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Zoning

Meaning in interior design, with examples

/ˈzəʊnɪŋ/nounCommon term

In interior design, zoning means: Dividing a space into areas for different activities, such as cooking, eating, relaxing or working, using furniture, rugs, lighting or changes in floor and ceiling.

In Turkish: bölgeleme, alan ayrımı, fonksiyonel bölgeleme

How it is used

Essential in open-plan homes and offices. You zone a space or create zones, and lighting can be zoned too, so that each area is controlled separately. In planning law, zoning means something different: official rules about how land may be used.

Example sentences

  1. We used a large rug and a low shelf for zoning the living area from the dining area.

  2. Good zoning means the home office corner doesn't feel like part of the kitchen.

Common collocations

  • zoning an open-plan space
  • clear zoning
  • lighting zones
  • zone the space
  • open-planDescribes a space where several areas, such as the kitchen, dining and living room, share one large room without walls between them.
  • space planningThe stage of design in which you study how a space will be used and decide where activities, furniture and routes go, before choosing colours and materials.
  • circulationThe routes people use to move through a building or room, such as corridors, stairs and paths between furniture, and the space these routes need.
  • layoutThe way rooms, furniture and fittings are arranged within a space, including where things are placed and how people move between them.

This word in other fields

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