A spacious kitchen with a dining room where you can gather all the household members for a family dinner is the dream of every housewife. However, modern apartments cannot boast of impressive size and a sufficient number of rooms. It is for owners of small apartments that designers offer an interesting solution - to combine these two rooms. The interior of the living room, combined with the kitchen, allows not only to increase the space of the guest room, but also to get a comfortable and multifunctional room for cooking.
One of the main advantages of this redevelopment is that instead of two tiny rooms you get one - spacious and bright. The well-equipped interior of the living room combined with the kitchen is conducive to family gatherings, solemn meetings with friends and dinner parties. Now, in order to cook food, you do not have to leave guests alone. It also simplifies table setting. Now you do not need to run from the room to the kitchen for every dish. In the combined kitchen, you can, without interrupting the preparation of festive dishes,to look after, by the way, for small children.
However, this redevelopment has its drawbacks. So, when you combine rooms, you actually lose one room, and your apartment from a "kopeck piece" turns into a one-room apartment. If your apartment had one room initially, be prepared for the fact that the interior of the living room combined with the kitchen will definitely require a powerful hood. Otherwise, the whole aroma of cooking food will spread throughout the room. Also, the combined living room needs to be kept in perfect cleanliness, which means that you will have to give up carpets and light-colored bedspreads. Leaving dirty dishes in the sink overnight is also unlikely.
The design of a room combined with a kitchen requires a complete merger of the two spaces. This means that both rooms should, if not harmonize, then complement each other. Organizing a competent interior of the kitchen-living room (the photo is located below), the designers use several options for dividing the space and zoning the room.
Multilevel floor
This technique allows you to hide unnecessary communications and looks very impressive. However, it should be remembered that the difference in level heights should not be more than 15 centimeters.
Bar counter
The interior of the living room combined with the kitchen, where the counter plays the role of a partition, is suitable for young carefree people who often use their apartment for friendly parties. The rack can be either attached to a part of the wall or freestanding.
Combination of finishing materials
You can zone a room by combining different floor coverings. For example, the kitchen area may be tiled, while the seating area may be finished with laminate or carpet.
You can also visually delimit the room with the help of translucent sliding partitions or pieces of furniture. For example, it could be a large table with lamps hanging low above it.
Before organizing the interior of the living room combined with the kitchen and redevelopment of the premises, you must contact the appropriate authorities to obtain permission to demolish a fragment or an entire part of the wall. This is done in order not to inadvertently dismantle the bearing wall of the building, which can lead to its complete destruction.
