Ways to zone a house
How do you make each space function for you? The objective is to establish areas where people can play, work, and unwind. To do this, you don’t need separate rooms; continue reading for some simple zoning ideas.
Paint a room
Color can even vary the mood from one area to another, making it a terrific method to delineate different parts of a room. Consider this kitchen-diner, where a turquoise wall divides the quaint dining room from the crisp white kitchen. The room feels friendly thanks to the warm colour, and the light kitchen is a great place for active cooks.
Consider the mood you want to create and pick colors that reflect it. For instance, a kids’ play area may be surrounded by vibrant yellows and blues, while a cozy lounging area would benefit from soothing, soft tones.
Choose for a compromise
Do this to make sure your painted zones blend in with the rest of the area. The upper half should remain the same color as the rest of the room while the bottom half is painted in a different color. This desk area is really in a separate study room, but the concept of designating a corner of an open-plan area for working from home may work well there as well.
Area on the ground level
Using various types of flooring to create zones is a simple yet extremely efficient method. The apparent solution is to use a rug to designate a location that serves a different purpose from the area adjacent to it. The separation of the living area from the kitchen-diner works very effectively in this room. While the patterned rug in the lounge room creates a cozy atmosphere, the smooth flooring in the eating and cooking area is great for easy upkeep.
Make a cozy space
Want a place to relax on the couch and read while the rest of the family eats, plays, or chills out? All you require is one cozy chair that is placed a little bit apart from other parts of the room. You may create your own comfortable reading area by adding a table to hold your books and aromatic candles, as well as a useful floor lamp.
A light
It’s a good idea to take the position of the illumination into account when considering the layout of an open-plan area. Zones in the room can be efficiently created by using pendant lights and lamps. Here, a lovely ceiling light that serves as a visual barrier between the dining area and the seating area and kitchen is ideally positioned beneath it.
Try employing floor lamps, table lamps, and even LED strip lighting to create various moods throughout the space in the evening if the placement of your current ceiling lights doesn’t work for this notion.
Modern homes frequently have an open floor plan with the kitchen, informal dining area, and living area all combined into one large room.
An open floor plan can be great for entertaining and watching over kids, but you also want to make sure the open areas don’t appear sterile and void rather than warm and inviting.
To connect different spaces, use color. Choose one (or two) accent colors, and use them throughout each room. For instance, there are blue ceramic vases on show in the kitchen, blue accent pillows in the living room, and blue accents in the artwork in the dining area.
Rugs in a room define “rooms”. It can be challenging to distinguish between one room and another. In the open living area, area rugs support a special section.
Materials are present throughout the area. The open floor plan should maintain a consistent colour scheme for the flooring and walls. However, keep accent materials in mind as well. For instance, consider the metal finish of your lighting fixtures and furnishings. It will be easier to create a coherent atmosphere if the dining room’s light fixture and the living room’s accent table are both made of chrome.
Include lighting. Sconces in the living room, a chandelier over the dining table, and other decorative lighting fixtures will assist bring your attention to each space while also providing the right amount of task lighting.
Define the traffic patterns between each space using your furniture. Rugs, console tables, and other large furniture pieces should be placed carefully to direct traffic from room to room.
Including a main point. Your attention will be drawn to each space and given an anchor by a striking range hood in the kitchen, a stone fireplace wall in the living room, and a special light fixture in the dining room.
To build a stunning open concept home, you don’t need to be an interior designer. Open floor designs can be more challenging at first, but as your home design takes shape and you start using the advice in this post, you’ll feel more confident.
You’ll soon be sought out for design advice by all of your friends and neighbours!
The advice applies whether you’ve picked a house, flat, condo or townhouse, but I make things easy by referring to your residence.
TIPS FOR DECORATING AN OPEN FLOOR PLAN
Making a cohesive design with the connected spaces is one of the toughest decorating problems in open concept designing.
As all of the visual examples come from our home, I figured it might be helpful to show the floorplan before we discuss the first piece of advice.
I had to find out how to have everything flow together because the open dining and kitchen are visible from the front door straight into the living area.
Here are 9 decoration ideas for open-concept rooms.
CONTINUE COLORS
Choose accent hues that can be incorporated into your open layout in many ways. I chose Sherwin-Williams Web Gray and applied it to the dining room’s back wall, the kitchen island, and the front door.
Even though the color fluctuates depending on the lighting, applying the colour in various ways gives each open area some continuity while also giving it a distinct sense.
REPEAT FORMATS
Patterns and textures are an essential component of any decor, whether your taste is subdued or bold. They offer interest to your house.
