Zoning the living room: several methods from the designer
Zoning the living room is an effective and practical way to delimit the space, while maintaining comfort and creating a multifaceted design. This is especially important for small apartments.
For a large area, this is an opportunity to allocate space for each family member without erecting partitions.
It is not recommended to divide the room into more than 4 zones, this will lead to disorder and clutter of furniture, says Yulia Tychino, an expert of the MOS SMI portal in the field of design and architecture.
Zoning is usually used to delimit different types of zones. For example, to separate the kitchen from the living room, the recreation area from the dining room.
If you need to visually expand a room or, on the contrary, make a large room more comfortable and compact, then the division method will help to implement this idea, completing the decoration in an interesting style.
There are several ways to zone a living room. The simplest and most accessible is to use furniture. Using a bar counter, you can separate the kitchen from the living room.
A large sofa can be used as a bed in the evening. It will also separate the recreation area, where a table and armchairs are traditionally located, from the sleeping area. A screen can also be installed for this purpose.
Sliding doors will help to add elegance to the room and at the same time divide it into zones. This method is well suited for separating a small area in the back of the room.
To create a private space for the separated part, it is better to use opaque glass. In all other cases, Japanese-style or glass doors will add originality to the living room.
A classic technique is to use straight or curved arches. It should be taken into account that the arches should be in harmony with the style of the living room.
You can zone your living room by using different colors when decorating the ceiling.
Multi-level frames will also cope with this task. The semi-circular shape will smooth out the angularity of the room and easily separate its different parts.
Using decorative structures will allow you to solve the problem of dividing the room much more aesthetically. This method requires free space, but it is much more effective than ordinary walls. In addition, you can build a niche, lighting or a shelf into them.
The most successful way of zoning is with the help of a podium. It allows you to clearly define the boundaries of any zone.
True, this technique will look better in large rooms with high ceilings. The podium not only serves as an elegant design element, but also has a practical function.
If it separates the space for the bedroom, then you can build in drawers for linen and clothes. With horizontal zoning, the lower part of the wall is decorated with dark wallpaper, the upper part with light.
By combining wallpapers of different colors, you can highlight any area of the room or a separate wall.
The method of zoning the living room should be chosen based on the size of the room, its character. With the right planning and placement of accents, you will see how it will be transformed.
Earlier we wrote about what the ideal bedroom should be like.
