When buying a house and choosing a house type, you must always consider factors such as the orientation, lighting, and layout of the living room. Most of the traditional layouts are the vertical hall-porch-dining-living room layout, but recently it has become popular to have the horizontal hall-dining room and living room arranged in a row. So the question is, which one is better, vertical hall or horizontal hall?
How to distinguish between vertical halls and horizontal halls? Let’s look at two concepts first:
Bay: refers to the main lighting surface of the house (living room), such as the balcony and the side where the windows are located.
Depth: refers to the surface perpendicular to the bay, and the surface perpendicular to the balcony and window is the depth.
Based on the different depth ratios of the bays, vertical halls and horizontal halls are distinguished. Vertical halls are also called straight halls, which means depth > bay, and the living room is close to the lighting surface. Most of the layouts of vertical halls are entrance hall-dining room-living room-balcony.
The horizontal hall refers to the depth of the bay. The living room and dining room in the horizontal hall are close to the lighting surface, and the bedrooms are located on the other side.
Why do developers like to build vertical hall layouts? As we all know, the length of the best landscape surface of a piece of land is fixed. The smaller the bay is, the more residences can enjoy this landscape; the larger the bay, the fewer the number of residences that can enjoy this landscape. . From the perspective of maximizing economic value, it is obvious that small-bay residences can allow developers to obtain higher benefits. The horizontal hall is a new layout that has become popular in recent years. Generally, the horizontal hall is a preferred design for large-area apartments.
After reading the above analysis, I believe you must have an answer in your mind whether to choose a horizontal hall or a vertical hall, so let’s summarize it together:
1. I like to have a large balcony to view the scenery. If the living room has a terrace, a wide view, and plenty of light, choose a horizontal hall; otherwise, choose a vertical hall.
2. If you prefer clear functional divisions and are too lazy to make functional divisions later, choose a vertical hall. The divisions from the entrance to the dining room to the living room should be clear.
3. Pay attention to the privacy of the bedroom. If it is separated by a corridor, choose the vertical hall. If you don’t mind that the living room and the bedroom are directly opposite, choose the horizontal hall.