Good day, dear readers! On the usefulness of the article judge for yourself. Today I will tell you how to choose a kitchen set for a small kitchen. Actual? Absolutely!
Beauty and convenience - these are the main requirements that the hostess make to the furniture for the kitchen.
Spacious kitchens began to be planned no more than 10 years ago, before that almost every apartment was “awarded” with a small kitchen. And, unfortunately, not everyone can afford a new spacious apartment, but a studio with no kitchen as such is possible. Let's see what you can think of.
When choosing a suite for a small kitchen, it is important to devote time to planning: formulate your needs, familiarize yourself with the novelties of the furniture industry, determine the location and meticulously calculate the dimensions of each element.
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Agree, kitchen set, it is a question not only a cosiness, but also a practicality. What is included in this very kitchen set? Lockers for storing products or space for built-in appliances, hidden by the facades in the general style.
The qualities practically do not depend on the size of the kitchen, because you can also equip a huge room with bulky old-fashioned headset, or you can organize a space in a miniature kitchen so that everything is stylish and handy.
In order to properly plan the work area, it is necessary to proceed from the technical features of the room: the location of the pipeline, the gas outlet, the drain, or the presence of a heating boiler. Of course, you can change not only such nuances, but also the layout of the room as a whole, but why such difficulties, if you can pick up furniture that harmoniously emphasizes advantageous moments and hides all the flaws.
Even the smallest kitchen can be made original, if you think through the details of ergonomics and design.
For this purpose, the layout of household appliances, other dining furniture should be planned and the comfort of the hostess and her guests should be calculated.
First of all, clearly define your needs regarding kitchen furniture: how often you cook and wash dishes, how many people are usually in the kitchen, how many products you usually store.
When choosing a headset, note that for a small kitchen is not just a good option, but perhaps the best solution could be a corner set. In the corner you can put a sink or use this area for a microwave, toaster, kettle. So you will save space.
If the kitchen is used as a place of rest or a study, you will have to take into account and this is where to install a computer desk, how to organize the lighting, so that everyone is comfortable.
Top cabinets can be the main assistants in a small kitchen.In the lower boxes disguised appliances: washing machine and dishwasher, oven or even a refrigerator? The upper space is necessary for storing food and utensils.
In addition to our wishes, there are other details that dictate the layout of the kitchen: gas pipes, plumbing and sanitary, hoods, protrusions of the walls, ceiling heights.
Practical wall cabinets to the ceiling. Thus, you will visually increase the height of your kitchen and save space. For a visual increase, the facades should be glossy, and the doors should be vertical blinds or roller blinds. It is fashionable and practical. For the lower level, this solution will suit no less.
To plan the kitchen, you must carefully measure the room, taking into account all the nuances, determine the place of the “working triangle” - sink, stove and refrigerator - and only then look for a place for the headset modules.
Consider the angular upper space, where you can put a locker with a “secret”: a compartment for bottles (cans) or a locker on a carousel mount under the pans, bulk mixes.
For very small kitchens - 4-6 square meters - it is very difficult to choose a convenient ready-made set, you will have to order furniture according to your size.
Without a clock in the kitchen there is nothing to do: the time of cooking and eating should be checked by the hour. Where to place the clock or timer in a small kitchen? In the facade of the top drawer. Will the cost of the headset be higher from the introduction of the "gadget"? It will, but the costs will meet the expectations.
Sometimes the arrangement of a small kitchen resembles a game of tetris on a difficult level, but the more pleasant it is to get a good result.
For the lower facades can be placed and dishwasher and other appliances. But if in your small kitchen there is another place for technical innovations, then there should be cupboards for dishes and products at the bottom. Select non-standard solutions for doors that move or open outside the box (depending on the space layout). Refer to the option with a rotating mechanism, so that you can make the most of the entire space of the locker.
Many furniture companies will gladly realize the most courageous wishes and make lockers, shelves, modules for built-in appliances of any non-standard sizes.
Saving space and work surfaces in a small kitchen can lead to streamlined processes and space. So a cutting board, located above the garbage can and equipped with a hole for dumping garbage or an additional surface in the form of a sliding table hidden when there is no need for it, will help to turn the cooking process into a pleasure activity.
Even before choosing a headset for a small kitchen, pay attention to simple techniques that allow you to find a place and make the kitchen space more convenient.
Small kitchen is not a sentence! Come wisely to the organization of the space (described above) and the design of the headset in terms of design solutions, the result will surprise you.
Facades should be as glossy as possible. Reflection of light visually increases the space, so this option is optimal for any small room, not to mention the kitchen. Reception is relevant not only for facades. Choose glossy ceilings or worktop apron material.
Increase the window sill and turn it into a table, it is especially effective for a narrow kitchen.
