
Answer this question: Where in the house does a person spend the most time? There are two possible answers: a bedroom and a kitchen. Experts note that on average a third of life is spent on sleep, and 5th part on cooking. Someone prefers to dine in a restaurant, someone cafe. Others order food at home. Still others cook more on their own. But no matter what type you belong to, beautiful decoration of the kitchen space is a priority. This article discusses these issues:
- how to choose furniture in the kitchen;
- what are the features of the layout;
- what to pay closer attention to and what can be left;
- n-shaped kitchen in the interior of the living room;
- and much more interesting.
The more you invest in the design of the premises of your home, the more colorful, more fun it will be to stay in it. No wonder the most widespread book in the world tells us such wisdom: "everyone will be rewarded according to his deeds." So let the affairs be accountable for you. Read the article further. There is still a lot of interesting things.
Types of arrangement of furniture in the kitchen
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First you need to understand what the choice of this or that option depends on. First of all, this is the size of the room. It is foolish to put a massive headset, if two people find it difficult to turn around in a room. The second thing to pay attention to is your needs, wishes, moods. Someone likes to spend evenings at the dinner table, someone likes to slowly sip wine from a glass on a long leg. Others are true masters of culinary art.
And here is the furniture:
- Direct installation. This method is usually used when the place is limited, it is difficult to deploy, it is impossible. For large spaces, this option is also applicable, but it is rarely used.
- Corner placement. The most common case of furniture installation. A medium-sized room will allow you to conveniently install headsets. It features convenience, high ergonomics, positive performance.
- Parallel location. The main working area is a countertop, placed on both sides of the walls opposite each other. It requires more space. The principle here is this - the distance between the two parallels should ensure the free opening of the cabinet doors, the presence in the kitchen of at least two people, convenient movement between technological zones. For apartments, cottages, furniture installation is rarely used in parallel. Basically, they equip restaurants, cafes.
- Kitchen letter P. This method is one of the most convenient, ergonomic. Cooking here is a pleasure. But it is worthwhile to understand that on the standard 6 square meters of a city apartment, this idea cannot be realized. The minimum room size is 10 squares. Such a room will reveal all the advantages of this method.
- Island location. The worktop is placed in the middle of the room. This is the most modern option, it requires the most space (from 18 square meters). But such a kitchen space is unique in all respects.
They also make a U-shaped kitchen with a bar counter. The latter have different ways.It can be, as island (separate), border / zone (on the section of the kitchen zone and the living room), corner, as well as level.
In some sources, there is such a thing as a combined headset. It is worth mentioning that island placement can have a combined look. U-shaped as combined as angular. It is more important here which part or property is emphasized.
Design U-shaped kitchen-living room
For a studio apartment, a kitchen set with the letter P is a true find. With it, zoning is achieved. It looks great. No need to invent too much. The layout is ergonomic, attractive, stylish.
There are two zones: cooking and relaxation. To highlight each, specialists in the field of design use several tools that can transform space. It:
- volumetric decoration of walls, ceiling;
- color transitions;
- bar counter;
- delimitation of comfort zones;
- floor separation.
Choose one of the options, or use several - a purely personal preference. But do not forget to follow the style. It will not be inconsequential to observe a colorful, deliberate, busy interior, if minimalism prevails in the room.
Pay great attention to the backlight. She works wonders, creates unique effects, transforms the room. Make different zones, light groups. For the kitchen, the letter P in the photo that you see below shows a two-level ceiling with lighting in the recess along the perimeter, spotlights above the bar counter. The light in the living room is different: there is a central chandelier, as well as wall sconces.
The flooring should be separated. This is required for two reasons:
- aesthetic appearance;
- functional expediency.
The first will allow visually zoning the room. The boundaries will immediately become clear. And the right selection of material will give the owner a guarantee of long service. After all, the kitchen space implies dirt, moisture, which is detrimental to wood or laminate. It’s unprofitable to lay ceramic tiles in the living room. And a cold surface will bring inconvenience.
On the Internet, people often ask the question: what if there is a window in the middle of the wall. How then to organize a work surface, countertop? After all, the window sill will interfere with this. The answer is simpler than it seems. Instead of a window sill, or rather, it is necessary to make a countertop. This will be a continuation going to the window frame. If you firmly fix the countertop, then on the windowsill make a place to relax, contemplate the scenery in the window. As the area increases, it will be possible to comfortably accommodate here.
