Modern cottages and new buildings delight with a variety of layouts, an opportunity to cater to the taste of any, the most demanding person, providing him with the central room of the house he always dreamed about. Designing the design of the living room with two windows, an interesting problem is solved: how to harmonize the space, make the interior a successful decoration, the background of the owner’s life.
The living room of any style should be filled with light, air, warmth and comfort, so that everyone who enters feels relaxed and calm. The penetration of light into the home provide window systems.The presence of several windows in the main room gives a special, joyful mood when a person is inside a space flooded with sun, and allows you to save a little electricity.
Meeting layout options:
one-way arrangement (standard layout, enfilade passage through adjacent rooms);
window openings in opposite walls;
a window and a glazed bay window in the living room of a country cottage;
window openings in walls perpendicular to each other;
window structures forming an angle;
glass walls of the cottage's living room.
Each of these options has its own characteristics, they should be considered in more detail and find the right course, so that the living room becomes the best place in the apartment.
Identical windows in one plane
The living room, where the window openings are located symmetrically on one wall opposite the door, offers to use symmetry as the main idea of the design decision. Any style based on symmetrical details and designs will be appropriate here.
English central symmetry. The center is a wall between 2 light openings framed by heavy curtains with lambrequins and pickups, it should become a place of attraction for the incoming eye. A fireplace decorated with a shelf for collections, a large mirror in a luxurious frame, a full-length front portrait - the main thing is that the decor item located on the central axis of symmetry really attracts attention, organizes the space around it.
The modern interior dictates to occupy the wall between two window openings with a voluminous accent: sculptural installation, decorative light panel. The oversized perforated metal flat luminaire will become a prominent art object in high-tech design.
Also at this place it will be logical to place the TV. The latest technological panels themselves are an analogue of Malevich's “Black Square”, bringing with their presence an abstract touch to the modern interior. Framing a television device with an aluminum frame, suspending it from the ceiling are actual decorating techniques.
When the living room is used as a recreation space for the whole family, and not a reception hall or for musical evenings, where a distracting device is inappropriate, the presence of a TV is functionally necessary. If by its appearance it falls outside the general concept of design, it is easy to decorate it with sliding panels made according to the style frames, or hide it inside a shallow cabinet with hinged doors.
French classic. Another European version of the layout of the interior provides for an enfilade arrangement of rooms. The windows are on the front side, and doorways are very close to the walls adjacent to it. Thus, the entire space remains on the sidelines, is recessed, slightly hidden from the direct rays of the bright sun, which provide sufficient lighting. This layout belongs to the southern direction of European architecture and is often found in Russian palaces and museums designed by invited architects who followed the foreign canons.
In this version of the layout, the main action inside the living room takes place away from window structures that have a limited lighting function and the role of a theater curtain that conceals the view outside the window. The prefabricated French marquises, as well as the restrained English counterparts, are just a frame, not the center of a room composition.
The furniture of the French version implies the presence of groups of elegant upholstered furniture located along an elongated wall opposite the windows. They surround small tables with carefully arranged bouquets. A limited horizontal surface is designed to put a coffee cup, put glasses, a notebook. Stacked parquet itself is a worthy decoration of the interior, or partially covered with a large carpet.
Short sections of walls near the entrance doors can be used under a fireplace or a slide hiding the mounted TV.An excellent decoration technique is to decorate the nadkaminny space with a mirror: lead bindings, bevels, a rich old frame are impeccable signs of the French style.
Two windows on adjoining walls
For owners of small apartments, where in the living room, which requires multifunctionality, the window openings are quite far apart from each other on perpendicular walls, as a design solution, it is possible to propose the allocation of zones at each window. These sectors, bearing different semantic load, will facilitate the coexistence of people who are forced to be in the same space, but each to do their own thing.
The room is divided into two unequal parts by a transverse transparent rack (without a back wall), which can be used from two sides. Most of the space is given to a traditional living room:
a place of rest for the whole family;
sharing movies;
noisy and board games;
large company dinners.
One of the options for placing the TV is to mount it on a rotating stand or bracket in the middle of the rack, then it will be available for viewing in both zones.
In the second, smaller part, including a window on the long side, you can arrange an office or study area. Functional furniture - a business chair, a desk, a computer desk - all interior items will be set to work, and a chair-chair, thrown at the entrance, will allow you to get a little distracted from business, read an interesting book.
The owners of apartments of limited sizes will be assisted by preserving the family world with headphones. Thus, one who is a fan of his favorite team and likes to turn on the TV at full volume will not interfere with someone who wants to read a book in silence or write a task plan for tomorrow.
