Those who really know exactly what “little space” is are the owners of Khrushchev-era apartments.
Remnants of the past with an area of 27 m² are far from a gift. What could it be practical design one-room Khrushchev apartment: maybe cramped, but at least not offensive?
Making the interior of a one-room Khrushchev house practical is quite difficult., because 17 m² of living space (not counting the hallway, kitchen and bathroom) should accommodate areas for work, rest and sleep. A rational option is to combine zones by purchasing modular furniture or…
Option 1: use the balcony
And let such a “knight’s move” not add more than 4 m² of space to us, but for a Khrushchev-era building and 4 square meters is already something. Having glazed and insulated the balcony, feel free to remove the window opening and the balcony door, take out all the accumulated trash and get down to repairs. On the balcony, the width of which rarely exceeds 1.3 m, you can place a library shelf, a workplace, or even two on both sides of the aisle.
Place a small sofa under the window where it is convenient to read a book or relax. If the interior style allows, place wicker furniture (table and chairs) for morning coffee. The rocking chair looks good. On the former loggia it is easy to equip built-in cabinets with shelves for storing household items: conservation, tools, detergents. On former balcony Really equip your workplace to suit your hobby or specific work.
For example, like this:
In addition, you can also place a relaxation area on the same balcony:
Shelves for books, plants or favorite decorative items can also be placed in window opening: this way you won’t block the flow of light into the room, and you’ll take advantage of the space vacated by the window.
Option 2: modular furniture is our everything
So, we safely placed one of the zones on the balcony. However, with the arrangement of furniture for the bedroom and living room, the question remains open.
To save space, use folding upholstered furniture. There is nothing shameful or uncomfortable about living on a folding sofa. If the room is furnished with only one sleeping place, it is a good idea to have a cotton pad or, in extreme cases, an air mattress for guests in the pantry.
Photo - 15 Sofa and sleeping place- two in one
Modular sofa individual project transforms into an armchair, footrest or coffee table. When disassembled you will get a full double bed. Install cabinets and cabinets from modules for TV and other household appliances.
Photo - 20 Modular sofa - maximum functionality
Option 3: down with the ceiling
If you live in Khrushchev on your own or with a partner, and children, grandchildren and guests are a “seasonal” phenomenon, feel free to tear down the walls, combining rooms. You won’t gain much space by demolishing a wall (on average, the width of the wall does not exceed 120-250 mm), but visibility more space You will definitely have an apartment!
Before tearing down a wall, make sure it is not “load-bearing” as you risk destroying the entire home. Coordinate the redevelopment with the relevant services. Try the option of making columns from the wall. This will give your apartment an exclusive look.
In addition to knocking down a wall, visually expand the room with your chosen color range finishing of walls, floors and ceilings. Experiment with lighting and mirrors that visually expand the boundaries of the space.
In the interior of a studio apartment it is much easier to place all the furniture necessary for a comfortable stay.
If you are worried about the isolation of your sleeping area, or whether sleeping in a room without partitions will make you uncomfortable, place a small screen or false wall between the zones, and you will definitely be guaranteed a sweet sleep under any circumstances. For example, like this:
You can do without partitions, screens and curtains: it is enough to place the sleeping area and the living room with their backs to each other: for example, creating a high headboard and a corner sofa.
Design of a one-room Khrushchev house
Studio apartments, which are being built in Khrushchev-era buildings, are in demand. Redevelopment involves combining a kitchen, room, hall and balcony, which are conventionally divided into zones. If you put your hand professional designer, you will get fashionable and current design apartments.
After demolishing the wall, complement the space with a trendy bar counter or sofa. If you have one large room, divide it into zones using screens, decorative curtains. Besides this, finishing material(laminate, tiles, wallpaper, carpet) use separately for each zone. Use your imagination, but don’t zone the room with sliding doors. It is important to visually divide the territory.
Photo - 42 Bookcase in a one-room Khrushchev house
It is possible to make a personal paradise out of any Khrushchev building. The main thing is to decide what you want to see and you are able to independently turn your plans into reality. It is better to seek help from designers and professional workers who will do all the dirty work. This way you will save time, and the repair will not take several years.
