Kitchen integration in residential space: Fashionable designer trends, furniture and equipment of the new generation, zoning techniques
No room in modern housing has not changed so radically its essence and appearance as a kitchen. By destroying the existing stereotypes and spatial boundaries, she gained the status of the main territory of the house. Considerable merit in this belongs to high technologies.
Up to the beginning of the twentieth century. The kitchen was closed for extraneous eyes, a separate room designed exclusively for cooking. The first "breakthrough" made Americans in the 20s, when with the light hand of the architect Ludwig Mies van der Roe, the housing space was completely freed from the inner walls. Thus, the kitchen, living room, office and even the bedroom began to be located in one room. New format liked the representatives of Bohemia and students. The first was the soul of space, the second is the availability of housing, which cost 25-30% cheaper than standard one-bedroom apartments. B90-kh ggh in. Fashion to combine the kitchen with a dining room, living room, hall and turn them into the so-called social zone became truly mass. She came to Russia, where by that time the furniture market was formed, which allowed almost any fantasies into reality into reality.
Nolte Kuchen. | 
"Kitchen Dvor" | 
"Maria" | 
Leicht. |
1. Open space is planned comfortable and aesthetic. Everything is provided for cooking, meals, recreation and communication. Furniture elements correspond to studio concept.
2. The two-level "peninsula" with a cooking panel, zoning space, serves as a working area, as well as a small dining table.
3. The Wave elegant kitchen with wave-like facades will organically fit into the sociological zone and decorate it.
4. The cabinet-cubic bundle embedded in the "island" block and visually separates the place of cooking from the place of rest.
Retreat from rule
It is known a classic "work triangle" rule, observed when planning a kitchen: its vertices should be a refrigerator, a stove and washing. Linear location of these components is also possible. Recompute with this has developed several types of kitchen layouts: one-centered, double-row, angular, P-shaped and "island". Today, designers are often retreating from the ruler of the Triangle, based on the fact that the main thing is to understand what the "route" of the most demanded actions in the kitchen committed in this family. For example, today, many hostesses are preparing on the cooking panel rarely, and only in great celebrations enjoy the oven. Why, in this case, take them into the center of the composition? As a rule, the focus of kitchen "traffic" is a washing, so it is necessary that there was enough space around it.
Today, all fashionable designer trends and technologies, new materials and methods for their processing are tested in the kitchen; Much importance manufacturers give texture, color, fittings. Due to this, the neighborhood with upholstered furniture, book racks, carpets, lamps and other "non-humid" objects becomes harmonious and aesthetically justified. Often it is exactly the kitchen kit sets the tone, and the apartment is as a whole under it. The cuisine with residential premises is combined and the owners of new spacious apartments with free layout, and the owners of small-sized typical "doubles" and "trecracies" that demollen interior partitions. It turns out a mixed type studio, because, unlike the classic, the bedroom is preferred to leave isolated. Such a solution has many advantages. There is a feeling of freedom and internal. Lovely rooms are more light and air. The interior of the studio decorated in a single style looks solid and completed. Agenic - in a relaxed atmosphere of the open house can be prepared, there is, going to the whole family, meet friends, communicate, relax, watch TV, work, leaving. At the same time, all households feel closer to each other.
Technical prerequisites
"Public" kitchen does not suggest that the place of cooking is necessary to sacrifice the recreation area. However, with the arrangement of the open interior, household details are desirable to mask. Make it easy. The output of the kitchen "in the light" was largely due to the fact that not only furniture, but also technique began to embed. In this case, integrate instruments in the cabinets, drawers, the table tops can be the most convenient for the user. Apparently only the front panels of the equipment remain. The ability to embed the devices allows you to more rationally dispose of space. The same technique that "lives" next to us should be aesthetic.
Place furniture elements are not where it is accepted, and where it is convenient for you. Try to hide, including behind the sliding doors, the contents of the shelves and drawers. The kitchen is a place for life, and it is necessary to live separately from unnecessary things.