When choosing patterns for rugs, window coverings, and cushions in an open floor plan, keep the entire room in mind. Although they don’t have to match in every area, you should make sure that anything viewable from the same angle coordinates.
With repeated colors, repeating patterns can give your house a unified look without being monotonous.
Our main hallway is open to the garage entry, which is connected to our laundry area. That meant whatever we choose for the laundry room renovation had to blend in with the home’s common areas.
Our new laundry room/entry tile shares a pattern with the rug near the back door and the sizable dining room rug, even though I bought them all at different times.
The repetition unifies the entire home even if each occurrence of the pattern is a little different and you can never see more than two in one view.
Make use of uniform flooring
You might be thinking that I must be breaking my own rule since I JUST showed you the tile in our laundry room/garage entry touching the wood flooring.
In fact, a place where this rule is being followed is the washing room. We had to pay for replacing that flooring at the same time as renovating the laundry room because it had previously shared a tile with the entrance from the garage. Maintaining the original tiling in a nearby area would have felt chaotic and overpowering.
Consider how you may connect as many of the open spaces in your home with one flooring surface as you create future plans for it. DON’T be the open house I once went to where I could see five different types of flooring at once!
From the front door through the kitchen, dining room, and nook, we decided to use wood. In hindsight, we wish we had found the funds to extend it into our downstairs bedroom, great room, and my office.
With all of this, DON’T be frightened to choose various tiles for various bathrooms. It’s absolutely OK to have fun with a variety of finishing alternatives for each bathroom as long as they all fit with your overall vision for your house.
TRIM AND WALL PAINT CONSISTENTLY
The best place to experiment with several various wall and trim paint colors isn’t in open concept spaces.
Maintain the trim a single color, and resist the urge to deviate from the house’s architectural style when choosing paint colors.
Keep it one color if you have a Lengthy wall that runs through several different spaces.
I understand how difficult it must be to only want to paint one region. Without covering the entire doorway, stairway, and room at the top of the stairs, we are unable to paint a wall in the kitchen.
Make sure to try the samples in each location before deciding on a paint color for the big open space because they will all have distinct lighting. Go for a neutral color and include other ways to add personality to your home.
I assure you that the news is not entirely awful. Use a lively accent color or wall treatment for a smaller, more defined wall, like we did in the dining room, when the majority of the walls are one neutral color.
IDENTIFY ROOMS WITH AREA RUGS
My FAVORITE way to delineate open spaces and add elegance is using rugs. Choose a sizable rug to anchor each space if you’re eating area and living space are completely open to one another.
My preferred option is when the carpets complement one another well without being exact replicas of one another.
CHOOSE A FEATURE ITEM TO MAKE EACH SPACE DIFFERENT
A lot of time has been spent on how to make spaces feel unified and consistent. Having a strong foundational palette will allow you to play around with mixing things up to suit your personality.
Each region of your open space needs to have something to catch the eye and help your guests remember it as a distinct place. And it must also hold special meaning for you.
Very likely, you already have some incredible items to showcase. Ours came together gradually and consists of a combination of do-it-yourself efforts (the Gs in the living room), vacation art purchases (Jackie in the dining room), and vintage treasures (the auditorium desks in the entry).
Try coming up with a list of all the things you enjoy if you’re stuck on this one. I think it will inspire you to come up with some original ideas, whether it is through sports, travel, reading, or a particular design aesthetic.
IMPROVE OPEN FLOOR PLANS WITH WARMTH
Open floor plans might occasionally feel a little sterile. There are still a few more things you can do, even though that’s less likely if you’ve used all the previous advice!
Choose the appropriate furniture
While choosing furniture, make sure to look at the back of each piece to see if it will be placed “floating” in your space rather than up against a wall.
Barstools are part of this. While evaluating comfort, we frequently view them from the seat side in retail settings. Actually, because they are pressed up against your island, the side you will notice the most is the back.
ADD DIMENSION TO SUBJECT AREAS
Wide open spaces with linked but less open rooms or passageways can be seen in many floor plans.
I adore using those spaces to give our home depth and interest. For instance, the open area between the kitchen and living room leads to the corridor to our bedroom. It was merely a useful beige box for many years.
A tiny quantity of geometric wallpaper gave the room a unique, personable appeal.
My home office in the front of the house was the other adjacent location where I dared to be brave. Since it is a distinct room, the open living and kitchen areas cannot see it. But you can see it from the entrance thanks to the clear doors.
But make sure the rooms have a connection to the rest of your house in addition to the strong splashes of color. I utilize the colors white, grey, and gold in both the hallway and the office to help bring everything together.