Use decorative elements: photo frames, vases, lamps, mirrors and paintings. But in moderation. There is no point in cluttering the room with small things.
Photo - 45 Studio apartment in New York
Some good ideas for a one-room apartment that can be transferred to the interior of a Khrushchev building:
Photo - 50 Variety of ideas for arranging furniture in one room apartment
Leave partitions or make a studio; put a bed or make do with a sofa, where you can squeeze in a full-fledged wardrobe. Apartments with an area of 30 square meters most often need to accommodate the full functionality of a spacious apartment, and this is not an easy task. and journalist Evgeny Ivanov shares ideas for six planning solutions for tiny apartments.
1. Small apartment on Mosfilmovskaya (Moscow)
Here the living room was combined with the kitchen, and the bedroom was made isolated. But the main thing is that they have finally abandoned the rule “small apartment - white apartment.”
Layout. Initially, the room in the apartment was divided by a partition - it was demolished, as was the wall between the kitchen and living area. The resulting space houses a fairly spacious bedroom, a corridor, a kitchen-living room and a bathroom.
The boundaries of the partitions were calculated literally down to the centimeter, focusing on the dimensions of the selected furniture. If, for example, the sofa had been wider or longer, it simply would not have been carried through the corridor. So, in the bathroom (2.7 sq. m.) we had to change the shower stall - the one that was originally chosen did not open all the way, resting against the sink.
Kitchen. In the five-meter kitchen, they sacrificed the dining table and made a bar counter instead. To free work area, chose a two-burner hob. The eclectic style of the apartment was especially evident in the kitchen: a classic set, a “hog” on the apron, modern appliances and a bar counter with designer chairs.
Storage. The owner of the apartment is a young girl, she needed at least two wardrobes for clothes. One was placed opposite the bed in the bedroom. To prevent massive furniture from putting psychological pressure, mirrors were inserted into the niches on the sides of the cabinet - a sense of perspective appeared. Second large closet Made to order, it was built along the wall in the corridor.
The design of a one-room Khrushchev house cannot be called boring. The trick is that bright color The interior distracts from the small area of the apartment. Yellow sofa, green chest of drawers, black and white curtains, fuchsia on pillows and pouf, geometric and floral designs- I want to look at all this. The sofa for the living room was bought at IKEA, but it is unrecognizable - the cover was sewn to order in a textile workshop. The cabinets and bar counter were made by a private craftsman.
2. “Kopeck piece” from “odnushka” in Perovo (Moscow)
One more corner apartment, but organized completely differently than the previous one. The one-room apartment in the Khrushchev-era building in the photo is an example of an uncharacteristic design for our times. While other owners of small apartments are massively blurring the boundaries between the room and the kitchen, a young couple from Moscow decided not to remove anything, but also to add partitions to the layout. The one-room apartment on the fifth floor of the I-515 building eventually turned into a two-room apartment. 
Layout. The owners of the apartment, Anna and Alexey, did without the help of a designer. Comfort in their understanding meant an isolated bedroom and a separate living room. Therefore, the room was divided into two - the corner layout made it possible to allocate a window in each room. The bedroom turned out to be 7 square meters. m, the living room is a little larger. The boundaries of the kitchen remained untouched. Both Anna and Alexey needed workspaces: one was set up in the living room, the other in the bedroom.
Bedroom. There are two sleeping places: a full bed in the bedroom and a folding sofa in the living room.
Kitchen. The set was selected in accordance with the design of the apartment of 30 square meters. m: white glossy. The tiles on the apron are of a grassy shade; in summer they form a single ensemble with the greenery outside the window. The window between the kitchen and bathroom had to be blocked in order to hang the cabinet in the corner.
Storage. There is quite a lot of storage space. It's big too corner cabinet in the living room, and a red chest that holds guest pillows and blankets, and inner drawers bed, intended for the owners' paintings.
