Replan the house: opportunities, risks and pitfalls.

Given the experience FORUMHOUSE users, we'll show you how to make alterations on their own.

There is not a room that can not be made more comfortable. Update communication, break down walls or make new ones, sew up the door, attach comfortable carcass veranda porch instead of cold - any of these measures will make housing more convenient for your family.

From the point of view of the law, redevelopment means any change, after which the house is no longer consistent with the pattern on which it was built. Almost all of these works can be done only with the permission of the relevant authorities of your municipality. Does your planned alteration of the official permit, you will be told in the body of architectural and construction supervision of your municipality, but in general, coordination is not required if:

• You move to another location within the plumbing appliances bathroom.
• Sew up the door (laying openings) in the supporting walls;
• Make temporary partitions between rooms;
• Demolition of non-load bearing walls;
• Make doorways in the interior walls.

The law requires you to notify the supervising organizations. You can not do this, but if you decide to sell their homes, problems may arise: in the plan of the house have to be made all the changes. So, one of the participants FORUMHOUSE for home sales had returned to its original location in wardrobe - without full compliance with the plan, the bank refused to give the buyer a mortgage.

Harmonization is required for:

• Changes in engineering systems and insulation;
• Any change in the supporting elements of home construction, including the expansion of doorways.

For these works is given permission.

You do not give permission for all the work that reduces the safety of the house, weaken the structure; to work in a dilapidated house on reconstruction of balconies and loggias in a heated room. On FORUMHOUSE you can get advice on your individual situation.

Consider specific examples of our portal users as their own hands, without involving designers and without hiring builders to drastically change their housing, improve its grade to the level of "want here live".

House, who rebuiltSailer197

The old house, built in 40-ies of the last century, the old stove, cold attic and went outside toilet user FORUMHOUSE Sailer197 by inheritance. Family Sailer197 lived in a rented apartment, was a question of moving sharply to the move and the birth had to solve the most important questions: do a bathroom and a new heating, than Sailer197 and engaged in the first two months. A total repair and design work took one and a half years, but the result was worth it.

Before redevelopment the house had four rooms, a corridor, a tiny room with a stove, overlooking the summer terrace. In the diagram, you can see how it was arranged, and that remade Sailer197. Before the entrance to the house was through a porch - then the room with the stove - then the hallway and go into the kitchen could only be through one of the rooms. Member FORUMHOUSE dismantled stove and broke down the wall that separated the room with stove and kitchen.

It turned out pretty large room, of which he was fenced in a bathroom.

In place of the old cold verandas Sailer197 He builds a frame extension, which combined the functions of the boiler room with a boiler and the input group in the house.

Kitchen made under the author's wife FORUMHOUSE project participant. The walls and ceiling of the old private houses can not be called smooth, so the whole house is decorated with drywall in all rooms are stretched ceilings, doorways are reduced under the normal door.

All street walls are insulated with mineral wool. Gender is also insulated, especially in the children.

The highlight of rework - white linoleum.

Here are the alterations option when combined with the kitchen corridor, like many of our member portal that will enjoy spacious, bright room. But worrying that the kitchen exhaust fumes will rise to the top floor, and the main thing "at the entrance of the hall seemed suddenly hit in the eyes of the kitchen."

Lamfadel (FORUMHOUSE Moderator):

There is no "exhaust fumes" from the kitchen does not happen, if properly organizedventilation systemand most hoods in the kitchen. To kitchen "I did not beat in the eyes", the only advice is to choose the right kitchen, which will be part of the interior.

When combining the kitchen with living professionals advise not to forget: Mediazona (TV cabinet) and a sofa should be located in the far from the entrance of the room. When often pass by the sofa on the kitchen needs, it's annoying, besides sit in front of the entrance is not particularly comfortable.

Prioritize work for self-alteration home

When it comes to such large-scale alteration of, like Sailer197, The order of work performed is particularly important. user FORUMHOUSE Sergey_24Who is engaged in it professionally, made a plan-list to help amateurs. So he sticks here is the following sequence:

• Dismantling.
• The construction of walls.
• Plastering (rough plaster).
• Installation of communications (electrical, plumbing, low current), grout Stroebe.
• Flooring (coupler).
• Installation GCR functional.
• Shpatlevanie (not plaster) walls and ceilings (if not intended suspension / tension).
• Finishing walls and ceilings.
• Finishing the floor finish.
• Door.

Works in the bathroom derived from this list. Repairs in the room optimally will do at the end of draft works throughout the apartment.

Internal from JapanJosefa

Quite often it helps to make redevelopment more comfortable and spacious apartment from the usual Khrushchev. Good taste and creativity can work wonders.

JosefaHer husband, daughter, cat and bullmastiff live in a studio apartment, where all have enough space. Spacious became after alteration: the kitchen was moved into the living room and made a studio, and in the former kitchen made his daughter's room. As a result, should a full kitchen with a breakfast bar along the windows, book shelves, audio-video TV Center studios. This family loves oriental exoticism, so there is no room chairs and cabinets: all necessary items are kept in large wicker baskets, guests take over the low table with cushions instead of chairs.

