The sofa in the kitchen was once considered a symbol of luxury, wealth in the family - not everyone had a spacious kitchen room that could accommodate such furniture. The modern furniture industry offers a huge selection of sofas for every taste, suitable for various interior styles, room sizes.
To create not only practical, but also a cozy kitchen design will help a suitable kitchen sofa
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Kitchen and ordinary upholstered furniture have some differences: an item placed in the kitchen should be well cleaned of contaminants with food, drinks, and drops of fat. Some people place in the room where they cook food, a simple sofa, but this is extremely not practical. The choice depends on what it is purchased for at all: some receive guests here, organizing friendly gatherings, family dinners, others like to lie down reading the newspaper, others lay down to sleep on the folding object of relatives who have suddenly arrived.
Among the popular kitchen furniture options there are corner sofas, modular, semicircular, in the form of a bench, couches, and a comfortable sofa bed is placed on almost any kitchen. A variety of pillows, blankets, bedspreads, covers are purchased as sofa accessories.
Stylish and bright kitchen sofa with a berth
The angular design can be transformed - when unfolded, it forms one or two berths, turning into a full bed. The product comes complete with a table, two or four stools, additional shelves, and inside there are spacious drawers, niches for storing kitchen utensils, table linen. An angular object is almost always performed asymmetrically - there are models in the right and left versions, as well as collapsible options.
Convenient kitchen corner sofa with storage drawers
The kitchen sofa-couch with one armrest and a berth has the same storage capacity
The couch is mainly used for seating, has a soft upholstery, one or two armrests or is made without them, a pronounced headboard, the height of which is adjustable in many models. There are folding options that can easily be converted into a real large bed, as well as products with drawers for storing linen, dishes.
Sofa couch with a back decorated with “buttons” is suitable even for a small kitchen
Non-standard semicircular sofa can become a highlight of the interior
Semicircular models are purchased for spacious rooms with or without bay windows. When the product is planned to be placed in a cramped kitchenette with an area of less than six to seven square meters, the most compact model is selected without mechanisms for transformation, but with internal drawers where various kitchen items are stored. For a kitchen combined with a living room or another room, a luxurious semicircular sofa can become a zoning element. If it has a high back, shelves are mounted there, additional surfaces that serve as a table, bar counter.
Semicircular models of this type are usually used in spacious rooms, and can be equipped with drawers or side shelves
A light gray kitchen sofa bench is located along the window and can accommodate several people.
A sofa bench is most often purchased for interiors in a modernist style and minimalism. The product is made mainly of light wood, made out with several small pillows, it can be direct or angular, have internal storage systems or can be produced without them.
The sofa bench looks strict and unusual, but fits perfectly into the interior of this kitchen
Modular kitchen corners are perfect for both small kitchens and large ones, such a design makes it easy to rearrange
Modular products are the best option for those who want to maximize the use of all available space, often transforming it. Such a sofa is made to order - it is a whole system that includes not only soft seats, but also minibars, folding, extendable tables, shelves, drawers and other elements. It is important that the frame, all moving structural elements are very strong, reliable, able to withstand many cycles of folding-unfolding.
The modular set for the dining area can be assembled from separate modules - large and small benches with soft seats and a convenient storage rack
Even in a small kitchen you can place a comfortable corner sofa
The place where to put the kitchen sofa is determined by the size of the room, as well as the piece of furniture itself: in a close place they put a compact sofa in the kitchen, in a spacious one - a folding product, which has very solid dimensions.
The kitchen sofa can be placed by the window, organizing a dining area there
It is desirable to place upholstered furniture at the maximum distance from the refrigerator, gas stove, washing machine, sink, oven and other elements of the environment. When the room has a niche, a bay window, a sofa is put there. The optimal location is in the opposite corner from the working area.
It is not recommended to place the sofa near the working surface - it will quickly become dirty and become a danger zone during cooking
It is better to arrange upholstered furniture in a free corner
From a competent, thoughtful selection of upholstered kitchen furniture, not only the appearance of the interior, but also the convenience, comfort of being in the room, directly depends. Durable, beautiful kitchen sofas will last a long time, without causing any trouble, while maintaining excellent appearance for many years. It is important to choose the right size of the product: the passage between the seats and the headset should be at least 0.6 meters, if one or two people live in the apartment, 0.7-0.9 - when there are more than three people living.
The frame is the first thing you should pay attention to. Most often it is made of wood, from pine, oak, beech, less often - from metal, chipboard.
Wooden sofa frame - an expensive, but practical and environmentally friendly option
In the latter case, it is desirable to choose varieties that contain a minimal amount of formaldehydes that can adversely affect human health, especially with a sharp increase in ambient temperature. Frameless furniture is also popular - it does not have sharp corners, but it keeps its shape well.
