A compact two-hand drive in Tver by the efforts of the inventive owner turned into a two-level loft with an open studio planning, which trades a lot of surprises. Thanks to extraordinary solutions and practical findings, in such an apartment will be convenient and interesting to live.
Living room
The heroes of our article, a young married couple with a one and a half year old child often come to Tver to visit mom. For temporary stops in the city, they purchased a two-room apartment in the Stalinist house (1953), which was in a very poor condition. They bribed them that part of the apartment was located above the arch and had a spacious underground, which is rather unexpected for the home on the third floor. The owner of Dmitry Ievlev decided to try himself as a designer and his own forces to transform a nontrivial space in a stylish loft.
The shelving screwed to the floor also performs the function of the fence. The lower part from two sides is closed by orgstroke, between whose sheets is covered with pebbles, and the top serves as a shelf for books
Redevelopment
After dismantling the non-vacant interroom partitions, only the carrier column remained in the apartment. The subfield decided to open and attach to the general studio volume. Partially managed to realize this idea, however, in space under the bathroom, a concrete tie with reinforcement and additional beams were discovered, so it was impossible to lower the floor in this place. In addition to the wet zone, at the top level planned the kitchen-dining room, and the bedroom was deepened. With this layout of the window, the latter turned out to be so highly that their increase was required. Similar changes associated with the facade of the house had to be additionally coordinated.
For cladding of the floor in the input zone, remnants of porcelain stoneware from the bathroom finish were useful. The end of the wardrobe for outerwear toned paint for school boards - it turned out a field for funny chalk inscriptions
Repairs
For the floor on the upper tier, new lags were built on which the bed of draft plywood was laid. For the lower space, the weight of which falls on the arch, the surface was covered with clay and leveled by plasterboard. And as the finish finish, the sheets of plywood, sliced in place squares 1.2 m; From her they saw plinths. The staircase between the two levels is a metal structural collection with steps from birch. The new borders of the bathroom outside, too, were trimmed by plywood treated with natural oil. Initially, it was planned to paint the ceiling into the black and leaving an open electrician, as it should be the real loft. But due to the low noise insulation in the apartment with wooden floors, it was necessary to make a liner plasterboard with a layer of soundproofing wool. As for the walls, the uneven texture of brick surfaces opened under the sickle layer, which remained only to paint white.
The brick wall was covered with gray paint with the effect of waterproofing. Podstole under the sink, turning into the shelf above the washing machine, made in the local workshop. In this part of the dwelling, too, did not cost without a surprise: for the installation of the toilet, the spacious plumbing hatch is hidden, in which the water heater of 80 liters
Design
The basis of the design is the synthesis of the Scandinavian style and the loft. Thanks to the abundance of light surfaces, the interior was filled with air. On a snow-white background, gray planes and graphic black parts diluted with light engines of yellow accessories look expressively. The bathroom turned out to be dark and more chamber. A significant part of the furniture is made by individually ordered, some items purchased in IKEA, and budgetary analogues of expensive brands - on the sale. So, the details for the ceiling lamp-spider and suspended ceiling The author of the project collected in the space of the Internet in parts, and during the installation process it turned out that the bulbs are not screwed into the cartridges, and the special adapters had to be purchased. Another finding was the dimmed LED lamps, which make it easy to adjust the lighting intensity. High windows have provided Roman curtains who sewed the owner's mom right in front of the newsnel - it turned out to be cheaper and faster than ordering them on the side.
Living room
Bedroom in the subfield
In space under the bathroom, there was a free niche of a width of 2.40 m, which from the inside was reliably hydroizing, were trimmed with plywood and painted white. She became a kind of garage for a rolled bed of a standard size of 1.60 m, which was installed in the center, and the sides turned out spacious drawers with a depth of 80 cm for storage of bed linen. For more smooth slip, the tricky bedroom design is supplied by 20 wheels, which are entering a special guide inside the frame. And behind the two doors to the left of the bed there is another underground "room". While the materials remained from the repair, and in the future the author plans to equip a children's house for games with soft mattresses.
The protrusion from the brick on which wooden floors had been lying, she was covered with plywood - it turned out a comfortable shelf to accommodate trifles
For the lighting of a wet zone during the daytime in the partition design, there were small, tonned window film. The asymmetrical composition of the rectangles also serves as the original decoration of the wall-headboard. Communications for connecting tubular heating radiators hid under the Caspian pebbles layer, which heats up in winter, and it is pleasant to touch it and take it into hand. The author spied this interesting reception in one of the Moscow restaurants.
In addition to the underground in the apartment there was a tiny back, which became the most spacious part of the storage system in the hallway (90 cm depth). The remaining three sections have a depth of only 35 cm, but this is quite enough to accommodate, say, a suitcase or vacuum cleaner. The facades of high cabinets are made of plywood, which is sold in the sheets of standard size 150 × 150 cm, why each door had to be collected from several fragments of the material. In one of these cabinets hidden electrical panels, and the plumbing knot from the kitchen is in the wardrobe for the outerwear. Wide window sills were performed from two glued plywood cloths with additional waterproofing. A niche under the windowsill (traditional refrigerator in Stalin's houses) also involved for storage. Repair stretched for a year, the construction teams changed, and as a result, all the work was completed and partially reworked one, but a very good master.
Dmitry Ievlev
The author of the project
The editors warns that in accordance with the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, the coordination of the conducted reorganization and redevelopment is required.
Project author: Dmitry Ievlev
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