Handleless Kitchen Design Options

Studies show that about three years of his life a person spends on cooking. The main premise for this business is the kitchen. In order to ensure that your own kitchen does not become an obstacle to the embodiment of culinary ideas, it is necessary to equip the most comfortable conditions. Indeed, for many people, a kitchen is not only a place for enjoying food, but also a place for socializing, relaxing or meeting friends with a cup of coffee.

Modern design more and more gravitates to minimalism, in which the furniture has smooth facades with a minimum amount of visible fittings

In today's world, there are many different interior designs for the kitchen. The main thing is to choose the one that will be most suitable for your preferences. Currently, constantly changing fashion trends allow you to create maximum comfort and practicality of the kitchen interior. Designs based on simplicity and refusal from excess of details on the facade of a kitchen set are gaining more and more popularity. The lack of visual congestion provides a handleless kitchen.

Handle-free facades look beautiful, elegant and concise

What contributes to the development of ideas about furniture without handles for the kitchen? First, widespread minimalism. Secondly, practicality in use. And finally, this innovation fits absolutely any headset design. It is especially practical for small areas where, when opening cabinet doors, handles can often cling to each other.

Advantages and disadvantages of kitchen furniture without handles

You can immediately say that this type of design of kitchen sets, as a rule, is for everybody. But a sufficient number of advantages can help direct your choice towards such furniture.

A modern headset looks much more expensive and interesting without handles than with them

So, the benefits are as follows:

1. Style and innovation. The world does not stand still. Around is the development and improvement. So why deprive your own kitchen in aesthetics?
2. Ease of use. Imagine how you can simplify your life by sliding the drawer with one easy touch. Moreover, in small kitchens, handles on cupboards often cause scratches and bruises.
3. Practicality. After a while, the bolts on the handles tend to unwind spontaneously. Thanks to the handleless facade, you don’t have to look for a screwdriver to screw the corresponding parts.
4. Unpretentiousness in leaving. Conventional kitchen cabinet and drawer handles get dirty from time to time. And not every housewife manages to wash them in a timely manner. Therefore, the best solution that will save you from difficulties is to purchase a facade without handles.

Handleless facades visually lighten small spaces

As for the “reverse side of the coin”, such a headset has several disadvantages.

• Firstly, the facades of the headset need regular cleaning. Whether it’s a matter of washing the hands, or wasting time and effort to bring all surfaces to their original appearance.
• Secondly, these systems are not insured against breakage. Of course, at first everything will be fully operational. But a reliable manufacturer and a global brand does not mean longevity. In this case, the following problem will appear: domestic manufacturers do not deal with such mechanisms of these systems.Therefore, any details will need to be ordered from foreign sites.
• Thirdly, it is necessary to control the filling load of drawers and cabinets.
• Fourth, a handleless kitchen is not cheap. Therefore, not everyone can afford such laconicism and aesthetics.

In general, any design of kitchen sets has both advantages and disadvantages. It follows that the choice of cuisine comes only from consumer preferences. If you want to follow trends not only in clothes, but also in the interior, then a handleless kitchen is an excellent choice.

A kitchen without handles does not look appropriate in every interior. The best solutions - modern solutions with a bias towards minimalism

Types of modern interior for a kitchen without handles

Various modern European companies over the years have earned an excellent reputation for practical and easy-to-use kitchen furniture. The development of reliable mechanisms ensured a convenient opening and closing of the facades. Below are several options for headsets without handles, their pros and cons.

Gola aluminum handle profile

This type of design consists in the use of handles that are built into the profile frame. The advantages of such a facade are as follows:

1. Ease of use. Such headsets extend by hand grip of the profile.
   

   The role of handles is played by the edges of the facades themselves, in which Gola profiles are embedded

2. Lack of small space between adjacent drawers or cabinets.
3. Fits into any interior. As a rule, such grooves are made in different colors (black, white, steel, aluminum, red).
   

   Gola system profiles are L- and C-shaped for the lower cabinet or T-shaped for the upper door

4. There are aluminum and plastic grooves.
5. Facades are less polluted, since the interaction is with the inside, and not with the front.
6. Some headsets can be opened by grabbing the top or bottom.
7. You can find a profile with built-in LED-backlight.
   

   Integrated backlight provides good illumination of the contents of the lower drawers

Structurally, it looks like this: an LED strip is glued inside the profile, closed on top with a diffusing polycarbonate pad

Disadvantages are also not deprived of such cuisines:

• It is not always convenient and there is the ability to pull the groove.
• Some profiles reduce the space of cabinets and drawers.
• Colored grooves are rare. Basically, the profiles are made of aluminum. Therefore, to this minus can be added the fact that an inappropriate color of the facade will very highlight the profiles.

The photo below shows examples of headsets with Gola profiles.

Facades that open simply by pressing

They may also be called Push open or Tip on. It all depends on the manufacturer. This option requires a lot of money because it uses expensive hardware.

After a light touch of the hand, the door moves to a certain angle, at which it can be easily opened, as far as you need

The system allows you to open drawers or cabinets with any part of the body that is currently free.

The advantages are as follows:

1. Ease of action. Opening takes place at the expense of touch.
2. Ease of care. The need is only to clean the facades.
3. The lack of vertical targets between the front of the headset.

Such mechanisms can be overhead type or built-in

Disadvantages:

• The drawer or cabinet does not open fully when pressed. Therefore, an additional action is required - to extend completely manually.
• Facades respond to casual touches.

Here are examples of headsets with push mechanisms.

Cut out "pens"

There are kitchens with “handles” in the form of recesses. They can be located both along the entire length of the door, and anywhere.

Special grooves perform the same function as the handles, but are less visible on the facades and look more neat

Benefits:

1. Convenient to use.
2. Such pens do not creep out of the design, so the interior seems minimalistic.

Milled handles can have the most diverse form, located both over the entire width of the door, so in some part of it

Disadvantages:

• Facades need to be cleaned regularly.
• Such an interior will cost you 10% more than a universal kitchen.

Below you can see the options for mortise handles.

Useful Tips

1. It is most advisable to choose the bright colors of the kitchen so that the facades are less polluted. In addition to this, opt for a matt or semi-gloss finish.
   

   The least dirty facades get dirty: white, beige, gray-blue, light gray and others

2. A glossy headset in black is a very impractical solution. Since such a combination requires careful care.
3. For convenience, you can use small inconspicuous handles only for the lower facades, because they are most prone to contamination.

When choosing a headset without handles, it makes sense to make an exception for the built-in refrigerator, washing machine or dishwasher. To open them you need to make more effort, which is more convenient to do, tightly clasping the handle

Video: basic models of kitchen sets without handles

Photo gallery: modern kitchens without handles