Each of us dreams of spacious rooms with a convenient layout, but while most of the apartments on the market are Soviet buildings, the problem of how to think carefully about the design of a narrow room remains very relevant. It is difficult to argue that elongated rooms of rectangular shape are very inconvenient, but, having included imagination, having listened to the advice of experienced designers, it is quite possible to correct the situation.
Our main task is to highlight the short walls visually and distract attention from the long wall. This can be done at the expense of contrast: for a wall with a shorter length it is necessary to use deep, maximally saturated colors, bright drawings, it is here that attracting objects should be. If there is a window on such a wall, it is better to highlight it, you can use the original curtains.
By the way, now it is fashionable to use draperies and thick curtains, not only for window decoration, but also for ordinary walls.
From the long wall, on the contrary, it is necessary to divert attention, bright colors, a minimum of decorative elements, will suit it.
Some designers recommend sticking here wallpaper with a perspective, for example landscapes with distant mountains or endless valleys.
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Another classic technique in the design of a small long room is to cover the wall with stylish wallpaper with a vertical pattern, even ordinary solid strips fit, and short ones with horizontal ones.
Experiment with textures and bright details, you can trim part of the wall under a brick or use cork panels. Use large pictures, bright posters. Another excellent solution that allows you to diversify the interior of a long narrow room is the niches in the walls that are truly a highlight in the design and allow you to get rid of the tunnel effect in the room.
Windows, doors and floors
Separately it is necessary to tell about windows and doorways in narrow bedrooms or living rooms, and also about suitable floor coverings. When registering, follow the following recommendations from designers with experience:
- If your doorway is located on a long wall, it will be better to expand it and use spectacular swing doors with two canvases, the trim should be as wide as possible. If you do not need a lockable door, you can draw a gap in the form of a wide arch, it's better to finish the edges with contrasting materials in relation to the decoration of walls, to pick up a different color and texture.
- The windows located on the wall of a larger length are also better visually enlarged, the opening itself can be made with a bell widening to the side of the room. If the window is on a small wall, the opening must be strictly rectangular.
- If you decide to visually expand the space in a narrow room, it is better to use a tile, a laminate or a linoleum with a rectangular geometric pattern for the floor. Lay the floor covering so that the pattern is located parallel to the narrow walls.
Important: if you do not want to change a plain floor covering, you can simply buy a rectangular carpet and lay it with a long piece to a shorter wall.
Basic methods of zoning
Considering the design of a long narrow room, be sure to use zoning techniques. Your helpers can become the following subjects:
- stylish carpet;
- podium;
- A compact sofa located across the room;
- mobile partition or screen;
- light translucent curtains.
They will help to divide the living area into various functional centers: for example, to separate, at least visually, a sleeping place and a mini-cabinet for work and leisure. This is the optimal solution for apartments with a limited area or a large number of residents, where the bedroom, for example, is not a place solely for recreation. Using a screen or an air curtain, you can fence off a separate space for rest. Avoid using bulky cabinets or thick curtains for these purposes, otherwise you just get two tiny rooms, one of which will almost certainly turn out to be dark, with a lack of adequate natural light.
Arrangement of furniture
Previously, it was customary to simply place all the existing furniture along the walls, thereby making the narrow room visually even more elongated. Remember that the more free space remains, the better, so minimize the amount of furniture using only the most necessary. Due to this, the living room or bedroom will look wider, especially if you group objects in separate zones, rather than evenly placing them along the walls. The asymmetric arrangement and distraction of furniture on different heights will also suit.
Be sure to use round or oval tables, this will radically change the visual proportions of the room itself. The optimal version of the cabinet is a wardrobe with modern mirrored doors, it needs to be located along one of the short walls, so you not only shorten the room a little, but also use space as much as possible. If you have a small room, it's best to order a floor-to-ceiling wardrobe to accommodate all the things in it. This will allow you to abandon unnecessary and little functional small lockers and chests, cluttering space.
Pay attention to the furniture-transformer, especially if it is not possible to place a toilet and computer desk.
A game of the world
Another way to visually change the proportions of the room is the complex use of a variety of modern light sources. Properly placing LED light sources on the walls, you can focus on important interior items, allocate individual zones, all this allows you to visually increase the space itself.
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The chandelier, located habitually in the center of the ceiling, will be in a long room inappropriate. If, for you, its availability is a matter of principle, choose a model of elongated shape, hang it across the room, that is perpendicular to the long walls. Use additional light sources to balance the chandelier, for example, place wall lights on short walls or put a floor lamp next to one of them. This will create a spectacular game of bright light, in addition, it will give a feeling of coziness, comfort.
Important: in no case do not place additional lamps on long walls, if you do not want the room to look like a corridor.
As you can see, if you carefully think through the interior of a narrow room, pick up suitable furniture and light sources, you can make it spectacular and comfortable for life. We hope that our advice has been useful to you. Dare!