When decorating modest apartments for family living, it is better to give preference to a calm style, modern classics, relaxed minimalism, an eco-option.They exclude the appearance of too voluminous elaborate details, which reduce the already limited space with their bright decor.
Dividing the living room into two different functional areas, it is necessary to maintain them in a single style solution, apply a common color scheme. Visually, separation can be emphasized using lighter or more saturated tones from the selected palette. A successful move will be the introduction of noticeable decorative elements into the living room, and the cabinet space should be left more restrained. Even curtains made of the same material or companion fabrics can vary in cut, which will also emphasize the different orientation of parts of the same room. The main thing is to use an unobtrusive design with a textile window design, not to combine lush folded curtains with the option of office blinds.
Light openings on opposite walls
The “light through the building” option is found when building country-style houses of a modern style with elements of cubism or when the guest zone is located on the second level of the mansion with an attic type glazing device. With this layout, the end wall opposite from the entrance forms a backdrop:
for a movie or television complex;
collections of abstract paintings;
bar counter options.
The middle of the room is reserved for sofa groups for relaxing guests and tables (coffee, attached), and the bindings of inclined frames serve as graphic strokes that decorate the landscape outside the window.
Conceiving a living room with skylights on opposite walls and roof sections, you should calculate the height and slightly raise the walls on which the rafter system is fixed. If there is insufficient distance from the floor (if the roof starts directly from it), a walk around the room will be possible only in the center, which will complicate the placement of furniture, and the corners under the bevels will remain unused.
The original solution to the design of the living room on the ground floor is the use of French windows or sliding transparent structures (type of compartment doors). Such techniques will open the windows to the terraces surrounding the room on both sides, go up the steps, "let in" the garden and sky.
A rare option - a good solution
Window and bay window: together or separately. In the projects of houses and apartments there are options where the living room, in addition to a single light opening, is decorated with a glazed bay window that extends beyond the main perimeter.
If the window opening and the bay window are on the same plane, this complicates the designer's task, especially when the dimensions of the room are small. If they cut through different wall structures, then the area with the window and the center should be given to the function of communication, and the dining group should be brought out to the bay window. Upon receiving a large number of guests, the table will turn into a buffet table, the rest of the space will be able to accommodate vacationers. Also, the dining table in the bay window will help to expand the size of the kitchen: setting the rule "no kitchen dinner", the hostess will allow herself great freedom of movement when cooking.
Corner window. Modern architects often use the technique of angular glazing. This option looks especially interesting when the window opening is cut to the floor level, and one transom of the corner window is a door providing access to the balcony.
Such projects involve the placement of groups of upholstered furniture with the back to the translucent structure, TV and other equipment in the shadow of the room, so that volumetric objects do not obstruct the view from the window. If the corner window frame has a different extension (one wing is narrower), it is worth balancing the opening by placing high aquarium racks or a highlighted vertical fountain-waterfall near the smaller part.
Modern cottages and new buildings delight with a variety of layouts, an opportunity to cater to the taste of any, the most demanding person, providing him with the central room of the house he always dreamed about. Designing the design of the living room with two windows, an interesting problem is solved: how to harmonize the space, make the interior a successful decoration, the background of the owner’s life.
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Possible options: make your choice
The living room of any style should be filled with light, air, warmth and comfort, so that everyone who enters feels relaxed and calm. The penetration of light into the home provide window systems.The presence of several windows in the main room gives a special, joyful mood when a person is inside a space flooded with sun, and allows you to save a little electricity.
Meeting layout options:
Each of these options has its own characteristics, they should be considered in more detail and find the right course, so that the living room becomes the best place in the apartment.
Identical windows in one plane
The living room, where the window openings are located symmetrically on one wall opposite the door, offers to use symmetry as the main idea of the design decision. Any style based on symmetrical details and designs will be appropriate here.
English central symmetry. The center is a wall between 2 light openings framed by heavy curtains with lambrequins and pickups, it should become a place of attraction for the incoming eye. A fireplace decorated with a shelf for collections, a large mirror in a luxurious frame, a full-length front portrait - the main thing is that the decor item located on the central axis of symmetry really attracts attention, organizes the space around it.
Also at this place it will be logical to place the TV. The latest technological panels themselves are an analogue of Malevich's “Black Square”, bringing with their presence an abstract touch to the modern interior. Framing a television device with an aluminum frame, suspending it from the ceiling are actual decorating techniques.
When the living room is used as a recreation space for the whole family, and not a reception hall or for musical evenings, where a distracting device is inappropriate, the presence of a TV is functionally necessary. If by its appearance it falls outside the general concept of design, it is easy to decorate it with sliding panels made according to the style frames, or hide it inside a shallow cabinet with hinged doors.
