How to equip a functional space in a small-sized Khrushchev? We have prepared 10 examples from real projects that you can use.
1 arrange an open balcony
One of the main advantages of many Khrushchev is the districts in which they were built many years ago. Most yards are filled with greens and pleasant smells of nature, which cannot be said about modern areas with new buildings. There are still decades to grow trees.
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Advantages need to be actively used - after all, get out of the morning to the balcony and breathe fresh air in urban conditions is really nice. Take an example from the hostess of this Khrushchev - she put a fashionable tile on the floor balcony, decorated Cashpo's perilla with plants and put folding chairs with soft pillows. The owner of the apartment says that the balcony is very nice to spend time with a book.
2 Combine the kitchen with the living room
After the main advantage, let's talk about the shortcomings - it is definitely irrational planning. Small kitchens, passing rooms - without redevelopment make the functional space is really difficult.
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Redevelopment must be coordinated - now there are strict standards, and if you "catch" on the illegal demolition of the walls, they are obliged to pay a fine, or even require "returning everything back."
Another nuance association is gas supply. According to the standards of the kitchen with gas stoves must be separated by partitions. Therefore, you have several options: officially refuse to supply gas to the apartment and "trim" pipes or leave the sliding partition between the kitchen and the living room. Then the visual room will look free and spacious, but the rules will be observed.
3 Put the partition in the room
And thus make a living room and a bedroom in a one-room Khrushchev. By the way, another advantage of this series of houses - inside the walls are undesumed, you can demolish and build new partitions and after easily it is to coordinate. For example, this one-room apartment with a room of 18 meters is easily turned into a two-room apartment - with just one partition.
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4 Increase door openings
High doorways will help to cope with another disadvantage of Khrushchev - low ceilings. If you increase the doorway to the ceiling, then visually it will become higher.
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So made designers in this apartment. They decided not to demolish the partition between the kitchen and the living room, and increase the doorway from the corridor to the kitchen and make another one in the partition. He "beat" as a home minibar. It turned out stylish and functionally - just what is needed by the owner of housing, a young girl.
5 Expand the working surface of the kitchen
The small kitchen still needs to be done functional. One of the popular techniques is to extend the countertop on the windowsill. It can make an extra work surface, bring the wet zone and equip the washing or replacing the dining table. The last decision will appeal to those who live one or pair - a large family need a full dining area.
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6 Use all sorts of storage space
High cabinets to ceiling, mezzanine - in small apartments you need to use maximum storage options. For example, as here. Due to the combination of the kitchen and the living room, niche was formed - it was used under the refrigerator. And under the ceiling made a small cabinet-mezzanine. Cabinets in the kitchen before the ceiling also help optimize storage and visually increase the height of the ceiling.
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7 Use open storage
Open storage systems add comfort. Look at the bedroom in this removable Khrushchev. The leaser girl made a cosmetic repair on his own, and to buy new furniture no longer counted. Therefore, at the base of the bed - pallets, and clothing in the bedroom is located on the open reeling of the famous Swedish brand. Despite the simplicity, it turned out very stylish.
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8 Slide door passages
Sometimes this solution helps to find more space for the storage and functional load of space. In this apartment, the entrance to the bathroom in the corridor moved closer to the entrance to the room and thus expanded the bathroom. This made it possible to be found in a tiny room 1.5 per 1.6 m place for a washing machine and an additional storage system, as well as install in the corridor lockers and a shoe banquet.
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Photo: Instagram Persitskaya
9 Choose multifunctional and compact techniques
In this little Khrushchev kitchen, there are almost all useful equipment that needs a hostess: a refrigerator, a cooking panel with burners, a stove, a brass cabinet and even a dishwasher, how did everything fit? The oven and dishwasher is one device. It combines both functions.
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10 Make Furniture to order
Another example of this functional Khrushchev. The owner shares its Lifehas with subscribers in Instagram, including - about buying furniture for the kitchen. The refrigerator was put in the corner, to the right of the kitchen so that it does not look too massively in a small space. Its width is less than standard, only 55 cm.
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The kitchen set was made to order. Upper boxes with a depth of 40 cm (standard - 30 cm), the tabletop is also a non-standard - 75 cm depth at the expense of a wide countertop and the fact that the two burners are located horizontally - an additional workplace was formed.