 roubles.
Council of the architect: «the case-compartment is better for choosing angular and with mirror sliding panels: first, so it will be easy« for entering »in a room, and it will not take a lot of place, and secondly, mirror illusion (we spoke about it above) will help us to expand in addition space».
Magic №3. Zoning.
This terrible word means only allocation of thematic zones indoors. «If, for example, to take a drawing room one part of a room can serve for rest, and another – it is concrete – for a meeting of visitors», - the architect explains. – for space zoning in our case (in a small premise) it is not necessary to use obvious, notable partitions and screens. Their size, in any case will be absolutely unimportant, they will seem bulky ».
Therefore we will consider other variants of zoning:
On a floor: the floor covering can serve as transition from one zone in another. For "rest" territory we will choose, for example, soft ковролин, and it will be direct for a guest part the basic covering a parquet.
On a ceiling: to make some levels then the perception of one zone at the expense of another will change. By means of a pendant design we will lower a ceiling over a "rest" part and then «the territory of visitors» will grow practically in 2 times!
Here such it, design arithmetics: interesting, simple and quite financially-accessible. I wish you to spend somewhat quicker all room changes and a heat of spring to meet already on a new, big living space!
Anna Malysheva