If your room is asymmetrical, be prepared for difficulties in finding suitable furniture. It is difficult to place standard furniture in an irregularly shaped room. However, you will agree that there are such irregularities that we do not consider a drawback, but on the contrary, we consider the highlight of the entire apartment. You can fall in love with the apartment because of the large wall-to-wall windows in the bay window area.
Technical features:
· total S: 119.2 m2;
· dimensions: 13.3x9 m;
· floor height: 2.8 m;
· available: bay window, boiler room.
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· foundation - monolithic strip.
A few words about the apartment and its owners
This apartment in the city of Sochi had a truly non-standard polygonal layout with two internal corners: one acute and one obtuse, fitting into a total area of 64 square meters. A professional designer, Anastasia Danilyuk, took on the task of making the complex configuration functional and attractive. She was not afraid of long and painstaking work; as a result, she added a new successful project to her portfolio.
The owners of the apartment are a married couple with adult children who previously lived abroad: the daughter worked for a long time in China and the UAE (Dubai), the son recently graduated from school in Russia and, following in his sister’s footsteps, also went to China to get an education. Now the relatives are reunited under one roof, the coziness and comfort of which was given by design innovations manifested in the eclectic interior with Scandinavian and Provencal echoes. People have been living in such an interior for a year now, and they still thank the designer of their apartment with pleasant reviews. For clarity, you can compare this design project to the one that was created for a family with four children, where wood and white color also predominate.
Design project for an apartment with a total area of 64 square meters with a non-standard polygonal layout with acute and obtuse angles
Architectural features
The appearance of the house is very unusual. All its corners are beveled so that windows fit into them. This makes the walls a kind of bay windows.
The staircase adjoins the porch near the main entrance at an angle, which makes it unusual. There is also a second porch that serves as a terrace. Both porches are covered with a common roof, which has a complex shape in order to reliably cover all the curves of the architecture from rain. Above the living room in the roof there is the possibility of installing two additional windows to increase natural light.
How to change a non-standard room shape
First, a little about what problems are possible with irregularly shaped rooms and which rooms belong to this group. Firstly, asymmetrical rooms. For example, with a rounded balcony or rooms with sloping walls. Secondly, rooms with unnecessary projections from the walls, beveled corners and niches. The design of such rooms is always associated with problems of finding the “right” furniture and the loss of precious square meters.
At the renovation stage, you can try to “smooth out” non-standard shapes and thus simplify your task with choosing furniture and decor.
1. The most obvious way is to build new partitions or, conversely, remove walls and combine rooms.
The larger the room, the less noticeable are its shortcomings. If there is no goal or opportunity to engage in demolition and construction, we look for other ways.
2. You can “smooth out” the corners of the so-called appendages that protrude from the wall at right angles by creating beveled “chamfers” on their surface. This will not remove unnecessary walls, but will reduce the “aggressiveness” of such an angle and distract attention from it.
Design: Darren Palmer Interiors
3. In order to “smooth out” the asymmetry, you can choose one large object as the main one and build the composition of the room around it. Such an object can be a large window or a niche in the wall, which can be used as a “frame” for a sofa or armchairs.
4. And a little more about niches. In order to increase the useful space of the room, you can make a niche in the sloping wall and fit a built-in wardrobe or appliances there. By organizing such a built-in storage system, you will visually align the space.
Design: Design Directions
5. Use irregular shapes for the benefit of design, because they can be a great start for creativity. For example, with the help of non-standard wall decoration it is possible to create an optical illusion: shades close to each other will help “smooth out” corners and remove shadows, bright ornaments will distract attention and draw it to the decor.
6. Painting the walls and ceiling in one tone is another solution for rooms of non-standard shape. This “unification” of surfaces using color or ornament will help smooth out irregular corners, for example, if the apartment is on the top floor, in the attic, or a private house has a sloping roof.
Design: Holly Phillips
- Ceiling
Standard ceiling height in an apartment: what it is and how to change it
Layout
The layout of the rooms is very logical. Despite the non-standard architecture, life in the house is comfortable.
