When visiting various houses, whether it be visits to friends, dinner parties with relatives or business meetings with colleagues and work partners, the first impression on a person is made by the interior. Simple houses with the usual, unsightly decoration of the premises do not leave pleasant and warm emotions and feelings in the heart and soul of a person. It may be a nest of a happy, prosperous family, but you will not get anything memorable from there.
Remember the last time you were in a house that not only consisted of four walls and a sofa, but in which a sense of taste echoed from every careless book on the shelf, from randomly scattered colorful pillows on the sofa, from an incomprehensible dial of a wall clock. Remember those feelings, that atmosphere and the state of your soul that you experienced while being in such a house. And what colors did these states print in your memory? Such houses speak for themselves. In them, without words it is clear - the respect and love of the people living there for the house, for rooms, for others, for oneself has permeated everything and everyone.
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In your own house, which you built with your own hands, invested a piece of yourself in every screw and in every board, you definitely want something unusual and exclusive. This exclusive will be your corner kitchen.
When choosing the design of the kitchen, the first thing to decide is how the kitchen furniture will be located. Own home, and therefore the size of the kitchen, implies its own design. You simply must make your hand in creating the design of the kitchen.
The best arrangement of furniture in the kitchen is a corner. Depending on the kitchen, the location of the aisles, windows and doors, the location of the countertop, household furniture, dining table, bar counter and the possibility of arranging the island depends.
Next, consider the selection, installation and design of a corner kitchen with a bar.
When planning a design, it is necessary to determine the arrangement of furniture in advance
Corner furniture is the best solution.
Before choosing a kitchen set, household appliances, wallpaper, floors and the entire filling of the kitchen, you need to have a conversation with yourself. When conducting a conversation, ask yourself such questions.
How many people live in the house?
Age categories of the house population?
The lifestyle of the family as a whole and of each individual, and, consequently, interests?
Personal preferences?
Propensity to communicate (that is, frequent presence of guests).
Answering these questions, you will see how “She” looms in your imagination - the corner kitchen of your dreams.
Further in the article, the author will offer several options for answering these questions, his own version of the manner of decorating the kitchen interior.
Prepare the drawings. Since you with all seriousness and high professionalism will design your corner kitchen, it is worth arming yourself with specialized devices for drawing up a project. There is nothing intricate in them - this is drawing paper, a ruler-raisin, various patterns and tracing paper (or special paper for breadboard models). Having removed the dimensions of the kitchen, apply them to a piece of thick paper and circle with a thick handle.Next, take tracing paper, attach it to the floor plan and draw the first option for placing a kitchen set and household appliances. Make up a few options. Discuss them with your family members, alternately applying sheets of tracing paper on top of the main drawing. At this stage, you can identify all the pros and cons of a particular option and draw reasonable conclusions. This approach helps a lot when decorating a corner kitchen with your own hands.
Make a drawing of your future kitchen first
Do not forget to consider all the wishes of people living in the house
Also consider the features of the kitchen
After the layout option is ready, you need to decide on the design. You will need the skills of an artist (to a small extent). Start drawing different lines. Lines of countertops, bar counters, dining tables, upholstered furniture and chairs. Strict geometric shapes of cabinets combined with smooth ovals of countertops. Although this will be a top view, you will be surprised how this approach is objective and understandable. Some aspects of the design craft will immediately become clear. You will feel truly capable of creating an original product of your own thought.
Important! Determine which side of the world the kitchen window (s) are facing. Depending on this, at different times of the day, light from the sun will fall at different angles. The size of the casting shadows of objects will depend on this, which can make a significant contribution to the overall interior of the kitchen (both in the positive and negative directions). This phenomenon can be checked in practice by observing the shadows in the kitchen, and then make additional adjustments to the drawings.
It is worth considering the location of the window in the kitchen
Kitchen design can be simple or unusual, it's up to you
If everything is clear with the number and age of households, the situation is different with lifestyle and preferences. Let's say you like to drink coffee in the morning at the bar and watch the morning news on TV, and you also read a lot of useful articles about homemade yogurt and milkshakes. All this is taken into account when decorating the kitchen, choosing household appliances, the location of the bar and kitchen furniture.
Prefer a cup of hot chocolate while peering through a window opening into the thick foliage of the garden? Then create such a secluded place on the windowsill of your wide window, and enjoy the scenery of nature. Bird singing has a beneficial effect on the nervous system.
Window sill-bed - an original solution to the window space. Under such a bed, you can make cabinets for products (vegetables in banks, all kinds of stewed fruit, etc.). If space permits, then make a bed in a niche.
If many friends come to your house very often, then you need to make the kitchen spacious and able to place all those present at the table.
If you can’t create a kitchen design yourself, contact a specialist for help
Red cuisine will positively affect appetite during meals
Use only natural materials for the kitchen.
If you are a young family and prefer to have parties, then the bar in the kitchen is your business card when hosting guests. The bar counter in the corner kitchen may be installed in different ways. Here are some examples.
The location of the rack on the extreme side at the end of the countertop.
The device racks opposite the kitchen countertops in the form of a peninsular structure.
Setting the bar in an island way.
The most common arrangement of the bar counter is as a continuation of the countertop at one edge. Everything is simple here - the bar is installed at a different level with respect to the countertop (above). Shelves and lockers are located under the bar.