To visually increase the area of the apartment, the walls were decorated with white plaster, and the windows were not covered with curtains. This is a Japanese practice: the trees outside the window act as a visual accent, the street becomes decorative element interior
Alexey's desk in the living room is on wheels. When guests arrive, it turns into a dining room.
3. Monochrome apartment where everything fits
The design of a one-room apartment in Tekstilshchiki (Moscow) has Scandinavian “roots”. Its owner Sergei is a specialist in the sales department. To rationally use every centimeter of the apartment - this was the task set to the designer.
Layout. Extra partitions were not needed here, but they did not completely abandon them. A niche was made of light blocks for the sleeping area, and the entrance to the kitchen was moved from the center of the apartment to the window. A mini-office was made at the entrance site. Workplace A small niche separates it from the living room.
In the kitchen with an area of 4.9 sq. m the owner wanted to accommodate dishwasher. Household appliances We used only a narrow one: dishwasher 45 cm wide, refrigerator 55 cm wide, hob- for three burners. The tabletop was placed under the window - here you can cook, eat, and work.
The opening between the kitchen and living room is 80 cm, so that a door can be easily inserted, for example, when selling. A kitchen with a gas stove; without a door, the apartment will not be sold. Today, safety is monitored by a gas controller.
In fact, the bedroom and living room are in the same room, but at the foot of the bed you can always lower a wide roller blind and hide from guests or isolate yourself from the light of street lamps. The size of the bedroom was determined by the furniture: the width of the bedroom is equal to the width of the IKEA bed, the length is equal to the wardrobe adjacent to the hallway. The living room is zoned using corner sofa at the window. It was too noisy for a bedroom - the apartment is on the second floor, the windows overlook the road.
Storage. Most of the things fit into a corner cabinet purchased from IKEA. It consists of several modules and is located along the hallway wall and along the bedroom partition. In the center there is a section with beveled corners; a vacuum cleaner and other bulky equipment are stored here. Besides, small cabinets and shelves are located at the head of the bed. There is also storage space under the bed with lifting mechanism and under the sofa seat.
The same trick as with narrow appliances in the kitchen was repeated in the bathroom: wall hung toilet Hatria is one of the smallest that can be found on sale. And the depth of the washing machine is only 37 cm. Thanks to this, it was possible to squeeze in a full-sized 120 cm bathtub.
3. Khrushchev with a glass bedroom
Another Khrushchev. The architects thought through the design of a one-room apartment for a young girl, the daughter of the clients. While she grows up, the property will be rented out. They wanted the apartment to be bright, with a separate bedroom. The owner's special request was to have a sink next to the window.
Layout. Since traditional partitions make the space darker and cramped, they have been abandoned everywhere. The kitchen was combined with the living room, a beam was left on the ceiling - in case it was necessary to quickly build a wall without removing stretch ceiling. The kitchen, dining and living room areas are located along the same line along the wall.
The bedroom is separated from the living room and hallway glass partitions. Behind them are blackout curtains (they provide complete blackout even during the day). The partitions extend halfway up the wall, and when the curtains are removed, the space looks unified.
Sleeping places are a double bed in the bedroom and a folding sofa in the living room. Clothes and bedding are placed in a large closet in the bedroom. That's enough for now. When the young housewife moves into the apartment, another closet will appear in the hallway - a place is allocated for it in the plan.
To organize a sink near the window, the window sill had to be raised to the level of the countertop. The kitchen cabinets in the top line were made to fit the ceiling - this gives more storage space. The dining area is located exactly in the middle between the kitchen and living room. The table is designed for four.
To allow as much sunlight as possible into the apartment, the height of the window sill in the room was reduced, turning the window sill into a bench. Panoramic glazing was installed on the loggia.
The washing machine was hung on the wall in the bathroom. This is a special model designed to load 3 kg of laundry.
4. Mediterranean apartment near the Sevastopolskaya metro station in Moscow
The owner of the apartment runs the engineering service in a construction company and lives in the Moscow region. He needs an apartment in the capital for short stops in the city.
