Options for finishing kitchen "Apron": the use of tiles, glass mosaic, stone, laminated panels, features of the color gamut.
A. Surgut,
E. Ermakova
Apron: - Bisazza Glass Mosaic (Italy)
"Apron": artificial stone + stainless steel sheets
Konzept.
The organic combination of aestheticism and practicality is the main requirement for the interior of modern kitchen, especially if it is combined with the living room. First of all, it concerns the zone of Kitchen "Apron", on the surface of which traces of our culinary experiments remain. Therefore, when implementing fashion trends, you need to know what the properties of materials used for its finishing, select them so that they are harmonized with the situation, as well as take into account the habits of the inhabitants of the house.
The wall fragment, called the kitchen "Apron", is most often facing with ceramic tiles. It is suitable for this, it is impossible to be strong: durable, waterproof, refractory, it is easy to clean, and most importantly - has a spectacular appearance. At the peak of popularity - ceramics, imitating fabric textures. Tile with a surface resembling fine wool or silk, embossed velveteer or a chicken, looks like "warmer" than the usual one. Incredibly elegant tissue pattern on large-format ceramic tiles. Under the rays of stylish lamps, it overflows with all the shades of pearls. Contrast of black walls and defiant-pink facades of kitchen furniture, the non-traditional layout of the shelves will appreciate young, energetic and ironic mistresses.
Injunchah megapolis
Walls dressed in the "skin" of anterorable, an elephant or crocodile, unusual and causing. The interior of this kitchen is for a real man, seeking adventures in the jungle of the modern megalpolis. The natural colors of the facade, the exotic "leopard skins" on the tabletop, ceramics, sparkling and transfusing, like a muscular reptile body, - all this creates an impressive image. However, do not forget that true beauty requires careful care. On glossy tiles, especially black, any contamination immediately rushes into the eyes, and to remove them from the embossed surface, more complicated than smooth.
Yuri Solovyov, Salon Designer "Trendy Kitchens"
Color therapy
Residents of the megalopolis, lost in the endless rim, surrounded by trees in the exhaust gases, are looking for something bright, summer, sunny. Imagine to find ... in your own home. Orange color in the kitchen? One he will seem too intrusive, for others will become an infinite source of joy and self-confidence. Cheerful and positively configured "home cooks" are experimenting with a union in one kitchen of ceramic tiles of different colors - the sun and the first grass. A mosaic border plays the role of seasonings in the hands of a true Creator, causing a new feeling from the usual and beloved "ceramic" dishes.A pattern of summer meadows with an incredible amount of shades of green creates a kitchen "apron" from a glass mosaic. The material affects the variety and brightness of the paints, cleanliness and playing light. With its manufacture, melts are used, the composition is closer to crystal than to the usual glass. For strength and durability Glass mosaic exceeds even some rocks. It absolutely does not absorb moisture, no low, nor high temperatures are not afraid. Mosaic pieces, or tessers, can be rectangular, round, but most often - square (from 10 to 50 mm). They are used in monophonic mosaics or background mixers. Laying the material is not too complicated by combining the tester in the matrix (3030cm) on a paper or mesh-based basis. Attention is the nuance: a mosaic is attached to a paper basis, and the base from the grid is from "Inside".
When laying a glass mosaic, white glues are used specifically for this material. Conventional adhesive compositions (dirty gray) can change shades of mosaic elements. The surface of the kitchen "Apron" is often in contact with water, and is also subject to regular cleaning, which sometimes leads to a violation of the integrity of suture materials on a cement basis. This will not happen if we use moisture-resistant grouts, and in everyday care, do not use acid solutions. You can wash the mosaic to a non-abrasive agent for glass surfaces.
Oksana Nikolaev, Specialist of the company "Bars. Architecture and design"
Floristic motifs
Flowers - an eternal topic that attracts creators in various fields. Let into the house of an infinitely diverse color range of fields and meadows, refined beauty of garden plants, "derarize" the walls of light floral rolling ...
