We suggest how to place furniture and equipment on several square meters and at the same time leave the kitchen comfortable and beautiful.
1 Remove the partition
Interior Design: M2Project
If you are still at the repair stage, you have a chance to expand the kitchen physically: remove the partition between the kitchen and the adjacent room. In the homes of some series it is quite possible: the kitchen remains in the previous boundaries, and the functionality changes for the better.
2 Determine the role of the kitchen
Interior Design: Krauzearchitects
If you are just entering the apartment and plan repairs and a new environment, think about how you want to use the kitchen. If you only need to prepare food on a small kitchen, this is one layout: places for all lockers and household appliances abound. But if it is also required to dine here, you need special techniques - for example, a folding table, which appears if necessary and does not interfere with the cooking process.
3 Make a niche kitchen
Interior Design: Studio Tonic
This option is perfect for a small studio apartment and a small cottage house. Arrange the kitchen zone in a small niche, which, if case it can be closed with sliding doors or curtains. Such kitchen, by the way, is often equipped when transferring it to the hallway zone.
4 Find more storage space
Interior Design: Dmitry Balykov
For example, use high suspended cabinets that will reach the ceiling. Agree, climb the chair is more convenient than wearing pan and dishes from the next room.
5 Buy mobile furniture
Interior Design: Olga Khovanskaya
Creating an additional surface on rails or wheels, which, if necessary, play the role of the working area or dining table. An alternative can be a few small composite tables on the wheels.
6 Use reflections
Interior Design: Wellborn + Wright
In addition to mobile furniture, products made of glass, transparent plastic with metal parts or chromium coating. Such materials well reflect the light and are not striking, thereby seeking less space than it actually is. You can also, for example, arrange the surface of the lockers with a mirror coating.
7 Put the headset correctly
Interior Design: Ksenia Yusupova
For a small five-six-meter kitchen, the optimal accommodation option is the location of the equipment along two neighboring walls, the letter "g". It allows you to fit the kitchen equipping, increases the working area and allows the hostess to be near all the kitchen appliances.
8 Few hood
Interior Design: Olga Mitnik
In a small kitchen, smells from cooking are capable of lingering for a long time, but if you set a high-quality hood, then such a problem can be avoided. The timely replacement of filters and the forced hood system will spend time even in the smallest kitchen more comfortably.
9 Forget about large prints
Interior Design: Inna Velichko
The small kitchen is important not to overload with details, so the rhythm of patterns must be dosed. For such a room, monophonic surfaces are perfectly suitable in combination with small details. For example, painted in one tone of the wall and monochrome doors of cabinets in combination with a kitchen apron of fine tiles will create the impression of a larger space.
10 Take backlight
Interior Design: Dvekati Studio
For more convenience, cabinets can be highlighted. For this, it is enough to skip under the shelf self-adhesive LED tape. To illuminate the working surface of the countertop, the use of LED tape is also a good solution. In addition, such local light will create a sense of volume and geometry in the evening.