One-room apartment 30 sq. m turned into a studio. The bathroom wall was slightly enlarged towards the kitchen in order to hide the refrigerator in the resulting niche. The main idea: the more light and air, the better. That’s why even the windows were chosen with a completely white profile (and inside) and a little wider than the standard ones. The entire space of the apartment is visible from the hallway. 
There is no separate bed - a bright blue sofa is intended for sleeping. There is also no TV in the bedroom-living room. In its place is a photograph of the sea and sky. The photo was taken by the owner in Mallorca and printed on fabric. The equipment that is in the apartment is not striking. For example, the music system is selected small size and white.
There are few things in the apartment, so everything fits into a white wardrobe from IKEA and a chest of drawers made according to individual order. The chest of drawers was placed next to the sofa. 
The kitchen has become part of the room. It is combined with the rest of the space using color: white facades, sinks, appliances. Work surface in the kitchen there is a countertop made of laminated oak (IKEA), and all the window sills in the apartment are made from it. Mosaic on kitchen apron combines all the interior colors: terracotta, blue, light blue and white. The lower part of the bathroom is decorated with the same mosaic. Roll call of colors and textures in small space necessary so as not to create diversity. The floors throughout the apartment are laid with the same type of Spanish tiles.
Most of the furniture in the apartment is from IKEA.
5. Apartment for guests of St. Petersburg
The apartment is intended for short-term rental to city guests. And the design of an apartment of 30 sq. m, and the layout is connected with the general idea - a temporary shelter. The owner conceived it as “for himself traveling.” For example, there is a full bed here, not a sofa. It may take up more space, but for a tourist who arrived by night train or spent the day wandering around the cultural capital, the bed is more comfortable and appropriate.
To preserve the volume of space, they abandoned the partition between the room and the kitchen and the door between the room and the hallway. Thanks to this, sunlight from the windows reaches the front door itself. And from the entrance the studio apartment seems more spacious. The space is divided into three zones: entrance, living and recreation area. The latter is located on a loggia, behind transparent doors. There they placed a bar counter by the window with a panoramic view. 
Travelers do not need a large kitchen, so several kitchen cabinets and the dining area was made in one line. Upper cabinets They didn’t hang it up, they added an open shelf to the kitchen. A refrigerator and a small shelf with appliances were placed in a structural niche on the adjacent wall. A TV was hung above the dining table, which you can watch while lying on the bed.
The bed is opposite the kitchen and dining area. Behind the stepped partition there is a living room area, where there is an additional sleeping place - a folding sofa.
There is not much storage space, but tourists don’t need more. The closet in the hallway was built from plasterboard; the louvered doors for it were bought at a construction hypermarket.
Half of the closet is intended for clothes and a suitcase, the second is for storing a vacuum cleaner, mop, and ironing board.
The main background in the apartment is calm, but the details are bright and colorful. This distinguishes an apartment from a hotel room: the apartment is cozy, like home.
The entire interior palette is presented at the head of the bed.
In a combined bathroom upper part The walls are painted a bright mustard color. This color will cheer you up in the morning, because it is often cloudy in St. Petersburg.
Despite the popularity of new buildings in almost all regions of Russia, many, if not most of us, live in Khrushchev-era buildings in panel houses. This is what people call small apartments from the times of Khrushchev. They are distinguished by relatively small kitchens and separate bathrooms. In this article we will talk about the design of a one-room Khrushchev house. Approximate area finishing works 30 - 32 sq. m. How to make a small one-room apartment visually larger and more spacious if redevelopment is not available to you.
IN small apartment, like a one-room Khrushchev house, the owners fight for every millimeter during renovation, so that both visually the space looks larger and physically it is possible to fit what is needed on minimum area. We will try to discuss the intricacies of this task. Below we will talk about the style that you could adhere to in decorating the apartment, about the intricacies of finishing and repairing all rooms, about individual details of finishing work. Such as the choice of wallpapers, their existing species. Space zoning, all available options. Floor finishing options. Doors in small apartments. We will also cover the topic of the influence of color in space on people’s behavior and mood. We hope that, having learned current trends, you will be able to make the choice that will bring the highest quality result of your work.
