Design of a one-room apartment with a niche for a bed

The correct design of a one-room apartment with a niche for a bed can solve a lot of problems associated with limited space. Initially, in some lovers of correct forms, the niche causes some amazement and the thought of damage to the layout. However, if you approach the process of arranging an apartment with imagination and intelligence, then a nondescript corner can be transformed into a useful space. So, what arrangement of furniture in a one-room apartment with a niche will be optimal to satisfy both practical and aesthetic demands of tenants? About this later in the article.

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Why do you need a niche in the interior of an apartment?

Advantages of such "appendicitis" in the layout of a one-room apartment are obvious:

• The effect of free space and multifunctionality, which is inherent in multi-room apartments, is created.
• Applying special angular structures and partitions, you can delimit space, highlight areas.
• Niches allow you to clean and arrange the furniture so that it does not interfere with the movement of the main trajectories to the inhabitants of the apartment.

Important! With a competent planning of the interior of a one-room apartment with a niche, the amount of daylight increases significantly and air movement improves.

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Basic rules for the design of a room with a niche

In order not to violate the entire composition of the interior design of the whole apartment, you need to think carefully about every detail of the arrangement of furniture in a one-room apartment with a niche. There are basic rules that help create an interior that does not bore all dwellers in a short time:

• It's better to design a niche in the same style or in the same color scheme with a common space.
• This zone should have well-designed artificial lighting. Excellent options will be sconces, LED tape or spotlights.
• In the case of a miniature corner finish is better done in light colors. To visually increase the niche space, furniture with a glossy, glass or mirror surface is used.
• The area of ​​housing should be demarcated into functional areas. To separate the niche area from the main room, it is better to use light and light mobile partitions that do not overload the room and do not occupy extra space.
• Space with a niche should fit seamlessly and look like a complete composition with all the functional zones.
• The shape of the niche in many ways affects the interior design and the choice of furniture attributes.

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Interior choice

There are many options for the interior of an apartment with a niche, especially if the room has a rectangular shape. First of all, it is necessary to determine which zone will be better placed in the niche.

Professional designers offer the following variations of niche space usage:

• Bedroom.
• Children's room.
• Kitchen and dining room with a niche.
• Cabinet.
• Wardrobe.

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Bedroom

The most common use of a niche is to make it a bedroom.

Important! If the apartment is a young family or one person, then this application of several square meters will be ideal. This measure allows you to separate from the general space of rest and sleep, while not overloading the furniture with the entire area of ​​the room.

How to think over the interior:

• For a bedroom it is better to use a niche near a wall without windows. In this case, the light will not interfere with the morning sleep, and the window can be used to equip a child's corner or workplace.
• The design of a bedroom with a niche for a bed must necessarily provide thoughtful lighting. Sleep zone too bright illumination does not require, so it will be enough one or two lamps near the bed.

Important! Place the fixtures will need to be so that you are most comfortable to use them without getting out of bed every time to turn on or off.

• Choose the best variant of a sofa or bed for placing in a niche. You may need to make custom-made furniture according to individual sizes.

Important! Beds with drawers allow you to combine a sleeping place with a place for storing things.

• An interesting option for arranging a bed will be installation in a niche bed-loft. So, under the bed, you can equip the working area, adjust the storage space, or use it for other purposes.
• The original design will be an apartment with a niche for a bed with a built-in bed with a lifting mechanism. This design of the bed allows you to hide from prying eyes sleeping place, and if necessary, lower the bed and enjoy your vacation. Also, this approach to the arrangement of a niche largely saves the limited space of a one-room apartment.
• If you live with older people, it will be advisable to use a niche to arrange a place for their rest. Separating this part of the room with a partition or screen, you will ensure that each member of the family has its own corner, where you can relax and relax without disturbing anyone.

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Children's room

For a family with children, you can use a niche to create a cozy children's corner, or a miniature children's room:

• To arrange a children's corner, it is better to use a niche with a window so that there is natural light in the nursery. In addition to daylight, you need to take care of and lighting in the evening hours. Therefore, think carefully about the placement of fixtures, providing comfort for children's eyes.
• It is possible to make a multifunctional children's furniture to order. Thus, in a minimal space it will be possible to place a place for games, and a comfortable sleeping place, a toy box, and a cabinet for storing children's things.

Important! A separate locker for children's things is not only convenient, but also useful in terms of upbringing. So the child will soon learn how to add up his things, accustom to the accuracy and responsibility for order in the personal corner.

• If space and facilities allow, it is possible to equip the corner with sports equipment, for example, a Swedish wall, rings, a crossbar for pulling up.
• It is important for a student to have a place for classes and school supplies. In this case, the loft bed can also help, since the space becomes a little larger and can be used as a work area.
• From the rest of the room the children's corner can be separated by beautiful colored curtains. This will add comfort and warmth to the interior of the children's room. Over time, the curtain can be replaced with a rack, a cabinet or a plasterboard partition.
• The room for babies is better to decorate in warm, soft colors. Walls can be pasted with wallpaper with images of fairy-tale heroes, on the floor throw a soft carpet. So the child will be comfortable and interesting to be in his corner.

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Kitchen and dining room with a niche

With the help of a niche it is possible to single out a kitchen area or mini-dining room in one-room studios:

• For separation from the rest of the room, plasterboard or sliding partitions can be used. In this case, it is better to give preference to glossy or mirror surfaces that will reflect light and thus visually increase the space.
• Having placed a comfortable soft corner or chairs and a table in the niche, using stylish wall lights with a soft backlight, adding a couple of photos with landscapes, you will get a cozy dining room in which you can not only enjoy meals, but also receive guests.
• Having arranged a niche in the kitchen area, you can calmly engage in cooking, without interfering with the other occupants of the apartment. After all, often family members have a different daily routine: someone wakes up early for work, and someone for the second shift to school. Undoubtedly, this approach to the arrangement of a niche will make a one-room apartment more comfortable for living.

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Cabinet

The option of arrangement of a niche under the cabinet is suitable for apartments in which one person lives. In this case, there is no need to place a massive double bed in the room, and you want to use the niche with advantage. In the closet, as a rule, shelves and a computer cabinet are ideally placed, but it is better to buy not ready furniture, but to make it to order, taking into account the individual parameters of the alley.

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Wardrobe

Similar use of niche space is the dream of any woman:

• Think about the placement of shelves and storage systems so that every centimeter of the niche is used with advantage.
• Installation of shoe racks, if niche space allows, will save considerable space and time for finding the right pair.
• For separation of the dressing room from the main room, it is recommended to use the door-compartment, or in extreme cases - the textile partitions.

Important! For many men it is important to have a corner at home for sports. The niche is an ideal place for this. In it you can install a Swedish wall and compact simulators. Thus, you can ensure yourself the maintenance of an ideal physical form, while not distracting anyone from everyday affairs.

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Color design

The niche can be organized in two variations:

• The first way is to take it as a logical continuation of the whole room, decorating the entire interior of the room in the same style.
• The second way is to decorate a niche in a different style, thus making it accent. Contrasting and bright colors will come in to help. So the niche will stand out against the general background, and attract the eye.

With a competent approach to the arrangement of furniture in a one-room apartment with a niche, you can achieve increased space and more comfort and coziness in the room. As you can see, there are a lot of ideas concerning this. Applying your imagination, you can supplement them, and implement the original idea of ​​their own comfort. Perhaps, after such changes, even with the ability to move into a larger area of ​​housing, you already do not want it.