Kitchen remodelling - variants of a lay-out of kitchen

Carefully thought over lay-out is necessary for the kitchen device. The comfort and high functionality when each subject of a kitchen interior and it's remodelling  is not simply convenient should become an overall objective, and is optimum from the point of view of requirements of the person. All internal space should be created under laws of economy of space. The kitchen shares on three zones - the worker, a dining room and a pass zone.

Working zone - kitchen heart; here places for storage of products, tables for разделывания and cookings are located. According to opinion of experts, the refrigerator, a bowl and a plate should adjoin not with each other, and to finishing tables. Thus they образовывают a so-called working triangle: storage - разделывание - cooking. The comfortable area of a working triangle should not exceed 7 sq. m, differently it is necessary difficultly, running from a plate to a bowl and a refrigerator. There should not be it and less than 4 sq. m is will create narrowness.

But it is not necessary to forget and about the internal maintenance. For example, the large-sized ware is more convenient for placing in deep boxes under a plate, and the products occupying great volume, under finishing tables. Installation of double sockets over each working surface will essentially facilitate a life for while in one place the teapot begins to boil and toasts prepare, nearby it is possible to grind coffee or to shake up eggs for an omelette. The bowl and the dishwasher is better for establishing near to a waterpipe that preventive works did not become burdensome. Look narrowly at a double (threefold) bowl - at an abundance of ware and tablewares they it is the most convenient. Illumination should be and directed along hinged cases on the bottom panel, and background.

It is necessary to pay attention, whether not too it is a lot of in a variant of the project of homogeneous materials and long parallel lines? Perhaps, it is necessary to recover severity of appearance, having provided angular shelves, разноуровневые open racks or simply one-two opened rack. And, at last, about angular cases. Rotating, they are convenient, economic in respect of an expense of efforts on доставание this or that subject.

The kitchen in one line is calculated on 1 or 2 persons, established under conditions of very limited space, the working zone at it makes half of all area, therefore, if you have decided to combine it with a dining room, establish a sliding or folding dining table, differently a pass zone will be minimum and, of course, the extremely inconvenient.

Also this lay-out can be used in a multi-purpose room "kitchen - a living room", in this case all kitchen furniture will settle down in one part of a room, another will be used for food intake and rest.

The kitchen in two lines - is simple and compact in a lay-out. Rational placing - a plate and a bowl on one party, a refrigerator and cases on another. The optimum distance between opposite lines makes not less than 1,2 metres. This lay-out too assumes presence of mobile tables or, actually, the table.

L-lay-out is exclusive for creation of a convenient working triangle, furniture and technics in this case are placed along two adjacent walls. The dining table easily takes places without damage to a pass zone. This variant approaches almost for all premises, except the narrow.

P-lay-out the best of everything, is convenient and safe, as furniture and technics are established along three walls. Here there is no through movement. If at such lay-out the pass zone makes the little less than half of working zone it allows to use kitchen as a dining room. For a big kitchen or a kitchen-dining room the combined scheme will approach: an angular working zone plus, throughout a line, perpendicularly put a dining table. In kitchen-dining rooms the short perpendicular line of a table divides the worker and table zones, and at correctly picked up length of a table harmony of conformity of a working zone and a dining room with a pass zone is not broken. It is possible to use the P-lay-out and in small kitchen (5-8 sq. m.) then the distance between end faces should be not less than 1,5-2 metres.

Lay-out "peninsula" and "island" suit only big kitchens (from 16 sq. m.). The Kitchen-island includes angular or P-shaped models with an additional working surface in the middle. "Island" looks elegantly, but demands especially a well thought-out plan to avoid unnecessary transitions.

There are the certain problems connected with re-modelling of kitchen. In such apartments the kitchen has the minimum sizes. There are some decisions of a problem.

The first. It is possible to get rid of a door or to make its moving. It is good to clean one of walls, (or its part) to unite two small premises and to transform them into the uniform functional area. At a modern level of development of building not so it is difficult even to make a good dining room-kitchen in "five-storey apartment block". This variant is expensive enough, but also is most convenient. Though it is possible to be limited to carefully thought over lay-out. For kitchen in "five-storey apartment block" kinds of lay-out will approach as angular, and in one line. In an angular variant most simple - to get a folding table or to build at an unoccupied working zone of a wall of a rack of type bar, with a leaning back table surface. In angular designs do not forget about versions of mobile shelves. But it is possible to be limited and open racks. For kitchens in one line and техничным the decision narrow and high racks on an opposite wall will be good, and the small little table can be placed with a window.