From the point of view of design, not any style can take a “gloss”, and not all materials accept this approach. For example, natural wood is prettier if it retains its structure. You can varnish, but it does not always pleases with its style and appearance.
With the original layout you can do kitchen work while in the living room.
On the other hand, for a small kitchen, headsets made from natural materials are unnecessarily expensive and cumbersome: natural stone, wood or metal is an excellent option, but for placing it is more to emphasize style, luxury.
If you are a happy owner of a loggia, consider whether to combine it with a kitchen.
What color is best for a kitchen in a small room? This is a matter of taste, not style. If your room design is hi-tech or loft, choose cool shades. Perhaps the use of black or white in its pure form, do not reject bright colors: light green, orange, purple.
Classic style, chebbi-chic, Provence imply pastel colors, warm colors: cocoa, beige, gray.
Instead of a large dining table, you can install a folding or folding table, and maybe a narrow bar.
Bright gloss - will accent and make a small room bright, beautiful, and spacious at first glance, and competent layout - easy to use.
A big role in the perception of the kitchen is color and design.
Do not choose bulky options. If you stop on the mechanism of TIP-ON or similar systems, you can refuse to handle. Easy lock of a hand opens any locker. Today, many companies offer a similar solution.
| Evaluation aspect | TIP-ON | Standard pens |
| Practicality | Very convenient in the process of cooking. One push and the cabinet is open. | In any case, it is necessary to touch if the hands are dirty, that is, there is a danger of getting the accessories dirty.
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| Aesthetic approach | A matter of taste. Decor can be chosen elsewhere, and the lack of pens is interesting. | There are very beautiful design solutions, expensive accessories look just great. Only cost scares. |
| Originality of the solution | Original, but not suitable for all opening options, i.e. if you have roller shutters, you can’t use this approach | If you do not invent a bicycle and use the handles, then this option is suitable absolutely for any mechanisms and ways of opening |
To make a choice only to you, being guided by the preferences and views. And the necessary design will emphasize elegance and breadth of thought.
The most bulky thing in the kitchen is the fridge, you can put it in the hallway, thereby gaining space for a spacious cupboard.
You can choose Chinese components at a low cost or more expensive to complement the style and design of the kitchen.
Kitchen furniture can be done on their own. Sofa, armchair and other complex furniture is not easy to do. But the kitchen set is easy. Material - wood, coating - lacquer or senezh, the facades do not have to be the usual natural color, use color schemes, create an indescribable image of your, albeit small, kitchen.
A small kitchen does not have to be boring if you creatively approach its planning and arrangement.
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Modern storage systems remarkably increase the functionality of the kitchen.
If the dimensions of the room are small, then the size of the headset will not frighten the craftsman. Assembling a corner headset will take more time and effort, but the principle is the same.
This is one approach. The second is simpler, but its cost will be higher. This offer is for non-standard kitchens or for non-standard approaches. If you could not choose a suitable option, do not despair, because manufacturers must offer an individual solution to order.
Be sure to check out the latest sliding, roll-out, rail and carousel structures, dividers and other tricks that save space in cabinets, facilitate access to all corners of the kitchen and ensure perfect order.
Often you can find a designer in studios. Such a person will offer a headset, based on the size, voiced by you. If the kitchen has a complex shape and before the final order there is a measurer.
Of the additional features there is a collector who collects everything with his own hands. It will perfectly fit the nuances of the furniture and your set will “sit like a glove”. This applies not only to kitchen furniture or directly angular headset.
Give preference to high cabinets to the ceiling.
You can choose the material, color and shape. The cost of such a proposal is not always higher than those offered in the studio.
Corner kitchen set is suitable not only for a small kitchen. A medium-sized kitchen or even a huge kitchen with a separate dining area will ideally look with a corner set. Moreover, the headset may have not one angle, but two or even three.
A small kitchen requires space saving. Corner furniture will help to use all the possible functionality of any room. In another room, you can experiment, add or remove elements of the interior. Speaking of the kitchen, we have to place the dishes, bulk products, which is why there is a need to use corner sets.
In addition, open shelves reduce the functionality of the room - after all, you can store only beautiful designer items on them, and not simple everyday dishes.
From the article it is clear that the set for a small kitchen does not have to be ugly or little functional. You can choose the desired color, optimal shape or the desired material. The cost depends on the material and on the design, on the size and complexity of execution.
By the way, open shelves can be a reason to change your old dishes to a beautiful new one - why not
Moreover, kitchen sets can be made by hand, give color and independently assembled. And having such an experience behind you, then the assembly of other furniture is not difficult. Give your preferences bright colors and unusual campaigns, then any furniture will delight you.
A radical option for expanding a small kitchen is to combine a kitchen with a living room, leaving a partition serving as a table or bar counter.
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