We asked Marina Krailkin designers, Alexander Dashkevich, Alexander Gartke and Victoria Baikov that they advise their customers when combining the dining area and living room. And share with you received recommendations.
1 Focus on the Room Square
The most common scenario, in which in most apartments, a dining group and a soft recreation area are combined - decor a kitchen-living room. If you have a space of less than 20 meters at your disposal, it will turn out to be made only the usual kitchen, a supplemented sofa. Full kitchen living rooms start from 20 meters, and an area of 35 meters is considered optimal. According to the designer of Marina Kratokina, here a kitchen set, a spacious dining group and a living room with a sofa and a TV, can be placed in harmonious and conveniently.
Also, the designer advises be sure to acquire a powerful exhaust. If your family loves to cook a lot and deliciously, the kitchen-living room will be a great place for a common pastime, and a good hood will make this space comfortable without stares.
2 Plan two zones for meals: in the kitchen, and in the living room
If you still have an apartment with a separate spacious living room or a country house, and you want to make a dining group from the kitchen, then plan two zones for meals. In the kitchen you will have a miniature table or bar counter, and the living room will stand a large dining table, designed for the whole family.
Marina Karakina advises to plan everything so that it is convenient to carry dishes from the kitchen in the living room. And do not forget about lighting scenarios. It will be necessary to separately light the dining group and the sofhed zone, add common ceiling lighting and a pair of wall scaves to create a chamber and cozy atmosphere.
Designer Marina Karakina:
Duplicate a dining group in the kitchen and in the living room, I always advise you to think well about what is peculiar to your family. In order for it does not work out that everyone is every day in a small table in the kitchen, and a gorgeous dining group in the living room is used a couple of times a year for the holidays. The area of the house or apartment, even if large, should be competently planned for your family and your traditions.
3 Do not place furniture along the walls.
Designer Alexander Garthke recommends to carry out large furniture (sofa and table with chairs) to the center of the room. Due to the fact that all overall objects will gather in the center, and there will be free space around, the interior will be spacious and air. With such an arrangement, the same sofa can be used as an excellent zoning tool. His back, to which attached the console, a dining table or a bar rack, will become the border between the open kitchen and the living room.
4 Do not clutter space
Combining a dining group and living room, I want to apply all fashionable solutions at once: bar rack, kitchen island. But even in a spacious room, it is important not to clutter the space, otherwise it will look less. If there is no place and for the large table and for a bar counter, for which it is convenient to eat or work, the designer Alexandra Garthke advises to choose something one, focusing on the needs of the family.5 Use mirrors
If the living room on one wall is located two windows on one line, Alexandra Garthke advises to accommodate the mirror between them. Another good place, in her opinion, for the mirror in the living room with a dining area - above the kitchen island.
Designer Alexandra Garthke:
My favorite reception - mirrors between two windows! The space becomes complex, deep and multifaceted. You can also place a mirror above the island - it will add depths and at the same time will play the role of apron.
6 Make the invisible area of the kitchen headset
Those who decided to make the kitchen-living room and want to make a dining area closer to the soft group, Alexander Dashkevich advises visually vested the cooking zone. To do this, in its projects, the designer often chooses a kitchen set in the color of the walls, it dissolves it in the total volume of space. And gives another advice.
Designer Alexander Dashkevich:
I think, many will agree that the roads are convenient in the kitchen, but their presence in the kitchen-living room, it seems to me too and causes the feeling that you are sitting in the kitchen, not in the living room. If you like everything in the kitchen everything is at hand, it is worth considering modern solutions to these tasks that allow you to hide the functional zones, for example, a descending apron.
7 Use chairs with textile upholstery
Combining the living room and dining area, avoid familiar kitchen solutions, such as stools. Designer Victoria Baykova advises chairs with a soft upholstery - they will emphasize a cozy and elegant sofa and chairs. If you have a classic interior, and the room area allows you to even pick up chairs with armrests.
Designer Victoria Baykova:
The living room is the most press room in your home, let it meet your status. Therefore, no kitchen corners and stools!
8 Do not forget about the decor
Also, Victoria Baykova proposes to combine two zones with decor. To do this, it is worth using pictures on the wall, a beautiful chandelier over the table, posters and sculptures. If a TV is hanging in the room, you can also use it - choose a model with a picture of the picture gallery. Then the screen will become part of the decorative design.
