This house is a two-bedroom apartment with two bedrooms, kitchen, warehouse, dining room, living room and bathroom. It is a very common apartment. After our renovation, the room is still the same, but many details have changed.
One thing, you can't hit any load-bearing walls, only those non-load-bearing walls. Everyone must pay attention to choosing a house in the future. Don't choose many houses with load-bearing walls. Look at the location of the non-bearing wall and consider what changes can be made.
Comparison of floor plans before and after decoration
This house covers an area of more than 70 square meters. When it was made for my parents, they were actually only 75 years old. As I stressed earlier, we should decorate the old people before they are 75 years old while they are still healthy, so that they can live in this house when they are old, so we should be very considerate.
Today, I will explain several design points suitable for aging at six o'clock. Maybe all of you here are not from design background, so I will elaborate these six points more specifically. I hope you can understand, maybe these tricks can also be used in your own furniture in the future.
landscape design
The first point is about the design of sight. I made a mirror on this wall. What's the purpose? My own house is next door to theirs, so I often come to their house for dinner. For example, when I came home, my parents were just watching TV on the sofa, and we could see from the reflection of this mirror that we were back.
This is a very important thing, because they don't have to stand all the time. When some old people hear the door ring, they quickly stand up and have a look. This action may lead to panic or wrestling.
Just now I said that wrestling is particularly serious. We'll make sure he doesn't wrestle for 30 years from 60 to 90. Is it easy for you? This is the way to stop him from wrestling. You see, they don't have to get up when I leave, just say hello to the mirror. Of course, the mirror has many other functions besides greeting.
Another thing is to tear down this wall in the kitchen and turn it into glass. This is to let people who cook in the kitchen see the old people in the living room and dining room through the glass. Because the kitchen range hood is very noisy, you don't know what's going on outside when you cook here.
At present, my father is 86 years old and has entered a state of comprehensive care. Sometimes he just wants to drink some water or get ready to stand up, and he may fall down at once. But when you are working in the kitchen, you can see him as soon as you turn around through the glass to prevent him from happening again and help him in time. Therefore, turning this wall into transparent glass will not affect the problem of soot, and it will be fine if you close the door.
Another is that it is best to watch TV together in the dining room and living room. My own life experience, sometimes my parents watch soap operas there. When I come back for dinner, my mother will come and talk to us. Then she can't watch her series. Now I have changed. From the dining room and the sofa, I can see both eyes watching TV.
Eating here, I can talk to her, look at her and chat with her, so that their lives will not be affected. In architectural design, we have asked students to do this as much as possible when making apartment types. The relationship between dining room and life and TV is that everyone can watch TV instead of carrying it on his back.