Interestingly solved sleeping area instead podium bed made of pine boards, framed by a ground lime, to which two tatami bed (2mh0,9mh0,8m) and futon (Japanese mattress; night sleep on it, and in the afternoon rolled up in the form of a sofa). On the walls of woven bamboo and pencil drawings, painted daughter Josefa.

All the furniture in the room her daughter made their own hands - a bed, wardrobe, desk and bookshelves were perfectly fit into the small size and layout of the kitchen.

Josefa (User FORUMHOUSE):

In combination bathroom is a wooden barrel-ofuro, very saves space. In general, a lot of things invented.

The aim of remaking the bathroom was "cheap to do something unusual." Great ideas implemented here at every step. Thus, the shell stands on the bed of an old sewing machine, instead of a standard bath set a large oak font (it is noticeable to save space), a lamp purchased at garden the market for toilet paper holder made from a fragment of an ancient bronze chandelier from a flea market, and toothbrushes and toothpaste are in cups made from flower pots.

Apartment Josefa located on the 11th floor, and, of course, raises the question of how the problem was solved by drainage. Walls when replanning not communicated and not tolerated, but in the corner between the bathroom and the kitchen has been made a hole through which the flexible pipe laid.

Josefa:

If suddenlycontrived to sell the apartment, Dismantling of all communications will take a minimum of time.

This system is regularly works more than 10 years, the neighbors never flooded, but the author emphasizes that "BTI in the house do not let."

When repairing is also necessary to remember the order of finishing, it should be like this: the ceiling-wall-floor.

Repairman Tony (User FORUMHOUSE):

With this operation, it ensures the integrity of already refurbished parts in the repair of these.

Unconventional approach to furniture frombeutifletandzerok

Sometimes, to make a tiny room comfortable and functional, simply forget everything that we know about the furniture arrangement. In practice, the user FORUMHOUSE  beutiflet was one "non-standard, but superudobnoe solution" for the microscopic kitchen.

Beutiflet (User FORUMHOUSE):

Since then I have repeatedly broke all sorts of stereotypes and continue to treat them fairly lightly.

The main innovation of the kitchen - a table set not traditionally and diagonally.

As a result, the table is free and can accommodate three family members, and is still "room for maneuver". Shelf kettle and mixer are also placed in the corner, moreover, there was a place for the drawer with forks, knives. The table is also made with his own hands, but for the yellow doors under the slab - for drying dishes.

With great enthusiasm alters their homes participant FORUMHOUSE zerok. She learned to make furniture and now creates a functional living space for a large family with children using beds, cabinets, folding tables and designs of their own invention like "Noutbuchnits".

Zerok (Participant FORUMHOUSE):

I draw the plans in pro100 (portable version).

En suite bathroom

Participant GINGERBREAD and her husband love to lie in the bath.

GINGERBREAD (Participant FORUMHOUSE):

We can spend hours on end there.

Therefore, we consider the establishment of a bath in the bedroom.

The question was put to the collective intelligence FORUMHOUSE. Experts welcomed the decision, provided that all the installation and waterproofing. At the same time on the floor have to be another bathroom, this bathroom to use only the spouses.

In fact, many designers and architects, based on years of experience, said that the most faithful is usually the first solution. And if the implementation of this idea is technically possible, it makes sense to put it into practice.

How to determine the color and to hide the details of volume

Own design and making safely destroying all stereotypes, it is important to restrain themselves in regard to color. Color decisions should not be a lot, especially in the minimalist rooms. The task seems daunting, but it is enough to determine the basic color, add a background or contrast, and everything will sort itself out.

If you finish using the drawings, it should be remembered that the best thing they look at the background color. That is, if you finish in, roughly speaking, a strawberry on a green lawn, the kitchen is better to make the green, etc.

Householders often faced with the need to "do something" with the beam passing near the ceiling. And if in some other areas of the beam can be beat, so that it becomes more dignity, in the bedroom is extra, weighting design element. Especially if after the arrangement of furniture it is right in front of the beds opened my eyes in the morning - at you beamed.

Experts say that there are two good ways to "eliminate" the bulk item - do not pay attention to it or decorate mirrors. Constantly thinking about how to hide the beam, we attach to it in their minds and, respectively, interior of the house, a disproportionately large place, and the result is inevitably turns unnatural, inharmonious. Perhaps the best solution is to sew up the beam as the ceiling, and paint it a matte white paint. In the photo below we can see how to solve a similar problem with the help of a mirror. Here the bedroom carried to the lodge, and after dismantling directly over the bed hung an impressive beam sizes.

But we should remember that the mirror - it is still a bold, not all suitable solution.

On FORUMHOUSE you will find plenty of useful information on the subject remodeling, alteration, repair, house or apartment, will be able to watch a video about how amazingly I went home after a small redevelopment, I read an article that will help you avoid mistakes in cosmetic repair.

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