French classic. Another European version of the layout of the interior provides for an enfilade arrangement of rooms. The windows are on the front side, and doorways are very close to the walls adjacent to it. Thus, the entire space remains on the sidelines, is recessed, slightly hidden from the direct rays of the bright sun, which provide sufficient lighting. This layout belongs to the southern direction of European architecture and is often found in Russian palaces and museums designed by invited architects who followed the foreign canons.
In this version of the layout, the main action inside the living room takes place away from window structures that have a limited lighting function and the role of a theater curtain that conceals the view outside the window. The prefabricated French marquises, as well as the restrained English counterparts, are just a frame, not the center of a room composition.
The furniture of the French version implies the presence of groups of elegant upholstered furniture located along an elongated wall opposite the windows. They surround small tables with carefully arranged bouquets. A limited horizontal surface is designed to put a coffee cup, put glasses, a notebook. Stacked parquet itself is a worthy decoration of the interior, or partially covered with a large carpet.
Short sections of walls near the entrance doors can be used under a fireplace or a slide hiding the mounted TV.An excellent decoration technique is to decorate the nadkaminny space with a mirror: lead bindings, bevels, a rich old frame are impeccable signs of the French style.
Two windows on adjoining walls
For owners of small apartments, where in the living room, which requires multifunctionality, the window openings are quite far apart from each other on perpendicular walls, as a design solution, it is possible to propose the allocation of zones at each window. These sectors, bearing different semantic load, will facilitate the coexistence of people who are forced to be in the same space, but each to do their own thing.
The room is divided into two unequal parts by a transverse transparent rack (without a back wall), which can be used from two sides. Most of the space is given to a traditional living room:
One of the options for placing the TV is to mount it on a rotating stand or bracket in the middle of the rack, then it will be available for viewing in both zones.
In the second, smaller part, including a window on the long side, you can arrange an office or study area. Functional furniture - a business chair, a desk, a computer desk - all interior items will be set to work, and a chair-chair, thrown at the entrance, will allow you to get a little distracted from business, read an interesting book.
When decorating modest apartments for family living, it is better to give preference to a calm style, modern classics, relaxed minimalism, an eco-option.They exclude the appearance of too voluminous elaborate details, which reduce the already limited space with their bright decor.
Dividing the living room into two different functional areas, it is necessary to maintain them in a single style solution, apply a common color scheme. Visually, separation can be emphasized using lighter or more saturated tones from the selected palette. A successful move will be the introduction of noticeable decorative elements into the living room, and the cabinet space should be left more restrained. Even curtains made of the same material or companion fabrics can vary in cut, which will also emphasize the different orientation of parts of the same room. The main thing is to use an unobtrusive design with a textile window design, not to combine lush folded curtains with the option of office blinds.
Light openings on opposite walls
The “light through the building” option is found when building country-style houses of a modern style with elements of cubism or when the guest zone is located on the second level of the mansion with an attic type glazing device. With this layout, the end wall opposite from the entrance forms a backdrop:
The middle of the room is reserved for sofa groups for relaxing guests and tables (coffee, attached), and the bindings of inclined frames serve as graphic strokes that decorate the landscape outside the window.
The original solution to the design of the living room on the ground floor is the use of French windows or sliding transparent structures (type of compartment doors). Such techniques will open the windows to the terraces surrounding the room on both sides, go up the steps, "let in" the garden and sky.
A rare option - a good solution
Window and bay window: together or separately. In the projects of houses and apartments there are options where the living room, in addition to a single light opening, is decorated with a glazed bay window that extends beyond the main perimeter.
If the window opening and the bay window are on the same plane, this complicates the designer's task, especially when the dimensions of the room are small. If they cut through different wall structures, then the area with the window and the center should be given to the function of communication, and the dining group should be brought out to the bay window. Upon receiving a large number of guests, the table will turn into a buffet table, the rest of the space will be able to accommodate vacationers. Also, the dining table in the bay window will help to expand the size of the kitchen: setting the rule "no kitchen dinner", the hostess will allow herself great freedom of movement when cooking.
Corner window. Modern architects often use the technique of angular glazing. This option looks especially interesting when the window opening is cut to the floor level, and one transom of the corner window is a door providing access to the balcony.
Such projects involve the placement of groups of upholstered furniture with the back to the translucent structure, TV and other equipment in the shadow of the room, so that volumetric objects do not obstruct the view from the window. If the corner window frame has a different extension (one wing is narrower), it is worth balancing the opening by placing high aquarium racks or a highlighted vertical fountain-waterfall near the smaller part.