Home Improvement: Zoning a Free Space
How to make the apartment cosy, stylish and functional? How to extinguish the centres of irritation arising in it? And that, while replanning the apartment,what to avoid? Here are some design tips and anti-tip.
The whole fashion of a free lay-out, studio apartments and the combined kitchen-dining rooms has its reefs. Any architect will tell you that simply taking down the walls is not sufficient. The big area that is not divided into subbands will very soon start to oppress. Take away the partitions between rooms, unitethe corridors and kitchen and soon you will feel that you absolutely do not like living there. Why?
Because only psychologically we need different places for different activities.
It is necessary for us, that there are separate, at least conditionally delimited zones where we could sit down and have dinner easy, without feeling twenty metres of empty space behind the back a cosy corner where we could rest with the book and so on.
The first rule of planning an open space is that you need to at least to visually divide zones for different functional purpose – cooking, dining, TV watching, working, resting, talking… It can be made with the help of:
Different types of a floor;
Difference of height of a ceiling or arch between kitchen and a drawing room;
Several columns;
Light curtains (usually the table is illuminated more brightly, and the kitchen is in twilight where only working surfaces are highlighted);
“A bar rack” or any other subjects of an interior acting as a barrier.
