Combined room with kitchen is no longer a rarity in our country. This method of interior design of apartments and houses is quite justified in small rooms, as it allows you to expand the space and make it more functional. Designers have successfully used it in fairly spacious rooms, creating interesting and stylish interiors.
Every housewife dreams of a big kitchen, because in a tiny room, which our kitchens often are, it is not only inconvenient to cook, but it is also impossible to gather with your relatives or friends at the dinner table. In this case, the redevelopment of the apartment becomes the only chance to change the living conditions for the better. But many homeowners who have already thought about the reconstruction of their homes are interested in: “Is it possible to combine a kitchen with a room and how to do it right?” We will try to answer these questions in this article.
Remodeling
Apartment owners need to know that any dismantling of walls must be approved and authorized by the relevant authorities. If the walls are not load-bearing (not part of the frameat home), it is not difficult to obtain permission. First, a draft change (layout) must be prepared. It is possible to combine the kitchen and the room only after its approval in the relevant structures. You will receive a work permit. The finished room will need to be handed over by a commission.
Conditions allowing rooms to be combined
The question of combining rooms often arises before residents of small-sized Khrushchevs. These houses have two types of partitions. If you are lucky and your apartment does not have a load-bearing wall, then the new layout is quite real. This option is not possible in panel houses, since the wall that separates the room and the kitchen is load-bearing. It can be removed only partially, creating a decorative opening, but certainly with supporting supports.
It is forbidden to combine a room with a kitchen if a gas stove is installed in it. According to safety standards, it should be separated from the living quarters. If you really want to say goodbye to your tiny kitchen, then you will have to replace the stove with an electric one. This will require another agreement - with the gas service, as well as the installation of an electrical cable of sufficient power.
Kitchen combined with a room in Khrushchev
If you have never been in such houses, then it is hard for you to imagine how small the kitchens are in them, as well as the bathrooms and hallways. On a tiny space of about six square meters, you should try to place a lot of necessary things, and even cook food here. The task is very difficult, sometimes evendesigners struggle with the design of such a room.
It is for this reason that many owners of Khrushchev houses make repairs, combining a room with a kitchen. And I must say that usually the result of the reconstruction does not disappoint anyone. The extended kitchen takes the claustrophobic feel out of this small room and creates an illusion of space, although the size of the two rooms naturally remains the same.
Zoning
After the demolition of the wall between the rooms, a large free space is formed - a studio apartment. It's time to choose the style of this room and do all the finishing work in accordance with it. Surely you are interested in how to make a beautiful room combined with a kitchen. And for good reason: doing this is more difficult than it might seem at first glance.
Although you got rid of the walls, it is necessary that each section of the combined space perform a certain function - in the living room you should relax, receive guests, in the kitchen - cook food. These zones must be correctly identified and at the same time separated from each other. To do this, designers recommend using several methods.
Miscellaneous materials
The design of a kitchen combined with a small room involves the creation of a common space in which separate accents are used for zoning. The kitchen area can be distinguished by using finishing materials for the floor, ceiling and walls. They can be different in quality, texture, pattern, a combination of wallpaper in the living room withtiles in the kitchen; combination of a variety of floor coverings.
It looks interesting in the living room carpet and floor tiles or porcelain tiles in the kitchen. The division of zones with the help of lacquered decorative wooden wide plinths, which are located along the ceiling and wall, looks original, repeating the boundaries of the removed wall. The color of the baseboard should be repeated in the color of the headset.
Lighting
This is a good and proven zoning method. In this case, central lighting (chandelier) is mounted in the living room, floor lamps and wall lamps in the recreation area, table lamps in the working area. And spotlights are more suitable for the kitchen.
Kitchen combined with corridor and room
We have already said that today it is already difficult to surprise anyone with a dining room or living room combined with a kitchen, dressing room or bathroom. Many owners go further: combining a kitchen with a corridor and a room should be recognized as an innovative idea. And it does not matter at all what makes the designer or homeowner to combine these premises - a small area of \u200b\u200bthe apartment or just a bold idea. It is important that as a result the room is functional and comfortable.
