As a rule, apartments in the houses of the oldest fund (pre-revolutionary and Stalinist epoch) have a number of shortcomings, but they have their advantages, one of which is high ceilings. The height of the ceiling in such houses always exceeds 3 meters, and in some reaches 4-4.5 meters. This means that in this type of apartments you can easily increase the useful living area, building mezzanine.
The word "mezonin" is translated from Italian as "intermediate", and this term today denote the intermediate floor, and in the case of an apartment - a residential platform, erected above part of the room. This design allows you to make the interior more interesting and functional, increase the number of squares used, and therefore currently enjoys greatly popular among designers and architects.
Mezzanine in the apartment can be used for a wide variety of purposes, for example, there can be placed a working office or library, make a rest room. Also on the intermediate floor there are often bedrooms and children's rooms, although this option has a lot of opponents - not everyone is ready to sleep at the top or listen to the headot of children's legs.
Build mezzanine in the apartment is not difficult, although it will require certain costs: it will take several beams, reliable inter-storey overlap, as well as a staircase and balustrade, which will protect from the fall on top. All these elements must be installed at the stage of repair of the apartment and selected in accordance with the common style of the room. This is especially true of the railings - do not choose fencing from glass and metal in the classic interior or carved wooden in modern.
Another important point in the design of mezzanine is the heating system. The fact is that hot air from the batteries rises up, respectively, on a higher intermediate floor it can be very hot. The exit from this situation will be a system of underground heating or at least the transfer of radiators, as far as possible from the mezzanine.
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