What preferred is the bright accent inflorescences of white lilies, carelessly scattered on a dark chocolate background, or unobtrusive, barely noticeable ornament, reliably protected by a glass sheet? This option of kitchen "Apron" is not so often. Avted glass, especially tempered, durable and durable material. To smash it, you need to try to very much, which means it is very difficult to cut down. This glass is also resistant to scratch, does not absorb smells, clean it with ordinary soap solutions. Splashes, traces of food pollution on a flat surface masks a pattern of a decorative film pasted on the wall. For a transparent plane, you can position the wallpaper, fabric, drawn paintings, appliques, collection of wine labels - in a word, everything that, in your opinion, perfectly fits into the interior of the kitchen zone. However, the glass itself can be a decor element: a matte or transparent, colorless or tinted, smooth or pronounced pattern, made on the order by the artist's sketch of the glass workshop ... Extremely practical policies are suitable for decoration from glass or even mirror tiles: when appearing Scratches or other defects replace them easier than large-format glass.
Each hostess chooses the height of the table top and the location of the upper shelves with such a calculation so that it is convenient for her and her family members. So, the optimal distance between kitchen cabins and mounted cabinets is 480-620mm. The hitch hip is placed slightly above: for electric stoves at least 650 mm, for gas - at least 750mm. Comfortable height of table tops for a man of middle growth - 880-920mm. Too low tables, and in particular washing, are inconvenient, as you have to constantly bend, from which the shoulders and spin are tired. However, sometimes a decrease in the part of the working surface is allowed. Let's say, in those places where the window sills, which, as a rule, are below the tabletops. Playing with levels - interesting designer stroke. Special attention should be paid to the placement of the refrigerator, washing and a cooking surface. The main movement in the kitchen is just between these three blocks. They should not stand far from each other so that the hostess does not tire from unnecessary runner, or too close, as the closeness causes a sense of discomfort and irritation.
Maria Migunov, Konzept specialist
Long stereotypes
Artificial stone is traditionally used to finish buildings facades. This includes cement, fillers (sand, perlite, ceramzite IT.P.) and dyes. One of the most popular collections of this material is a decorative brick. Easy, thin (0.7-2Cm) and very affordable cladding (400-540 rub. For 1m2) a variety of textures and colors will help to transform even the most ordinary typical kitchenFacing brick is not a fuel, easily tolerates temperature differences and increased humidity. It can be brushed with a brush moistened in a soap solution, which is important for the "Apron" zone. WHAT The same material does not like frequent contacts with water, especially chlorinated. Surface treatment with hydrophobic composition allowed for use in residential premises, give the coating additional strength and moisture resistance.
To calculate the required amount of ceramic tiles, you need to know the area of the cladding and have a design of the laying pattern. It is important to consider that even in the party of high-quality material is allowed a slight number of tiles with deviations by linear size. Some tiles will have to trim or drill, therefore it is necessary to provide a small amount of waste (it increases when laying the elements diagonally compared to parallel). At the end of the facing work, it is advisable to save several tiles for possible repairs. Thus, we recommend purchasing an average of 10% more material than necessary for laying over the entire cladding area.
Igor Paskin, director of salon "Ceramics"
Majestic elegance
An unusually elegant ornamental pattern, embedded in the body of stone tiles covered with gold, in the frame of the "golden" mosaic of Petra Antiqua (Italy) will be evidence of the vastity of the owners. The production technology of this majestic finish is as follows: the finest gold film is sprayed, which is then covered with colorless varnish and baked. The coating is obtained quite strong, but it is not recommended to wash with an acid-based agent and with the addition of abrasive substances.
The minimization of the connecting seams is highly appreciated and adherents of ceramic tiles. Not accidentally popular formats 6060 and 6030cm. The multiplicity of sizes increases the variable capabilities of ceramics, allowing you to choose the desired drawing, use mosaic inserts. The result is erased inherent in traditional laying the division of the wall on the squares, and the amount of tiles you want to trim, decreases.
From classic to high-tech
EcoCariant
So today is the answer to the question of which material is preferred to finish the kitchen "Apron", simple as ever. Way quality can act almost everything that the global finish market offers.
All tools for cutting and drilling such durable materials such as ceramic tiles, porcelain stoneware, and stone can be divided into two groups. The clerva includes professional machines, to the second - familiar universal tools (drills, perforators, saws, jigsaws) equipped with special saws or drills for processing tiles or stone. Different installations and holes are obtained by so far, while when working with conventional nozzles, the behavior of a particular facing default material is difficult to predict: it can give a crack or split. Specific tool find it is easy - it offers all companies that produce power tools.
The editors thank the Salon "Trendy Kitchens" for helping in the survey, as well as the shopping and economic department of the Spanish Embassy, Konzept, "Bars. Architecture and Design", "Ceramism" for help in the preparation of material.