The advantage of this solution, no doubt, is the same desired space that is achieved after the removal of the walls. In a large kitchen, a bright and spacious room, even with a minimal area of the apartment, one can breathe easily and freely.
Partitions
As you understand, a combined room with a kitchen and a corridor is like no otherthe room needs zoning. In this case, it is advisable to use sliding partitions that will be relevant during cooking or meeting guests. Such structures are simple: most often they consist of guides on the ceiling and on the floor, along which partitions move. They can be made from any material. Experts consider the most practical:
- plastic;
- glass;
- tree;
- metal.
Today, partitions are popular, in which fabric is stretched over a solid frame. They look very stylish and add uniqueness to the interior. True, they are undesirable to use in the kitchen area, since the fabric absorbs all odors, and the fumes will leave ugly stains on the fabric after a while.
Combination features
Combining the kitchen with the hallway and the room, you need to carefully consider how to protect the apartment from dirt, because there is an entrance behind the door, sometimes not very clean. You should make sure that most of the dirt remains outside the threshold. To do this, you need to use special grills and high-quality mats.
Effective in this case, and "warm floor". This system will help wet marks dry quickly, and household members will not spread the dirt brought from the street around the apartment. This is important, because pile carpets absorb moisture and do not achieve the desired cleanliness. For a kitchen hallway, tiles are most suitable, but moisture-resistant laminate can also be considered as an option.
To ensure that clothes are not saturated with foreign odors in the corridor, it is necessary to take care of good ventilation. The kitchen should have a powerful extractor fan. In addition, the hallway must be equipped with cabinets, the doors of which close very tightly, the same applies to shoe shelves.
The interior of the kitchen combined with the corridor
To design such a room, designers recommend two methods:
- combining space with a single color and finishing materials;
- zoning the room using materials of different textures and colors.
The first option will not require much effort. The kitchen and corridor require the use of modern wear-resistant materials with good resistance to changes in humidity and temperature. For the floor, it is better to opt for tiles or natural stone, although other materials can be used (for example, linoleum, waterproof laminate). But the main principle in this case is the hygiene of the coating.
Tiles can also be used for walls, although many consider this material to be too cold, so you can take moisture-resistant washable wallpaper that will withstand the aggressive environment of this room.
Color solution
There are practically no restrictions on this issue. It is better to give preference to light pastel colors that visually expand the room. At the same time, such shades that mask pollution (beige, gray) can be used to decorate areas that are exposed toto the greatest impact: areas at the front door, around the sink, near the stove. The rest of the room can be decorated as brightly as your imagination allows.
How should the lighting be?
Lighting often plays a decisive role in the division of space into room, corridor and kitchen. We will not discuss the lighting of the room now, since we talked about it above, and we will consider the rest of the rooms. In the kitchen area, you can and should use brighter light, for example, fluorescent lamps, which give a bright white glow. In the corridor, it is better to leave the usual softer yellow light. Such a simple way will allow you to feel the boundaries of spaces.
In the hallway, with the help of lamps, the area of the hanger and mirror should be highlighted. This will additionally help to make the room visually more spacious. The kitchen will need additional lighting at the dining table and in the work area. You can achieve great results using these seemingly simple join and split methods.
Advantages and disadvantages of combining rooms
Everyone who decides to combine a kitchen with a room needs to carefully weigh the pros and cons of such a decision. We invite you to familiarize yourself with them.
Dignity:
- the ability to zone the space and move the dining area from the kitchen to a more comfortable place;
- use any interior style and create an individual design;
- great illumination and visual expansion of the room.
Coming to itquestion with all responsibility, it is necessary to evaluate not only the advantages of such a method, but also its disadvantages:
- the smell of cooking food will spread throughout the room even with a powerful hood;
- combined space deprives households of privacy, so this method is more suitable for families of two or three people;
- in such a room, due to the specifics of the interior, you will have to clean up much more often, and in the whole room.