Style selection
It can be difficult to choose one certain style in Khrushchev, you may like something from one thing, but something from the completely opposite. Don't be afraid to mix styles, choose what suits your taste. It is quite difficult to maintain one image in the premises of Khrushchev, and then the most reasonable thing is to use materials from different genres, guided by your own choice of shapes and finishes.
1. Classic. A combination of tradition, solidity, with the high cost and quality of the materials used. Furniture made of natural wood, upholstered in expensive fabric. The tones in this style are calm and restrained. Beige, pastel, rich brown, or greenish. Pictures will fit well here different sizes and with a massive, expensive frame.
Room design
1. If several people live in a 1-room apartment, then it is convenient to zoning the room. Select at least two zones. For each option, such zones are appropriate in their own way. You can zone in direct order erecting a visually real wall or fence. For example, from foam blocks (then the wall will be real), chipboard, or drywall. Such a partition can be soundproofed and insulated, for example, with glass wool.
Wooden partitions are formed by covering shingles and plaster. To save as much as possible larger area residential part, many try to make the partition as thin as possible, or disguise something else as it. For example, install sliding doors, they do not take up extra space, opening in both directions by sliding. You can separate the parts simply with a closet, floor-to-ceiling shelves, shelving or furniture.
Wallpaper now comes in all sorts of colors, colors, and designs. Vinyl, paper, three-dimensional, simple. We will talk more about their selection and colors below. If the floor is uneven, then now there are many ways from pouring to leveling using wood panels and level. It is better to make the floor at the same level throughout the entire apartment, without thresholds and sudden changes in height. Another point in the design of a living room in a one-room apartment is paintings or photographs, which can be hung in a certain order on the wall.
It’s worth choosing in advance the places where the paintings will hang, so that you don’t have to fill nail holes later.
3. The ceiling in the room is often finished with so-called suspended ceilings, or, for example, wallpaper for painting. There is also a technology for simply stretching beautiful natural fabric between self-made beams. The beams can be made into squares and varnished. It turns out something like a Swedish ceiling.
Pay attention to home textiles. You can combine to your taste, choose everything in different colors: from curtains, to sofa upholstery, from carpet to tablecloth. Some people prefer coarser, noble fabrics, others prefer lighter, more transparent ones. On small space it is better to use transformable furniture, modern walls, not weighing down cabinets. Cabinet furniture leaves room for imagination in its arrangement.
Bathroom design
A lot of time and effort is devoted to renovating a bathroom. In a one-room Khrushchev house you can combine a bathroom. The main problem in the design of a bathroom in a one-room Khrushchev apartment and decoration here small areas. It is difficult to place in such an area: a bathtub, a toilet, a sink, washing machine. It is better to immediately, from the beginning of the repair, think about where everything will stand, and preferably down to the millimeter. Replace the sitz bath with a shower stall. Hide the toilet flank into the wall.
Doors in a small one-room apartment can take up a lot of extra space. You can install sliding doors, or simply leave an arch, for example, from the corridor to the kitchen.
Light
In specialized stores and online sources large number variety of chandeliers, sconces, floor lamps. They can be complementary to each other and made in the same style, from the same materials, and sold as a set. You can choose light sources that are dissimilar, but will highlight the design. You can purchase LED strips to illuminate the perimeter of the ceiling with them. Cabinets are also in fashion now, with shelves illuminated by the same LED strips. In any case, the light in the apartment should be multi-level, so that you can turn off the main light and leave a more intimate one.
Color range
How can you make it so that it is not only pleasant and comfortable in your apartment, but also that it gives you strength and vigor? Psychologists have asked this question. They studied the influence on the human condition of decision-making of such design components as colors, shapes, textures, images. The color of a design can significantly change relationships, skills, and habits.
Flooring
Let us explore in more detail the topic of modern floor coverings. After all, this is also a very important issue that receives a lot of attention. It is better to start finishing the white key after finishing the walls and floor. Materials are divided into: natural and artificial.