Design in a contemporary style: an example
There are a lot of design styles for residential premises. Even specialists in the field of design art will not be able to list all the existing ones. And looking at the finishes, different masters will describe you completely different style trends. For an inexperienced layman it is better to adhere to a crude gradation. Modern and classic styles - what you need, every owner of his own apartment will understand this.
Consider the design option of the U-shaped kitchen of a modern style. Let's start the finish.
The flooring of the kitchen is important to make of ceramic tiles, porcelain stoneware or ordinary tiles. Water and time will destroy any other flooring. The color palette should be selected depending on the degree of illumination of the room with natural sunlight. For a bright room, a black shade is suitable. The format of the tile is large, square laying. To highlight, lay the ceramics on the floor with diamonds (i.e. at an angle to the walls).
In the living room, be sure to change the decoration material, as well as the color of the floor space. If you want to do it differently, instead of a multi-colored floor, you can organize a monophonic, but with an emphasis on a bright carpet. On black, a white hue will look very surprisingly bright. Under the coffee table, surrounded by a soft p-shaped sofa, it is the place for him.
We continue the decoration of the living room. Soft sofa pick up white. For emphasis, highlight, lay colorful bright pillows. To do this, select one accent color. It may be yellow. It is perfect. Yellow pillows on a white sofa is what you need.
Wall decoration requires special attention. The boundaries of the zones on the walls will not be. The kitchen-living room will go in one ensemble. The main shade is white. And then do what else. In the middle of the longest wall, put a dark gray panel. Plastic trim helps save money. To decorate the space, hang pictures or your family photos on these panels. And here you can stand out creatively. Frames of photos, highlight with the help of a paste.
Passepartout is usually a white stripe around the photo card inside a wooden or plastic frame. The decoration came from antiquity, but is still popular.
Now about what we are here for. The U-shaped headset will be very unusual. This applies not only to color, but also to its shape. And she will definitely have a bar counter with a column, to which additional shelves are attached in the upper part. The column is decorated with all kinds of decorations. It can be like a watch suspended on a carnation, an unusual figure of an animal, a mask of an ancient tribe, or a modern high-tech device made as a fake.
The doors of the lower and upper headset cabinets are yellow when the side panels of the shelves are white. Countertop, bar counter are also white. The apron headset does not have to be explicitly highlighted. It will look beautifully made of natural glass with a pale dull greenish tint.
The ceiling is the place of flight of your imagination. Successfully he looks in a multi-level performance. Gamma - white, matte. Be sure to zonally separate the kitchen space and the living room. By the way, in the kitchen you can add a little beige to white. Make niches that accent the top. Inside them, hold an LED strip, the color of which pick a pale pink or blue.
Lighting groups should be different (as mentioned earlier). For the U-shaped kitchen, these are some lamps, for the living room - others. Separately highlight the functional areas:
- kitchen worktop in several places;
- bar counter;
- paintings or photographs on the walls;
- a coffee table in the living room.
In these cases, use ordinary bulbs. But select the thermal temperature according to your whims. It can be cold and warm. In terms of gamut, it is daylight white (closer to xenon) and soft beige shades.
U-shaped kitchen design in classic
If you choose a classic style - stop at Provence. It is not necessary to design the space with excessively soft tones, shapes, materials. Add a piece of cold, a touch of detachment, a gram of unusualness, creativity.
The flooring is ceramic. White color to the face. Beige, large format tiles with dark brown rhombuses at the edges will fit perfectly. Gloss will naturally create an emphasis.
U-shaped kitchen set here is a work of art. Expensive beige and white facades of wooden cabinets, shelves, artificially aged and bleached - the main emphasis. For beauty, set the countertop to glossy black.
If there is a window in the center, you are very lucky. Beat him right. Add a luxurious setting. Majestic curtains decorated with expensive puffs, ruffles, lush girths and garters - a classic that accepts.
Decorate the ceiling unusually beautiful. Two tiers are required. A chandelier in the center, as in royal mansions. Bright yellow illumination in the niche, complemented by gold frames around the edges. Ceiling plinth (baguette) should be present with gold patterns.
Finishing the kitchen space is a matter of great imagination. Fortunately, the p-shaped arrangement of furniture greatly increases the options for arrangement. Imagine. You will succeed.
U-shaped layout of the kitchen