A more interesting option with the location of the bar counter in front of the kitchen worktop. Such an arrangement is possible both in the island version and in the peninsular.
With the peninsular location of the bar at the entrance to the kitchen area, the effect of separating the kitchen space from the living room is created. If you have plans to make a combined kitchen with a living room (like our western comrades), then this option is for you. The color of the countertops of the bar counter can be chosen bright, eye-catching, accented, while the facades of kitchen shelves and drawers are of a strict gray color. The countertop of the bar counter may be "let down" further down the wall onto the ceiling, mounted in it with spotlights and metal skids for glasses.
If many friends come to you, you should think about the free space in the kitchen.
Remember that the design of the kitchen must be in the same style.
Continuing the theme of zoning: delimit the space on the floor. To do this, it is enough to lay a different floor covering (in the kitchen area - ceramic tiles, and in the living room - parquet or parquet board).
Tip. Try instead of wall cabinets in the corner to install open shelves in several tiers with spotlights. Depending on the general interior, the shelves can be made of wood, glass or aluminum. Such a decision will add additional decor elements to the overall interior of the kitchen.
Special high stools or chairs with backs are installed to the bar counter. For gray facades of kitchen cabinets, pick up burgundy stools with aluminum elements. Also consider open wine storage. A cabinet with cells fits perfectly into your corner kitchen.
For a large space, an excellent option is to make the countertop with a sink or stove in the middle (or slightly offset from the center of the room) of the kitchen. Many houses of modern young families are built with such kitchens. The bar counter is located on the island part of the corner kitchen. To do this, it is necessary to raise the bar surface above the main countertop.
Tip. Play of light. Lay glossy ceramic tiles on the floor. Depending on the shade of the kitchen, choose the shade of the floor tiles. The island countertop do the compound. Make the base narrower than the top with the drawers. It turns out a step. Fixtures or LED strip mounted on the floor are mounted on this step. At night, such lighting will look cool. The light will reflect off the floor, creating soft lighting for the kitchen.
Be sure to make zoning
Do not litter the kitchen with unnecessary items
A beautiful chandelier in the kitchen perfectly complements the interior
Depending on the type of finish coating the walls, various finishes are selected. If the walls of the kitchen have a heterogeneous, uneven surface, then you can not paint them with glossy paints. They will show all the bumps. For such a coating matte paint is suitable. And if you use wooden panels, then aligning the walls is not necessary. Embossed wallpaper and decorative wall plaster are also suitable for uneven walls.
Important! Kitchen walls should be made of moisture resistant material, preferably not afraid of frequent washing.
The ceiling in the kitchen can also be painted with special paint in several layers so that it can be washed. If it is planned to install a complex cascade of various kinds of bulbs, a chandelier and all kinds of lighting devices on the ceiling, then you need to choose a suspended ceiling. It is performed at different levels, with all kinds of patterns, decorative inserts, from different materials.
The walls in the kitchen should be made of moisture resistant material.
You can decorate the ceiling with the help of lights and spotlights
Interesting! For fans of culinary creativity, a kitchen is offered - a workplace. It should combine a technologically-ergonomic room, and a creative and working atmosphere.In such a kitchen all kinds of “exotic” accessories for exclusive dishes will fit, whether it be special knives and bamboo rugs for cooking rolls, special scissors for removing oysters, or a special container for brewing ground coffee in the sand. In the interior of such a kitchen, be sure to add information boards with the ability to record recipes for first and second courses on them, as well as for complaints about the menu for today. The kitchen window can be decorated with all sorts of statuettes of cooks or a plump Buddha.
Make a kitchen space in the design of different countries. You will combine French, Italian and Spanish cuisines with their various features, customs and traditions. Divide the kitchen space into zones and combine the interior features of these countries (France is naturally cheese and wine; Italy is pasta, and Spain is bullfighting)
Do not be afraid of experiments, sometimes you may get an unusual and beautiful design
Materials for the kitchen, choose high-quality and environmentally friendly
The light in the kitchen plays an important role in the design.
Advantages of the corner kitchen.
Roominess. Using the corner of the room adds a lot of space for storing large dishes.
Universality. It combines almost all the properties and characteristics of other types of kitchens.
It allows you to simultaneously involve several people in the cooking process who do not interfere with each other.
The most successful and profitable placement of the bar suggests the presence of a corner kitchen in the house.
The ability to use any upholstered furniture, tables and chairs (achieved due to the large size of the corner kitchen).
Tips for corner kitchen owners.
Place a sink in the corner of the kitchen. A large space allows you to install a sink with two containers, which is convenient for large volumes of cooking.
To save money, place the bar counter at the beginning or end of the kitchen worktop.
Use one window sill in the space of the kitchen countertop (plant green onions, dill or parsley in pots, and always get fresh greens directly from the garden).
Place some household appliances in the upper tier above the countertop (this option is very convenient for a microwave and oven).
If you have young children, then make a working space for them in your corner kitchen.
For the working area, you can set additional backlight
It’s better to install the sink in the corner
The kitchen is a great place for socializing and spending time with a large family. Always try to dine together in your beautiful, high-tech and original corner-style kitchen. Surprise each other with culinary achievements in the culinary field!
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