Lay-out problems are and at big kitchens where atmosphere of uniform space is extremely difficultly created. The space is frequently split up for small zones and creates sensation of discomfort. The "kitchen-island" lay-out in this case is recommended. In the area centre there can be a plate, a rack for a breakfast and a bowl. The optimum sizes for island - 1200 on 1200 mm, minimum 600 on 900 mm. "Island" can be not only the square form, but also bent.

Interior design of kitchen in open space

The free lay-out of apartment can transform kitchen into a part of premises which today sometimes name a public zone.

And here is is kitchen design - interior design. But one big premise soon will start to oppress, as psychologically it are required to the person separate (at least conditionally limited) zones for different employment.

Frequently the kitchen unites from a dining room, but as kitchen - a place where cook food, and table (lunch group) - a place where food consume conditional division of these zones different in functions would be the correct decision.

Planirovochnye decisions of zoning arise from the general concept of apartment, but in any case it is necessary to consider that the kitchen is a technological premise, hence, makes to the interior decision certain demands. The kitchen equipment is connected to engineering communications, therefore is adhered to that place where these communications are deduced - to a wall (except an island variant). The working zone located in the heart of kitchen, as a rule, requires artificial illumination. A lunch zone it is better to arrange more close to natural light, outside of a hyperactivity place. Besides, at zoning it is necessary to find certain proportions, not to take away too much place of a working part to the detriment of a dining room. Though some place emphasis not on a lunch zone (without endowing thus its comfort), and on a working part where there is a sacrament of cooking.

There is a set of ways of "division" of flowing space "kitchen-dining room".

The most simple division of space into zones - a floor. Concerning a floor covering there are no rigid rules. Interesting art and at the same time practical decisions are given by a combination of materials. For example, if as the basic covering the parquet in a working zone it is possible to lay out a floor a tile from ceramics gets out. At a choice of an identical material, a zone it is possible to divide visually drawing of a covering or colour.

Visually to divide space it is possible by means of multilevel ceilings, an arch, hinged eaves, a through niche.

Low stationary partitions, for example, from glass blocks or in the form of a decorative lattice can accurately designate borders of zones.

Sliding partitions which time most part will be opened, and if necessary completely isolate kitchen — also the good decision.

The bar racks used for fast meal, today often enough meet in houses. It is effective and practical reception of zoning.

Sometimes difficult engineering decisions, necessity to hide communications compel to a construction in a working zone of a podium. But to resort even to small differences of height only from decorative reasons it is not recommended, as it is unsafe.

Sometimes develop kitchen furniture so that it divides space "kitchen-dining room". That the kitchen set and furniture in a table zone has been co-ordinated among themselves, but during too time were perceived as something separate, it is possible, making a start from uniform general style, on the one hand, to bring small distinctions, and with another - to draw some parallels. For example, the kitchen and lunch group differ on toning a little, but the link in the form of an identical upholstery of chairs of a bar on kitchen and lunch — in a dining room is thus set.

Planning an interior of open type, it is necessary to approach to a set choice very attentively. It is necessary, that it was combined with other furniture, instead of looked is alien, as an extraneous set, let and expensive, subjects.

To divide space into zones it is possible by means of light. The working zone is shined is more practical and is functional, whereas in a lunch zone decorative fixtures are pertinent. A food intake zone can designate and fixture low lowered over a dining table.

Space zoning dares and by means of colour. For the decision of uniform space it is possible to choose uniform colour scale, but various tones.

Also it is unessential to aspire to pick up kitchen design and dining room furniture to match. Colour of furniture in that case can serve as the unique factor of zoning of space in general.

To reach isolation of zones it is possible also dressing.

Ways of creation of visual borders in the kitchen design, and also between kitchen and a living room, table - set. Some ways of zoning or all together are in most cases applied. Feature of placing of kitchen consists in open space that it is necessary to underline autonomy of this premise and simultaneously its inclusiveness in the general interior.

Interior design of little living room

Of course, it is good to have spacious apartment or the big house where the quantity of rooms equally or exceeds the norms defined by psychologists: on each member of a family on a room plus one more general is just and there will be a drawing room.

However such optimum variant of apartments not is accessible to all. What to do, if the apartment is insignificant, and visitors to accept nevertheless somewhere it is necessary?

If it is good to think over interiors even small rooms can be made convenient and capacious. And quality of habitation will depend not only on its area.

