We suggest which redevelopment to do in Khrushchev, what to repair and how to organize space so that a small typical apartment has turned into a comfortable space for life.
In the territory of all of the USSR, from the late 50s and to the 1980s, many residential buildings were built, which in the people called "Khrushchev". The construction was made from reinforced concrete slabs, less often of bricks. A distinctive feature of these houses, compared to their "predecessors", "Stalinkami", and modern new buildings, are small kitchens, bathrooms and living rooms, as well as low ceilings.
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Overhaul tasks in Khrushchev
- Organization of thermal insulation.
- Replacing glazing.
- Redevelopment with possible extensions of the kitchen and bathroom.
- Aligning floors apartment to one level.
- Waterproofing bathroom.
- Alignment of walls and their subsequent finish.
To create a truly functional space, "cosmetics", alas, not to do.
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Operating options Khrushchevka
If you are not afraid of paper rolls and matching, make it overpower. Due to the competent project, you can enlarge the bathroom, carry old partitions and create new, stronger, transfer door openings and thanks to this, too, carve out several dozen more useful centimeters.
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The design of most Khrushchev was done in such a way that the support falls on the bearing external walls and columns systems. This allows you to approach redevelopment easier: there are no inside the bearing walls. However, this does not mean that the process is not necessary to coordinate. Now housing services closely relate to illegal demolitions of the walls and can be forced to return them back in court. It is unpleasant and will create additional problems, especially when the repair is already over.
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The most functional redevelopment options
- Combining a small kitchen with a living room (note: if the room is one, and the house with the gas stove, requires mandatory negotiation, on fire safety standards it is impossible to combine kitchens and living rooms in gas supply apartments).
- Move the treshka in the overall dv. By demolishing partitions and the construction of new ones.
- Expansion of the bathroom at the expense of the hallway or corridor.
- Combining the bathroom (in such premises it is possible to rationally place the plumbing, household appliances and organize storage spaces).
- Combining living room with hallway by demolishing partitions.
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Repair kitchen and bathroom in Khrushchev
Special attention should be paid to the most problematic premises of Khrushchev - the kitchen and the bathroom. Why is problematic? Too small rooms with great functionality requirements.
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Kitchen
The main problem of repairing the kitchen in Khrushchev - layout and choice of furniture. The size of the premises do not allow the will of fantasy, but, on the contrary, forced to "catching up" and make compromises.
Finish. Floors and walls require alignment. If we decided to demolish the old partitions and increase the area of the kitchen at the expense of the residential room or the corridor, it is better to make new walls from moisture-resistant drywall.
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Communications. Gas pipes, entering water and sewage in Khrushchevsky cuisines are often located in uncomfortable places and stretch from the walls. The appearance of open communications leaves much to be desired. As for the transfer and any actions with gas pipes, only gas services will help. Better without amaway. Water and sewer communications are better replaced by plastic modern counterparts and pave as close to the floor as much as possible.
Furniture. Planning a kitchen headset in Khrushchev is advisable to make an angular or P-shaped. A good idea is to continue the worktop at the expense of the window sill.
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Make closed high lockers to provide more storage space and visually pull the kitchen up. You can alternate the deaf facades and open, with glass doors, it is a good reception in order to add the room.
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As for the dining group - for small kitchens, rectangular and square tables are not the best solution. It is better round or options to order, as in this case, the table-continuation table.
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If the kitchen is combined with the living room, place the table on the border of the zones. It will zonate the space, so it can be allowed to put the table more.
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Bathroom
Bathroom repair must be accompanied by replacing waterproofing. Plums and calibration conclusions. Replace on plastic. It is better to contact the neighbors and perform the work on the riser is centrally, as it is unlikely to replace pipe conclusions only in your apartment will help improve the situation globally. If the idea does not support, minimally perform transitions to the neighbors, so you can protect yourself from breakdowns of the remaining pieces of old pipes in the floors.
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If you want to abandon the bath, do not mount the shower box. It is aestistic and more rational to use the space for the shower compartment, close it with a glass door.
General advice
Look for a niches and make improvised cabinets. There may be even a washing machine, which was not found in a small bathroom.
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With the right organization of space and redevelopment, you can highlight place for the dressing room in the bedroom or hallway.
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As we have already written above, in Khrushchev low ceilings. This means that it is better not to hang massive chandeliers, and use the built-in satellum and organize different lighting scenarios - several types of lamps, lamps, sconces, for illumination and directional light.
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Choose a light cold tone for finishing and make bright accents - so you will be able to correctly adjust the small space and give it comfort.