A distinctive feature of the equipment of the new generation - the synthesis of high technologies and the most modern design. Participate in these devices invite designers and architects with world names, such as Paolo Pinin Farina, Macio Hasuke, ITO Morabito, Karim Rashid, Porsche Design Studio Specialists. Including examples Let's call Art Flower refrigerators, La Fleur (Samsung Electronics), Vintage Paint (Ardo), Quadrio (Hotpoint-Ariston, Obaitaly), Hansa and Zigmund Shtain cookies, refrigerator with LCD monitor having a diagonal of 43cm, and a TV hood (Siemens), "funny" dishwashers from the ActiveWater collection (Bosch, all Germany) IDR.
Del Tongo. | 
Del Tongo. | 
"Likarion" |
5, 6. Recompute with a fashionable tendency The contents of the kitchen cabinets are hiding behind the sliding door and compartment. Thus, a quiet plane decoration of the wall is achieved. Sliding doors facilitate access to the shelves.
7. Modern stylish kitchen "Stella" is characterized by a composite novelty and unusual facades. They are made of a high lancer acrylic plastic with a thickness of 1.5 mm, glued to the basis of MDF.
Devices with a mirror body, LED illumination, artistic painting affect the emotional mood and please the eye. As for small household appliances, especially helping to make breakfast, instruments such as Senseo coffee maker (Philips, Netherlands), Max Limited Edition 2009 microwave ovens (WHIRLPOOL, USA), become bright accessories of the modern home. If you wish, you can generally hide the equipment behind the doors of kitchen furniture or fashionable sliding panels and open them only during food cooking. So a single time sign: in modern kitchen technical "pins" more than the traditional decor. It decorate monitors, acoustic systems and built-in touch displays.
Standards III Millennium
We will call technological techniques, the introduction of which in the production of kitchen furniture has radically changed our ideas about it, influenced aesthetics. The first-desire to make furniture almost silent, silence of comfort. Leading manufacturers use in their programs innovative Hettich (Germany), BLUM, GRASS (OBSTRIA). This, for example, damping systems (silent smooth closing), which can be put on any kitchen module. The second - decisive refusal to swing facades in the lower tier. They are squeezing out the door-coupe, full-digging boxes and exit storage systems. The third is the improvement of the internal organization, the presence of a sufficient and well-planned place for convenient placement of products, cutlery, accessories, dishes and utensils. This allows you to get rid of the usual stereotypes of storage and turn the kitchen into a freely modulated laboratory of creativity. Kitchen manufacturers offer facades with hidden handles or without them without them (using the Push-to-Open opening principle), as well as swivel-retractable mechanisms, devices for folding IT doors. Thus, the appearance of the furniture becomes more elegant.Face to the living room
When the boundaries are erased between different essentials, it is very important that they are in the dialogue with each other. For this, in addition to the basic composition, additional dual-use elements will be needed, equally relevant in the kitchen interior, at the junction of the zones and even in the living room. They are offered all European manufacturers making furniture to order. This is Bau-For-Mat, Leicht, Nolte Kuchen (all Germany), Aster Cucine, Biefbi, Composit, Maistri, Pedini (All Italy), as well as the best Russian factories, such as "Atlas Suite", "Kitchen Dvor "," Likarion "," Maria "," Stylish Kitchens "," Ekomlebel ", Verona Mobili, Virs Idre. The cuil elements refers, for example, a block for built-in technology, which is a continuation of the cabinet in which there are books or an audio system. Moreover, the volume of this module can also serve the transition from one zone to another, burning, for example, a small sofa. Organically fit into the studio space shallow (flat) hinged cabinets with sliding sash, low storage systems, at the same time being a bench for seating (they are integrated into an open rack, but more often in the "island").
"EKOMEBEL" | 
"Maria" | 
Verona Mobili. | 
"Stylish kitchens" |
8. Strict "Nick" from the Birch Massif was first shown at the exhibition "Furniture-2009" and became the laureate in the nomination "Best Designer Development". It represents a modern look at tradition. This kitchen kit received the National Prize "Russian Cabrian" in 2009.