The main porch leads to two doors. One opens into a 4 m2 storage room. You can recognize it by the absence of windows - you don’t need a lot of light to store things, artificial lighting is enough. Another door, the main one, leads to a vestibule-hallway of 6.3 m2. Here you can put a closet or shelf for shoes and hang a hanger. On the right is the entrance to the boiler room of 6.05 m2, in front - to the living room.
The living room occupies 33.2 m2. This is the center of the house, from here there are exits to all other rooms. Two sofas, an armchair, and a table between them fit here. It is possible to install a fireplace. In addition to two windows, there is access to a terrace of 14.5 m2.
The kitchen is connected to the living room - there are no partitions between them, but if desired, a wall can be erected. A bar counter is used for zoning. 5.8 m2 is allocated for the C-shaped kitchen set, appliances and cooking.
The bathroom occupies 5.3 m2. This is enough for all plumbing fixtures, including the bathtub, toilet and sink. Instead of a bath, you can install a shower.
All bedrooms are symmetrical, their area is 12.6 m2. Each room has a double bed with two bedside tables, a TV and a large closet for clothes, books and other things. One of the rooms can be equipped for relaxation or a study.
Such conditions are ideal for a comfortable life for 4 people.
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How to expand a narrow room
One of the most common problems with imperfect layouts is narrow rooms.
Such “corridors” can be visually corrected using fairly simple techniques. 1. You can bring the far wall closer and give the room a square shape using a dark shade of wallpaper or paint.
Design: Susan Diana Harris Interior Design
- Apartment
6 annoying mistakes in decorating a narrow room (and how to avoid them)
2. Decorating the far wall and floor with one, preferably dark, color is another way to expand a narrow room.
3. Ceiling beams placed perpendicular to a longer wall will help visually expand the room. Of course, they are not suitable for every style decision, but in an interior in a loft, minimalist, colonial or eco-style style they are quite appropriate.
Design: Divine Custom Homes
4. Another way to visually “bring closer” the far wall and adjust its shape is to paint it in a cool shade.
5. If you place some bright decor on the far wall, a perspective effect will be created and the room will look larger.
Design: Interiors Group of SW Florida
6. Shelves that match the walls and curtains of the same color will help to “spread” the room. These elements will “merge” and make the space airier.
Choose light colors if you want to add color to the room, but keep in mind that cool shades are often not conducive to staying in the room for a long time.
7. Designers also use the technique of a single-color stripe around the perimeter of the room or on three walls. It’s good if its shade matches the color of the floor.
Design: Eco Edge Architecture & Interior Design
8. There is a rule - to lay laminate or parquet perpendicular to the window, but in narrow rooms you can neglect it, even if the window is located on the far wall. Strips of laminate laid perpendicular to a long wall will expand the room.
9. Dark side walls can also correct a narrow room, for example if its entrance is on one of the long walls and it is a “caravan”.
Design: Laura Hay Decor & Design
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5 rules for designing a narrow long bedroom that will help eliminate layout flaws
“Flat” house on Taganka: an architectural miracle and an optical illusion of the beginning of the last century
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The house received its “flatness” thanks to a clever architectural design. The building with a sloping corner appeared due to the unusual shape of the site and the owner’s desire to use the land area as efficiently as possible. Before the revolution it was used as an apartment building.
A five-story apartment building with very high ceilings and wooden floors, from the outside somewhat similar to a ship or a wall (depending on which side you look at), was erected in 1914 next to the more classical buildings already existing on this street. In other words, at that time this house was a new building, which stood out quite strongly from the general background. Since it was not customary to build buildings of this form in the Soviet years, after the revolution this “upstart” remained the only one that was not unique in the old and even in the new capital. This does not mean that flat houses have not been built and are not being built anywhere else. It's just that they are all completely different.
How to raise a low ceiling
The second common problem is low ceilings. Economy or inexpensive comfort class houses often have low ceilings. To correct it, you can resort to finishing tricks.