Particleboard frame - an inexpensive, but not reliable and in some cases a harmful option
The best material for a kitchen sofa is luxury leather
Genuine leather is the best upholstery for furnishing a kitchen. It is very durable, resistant to abrasion, with proper care, it can last up to several decades. A room with a leather sofa looks luxurious, because such products usually get for classic interiors, baroque, renaissance, empire.Leather is a very expensive upholstery material, leatherette and eco-leather are often used to reduce the cost of the finished product, which does not affect the durability of the coating in the best way.
Upholstery fabrics differ in composition, type of weaving, tactile sensations and texture, and are selected for a specific case
Such a textile coating as chenille does not lose its attractive appearance for a long time, and the jacquard fabric slightly changes color, depending on the lighting. Velor is soft, but requires good care, Teflon-impregnated material does not absorb any dirt, it is not afraid of the claws and teeth of pets. It is not recommended to use natural, artificial fur as upholstery - it is extremely difficult to clean such a product, it will quickly lose its beauty.
Upholstered furniture is usually purchased when the repair in the kitchen is completed, therefore it is selected for the existing interior design:
Floral sofa with wrought iron provence kitchen base
Small bright sofa for relaxing for a classic milky kitchen
Miniature gray sofa couch for the loft style kitchen
The color of the sofa is chosen according to your taste, but it should be remembered that dark colors visually reduce space, light colors expand.
Possible functions of a sofa for the kitchen.
Functionality - most models are equipped with drawers for storing various household items, which is very convenient for a small kitchen
Practicality - the sofa can be used for a comfortable sleep due to the compliance of the product design with the main parameters
Rarely used utensils, “festive” cutlery, kitchen textiles, cleaning products, books with recipes, stocks of cereals, seals, and canned food are stored in internal sofa drawers.
The most popular version of the folding design is the “book”. A standard product has a length of more than 1.8 meters, a seat depth of 54-60 cm. When unfolded, it can easily accommodate one sleeping adult. A sofa with a clamshell mechanism is less durable, but when unfolded it turns out to be a double bed. The sleeping place is folded inside the product with an “accordion” - there are a lot of movable joints; when used improperly, they quickly fail. There are other options that are suitable to accommodate just one person - lengthening due to the reclining armrest, under which the platform extends, usually hidden under the seat.Such a mechanism as a "dolphin" allows you to use a double berth, folding and unfolding it daily - the product has a platform that extends to the side and up, drawers for bedding, designed for spacious rooms. Less commonly used are the “click-gag”, “accordion” systems, withdrawable options.
Tip. When buying furniture, they evaluate the convenience of folding, the reliability of the mechanism, its maintainability, in case of breakage.
The main requirements for the "filling" of kitchen furniture are environmental friendliness, hypoallergenicity, the ability to withstand significant loads, low deformability. Upholstered furniture for the kitchen should not emit odors. As a filler, foam rubber and polyurethane foam are often selected. The latter holds its shape well, is durable, the foam rubber is short-lived, but it is easy to replace it yourself.
Inside the individual models there is a whole system of springs (up to 250 pieces per square meter) of dependent or independent blocks. From above they are covered with several layers of felt, foam rubber, felt, batting. Such an item is quite expensive - unscrupulous manufacturers, trying to reduce the cost of it, often put low-grade steel springs and furniture quickly breaks down.
As a filler for a sofa that does not have springs, foam rubber is sometimes used - the product is deformed, completely loses shape, in just a couple of months. Some furniture covers have a clasp, unfastening which you can see what's inside. The most successful options for "hard" springless filling are polystyrene balls, cast or block polyurethane foam. Fans of soft products will benefit from synthetic winterizer, synthetic winterizer, periotek, comfort, durafil, holofiber, natural latex.
A modern sofa in the kitchen in the photo with the interior is most often a corner, folding design. An island product looks interesting - a round snow-white furniture element located in the combined kitchen-living room. Sometimes the sofa is attached to the headset - the side wall of these two items will be common. In the very cramped kitchenette of the Khrushchev apartment, where there is not enough space for a corner structure, they place a direct bench-sofa, completely devoid of armrests. Often a rug or a mat is placed nearby, which is especially important for lovers of walking around the apartment barefoot.
Placement of a direct bright folding sofa in the interior of a spacious bright kitchen
Custom-made kitchen sofas in the photo also look great: for a L-shaped room, a horseshoe-shaped design placed in a free corner is suitable. Similar products are built into figured bay windows where the dining area is equipped. Some manufacturers take great care of the comfort of the client, making a tilt of several degrees towards the back - this allows the person sitting on the sofa not to move out, even if the coating is slippery.
Tip: upholstered furniture is combined in color with kitchen textiles, wallpaper, small decor or make it the only accent element.
The design of a modern kitchen with a brand new sofa is comfortable, beautiful, and functional. Comfort in this room is no less important than in the hall or bedroom. A stylish soft sofa will help to comfortably accommodate the whole family, will create additional beds for several people. Having picked up a suitable table for upholstered furniture, it is easy to create the most beautiful, comfortable dining area in the kitchen room of any size and configuration.
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