Parquet. Parquet has the highest wear resistance and practically does not deform. Piece parquet is more susceptible to external influences, such as moisture, than all other types. Parquet is durable, but it is better to use it in rooms that are not popular in terms of traffic.
Cork floor. Environmentally friendly material. Cork is produced in the form of tiles, which consist of pressed layers. The outer layer is veneer, varnished on top. In this case, very good sound and heat insulation. Such material evens out even with slight deformation. Has antibacterial properties.
Marmoleum is made from natural ingredients. These tiles are glued on. Quite resistant to fire.
Laminate has several layers. The base is MDF, using plastic, and a decorative layer on top.
Linoleum is durable and wear-resistant, is not afraid of moisture and is easy to lay.
Carpeting is best used in bedrooms, living rooms, and in rooms where a cozy, soft atmosphere looks better.
In conclusion, I want to say that even the process of repair and decoration itself can bring real pleasure, because it is a change. Renovation means everything new, change of scenery, colors. Of course, this will not give your one-room apartment a new life, but it will significantly change it, you will see how much more joyful it will be for you to be at home. This is a new breath for your home, and it’s up to you whether it will bring you true pleasure. Good luck with your results.
The main inconvenience of the Khrushchev apartment is its small size: the rooms, the kitchen, and the bathroom. Besides, low ceilings, often - the absence of a balcony (there were never loggias in these houses).
The simplest option: removing the doors and demolishing them interior walls, thanks to which a single space will be created that can be planned completely differently.
Kitchen
Not the best good option combining the hallway, kitchen and living room: the kitchen, albeit relatively, should be separated from the space of the room, even if only by a light, sliding partition, for example, a screen.
The unifying element can be a folding, large table when unfolded, which can stand on the line separating the living room and kitchen. If one person lives in an apartment, then it would be even better to keep a table in the room - this will turn the meal from an ordinary meal into an aesthetic episode.
During cooking, the partition should be retracted to minimize the penetration of odors from cooking into the room: it is this aspect that reduces positive effect unifying space.
To visually increase the size of the kitchen, especially if it is very small: purchase narrow, tall cabinets, and place wall cabinets either on a ledge or in a checkerboard pattern, which will increase the space for placing dishes while maintaining the effect of a free room.
Room
Depending on the size of the room, you should consider its design so that everything you need fits in it, but the effect of spaciousness is preserved.
Balcony
If the apartment has a balcony, the exit to which in Khrushchev-era apartments is usually made from the room, it must be used wisely. Having contacted a specialized company for glazing balconies, you should order them not just glazing and placing shelves there, but also be sure to create a thermal chamber there for storing vegetables and fruits.
You must purchase it: all year round this device maintains the same temperature, all stored products are perfectly preserved, and the kitchen space is greatly relieved from excess furniture. On glassed balcony You can also place tools, sports equipment, as well as those household items that are not used every day, for example, containers and canning equipment.
Very small room, it is better to decorate it in a minimalist style: the room should be divided into zones of bedroom, work, relaxation, and so on. But each of the zones, despite its miniature size, should be comfortable and not restrict movement.
For this, it is best to use folding furniture. For example, for a bedroom, buy a bed that rises into the closet for the day, freeing up space.
room larger size can be furnished in a classic style: place a sofa or bed in the center, with the headboard against the wall, and place spacious, tall furniture in the corners for storing things.
Anything that can be placed on the walls, for example a TV, is best placed this way: when small footage Every square centimeter is precious.
Auxiliary premises - bathroom
Usually it is combined, but even then you can think through the design well. For example, instead of a bathroom, install a shower stall, and install a washing machine in the freed-up space.
Quite a lot of space can be freed up by replacing the bathroom communications with modern, compact ones. Usually the bathroom makes a depressing impression due to poor ventilation, so solving this issue will make it possible to pay attention to wall cladding, ceiling decoration and proper placement of bathroom furniture.
Usually the toilet and bathroom are very small, but they look even smaller due to the fact that they have mezzanines for storing things. This element of furniture creates the impression not of a corridor, but of a cave, which immediately reduces the energy of the interior.
