Natalya Gorlova and Olga Efremova from On Design Lab, Evgenia Astakhova and Evgenia Ivlya are divided by the opinion on the budget for repairs and the situation of a small apartment and give advice to save and calculate their capabilities.
Evgenia Astakhova: "The minimum budget with which I managed to collect an apartment of 42 square meters. M, amounted to 750 thousand rubles "
The designer Evgenia Astakhova gave advice to help fit at about the same budget."In the example, I will use an apartment of 40 square meters. M with an increasingly popular now type of finishing of the White Box from the developer. One of the most affordable styles, in my opinion, is a Scandinavian style, - begins Eugene. - Strupping costs.
Materials for finishing surfaces
The wall decoration from the developer in the WHITE BOX format allows you to wake them with wallpaper. Choose a dense fliesline base, rolls width 1 m. Recommended one-photo wallpaper with a light texture. The Scandinavian interior and a small room "loves" bright, almost white walls. Wallpapers for painting It makes no sense to use: this is a double work - first shove, then paint. For staining the White Box, unfortunately, it does not suit, since the plastered walls in the new building can produce micro, and sometimes macrothrees. In the bathroom, tile can only be put on the walls where there is direct contact with water, for the rest of the use of high-quality paint.
Laminate or Quartzinyl use in all zones except bathroom. In the bathroom you can take the Russian production porcers.
Ceilings can be left concrete. In this case, it is enough just to handle the surfaces with a transparent primer, sometimes matte varnish. In my opinion, it is better than vinyl stretch ceilings in the residential area. But for a wet room stretch, on the contrary, salvation and from the bays of neighbors, and from the fungus on the concrete. In the bathroom, the stretch ceiling can be a design element, if you use a colored cloth and repeat the color of the wall.
Electrician and light
Sockets and switches from the developer are most likely to be changed. First, add more sockets, secondly, to acquire better European equipment. I recommend also to check and, if necessary, replace electrical automatics.Concrete ceilings give greater variability for the placement of lighting devices. Use overheads, track lamps, chandeliers or separate suspensions. A neat pattern of wiring can become an element of decor.
Plumbing
It is important for the choice of plumbers to approach thoroughly. Avoid beautiful and cheap options. With a limited budget, you should not use designer black or gold mixers, as well as ready shower cabins with massage nozzles.
Use the rule: less functions, more quality. Often well-known European plumbing brands offer cheap ready-made sets: toilet with installation or sink with a mixer.
Designer Evgenia Astakhova:
When designing a small apartment space, I try to allocate a separate storage room of all clothes. This will avoid cabinets and unload space. Avoid unnecessary items in the apartment, combine their appointment. For example, you can combine home office and dressing table; Pouf in the hallway to use as a coffee table; The bedside table can turn into an additional sedentary place in the kitchen.
Furniture
Prefer the project of a small kitchen in a network store or furniture salon. Pay attention to the quality of the accessories and resistance to damage to the working surface. Do not try to fill all the space to the ceiling by cabinets, order only the necessary.
When organizing the bedroom, buy an inexpensive base of the bed and sweep on a high-quality mattress. Or an orthopedic sofa recommended for daily sleep. The bedside tables can serve as a small tea table, a shelf, screwed to the wall or even a light stool.
The bedside of the bed replaced the coffee table
Abandoned the cabinets under TV and chose a coffee table.
Payment specialists
Less costly on the budget, but will require more of your personal time - use the services of private professionals, that is, to hire a master of the masters for every kind or several types of work, pay in stages, control the timelines and quality."To save, purchase and the organization of delivery of all materials can be made independently: but you will have to control the number of finishing materials, it is pre-calculating the surface area yourself or with a designer," Evgenia Astakhova advises.
The most brave and interesting option is to do it yourself. At the same time, it is not a fact that it will get cheaper, and certainly no faster. First of all, you will have to go on vacation (carrying out noisy repair work in the weekdays with restriction in time) and learn several working specialties. "
Natalia Gorlova and Olga Efremova: "There will be 250 thousand rubles for a minimal furnishings of one-room apartment"
Designers on Design Lab share their experience in furnishings and finishing a small apartment - the tips will definitely use those who want to save.
Finish
"You can select the following spectacular and inexpensive techniques of finishing finish," say Natalia and Olga.
- Color block. Color is the most inexpensive tool for creating a spectacular design. We often use the reception "Color Block" in their budget projects: when the color goes from the wall to a part of the ceiling or from the wall on the body or upholstered furniture.
