How to install a bed in a niche in a one-room apartment

In the one-room studio apartment most often create a cell arrangement of objects: sleeping and wardrobe-bed sector; recreation area with TV, coffee table and sofa. If you allow the square of the apartment - a dining table for guests. Then we will talk about the division of a room into a bedroom, a wardrobe and the organization of a berth - about a bed in a niche.

Separation of a recreation area from a reception area with glass doors in a one-room apartment

Types of beds

The diverse flight of human imagination and ideas, the accumulated experience of industrial furniture companies, single-handed furniture makers and ordinary people themselves who made repairs in their apartment, as well as the Internet provides an opportunity for the development of many different designs, interior designs, arrangements, combinations, bedding .

Bed, visually separated wardrobe and contrasting curtains from the guest area

The medical industry offers specialized orthopedic beds (mattresses).

By the number of beds:

• single and double;
• according to the age:
• children, adults and even for the elderly;
• they differ also in construction, in shape, in material, etc.

Since this review brightens the device beds in a niche for one-bedroom apartments, we will consider them in more detail.

Personal cozy corner to sleep your baby

Types of beds in a niche

Soft bed is complemented by linen drawers at the bottom of the niche

In addition to these types of bed in a niche is divided into built-in and non-built. In turn, the first can be: folding and sliding. Unbuilt - as a transformer. Just like the beds, the niches themselves differ in design and purpose. This can be a podium with a sliding bed built in under it, shelves for clothes or bed linen, located under the bed and behind the niche, respectively, or a bolder solution - niche-wall, in combination with a folding bed.

Retractable bed, built-in closet in a small room

Perhaps the device and in the second tier. If there is a separate place for a wardrobe and a shelf, then it will be interesting to make a niche in a thematic style, with the use of decorations, etc. (option for a children's bed).

Practical and bright solution - a children's two-tier zone in a recess in the wall

Features of different types

The features include the fact that the purpose or functionality of the beds that are built into the niche is different. That is, in the case of cabinets and shelves there will be more practicality, and in the case of themes, decor, beauty, originality. These two conditions are possible and combined.

Stylish and comfortable design of a niche in a room with built-in furniture and a sleeping place.

Say, it is applicable to a children's bed, a kangaroo with locker bags, a lock when placing a bunk bed in a niche: a castle gate is a bed; windows - cabinets with glass doors, towers of the castle - lamps.

Beautiful openings in the wall, made in the form of houses with triangular roofs for beds in the girls' room

With regard to adult beds, a folding version with a niche-wall is interesting for its originality. The bed retracts against the wall and frees up extra room space. At the bottom of such a bed, a decorative design is possible: a picture, a family photo gallery, an interior arrangement of unusual vases, jugs, artificial plants and flowers. The latter option will require fixing of interior items, as this is the bottom of the bed, and at night you will lay it out for sleeping. And the rest of the fantasy is limitless!

Functional solution for a small apartment - folding bed

Try to fit a large mirror with a carved frame on the bottom of the bed, or without it, it all depends on the style in which the design of the room is maintained (loft, modern classic, hi-tech, etc.), or a folding writing table. This will require technical tricks and some knowledge of physics and geometry. It will take a little more time for manufacturing and installation (subject to independent work), or a larger financial investment, but the return will be greater. Elated mood and enviously inquisitive glances of guests, from the beautiful performance of simple things.

A loft bed with a sleeping area upstairs and a sofa for guests downstairs.

When restricted to quadrature, combinations from the podium niche are used or the sleeper is transferred to the second tier. The option with a podium can be executed in the form of a bed on top and drawers from the end of the podium. But it is more practical to place the bed in the end of a niche - a retractable bed on wheels or guides with folding legs. Top - a podium with a workspace (desk), or a seating area with a sofa, coffee table and TV.

Also behind the sofa can accommodate a small bookcase or shelf. Such a living corner allows economical use of the space of a one-room apartment.

Luxurious niche of light wood with open shelves located on the side and top of the site

When in the apartment one permanent tenant, then a bed in a niche can be transferred to the second tier. The lower space will be removed under a desk, a wardrobe sector, or a reading room, with shelves for books and a comfortable rattan chair (how best to use the lower space depends on the size of a one-room apartment, location in a niche and preferences of residents). Such a niche arrangement is suitable at the side wall of the room (without a window). It will be beautiful to equip such a corner with a sliding door in the Japanese style - “shoji”.

Bed on the second floor in a room with high ceilings and a full wardrobe on 1 tier

Each technical and interior solutions have their pros and cons. The first option with a niche-wall dignity will be originality, modern design, the ability to pick up various curves, steps, half circles on the walls, smooth or broken lines in the niche itself.

The niche can be supplemented with lighting devices.

