The layout of the kitchen should not only meet the preferences of the owners of the apartment, but also perfectly fit into the existing space of the room. How to perform the layout of the kitchen so that it causes not only pleasant emotions, but also be maximally functional and convenient to work?
And the word ...Work... It is no coincidence here, because in the kitchen you often have to spend quite a lot of time. They are not only cooked here, but quite a lot and often cleaned, because everything needs to be thought out to the smallest detail.
Depending on the shape of the premises of the kitchen and its footage, several options for planning modern kitchens are possible. Let's start in order.
Layout ...In one line... Ideal for narrow kitchens and suggests that the kitchen set, along with tiles, washing and refrigerator, is a straight segment against one wall. This is a fairly convenient layout option, and when we talk about a narrow kitchen, the only possible.
Yes, such a layout has one drawback: the impossibility of creating ...working triangle..., But given the fact that the kitchen is not very large, it will not become a big minus. The main condition: do not install the stove next to the sink and refrigerator.
All these three links should be separated by small working zones. In this case, the area of eating is placed either in the corner by the window, or in an arbitrary place in the wall opposite from the kitchen set, while choosing narrow small tables (or narrow and long).
The next type of layout - ...In two lines.... This is already somewhat more convenient, because you can create ...Work triangle..., and the useful space in such a kitchen is twice as much. The layout of the kitchen with the refrigerator in this case wins, because it is often located from the side opposite to sink and tiles.
And having created an equilateral triangle between these three elements, you will get the most ideal location, which allows you to significantly minimize the cooking time. A legitimate question arises: where then to place the dining area?
It is often done either by the third wall by the window, there you can organize a convenient space, or placed in the middle of the kitchen, a little in the distance from the working triangle. But this is only if the space allows. Otherwise, the zone can be taken to the next room - the living room or dining room.
Corner kitchen is a frequent occurrence, many modern kitchens have just such a layout. It is convenient, functional, and even in a small kitchen allows you to place everything you need.
It is realistic to make quite functional here ...Work triangle..., In this case, you do not need to constantly turn in different directions during cooking. The dining area is usually located near the third wall, where it is a completely comfortable place, a little at a distance from the working area.
This is a functional option for the location of the kitchen set, but there are nuances here. Most often this is ideal for planning a small kitchen, where there is no way to accommodate all the furniture in another way. But then the issue of placing the dining area becomes problematic, because in the center of a small kitchen it becomes impossible.
Often the dining area in this case is cleaned in the next room, which has a significantly larger area, and allows you to place it there. This option is quite acceptable, and even occurs in private houses, where they did not worry about the competent layout of the kitchen area in advance (although it happens that it was originally conceived).
This option is acceptable when the kitchen is really very small, or the hostess ...sees... yourself in such a kitchen. It is important to recall here that this option is possible only in the case of an individual layout of the kitchen to order.
When the space allows, then we are talking about laying the kitchen-dining room, when the working kitchen area smoothly flows into the dining room, while the kitchen is still separated by the opening. This is a great option, often they don’t even hang the door for such a kitchen, since it does not need.
Kitchens with an island are possible only in large private houses or apartments of elite real estate, where the meter of the kitchen can exceed 25 squares.
Such kitchens are preferred by housewives who can and love to cook, and for this their skills they have everything they need, including the suitable size of the room.
Its difference from the kitchen with the island is only that the additional zone is located next to the free wall, adjacent to it.
And finally, we move on to the last type of layout of the kitchens - complex. It is called so because it is built along the walls of the room of arbitrary shape. There may be bloomers, protrusions, columns, niches, rounded corners. The furniture here is also made strictly to order, often resorting to the services of an experienced interior designer.
