Do-it-yourself apartment design: from A to Z

Apartment design can be completely designed independently. To do this, you need to know a few basic rules and show your own imagination. Thanks to our recommendations, you can design your own apartment design.

Very often, repairs in an apartment are not started because of the motives to change the familiar environment, but when certain problems arise. For example, plaster begins to fall from the ceiling or furniture becomes unusable. Very often we are ready to live in a boring situation, provided that minimum comfort is observed, and we do not dare to repair. Such a choice is not always reasonable. Professional designers have chosen life hacking for the transformation of your apartment or house. They are able to breathe new life even into the most dreary room.

There are two main ways to transform the design of a house or apartment - you can do a simple redecoration or change everything drastically. The choice is always yours.It is necessary to take into account the overall style, and only then choose the color scheme of the room, taking into account the future interior.

For your apartment is best to choose the current trends in design. This will help you make your home stylish and modern. Add to it the notes of modernity and use materials that will last you for many years. So you can postpone the next repair in your house for a long time.

In the design of an apartment, professionals most often use such styles as:

• Provence;
• loft;
• country music and many others.

Many designers today design the design and in rustic style.

Classic style combines several directions. Among them - Baroque, Rococo, Classicism, Modern, English and others. A classic style appeared several centuries ago, but it managed not to lose its relevance even today, which proves its beauty and practicality.

Its feature is expensive decor items and interior decoration, as well as carved furniture. Fireplace, statues, antiques - the traditional components of style.

This style will help to recreate the situation inherent in a particular nation.You can revive Japanese minimalism, German pragmatism, Russian identity in your home.

Modern design is such directions as:

• Art Deco;
• minimalism;
• hi-tech and others

In modern style, the spirit of progress and postmodernism is clearly felt. There is a rejection of unnecessary comfort and details. This design has beauty in simplicity. Smooth lines, monotony, minimalism, varnish on surfaces, strict furniture, bright lighting - this is all modern style.

Choosing the color of the walls and floor for an apartment or house, follow the prompts of professionals:

• Shades of green and blue contribute to the concentration of attention and relax the eyes. Milky white and pale yellow tones are also good.
• Orange and red increase the excitability.
• To create a harmonious combination, you must take white and any contrasting color. The combination of colors also depends on the style. For high-tech suit white, gray and bright red. For modern, you must choose purple, red and pink.
• Combinations of two bright contrasting colors are not allowed.
• It is not recommended to combine brown and gray in the same room. They visually reduce the room.

• The color of the floor can be both light and dark. It all depends on the style of the room.
• In small rooms need to add more light. But do not overdo it. If you have a bright ceiling, then the floor can be made contrast. This will add more brightness.
• Only 3-4 mirrors on the whole apartment are enough for visual expansion of the space.

When developing a design project, one should take into account the overall style of housing and the characteristics of each individual room, its functionality and style.

For the bathroom fit the design of the Victorian era. He looks very rich and is liked by many people. Such luxury should be decorated with vintage furniture.

In the kitchen, you can put an unusual chair with smooth lines. It will look just amazing. For the chrome surface fit the lamps in the style Fusion. It will be a good combination.

In the living room should be a maximum of comfort and plenty of space. If you have a large hall area, then you can safely use a variety of colors in the interior. For a small living room is better to use light colors. This way you can visually expand the space.

You can additionally use applications to create a design. This will greatly simplify the task. The process of creating a project in this case looks like this:

• Measured Draw or print layout with the actual size.
• Large-scale plan. The ratio of the actual size to that drawn on the plan should be 1: 4. It is performed either manually or on a computer.
• The task of the technical plan. It is a list of what needs to be done: the selection of style, the choice of furniture in the rooms, the color and everything that will give the interior consistency and rationality.
• Planning solution. You need to reschedule the apartment and learn how to do everything according to the law. We mark zones and arrange objects (so far only on paper).

• 3D.Create a three-dimensional model from a flat plan in SketchUp and try to walk along it virtually. There may be a rethinking of the plan due to the fact that now you will more fully understand how what we have on paper will look in real life. You will also understand the advantages and disadvantages of finishing with various materials, you will work out various trifles and so on.
• The choice of style. Before you begin this stage, you already have a rough idea of ​​what will work and how and how your interior and design solution will look. Once again, reread the previous points, finally determine everything for yourself, look again at the pictures that inspired you and took a sample of the interior and proceed directly to the design.
• Take into account the parameters of the apartment before you begin to choose materials for decoration, furniture, lamps and lamps, etc. Insufficiently high ceiling, poor lighting and other troubles can be great to prevent your ideas from being realized.
• Blueprints. We translate the outline into the plan. Here you will need and drawings for dismantling, and installation drawings. We mark lamps and other light sources, switches with sockets.

