Very few of us have room for our own library with floor-to-ceiling shelves – but there may still be plenty of books you want to display To keep your room from looking cluttered, you should plan for a long row of low shelving units instead of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Hanging shelves look more airy than those on the floor. Keeping your book collection low reduces eye clutter and can help your space look more balanced.
In contrast, platforms, high beds, and second levels not only create space, but also new spatial dimensions. The spatial scaling with height jumps creates – in addition to the double utility value – visual axes from one area to the other. This introduces a vertical dimension that cannot be created if they are placed side by side in a uniform manner. A loft bed, for example, conveys the association of a duplex apartment or your own home.
Since most single-family home plans are designed so that residents can sleep on the first floor and cook, eat, and relax on the ground floor, using a second level within a room is just an adaptation of this habit. Even if the resulting “room” is not much larger in terms of space than the mattress, it creates a place of peace and relaxation that would not be so easy to achieve on a single level: no work, no television, no clutter finding its place. way up. Stress lives below!