- The mirror is another inexpensive, but spectacular reception when space can be visually more important, which is especially important for small apartments. And also adjust the proportions of space, such as in our project: we visually expanded the narrow corridor.
- Conventional materials with an unusual layout. Do not be afraid to creat with the layout of the monotonous tile, especially on the apron or in the bathroom. You can play and grout color, make it bright or contrasting.
- Laminate. Good laminate can be found from 1500 rubles / sq. M. m, but the main thing is that his texture reminds the most naturally natural tree. However, using laminate, do not forget that the unique modules will be 5-10. Therefore, we recommend it in advance to decompose it into groups with the same texture to minimize the repeat pattern when laying.
- Plinth. Any plastic plinth will reduce your efforts to "no", remember this. The most fiscal and winning option is the plinth of the composite under painting: it is easy to mounted, does not have visible joints and level irregularities.
"Color all that is coming out of the overall interior concept. Inexpensive deaf interior doors or radiators from the developer can be painted either in the color of the wall or as an emphasis. Do not forget to apply a layer of special primer before painting, "they advise Natalia and Olga.
Lighting
Linear and track lighting always looks modern and spectacular! Especially the tracks that can be installed only from one output on the ceiling, whether it is not an excellent replacement chandelier.
Furniture
Planning a budget for furniture in its apartment, it is important to put priorities correctly.Immediately buy the most high-quality and stylish things. Frequent error: People choose initially poor-quality or non-design interior items, calculating that it is temporary. But, by experience, such items do not change, thereby proving that "there is nothing more permanent than temporary."
Let's go through the basic list of furniture, it will include a kitchen with appliances, a dining group, a sleep zone (bed or sofa), storage area (wardrobe, chest of drawers, open storage).
Kitchen
She will leave the lion's share of the total budget. When we are looking for stylish budget cuisines, we appeal to IKEA or local carpentry workshop. The cost of the headset depends on its size and configuration, materials and technology. It is better to consider the deaf facades from the MDF - such a kitchen looks always more expensive. Turnkey's kitchen headset should be put on at least 170-200 thousand rubles, taking into account the minimum number of built-in technology (cooking surface, oven, hood, narrow dishwasher, refrigerator).
Indeed, embedded technique models are a bit more expensive, but in the appearance of the kitchen, this choice will affect very positive.
Dinner Zone
The price of the dining table varies from 5-11 thousand and higher. Soft chairs: from 3-3.5 thousand rubles. Always recommend to take at least 2-4 pcs.Zone sleep
Since we are talking about a one-room apartment, it will be relevant to consider either a folding sofa or a bed. It is necessary to lay on the sofa from 20-25 thousand rubles.
The bed can be purchased from 13-15 thousand and higher. Bedside stands: from 2 thousand per piece. You can choose the most inexpensive and simple bed, but most important is the purchase of an orthopedic mattress, from which the quality of sleep will depend. It will take from 10 thousand rubles.
Designers Natalia Gorlova and Olga Efremova:
Do not neglect well used furniture. You can always repaint, change the upholstery and enter it into a new interior. For example, our customers had a sofa: comfortable, but did not fit into a new situation at all, they wanted to throw it away. However, in the unfolded form, he perfectly replaced the position of the bed. It was sewn to cover under the order, stylish bedding purchased and bedside cabinet from IKEA. And it is now difficult to believe that this is all the same old sofa.
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How the sofa looked up
Storage area
If there is no possibility to immediately buy a spacious cabinet (from 25 thousand rubles and higher) or order a built-in, it is better to purchase a chest of drawers (from 5 thousand rubles) and an open floor hanger for the shoulders (about 2 thousand rubles).Textiles and decor
In construction hypermarkets, you can find excellent standard curtains (blackout) and adjust them in length. The price varies from 4 thousand and higher (on one window). The carpet can be found in the same place where you will cut the desired size and process the edges. The cost will depend on the size (from 5-7 thousand rubles).
From the main decor you will need several mirrors (in the hallway, in the wardrobe zone), which can be found in construction hypermarkets for 3-5 thousand rubles.
It follows from this that, on average, about 250 thousand will leave for minimal furnishing of one-room apartment.