9. Imola combines elegant climbing classics and love for tradition.
10. Gamma kitchen facades are made of MDF and deconed with veneer of valuable wood (wenge, rosewood, zebrano).
11. Technological "Island" not only does not disturb the aesthetics of residential space, but also is its element.
If you like to cook
If you cook and like to organize culinary experiments, it is possible that the studio apartment advantages will turn out for you. These are inevitable traces of "livelihoods": smells, splashes, a working disorder ... The latter in the kitchen is generally undesirable, and in the studio space just unacceptable. You will need a powerful extractor, which (as, by the way, and the refrigerator) should have a low noise level. Asseta is better to build a light sliding partition-screen, it will separate the kitchen from the living room when you are cooking. For a large family, the association of the kitchen and the living room will not suit, but a tandem with a dining room is quite relevant.
The "island" from the side of the kitchen can be very technological, and from the side of the living room - act as a dining table or bar counter. Cabinets with transparent doors (in classical kitchen-buffet), shelves, racks, complementing base elements, become both the place of storage of dishes and products and a decorative showcase in the dining room or living room. There were separate or recessed blocks in the niche blocks, including a whole series of equipped cabinets: closed with smooth glossy facades and in the form of glazed windows, bulk wall-lounge buffets. It is convenient to keep food, dishes, large and small household appliances. Matte, slightly painted spraying softens the outlines of objects located in the cabinets.
Pedini. | 
Composit. | 
"Maria" | 
Nolte Kuchen. |
12. Outline furniture spreads the borders of the kitchen and becomes part of the public zone.
13. The in aesthetic interior is nice to create culinary masterpieces, spending time after a cup of coffee, receive guests and just relax.
14. The bottom boxes of the Vertment kitchen in the form of an inverted letter "g" allow you to open them without flexing.
15. Ergonomic kitchen NOVA LACK is made with rounded decorative elements of Soft Line and Soft Form.
As a rule, all dual-purpose elements are manufactured from the same components as the main composition. A diverse range of basic modules allows you to not limit fantasy and make the space of the kitchen and the territory adjacent to it is most comfortable and organic. There are many manufacturers, such as "Maria", "Kitchen Dvor", "Stylish Kitchens", Nolte Kuchen Idr., Release furniture not only for the kitchen, but also for residential areas.
Combining, divided
In the zone where the food prepare, one emotional sensations reign, and in the dining room and living room, where they rest, are others. Therefore, integrating the kitchen in the residential space, it is necessary to be unobtrusive, and sometimes, on the contrary, it is emphasized visually allocate it. Reception of zoning depends on the overall concept of the interior of the apartment. But in any case, you should not forget that the working unit is "tied" to engineering appliances, therefore, with the exception of the "island" option, needs a wall-support. To clearly select the zones of different functional purposes (preparation and intake of food, work, recreation, communication), you can apply any of the existing ways: to arrange the height of the ceiling or floor, the podium, the arches between the kitchen zones and the living room, use the columns, sliding transparent partitions, Glass blocks, stained glass windows, shirms, lighting IDR. Zoning space is also allowed using the already mentioned dual-purpose elements. Among them, perhaps the most common unifying and dividing furniture objects are the Bar Stand and Island.
Haecker | 
Leicht. | 
"Atlas-suite" | 
Composit. |
16, 17. Open elements contribute to the rapprochement of different functional zones.
18. Shelves - an interesting decorative solution for the end of the cabinet.
19. This composition is distinguished by an exquisite combination of open and closed elements of different formats. The attraction center is a functional "peninsular" module.
Lighter, even easier
Designing an open kitchen requires facilitating the main composition, while not to the detriment of practicality. The trend is still relevant in the kitchen focus on the lower base. It gets further development: the lightweight top tier, the shelves are not too large dimensions (such is, in particular, Nolte Kuchen), while there are no attachments at all. Their place is occupied by open shelves, including glass with backlit in the end, lightweight cabinets with open cells that put directly on the worktop. Often one of the walls of the kitchen (for example, on the junction with a living room or dining room) is beaten with glass shelves, a tree or metal, turning them into an elegant showcase. Popular racks, standing free or wall, with rear wall or through.