1. Paint low ceilings in light colors, preferably white.
2. Vertical stripes on the wallpaper visually raise the ceiling, but at the same time reduce the volume of the room. Use this technique only in spacious rooms or decorate the walls with contrasting stripes.
Design: VSP Interiors
3. Divide the room visually into “up” and “down”. Decorate the first part in light colors, and the second in dark colors. At the junction you can make a horizontal light stripe.
4. It is better to glue wallpaper close to the ceiling, without borders on the wall or stucco, or use very thin borders.
5. To visually raise the ceiling, you need to add length to the walls. Do this by extending the wallpaper a little onto the ceiling. The size of this “entry” should not exceed 30 cm; for small rooms 5 is enough.
6. Photo wallpaper in a room can make the ceiling artificially higher. The drawing should be perspective, then it will also visually increase the space.
Design: Vastu Interior Design Ltd
7. Tall doors (almost to the ceiling) also serve the stated purpose.
8. A glossy floor or 3D flooring can visually make a room taller.
Design: Kaplan Thompson Architects
Children bedroom
– A pleasant delicate print will create a feeling of fabulousness, purity and purity. Moreover, the special form of a bedroom for children and teenagers is about uniqueness, difference and their own fairy-tale world.
Household area (perfect square)
On the right side of the apartment, things were much simpler, since in the living area, which conventionally included a kitchen, a living-dining room with a dining table and a sofa, a corridor and a combined bathroom. The bathroom and toilet turned out to be separated by a rectangle, the kitchen for cooking - by a slightly truncated rectangle due to the doorway located at an angle of 90 degrees.
The kitchen is equipped with a Scandinavian style set using a basic palette: light gray, white, “wooden”
The main useful area, where the family could spend as much time as possible together, was occupied by the living-dining room, which received an almost regular rectangular shape (due to the large number of square meters, minor planning errors were invisible). An interesting introduction to the configuration was the separation of the corridor by one short wall that does not form corners, but stands alone: on one side there was an entrance hall, and on the other there was a dining area with interesting design fragments.
A rectangular bathroom combined with a toilet: the “out-of-fashion” interior design is made in an eclectic style
The living room in combination with the dining room plays a leading role, as it is intended as a place for the whole family
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The door to this small room is located in the side vestibule. In rooms of this type, it is best to divide into functional zones.
In the first case, the arrangement of furniture in the bedroom involves a bed near the window. The storage system – a spacious closet and chest of drawers – was given a place near the entrance.
The second option is for those who do not like to wake up with the first rays of the sun: the bed is pushed into a dark corner of the room. On the contrary, the storage systems and dressing table were placed in such a way as to make maximum use of natural light.
On the picture:
Bedroom in a room with a door in the side vestibule.
Some tips
A small room of irregular shape can be visually enlarged with the help of light-colored furniture and several mirrors. If you have a long room in the shape of a rectangle, it is better to place the mirror on the widest wall. A mirror will balance the room and make it much more spacious.
It is recommended to place furniture in the opposite part from the windows so that they are sufficiently illuminated during the day. If the room is shaped like a tunnel, then experts advise dividing it into several functional zones using arches. In each zone you need to place furniture of different colors.
A corner cabinet or cabinet with hinged doors should be installed opposite semicircular walls, pointed corners, and large windows. You will ensure that the furniture both attracts attention and emphasizes the originality of the room. A radius cabinet with smoothed corners, curved or convex models will save living space in the room.
Designers recommend not covering irregularly shaped walls with furniture. Next to non-standard objects it is necessary to place non-standard decorative accessories - this, for example, could be a wooden staircase that leads to a sloping ceiling, a carved bookcase, unusual and interesting shelves. If you want to correct uneven walls, a great strategy is to unify the surfaces by painting the walls and ceiling the same tone. This will smooth out any glaring corners.