Very often in small-sized apartment the drawing room "in combination" is a bedroom. In this case the sofa bed becomes interior "starting point", it provides multifunctionality of a room. Very important correctly to choose a sofa.

All can be divided a sofa bed as an apportion into three basic groups: that are put forward ("the French folding bed" with a wooden armour or "the American folding bed" with metal springs); a sofa-book (it is displayed on a longitudinal axis) and a sofa with folding боковинами. Besides the sofa can have the built in system of storage of bedding.

The design of a sofa, its style, the form and colour of an upholstery are of great importance in an interior but if it is a sofa bed, the major importance has reliability, after all this thing intensively use every day. The sofa should be прочен, easily be displayed, not creak and it is desirable to have the reasonable price.

The good furniture can be distinguished on quality of an upholstery and seams. The cover should be demountable and it is good, if it would be possible not only to clean it, but also to erase. In a skeleton of a qualitative sofa there should be no "synthetics" like ДСП or МДФ: these materials firm, nonflexible and quickly break. The strongest skeleton from a beech file is one of the firmest breeds of a tree.

The folding mechanism is more preferable simple (sofa-book), but executed of a steel, then its resource — more than three hundred thousand cycles of an apportion.

The bottom part of a sofa ("bottom") should have steel spring partitions — the original shock-absorber. The coconut fibre supporting biological balance is atop put: warms in the winter, cools in the summer. The spring basis with "layers" inserted into it from полиуретана from above follows, at the expense of them springs do not adjoin, are not deformed and do not creak. The layer of the coconut fibre impregnated with latex is again put on a spring basis. The following layer — various rigidity полиуретан, covered with a synthetic winterizer in 16 pressed layers that provides thermoregulation and softness. The qualitative and strong sofa should be such. The model and colour can be chosen depending on the general style of an interior and your desires.

The angular variant of the upholstered furniture consisting of four modular elements established on rollers is too a transformer. In the evening one of modules move in the centre and receive a double bed of the big size. And bedding can be laid in a curbstone behind a sofa back. Its leaning back cover simultaneously plays a shelf role.
Storage of things is one more problem of small-sized apartments and to solve it it is possible by means of some cunnings because the small apartment cannot be forced cases. And here a case-compartment with mirror sliding panels it is possible to enter mirrors of doors in a corner where it will not take a lot of place, and, reflecting, will expand space. Using doors from matte glass, it is possible to create illusion of dissolution of a case in air. In these cases, at least, visually in a room it will be spacious.


Having made under a corner with upholstered furniture a podium, it is possible to create capacious "chest" invisible to an eye and simultaneously to allocate a rest zone in a drawing room. The podium is especially good in the extended form — it corrects unsuccessful proportions. In a square room the angular podium well looks.


Drawers which will take places in a podium, it is necessary to put on rollers. As handles thin metal bars in all width of boxes are used: also looks decoratively, and a box to put forward more conveniently.

Zonation of space in a small premise, applying partitions and screens it is inexpedient, it is better to use for this purpose a carpet on a floor or разноуровневые ceilings. To underline a rest zone it is possible also local illumination by means of dot галогенных fixtures on the special tyre, traditional floor lamps, the floor dot fixtures built in in a floor and creating an original light veil. Use of illumination of pictures or niches in a wall will create atmosphere of a cosiness and, the most important thing, possibility to model light of several fixtures, creating light compositions.

For small-sized apartments it is better to get multipurpose furniture, for example, the journal table in the form of a cube, its internal volume can serve for storage of various things. The space and transformed furniture saves. A bright example — a folding table. Executed of a high-quality tree and having modern strong mechanisms and accessories, it serves in the combined kind as a narrow curbstone at a wall on which it is possible to put a vase, a lamp or even the TV. And when visitors will come, the table will turn to the high-grade lunch. Chairs too can be collapsible and if necessary to be taken from кладовки or a case.

And one more element of furniture which are not blocking up apartment, and, on the contrary, visually expanding space. It is a rack representing system of open shelves, placed equally spaced. The fixture is not swept up absolutely not, vertical racks are absent, and it seems that regiments soar in air. Such rack is ideally suited for small drawing rooms, it makes impression of ease, and on its regiments it is possible to store books, magazines and even ware.

Using certain design receptions and ideas space of small apartments, it is possible to make rather comfortable: when in rooms there is nothing superfluous, and all furniture is convenient, the lay-out is thought over, colour of an interior is sustained, and indoors it is a lot of light and air.

Design interior of living room. Choices of decoration

As soon as the family leaves "close" living conditions, in the house there is a living room, as a certain smart room. And decoration of living room is very important.

