Khrushchev Refrigerator: 7 ways to use a niche under the window in a typical apartment

Extend the kitchen set, store the products or install the bar counter - tell these and other ways to use space under the window.

In almost all typical buildings of the 50-70s of the last century, there is a niche under the window in the kitchen, the so-called "Khrushchevsky refrigerator". If you live in such an apartment, then, most likely, one way or another was the question of how to use this niche. It is not entirely logical to close the opening, because in the kitchen and so little space, it is better to use it with benefit. We collected in the article possible options.

1 Place food stocks

Arrange in a niche cabinet with doors under the style of your kitchen headset. Make inside the shelf, and so you will get an additional place where you can store croup, canned, sugar reserves and other products with a long storage period. It is also a good option for storing potatoes, onions and other vegetables that do not need a refrigerator.

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2 Store household chemicals

Arrange in the opening under the window storage of household chemicals. Since this place is isolated from the kitchen headset, you can keep there even potent funds, without fear that they will affect the quality of other products. It is especially convenient if you have a dishwasher and washing machine in the kitchen, as you can store detergents for these devices within walking distance. But if there are small children and animals in the house, it is important to put locking mechanisms on the doors.

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3 Extend kitchen set

Niche under the window can be used for built-in kitchen headset cabinets. Make a windowsill-countertop on the same level with another part of kitchen cabinets. Thus, you will increase the useful space of the kitchen and make a convenient P-shaped layout if other kitchen corners are also involved.

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4 Organize a small pantry

If you have enough space to store products and other items in the kitchen headset, you can use a niche for a small pantry for dishes or rarely used small household appliances: mixers, meat grinders. Arrange in the opening cabinet with shelves. Calculate their height so that you can easily put a high saucepan or part of the equipment.

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5 Isolate and make a refrigerator

Such a niche can be used in direct intended. Isolate it with reflective material, and build a wardrobe. In the closet you need to make a hole where there is already a vent hole in the wall. From the side of the kitchen, you can put the doors made of plastic, which will be tightly closed so that the cold from the street does not penetrate the apartment. Thus, you will receive a full-fledged refrigerator in the winter season, in which you can store products. In the summer, this refrigerator can be used for storing home billets and those products that are suited.

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6 make a bar rack

If you do not want to make a storage cabinet, you still do not rush to close the niche, arrange a bar counter-sill. Since under the window there is no battery, and instead there is a wide excavation, the knees will not rest in the wall.