Renovating the floor and removing the corridor are not synonymous but they often go hand in hand. We are used to living surrounded by corridors in our homes, in fact, that one of them does not have them, it even seems strange to us. The hallway, without a doubt, is one of the key points in terms of the distribution of the house communicating the different rooms, however, many times these are wasted and it is not easy to visualize how to avoid the corridors in our home.
Nowadays, we have given our homes a twist, open, open spaces, houses full of light, etc. have become fashionable. But how do we do it if we have many corridors in our house? How do we remove a corridor or gain meters from it in a home? Read on and we’ll tell you more about it.
How to avoid the corridors of my home?
When it comes to gaining space, a good idea is to do without the aisle, which is often unnecessary. We do this in order to gain meters for another room that we want to use much more in our day to day.
Tearing down a wall can be the most liberating thing in a home, but before you get to this extreme you must follow a series of steps.
First, first of all, you need to detect if you really need the space you gain by removing this wall. You need to analyze why you want to remove it and how to do it.
Normally, when we want to remove these walls it is because it allows us to expand the common areas where daily life is much greater. The problem is often that we have to redistribute the home and look for a more appropriate layout of the rooms.
Don’t forget that the right thing to do in these processes is to hire a professional. This with their experience, care and professionalism, will make sure that you are not going to eliminate a load-bearing wall, preventing any disaster from occurring. You will have to analyze the structure of the house, confirm whether or not the partitions fulfill a structural function. Not only can they be load-bearing walls, they can also hide plumbing or electrical installations. In short, it never hurts to hire a technical advisor to check all these details.
Once you have found out whether or not a wall can be removed, the next step you should do is see what you want the new layout of your home to be like and see what you would like your renovation project to be like.
Advantages of renovating a floor and removing a corridor in an apartment
- You gain useful meters: the result of this elimination can vary in many ways, in medium and high-end homes it is usually used to achieve an open space with the living room and kitchen, making it much more spacious and larger, thus making it not have to enter through a mini door to the kitchen, or allowing a bathroom not to be hidden in the shadows of a long hallway.
- A feeling of spaciousness, something more than evident.
- Improves lighting: Dispensing with corridors not only makes us gain spaciousness, it can also be used to allow greater light to enter the rooms and the house in general. In the end, corridors are only walls that prevent passage and make it difficult to distribute light in the home.
- Improves ventilation: It allows more ventilation to run throughout the house. This must also be taken into account in the opposite direction. When it comes to putting on the heating or air conditioning, it will also spread out more.
- Versatile areas, that is, by having more space you can be more imaginative and adapt these areas to the specific needs you have.
- Promotes a more social lifestyle: It is a fact that we cannot deny, doors and walls make spaces divided. By eliminating them we get that, for example, if we have a visitor and we are cooking we can all be together even if we are in different rooms of the house.
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New separations, what to do if we can’t eliminate the aisle?
Unfortunately, many times we can only remove a part of the hallway or wall, however, there are many more solutions to gain space, light and ventilation, which do not involve eliminating the hallway completely.
If, for example, only a part of the hallway can be removed, we can leave the structural element that is necessary and turn it into a decorative pillar. This makes the rooms and environments different and makes them spaces without obstacles that take away light. Another option is to turn it into two pillars, leaving a space that is not lost, installing shelves or furniture for decoration.
If, on the other hand, you are used to these divisions, you think that you cannot throw them away, that is, you do not see the elimination completely, you can transform this wall without light into a new separation. This usually happens when you join the living room space with the kitchen, this causes odors and fumes to be throughout the room, that’s why you can separate it in some way. Such as sliding glass or a modern decoration that lets light through.
The objective in these cases is to remove that feeling of confinement that exists in these areas of passage, which is not usually very favorable or aesthetically pleasing. To do this, it is advisable to use translucent materials, skylights on the ceiling, pergolas that face the open air, change of level, different materials on the floor, on the walls, on the ceilings, use natural light or artificial lighting, etc. It is important that these differentiating elements are striking and stand out from the rest.
Finally, if you can’t avoid the hallways even partially, you can opt for decoration. Decoration is a fundamental element if you have one of those long and narrow hallways, however, knowing how to do it is not easy. Integrate high ceilings, paintings, change colors, look for materials or elements that provide light, include natural elements that give a feeling of spaciousness, etc.. In these cases, a good use of colors is critical. Light tones are those that give the most sense of spaciousness.
In short, by forgetting about the corridors we can gain square meters, a feeling of spaciousness, luminosity and ventilation and, if it is not possible, there are always options to turn your home into your favorite place.
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