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Of course, there are many problems in such a case. After all, you need special permits, approvals, and of course you just need to contact designers, architects, so that in the end you have one two-level apartment design which would meet all your expectations.
Designers will develop an apartment design project for you, in which you will be offered several layout options, finishing materials, lighting, plumbing and much more will be selected.
When planning the design of a two-level apartment, you should also consider the location of the rooms. Usually, the living room, dining room and kitchen are located on the first floor, sometimes an office and a library. Here, it is convenient to allocate space for auxiliary premises: bathroom, toilet, pantry.
Bedrooms and children's, guest rooms for recreation are most often taken to the second floor. Although, of course, there is nothing wrong if the owners decide to leave the children's room downstairs, for example, when the child is too small to climb the stairs on his own.
Then the bedroom of the parents should be located next to it. And the guest room and dining room, on the contrary, are relocated upstairs. In this case, a balcony or a loggia adjoins the living room, which serves as an extension of these rooms.
The situation is much simpler if the conversation is about one's own house or cottage. Here you have the opportunity to immediately include the presence of a second floor in the layout of your own home.
And the first question that arises when planning such housing is the question of where the staircase to the second floor will be located, what kind of staircase it will be - a spiral staircase or similar to a staircase in common entrances, with turning platforms.
The fact of where the stairs will be located is important: in the middle of the lower hall, hallway, or along the wall. It is also important to decide what material it will be made of. The staircase that starts in the middle of the spacious hall and spirals up to the second floor of the house looks the most refined.
A staircase in an old style, with carved wooden balusters, wide railings covered with colorless varnish, which do not hide the beauty of the pattern of the wood from which the staircase is made, looks expensive, simply luxurious.
The tree creates coziness, keeps warmth. Sometimes the designer's choice falls on the "marble" staircase. Such stairs are usually installed in very spacious rooms, where grandiose receptions of a large number of guests are expected.
Of course, in two-level apartments, it is simply necessary to have a second, "black" staircase in case of a fire or another unforeseen event. So you should provide for a second staircase, a more modest one, going outside from the bedroom, office or nursery.
The first two-level apartments were a fairly common phenomenon before the October Revolution. Today, such apartments, located mainly in old houses, have historical value, and the average person simply cannot afford to buy such a rarity.
Later, already under Soviet power, they began to build two-story apartments in houses of the "Stalin" layout for the party elite. Such apartments were very convenient and comfortable. This was facilitated by high ceilings, thick strong walls, and spacious rooms.
Time does not seem to touch these buildings, so soundly, for centuries, houses were built in those years. And if you take into account that such apartments were intended for the elite, then even more so they had the best qualities among all other buildings of that time. So, such houses can stand for a very long time.
However, some owners are embarrassed by the facade of such a mansion, often decorated with fancy ornaments, statues and other extravagances. But the majority of people still find such "works of art" especially attractive in our time, as they contain the mysteriousness and mystery of the past...
But no matter what real estate you own, remember that the main thing is that you feel comfortable and cozy in your home.