The desk, as in a regular room, should be installed near the windows. If the frames are located in semicircular walls, then an excellent solution would be to order a table with an oval tabletop. It is possible to furnish an irregularly shaped room with taste, use non-standard and original ideas in its interior, and create a comfortable place for relaxation and living in the apartment.
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Protrusions, ventilation, ducts and pylons in residential premises
The apartment may have additional protruding corners (straight angles), which were caused by pylons or ventilation ducts. They tend to break the symmetry of the room. They will have to be beaten, which will greatly complicate the search for the right planning solution. If they are not used in any way, they will definitely create a feeling of discomfort. In addition, the joints of materials on protrusions are often sloppy, and the wear of materials is greater than on flat planes or on internal corners.
What to do with such space
Such rooms surprise with their original interior. You can find semicircular walls, rooms with sloping ceilings or large windows. The non-standard shape gives an unusual twist. Designers assure that you shouldn’t try to hide beveled corners and don’t hide overly long walls behind cabinets.
It is recommended to emphasize the disproportion of the room and choose an interesting design for a room with an unusual shape and good furniture. First, you need to properly zone the room; properly selected lighting will help you with this: you can highlight several functional zones in the room. Designers advise using contrasting colors, thereby dividing the room into several zones.
Main color nuances: shades of binary black and white plus delicate “wooden” notes
The palette of the apartment with a corner was chosen to be much more soft, sophisticated and truly homely. The basic colors were classic shades of black and white, appearing in one version or another, sometimes turning into a gray scale, as well as soft, almost pastel nuances of natural wood of different species with warm and cold undertones. Another noble representatives were chosen as auxiliary colors: sky blue in combination with bright blue, as well as a complex but multifaceted yellow-mustard color.
Black plus white
, as well as their derivative mixes - classics, base, we can say that this is a win-win option in any of its richness, which does not require support at all. Gray shades love gold very much, as in the “GRAY & GOLD” design project.
Wood shades
They give exquisite visual perception: it depends, first of all, on the light flux falling on it, which, when absorbed, acquires a different spectral composition.
Interior design of an apartment using a basic black and white palette: corridor in gray and snow-white tones
Apartment interior using wood shades as a hallmark of the Scandinavian direction
Nuances of blue
- always change the atmosphere in the interior, filling it with calm, cleanliness and expressiveness. Blue and bright indigo tones show the nobility of the owners and their refined taste
A bright blue sofa in the interior of a city apartment looks expensive, interesting and very stylish.
Mustard palette
- a rich, deep range with an admixture of yellow and having a somewhat earthy undertone always attracts attention with its complex component. Colors like these are unique, energetic and stimulating.
A mustard ottoman in the bedroom “works perfectly” paired with ikebana, wood and blue in an eclectic interior
A slight turned angle in the kitchen (up to 93-95 degrees)
The unfolded corner in the kitchen can be hidden along the short side. When measuring, the unfolded corner may not be visible visually.
But it is enough to apply a square, any rectangular surface (folder, board) to see how far the angle is from the ideal right angle, equal to 90 degrees. If we are talking about a couple of degrees, then in a small kitchen, the short side of which is no more than 1.3-1.5 m, you don’t need to take any measures. In this case, the extra degrees can be “released”: You can “hide” the loose connection of the upper cabinets to the wall due to the turned corner in the kitchen due to the reserve on adjustable awnings and thin linings. The long side of the kitchen unit usually ends with a tall refrigerator or wall; the gap between the wall and the last cabinet in the row will not be visible. Under the cabinets, if it is important, the gap can be disguised. For example, running LED lighting along the working surface along the bottom of wall cabinets.
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In a narrow, elongated room with a small window, you should not place cabinets along a long wall. The room, on the contrary, should be “shortened” - give it a more regular shape using storage systems.
It is convenient to place the bed in such a room close to the window. In the first case, a low chest of drawers will separate the sleeping area from the entrance and, together with the closet, will set the necessary horizontal lines.
In the second case, the bed stands diagonally from the window and entrance, which provides maximum psychological comfort. And its transverse location visually expands the room.