Playing with the light will add intimacy in the evenings. Possible pasting with wallpaper mural or a regular pattern. All sorts of accents in a niche-wall on vases, patterns, decor items, etc. The disadvantages include:

• a folding bed will have to be cleaned and laid out every day (bed linen will constantly be knocked down);
• the load on the folding mechanism will require paying special attention to it;
• when arranging the pattern or decor on the bottom of the bed, it will collect a lot of dust (it pulls up the frequent cleaning of the apartment);
• difficult to install a canopy (for lovers of comfort and privacy).

The niche-podium option is more common, cheaper and not much inferior to its predecessor (niche-wall) in interior design and functionality. Special attention is paid to the functionality, since this article considers the arrangement of a bed in a one-room apartment with the maximum benefit of the space used.

Unusual bunk bed long in a niche

Placing a bed in such a niche would be ideal at the end of the room, near the wall with a window. When placing a bed on top of the podium (or the middle of the podium), it is convenient to position the bed side to the window, but not too close, since in cold weather cooling from the window is possible (and at the same time, excessive heat from the battery). Ideal in this case would be to leave room for a bedside table or just a small passage. This option is good for living as one couple in an apartment, and families with a child.

Functional design of a niche in the room: an exit bed, a small closet and a comfortable workplace

In addition to beauty, simplicity, convenience, the ability to arrange shelves, drawers, books and clothing lockers, cabinets (without losing the “empty” space in the niches) there are also enough opportunities for design solutions and the allocation of bed space from the main room space.

Decorating a studio apartment with built-in plywood furniture

The latter is particularly popular, as it creates the original design of the room, gives a separate place for parents from the child, and shares a sleeping space in which a completely different design is possible (quieter and delicate tones), different from the living room and recreation area. At the border of the podium hang canopy or curtain.

A beautiful niche will turn out if you place elegant furniture decorated with a canopy in it

Just as in the version with a bed in the second tier, the sliding wall "shoji" will create a pleasant atmosphere of Japanese style. Retractable wall will eliminate extraneous noises (if any), extraneous odors from the kitchen (especially if those who like an afternoon siesta live in the apartment and read books).

Japanese sliding door with modern materials

On the window you can install blinds in the style of "shoji"; this will reduce cold currents in winter, prevent headlights from passing cars, and during the day will create additional blackout in the room.

Japanese blinds - one of the most practical solutions, combining sun protection with sound insulation

When placing a retractable bed in a niche on wheels in the end of the podium, the possibility of zoning the bed is eliminated. This location is not suitable for lovers of solitude. On the podium above the bed you can arrange a recreation area with a TV, upholstered furniture and a bookcase. This sector is also possible to distinguish between sliding doors. The main disadvantage here is dubious comfort, as the bed rolls out almost in the middle of the room.

Podium can be made in the bedroom or living room with a roll-out bed on wheels

Such a bed, besides a cozy corner with an arrangement on the podium, can be equipped in a niche with an automatic self-extending electric drive.

Material

This section is written for home craftsmen who want to independently make a niche from the raw materials they have at hand, or from acquaintances in the country of the remnants of former luxury. For the manufacture of niches under the bed will need the following materials.

• Pine and spruce will work best for boards or slats for the framework in the floor niche (when buying in the store, the price is not very high, and if you have old furniture or used pallets and simple operations, you can make the rack itself for the framework). Thickness of laths in 25-30 mm will be quite enough.
  

  Boards, timber, slats for the frame with their own hands

• Depending on the purpose of the niche (decorative wall, cupboard with shelves, space in the wall or space for sleeping) - plasterboard, plywood, chipboard, solid.

Wood-based panels for furniture production

In the manufacture of decorative wall niches of drywall, smooth lines and bends in a niche is achieved by bending sheets of drywall. With small radii, it is possible to bend "to dry", but it is better to pre-wet the sheets and give them the necessary shape.

With the help of drywall, you can not only level the walls and ceiling, but also create complex structures like arches or niches

Patterns are made before the beginning of the bending and installation of the bed in a niche, so as not to give a wet sheet to be compressed. Sheets are fastened to the pattern with clamps or devices at hand until dry.

For large radii, a wetted sheet of plasterboard is pricked with an awl or a special roller with needles on the inside of the circle. Incision is also possible from the back for extreme bends.

Bent drywall construction

Depending on the method of fixing - joiner joints or joints “on metal” - glue or hardware with corners will be required. Painting supplies and paints, as well as wallpaper, adhesives.

Elements of decor

In the studio apartment, the bedroom is located behind the partition.

With the current diversity and relative cheapness of building material, as well as advances and technologies in the field of woodworking, paint and varnish industry, there are a great variety of different layouts and solutions for apartment interior design. The informativeness of our time allows us to recognize innovations almost from first hand, to combine different styles.

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