Bar rack. Highlighting an open-style kitchen and having enough area, many do not refuse themselves to build a bar counter. She appeared in this room as a kind of alien from another planet, but an amazing way passed on and became a full-fledged component of the kitchen. There are classic high (105cm) element on consoles and a multi-level combination of a bar counter and dining table. Another variety is the solution in open interiors: separately standing kitchen block- "island", which in the living room or dining room continues the design of the bar rack. Here, many love to have breakfast, arrange small buffets. Kitchen cabinets are often used for storage of dishes. The mucous facade (from the side of the living room) they are made open, with doors, deaf, and also in the form of glazed windows with illuminated.
"Island". One of the most popular composite solutions to the open kitchen is "island" layout. The conceptual idea of the "island" kitchen is that all (or some) functional items "tear off" from the wall and placed in the center. At the same time, the "island" can serve as an addition to the main composition or be an independent designer element (in the second case, there are only high cabinets for embedding equipment, storage of utensils and products). All components of the "Islands" usually correspond to the components of the main composition. The equipment is possible any. The "Island" does not have to be equipped with household appliances, it is also "empty": an additional working plane and storage system at the bottom. Often, the "island" is combined with a dining table, which becomes its continuation.
In the studio, you can turn almost any residence - from a model apartment to a country house. The correct approach and competent use of architectural techniques allow you to visually increase the room, make it lighter, functional and comfortable
Let's just say: "Island" models require a large space (at least 20m2). After installing the "Island" around, there should be enough space for movement (the minimum passage width is 90cm). In the opposite the cuisine will be uncomfortable, it is necessary that the doors and drawers will be unhindered and put forward. The height of the work surface of the "Island" usually coincides with the height of all other table tops of the kitchen kit. As a rule, the base towers above the floor at 85-90 cm, that is, it is significantly higher than the traditional dining table (72-76cm). If the "island" is carried out and washing, you will have to make communication under the floor under the floor or inside a specially made "cavity". Often over the "island", the unit is hung up a menolu-special design that is fastened to the ceiling. It can be equipped with built-in hood and backlight, serve a shelf for kitchen utensils. Mensenzola-optional element, but designers advise to include it in the kit, as it visually balances the rather massive design of the Islands.
Ernestomeda. | 
Bau-for-Mat | 
Beckermann. | 
Pedini. |
20. The Elektra program reflects a modern kitchen arrangement. The horizontal and vertical volumes are equalized in an amazing way. Cabinets are equipped with a backlight system with LEDs embedded in an aluminum frame frame.
21. "Glass" Kitchen Velvet Vetro (Designer Giancarlo Fabro) - the embodiment of pure minimalism and multifunctionality.
22. Leonardo Kitchen combines all fashionable modern elements: Wall cabinets, "Island", "Bridge", combining it with an entry composition and a bar desk, as well as open shelves with backlit.
23. The name of Integra says that the kitchen is able to fit into any space. Its characteristic signs are large surfaces, "islands" and "peninsula", rounded compositions, a wardrobe wall. Thoughtful ergonomic reception of protruding handles.
Studio in law
According to the realtors, the demand for studio apartments area of 60-110m2 is growing. However, the finished housing of such a kind of deficiency, besides, it is not suiced. To find a spacious apartment, many are solved on redevelopment of typical dwellings. But such events can be started, only having received an appropriate permit in the authorized authority. In VMoskwe is an inspection on the supervision of the reorganization of premises in residential buildings (INPP), which is in every administrative district. So, dismantling the wall between the kitchen and the room is possible only if it is not carrier. The device of the new opening in the bearing wall must be coordinated at the Moszhilnyiprect Institute. Alsa is one nuance: according to regulations, rooms equipped with gas stoves or speakers, must be separated from residential rooms. Output sliding partitions. About this and other issues related to redevelopments, see "IVD", 2011, No. 1.
"Bridge". Invoable room so that the furniture visually disintegrated into individual elements, and looked like a single kit, it is often customary to use an element resembling a bridge. On the one hand, it combines various kitchen blocks, and on the other, depending on the height, which is located, plays the role of either a bar counter, or a narrow table top.
We thank the representative office of Nolte Kuchen, the company "ATLAS-Lux", "Likarion", "Kitchen Dvor", "Maria", "Stylish kitchens", "EKOMEBEL" for help in the preparation of material.