For budget repair you have to buy building materials yourself. Let's go through the tools and materials that will have to turn during work. You will need:

• A hammer drill that combines the functions of a drill, a jackhammer, a mortar mixer, and a screwdriver. To expand the functionality, we advise you to buy a drill, cartridge with an adapter, a mixer for the solution, a pick and a paddle.
• Screwdriver. He has two actions: tighten and twist the screws, dowels, anchors, bolts, and drill metal. We also buy a set of bits and drills.
• Bulgarian. It is necessary to purchase 3 discs: a cutting disc for metal, a diamond (for concrete and ceramics) and a grinding disc.
• Building level. There are a variety of sizes of this tool, ranging from 20 centimeters to 2.5 meters. For small openings, a level of 40 cm is sufficient. The walls, ceilings and the floor need, respectively, a higher level. The bubble spirit level is very popular and often used. Due to the presence of alcohol, it is successfully operated at a temperature below zero.

• Measuring tape. The recommended length is seven meters.
• Hacksaw.We need a tool with large teeth - for bars and planks, and with small ones - for plywood, fiberboard, chipboard and plastic.
• Hammer. We need an ordinary hammer with a rectangular section, one blunt side and one beveled.
• Passatizhi. They will help and bite the wire, and pull out a nail. This is a multifunctional tool.
• Set of wrenches from 6 to 22 mm.
• Spatulas - narrow, wide and notched. Narrow (60-80 mm) is useful for hard-to-reach openings. Wide (200-400 mm) for walls, openings, etc. The same notched trowel is needed to apply glue to a tile or stone area.
• You will also need regular paint brushes.

Even a simple repair of the walls will not do without finishing. We offer you original ideas. You can safely use them in your home. You will certainly get the original and stylish design:

• Fresh press. A newspaper instead of wallpaper on the walls is very original and stylish. With proper whiteness of paper, this option will look good enough. The newspaper is much thinner than wallpaper, so do not forget to stick it with protective varnish after pasting.
• Brick. A brick wall will be a good solution for a stylish design.Here are just flashes in the modern interiors, she too often and already had enough time to get bored. Therefore you can lay out bricks not the whole wall, but only a part. It will be interesting to look with the white part of the wall. You will have an interesting contrast.
• Sea stones. Returning from vacation, you can grab the material for finishing your house right from the sea. Sea stones and pebbles are quite reliable. It is convenient and pleasant to work with them and it is possible to dream it up by laying out various patterns.

• Stretch walls. If you imagine what a stretch ceiling is, then you won’t ask what the stretch walls are. This practice is quite rare and it will add originality to your design. Do not be afraid to try something new.
• Drywall Designers don't like intricate and fancy drywall constructions. However, there are cases when even such a finish looks stylish and spectacular.

Independently bring comfort in the house is quite possible. You can not only beautiful, but also practical to decorate the space, simply by adding decorative partitions. Let's take a look at several ways to demarcate the space and separate the rooms from each other:

• Podium in the middle of the room. Non-standard and rather unusual choice, as it may seem at first. It is necessary to throw out the bed, and instead build a podium half a meter high and put a huge mattress on it. This will give your atmosphere peace, tranquility and friendliness. You can add drawers to the catwalk that are being pulled out and store various things there.

• Individual space. If you live in an apartment building, this does not mean that your apartment cannot be transformed and made at least a little more individual. For example, lower the ceiling above the bed. This visually creates the center of the room and focuses on the sleeping area. It will help in this drywall. Do not forget to pre-install there some unusual backlight.

• Arch will separate two zones of the same room.If you smoothly round the arch, it will not additionally overload the space. With it, you will make your room one and indivisible, but more functional.

• Cozy corner. Create a sense of unity you will help the shelves in the guest room, gently flowing into the furniture for the kitchen. Curved shelves perfectly brighten up the familiar and ordinary apartment with even and right angles, and the uneven features of the table, sofa and carpets from the living room will easily turn into clear and even forms that are present in the dining room. The space will be one and separated at the same time.

• Branch color. If there is still no readiness for radical changes in your apartment, then color zoning will be an excellent and inexpensive way out in this situation. For example, glue wallpapers of different colors in opposite areas of the room or mark one of the walls with a color (preferably bright and sharp). Experiment with colors and revive your everyday interior.

• Marking on the floor. A black tile with a catchy pattern in the middle of the room will focus on this place, and the white matte laminate will look pretty casual.With modest size of your living room, choose not very contrasting colors or in the place you want to focus on, put the carpet. It will also be interesting to make a pattern of tile or coating on the floor.

Having studied the methods of zoning a room, once again you can make sure that everything ingenious is simple. Combining simplicity and originality, zoning in an apartment or room can be made as comfortable and aesthetic as possible without adding extra details to the design.

For a small dvushki fit light colors. The interior should contain only a few bright accents that will not hide the space.

Design ideas can be applied even in a one-room apartment. It is desirable to select furniture in the same style, and divide the room itself into functional zones. You can come up with an interesting design combined toilet or divide the bathroom into two separate rooms. The kitchen is also possible to combine with the living room. This is done to increase the visual space.

All about the design in the style of "Provence", as well as an overview of the interior of the house 166 sq.m., see the following video.