Evgenia Ivlya: "At the stage of repair, it is very important to lay a competent and high-quality base. Everything else can be purchased over time. "
Designer Evgenia Ivlya describes in detail the rates for furniture and recommends ideas for creating a high-quality interior with minimal amounts in the middle segment."I adhere to the opinion that at the repairs stage it is very important to lay a competent and high-quality base, - begins Eugene. - It concerns engineering systems, plumbing and electricians, as well as high-quality piston materials and their competent application. Everything else can be purchased over time (furniture, machinery). This is important because the furniture can be replaced at any time, but because of the poor-quality electrician or plumbing, you will have to do a full repair if they fail.
Finish
The most inexpensive finish is painting. In addition, it gives maximum opportunities for design and creativity (including the ceiling, and on the floor, and on the furniture). Wallpapers under painting are very costy interior outwardly, and the budget does not give much to "win." It is better to play with the texture of the walls at the stage of plaster: you can apply a pattern with a roller, brush or make a split spatula and paint over. It is better not to save on the paint and choose a high-quality brand with good shelterness so that there are no divorces.
Stretch ceilings are inexpensive, but it is better to apply them in the most budget versions. Much better - suspended ceiling. Watching will cost expensive if the initial surface of the overlap is uneven. Cheaper to perform the minimum level of GLC.
On the floor often lay laminate in the economy version. We adhere to the principle of environmental friendliness and practicality and choose a moisture-resistant parquet board. Its price can be very small (it all depends on the width of the board, the shade of the tree and its selection). A good alternative to Laminate serves a Quartzinyl, which is suitable and as a "warm" replacement of ceramic tiles.
Plumbing
If the finishing finish is ready, then you need to start with the plumbing needed for life: a shower tray with a glass fencing or shower, bath, sink, toilet and mixers. Here is the average budget for a position from 10 to 25 thousand rubles. We are not talking about the cheapest options, but about the average level where price and quality is compliance.
Designer Evgenia Ivlya:
As for the purchase of furniture and technology, then the slogan is one: less, yes better. Over time, it will be possible to accumulate and buy the desired qualitative thing that will last for a long time than every time spent on cheap offers. "Surround pays twice," is a truth for a long time known, and in repair it always justifies itself.
Technics
From home appliances, first of all purchase a refrigerator, a cooking panel, a brass cabinet (microwave), a washing machine, a hood, dishwasher. Price per unit of high-quality medium segment technique: 30-60 thousand rubles.Furniture
The kitchen is always purchased from the furniture first. If you take furniture not in the mass market, you need to lay in the project with a minimal size module under the sink, a module for a cooking surface, drying, storage cabinets, taking into account the assembly and countertops, a kitchen sink and a mixer. The cost of such a set will be in the region of 100-150 thousand rubles. LDSP is better to take. If the budget does not allow, then the plastic facades are better, but in no case are not LDSP.
From furniture You also need to purchase a dining table with chairs, a sofa, a bed and cabinets. From the assortment of tables and chairs, you can choose inexpensive items that will look good and sufficiently serve. On average, the budget for a dining group of three seats lay 15-25 thousand rubles.
The price of the folding sofa is much higher than usual. If you plan another bed, then it is necessary to take into account. The most fiscal option is the French folding bed, but for regular sleep, it is not suitable. The minimum bedroom size is 160 cm, which means a sofa will be 180 cm long. This can be from 40 to 70 thousand rubles - this is the price of a high-quality sofa, where the filler and the fabric category is also important (not lower than the third category).
The most expensive in bed is the mattress, the lifting mechanism (if any) and the headboard.
"The bed itself can be budget, but for a healthy sleep you need to choose a high-quality mattress. You can still sleep even without a bed on one mattress, but it is better not to save on it, "says Evgenia.
The headboard is, rather, the decorative component. It can be bought and separately under any base of the bed.
Cabinet furniture - cabinets, cabinets, shelves, racks - take a sufficient budget if there are many storage systems in the apartment. Cabinet and cabinet in the hallway for outerwear, wardrobe or dressing room in the bedroom, furniture in the living room: classroom under TV, racks or shop windows, bookcase. Here you can watch ready-made options in the salons or, if the furniture is built-in, under the order. Ready solutions are much cheaper: one position from 15 to 35 thousand rubles. Built-in wardrobes will cost about 80-120 thousand rubles for a position. The cost depends on the fittings and filling, as well as the material of the facades.
Cabinet in the bathroom - a separate story. It is advisable to make it from MDF, because LDSP in wet premises is stratified. But all offers on the market go from LDSP. For the price, on average, from 15 to 25 thousand rubles. If you do under the order, then the cabinet from MDF will be released in the region of 35-45 thousand rubles. "