Has historically developed so that else in the Middle Ages in a living room of country private residences and locks the central place was taken away to a fireplace. Presently in country houses and in some modern apartments the fireplace also decorates drawing rooms, giving to a room a cosy and aristocratic kind.

Certainly, the fireplace as an interior ornament, is present not at each drawing room. But creation of original and cosy conditions in this room remains to one of the most interesting and important problems arising at house arrangement. After all, unlike the visitors appearing from time to time, members of a family gather in the general room every evening: communicate, have a rest, watch TV.

The living room interior gets out depending on taste, age, the social status and, at last, solvency of owners of apartment. Here there are no restrictions and strict recommendations, except conformity of elements of an interior to the chosen style.

The living room can be issued in classical, sound and always the fashionable style telling about respectability and healthy conservatism. The furniture in it is noble and majestic, reminds of locks of the French and English aristocrats. Such furniture is a work of art, is made by the solid proved factories, sometimes becomes to order manually masters-cabinetmakers. Wood of which it is made, expensive, processed in special way: мореный an oak, a cherry, a nut and even a black rosewood. For incrustations the rare grades red and an ebony, nacre, bronze overlays, gilding are used.

Forms of classical furniture of valuable breeds of a tree change today; there are modern, but not less expensive variants of classical style. The expensive wood which has passed difficult technological processing, but in proportions is still used, external shape and a decor present influence is great: straight lines, more strict forms, furnish by a brass and matte nickel. So the respectable classics in a drawing room now can look.

If you are young and vigorous, love courageous experiments - in your living room style modern "hi-tech" is quite pertinent. Elements of a "technogenic" aesthetics "will be entered" In such drawing room, for example, the aquarium suspended on a metal core which simultaneously carries out fixture function. Interiors in such style assume furniture from bright or is transparent-ldistogo a plasticity in a combination to metal, glasses much. For example, glass sliding interroom partitions instead of walls thanks to which a drawing room, it is possible to transform a vestibule and kitchen to the big uniform space. Racks from plastic and cases with doors from the glass, as though groundless, - all it creates an image of the present and novelty, causing associations with space stations from fantastic films.

If you the fan of travel and often bring the subjects which have pleasant to you capable not only to remind of rest, but also to decorate an interior then your drawing room becomes original author's product. In such interior the grandmother's wooden buffet which has kept a smell of time both children's memoirs, and the Indian embroidered pillows, and painted Japanese vases, and the Central Asian carpets of handwork "will get on" also. So people who are calmed by magic of things favourite by them create the environment, and interiors in such houses get bright individuality.

The stylistic originality of a drawing room is defined by taste and character of owners but if it is planned to use a drawing room on its direct appointment - to receive visitors, - that is necessary to provide possibility of the organisation of invited suppers. From this point of view the most popular decision of last years - a drawing room as a spacious premise with set of functional zones. The European youth fashion assumes free forms of reception of the visitors who have settled down there where it it is convenient. Trays with drinks and light meals place on a serving trolley or on пристенных lockers and consoles. For such receptions the fashionable low furniture approaches, it is convenient, it can be combined and rearranged easily.

The table in a drawing room also is necessary, it is good, when its sizes can be changed. Depending on the chosen style of an interior, a table-top can be wooden, inlaid, glass and even stone: the polished granite or marble.

The rest zone in a drawing room, allocated in addition a carpet on a floor, includes upholstered furniture and the local muffled illumination. Variants of upholstered furniture is there can be a sofa-transformer or an original soft corner, or separate sofas and armchairs much.

Modern sofas are extremely various on design, a design and materials. It and already mentioned sofa-transformer with folding little tables and mobile headrests, with pockets for newspapers and mobile phones or the complete set of "semi-antique" upholstered furniture, as if taken from the Victorian estate, or sofas and armchairs in a modernist style which backs are executed in the form of a half of a cockleshell with wooden armrests and legs. And, at last thing, a modern variant of shapeless armchairs in the form of carelessly thrown and filled by something soft a bag.

Correspond to a variety of models of furniture and materials: from natural fabrics, a skin and fur to synthetic materials simulating them.

One more important element of furniture of a drawing room of a room - furniture for audio - and video equipment - every possible curbstones, tables, the supports of various designs executed from various materials. It can be a tree, glass, metal or plastic. In historical interiors where presence of modern technics breaks integrity of style, equipment "hide" in cases, "close" pictures etc.

There's a video of interior design of small spaces living room.