The interior of the room, where the window opposite the door

The layout of the rooms in a house or apartment, first of all, makes us think about how to organize the space: correctly place furniture and accessories, arrange comfortable sleeping places and workplaces. Take, for example, the interior: a room with a window opposite the door. What are the nuances to consider when making?

After all, such a room can be very small, have a foam-like configuration - or not one, but two windows. With the help of the video in this article we will explain what can be done in such situations.

You can create interiors similar to what you will see in the examples we have provided, if you wish, on your own, and we very much hope that our recommendations will be useful to you.

How to beat the location of the entrance opposite the window

A large room is just as difficult to plan as a small room, especially if it has a non-standard configuration and location of the openings. To give some general advice on how to decorate the interior of the room: the window opposite the door would not be entirely correct.

Much depends on the purpose and dimensions of the room, the number and size of openings of windows and doors. After all, if a room is a passageway, or it is a bedroom with bathrooms adjacent to it, then there can be two or even three doorways (see How to make a doorway from drywall). Therefore, one or another specific situation, we will consider individually.

Small rectangular room

So, the situation is number one, which is familiar to everyone who lives in high-rise buildings, built according to standard designs. Even in houses with an improved layout, there is at least one small room (no more than 9m2) and the entrance to it is located opposite the window.

So our instruction will come in very handy to very many people. Most often, the kitchen has such a layout, and its area may be even smaller: 7-8 m2. From this room we will begin our review.

Kitchens with window or balcony access

The problem of parallel arrangement of openings is this. In a small room, they occupy most of the wall space, leaving only small walls.

Only two side walls remain free, along which it is necessary to mount a kitchen set. There is sometimes no room for a table at all, and if it is still crammed, then you only have to move sideways around the kitchen.

So:

• To get out of this situation is possible only in one way: to use the sub-window zone along the wall with the window. One of these solutions, very successful in our opinion, you can see in the example presented above. Without a doubt, the furniture here is made to order. As you can see, there is no stand-alone table in this kitchen - the working surface of the headset smoothly passes into the corner table, supported from the end with nickel-plated legs.
• Beautifully placed in such a confined space standard kitchen furniture is almost impossible, because there is also a refrigerator that also needs to be put somewhere. In this case, a place appeared for him only due to the fact that the washing part of the headset was placed at the window itself, and, by the way, it also closes the heating battery, which can ruin any interior.

• We offer you another example of the practical use of the subwindow area in the kitchen. As you can see, there is a small table where you can dine and cook. Of course, one cannot sit at such a table in a company, but if one or two people live in an apartment, it is quite convenient. The only such design is impossible in a situation when the kitchen has access to the balcony.
• But there is another possibility: at the expense of the balcony to expand the space of the room. For this you have to incur some additional costs. Before glazing the balcony, you can slide out the balcony slab; to build a major parapet; quality sheathe and insulate all surfaces. As a rule, this is done by invited specialists, and this service has a rather high price.

• But the ability to make your kitchen more spacious and comfortable more than compensates for these costs. There is one more plus: such a reconstruction turns a balcony from a non-residential space into a living room. Warm balcony also allows you to get rid of the door and window frame. And this, in turn, provides new opportunities for organizing space and kitchen design.

In order to remove a piece of the wall, which was previously the subwindow area. Permission is required, but you can completely do without such drastic measures.

This pier can be beautifully finished to use as a zoning partition or to install a tabletop on it - and here's a bar counter or a dining table.

Bedrooms for adults and children

The sleeping rooms are as small as the kitchens - the truth is that they have less access to a loggia or balcony. The problem is that in the bedroom designed for spouses, there should be a double bed, the standard width of which is 1.9 meters.

In addition, you need somewhere else to place wardrobes for clothes, bedding. What can you think of if the dimensions of the room are only 3 * 3m or a little more - or even they have the form of a case with dimensions of 2 * 4m?

• In such cases, built-in structures are very helpful. If the room has a square shape, then the bed can be placed not on the longitudinal wall, as is done most often, but by the head of the window. Such a proposal may seem strange, but only at first glance. Let's take a closer look at this option bedroom arrangement, based on a specific example.

• As you can see, in this room the bed is installed exactly as it was said above, but it does not adjoin the window closely. Between them, at the sill level, there is a built-in cabinet with drawers on the sides. Thus, the heating battery is closed, and so that if necessary it is possible to get close to it, the central part of the structure is made in the form of an opening door.
• In the drawers of such an improvised chest of drawers there is a place to store bed linen and other small items that are usually stored in bedside tables - and this is an added convenience. It is clear that in the store such unusual furniture can not be bought. It will have to order or do it yourself, using gypsum-fiber sheets or chipboard.

The only thing you need to decide how to arrange the wardrobe. In this situation, it can also be embedded. Usually the cabinet is placed on the wall where the entrance is: next to the door or, if it is located in the center, on both sides of it.

Room for a teenager

When you design a room in which a student or a student lives, you encounter very different difficulties. After all, this is not just a bedroom - there the child not only sleeps at night, but also spends enough time during the day: he is engaged, receives friends, plays.

One way or another, such a room should be divided into zones, and there should be at least two of them - a bedroom and a work room. If it is intended for a child of preschool age, then instead of a working corner, where the table with the computer and bookshelves is located, there will be a play area.

So:

• Zoning can be done: visually, with the help of wall and ceiling decoration; by placing furniture; constructively. The second option involves the installation of a decorative partition of wood, glass or drywall, or a podium device with built-in bed or drawers for linen. Thus, it turns out the room in two levels.
• Above you can put a bed, and below there will be a children's lounge, where your child can play or watch TV. If the bed is built into the podium, then it will be the opposite: the bedroom is downstairs, and, at the top, for example, the work area. By the way, on the title photo you can see exactly this version of the design of the children's room, in which the window is located on the side opposite to the entrance.

• Custom furniture allows you to beat almost any, even the most uncomfortable room configuration. When designing bedrooms, children's and teenage rooms, home offices, you can resort to the same method described in the previous chapter - namely, the active use in the design of the wall with a window.

Note! Now, when there is such a wonderful material as drywall and you can buy individually all sorts of furniture, bedside tables, bookshelves, sun beds at the window, and working niches for household appliances can be made independently. In this case, you get not only an exclusive interior, but also significant savings due to the fact that you do not have to buy cabinet furniture.

As for children's rooms, for them there are all kinds of furniture sets, transformers, which can be purchased in different variations. This may be a low cupboard, in the mezzanine part of which there is a sleeping place; or a bunk bed, with two equipped working areas.

They are completed with tables, small bedside tables and shelves, which can be inscribed in the narrow walls at the window, or simply put together according to the dimensions of any room.

Conclusion

The most "painful" topic when it comes to using the wall, where the window is located, is the heating radiators. In a private house, you can install them anywhere, or even replace them with an infrared film embedded in the wall paneling or a warm floor.

In the apartments, the batteries are installed just under the windows, and it is a thankless task to alter the existing heating system; It remains only to figure out how to hide them with curtains, decorative grilles or built-in furniture.