Since the times of the USSR, many have remained in the habit of not only preparing food in the kitchen, but also having breakfast, having lunch, having dinner almost without departing from the stove, hosting guests there, and arranging tea parties with peers. In the kitchens we tell the news, share secrets, discuss politics and sing with the guitar. For many, today it is the kitchen, and not the place at the TV or computer, which is the real heart of the house, the hidden corner. That is why our kitchens differ so stylistically from the western ones (although today kitchen and dining rooms, kitchen bars are gaining popularity), in our kitchen curtains with ruffles, embroidered tablecloths, tile in flower, cozy mats. However, not everyone can afford to live in an apartment with 4-meter ceilings and a huge kitchen, from which you can reach the loggia or terrace. How to equip a small kitchen in order to preserve a cosiness, but not to maneuver between pieces of furniture, constantly stuffing bruises?
Increase visually
Those who are not familiar with the fifth dimension will have to learn the basics of design to understand how to visually increase the kitchen. If the ceilings are high, and the footage is small, design high, but not wide wall cabinets, build in them several shelves and get a stable ladder, from which you can get everything. If the ceiling is not high, raise it will help the vertical pattern on the walls. It can be a tile laid with stripes of different colors (of course, colors should be combined with each other), a pattern on wallpaper or narrow wall cabinets. Interiors of small kitchens are better to be built with two corners: in one corner there will be a kitchen (cabinets, floor and wall), a hob, a sink, and in the opposite - a dining table. Sometimes the kitchen seems small because of lack of light. Perhaps it's worth to enlarge the window, decorate the kitchen in light colors or change lighting - put a few point lights on the ceiling, so that more light fills the kitchen and makes it more spacious.
All hide
Ideas of the interior for a small kitchen often come from the possibilities of built-in appliances. For example, if the bathroom does not have a place for a washing machine and you have to install it in the kitchen, you can build it in a special box, on top of which is laid the lid of the dining table. Built in wall or floor cabinets can be a dishwasher, and an oven, and a microwave, and a small fridge or freezer. All these devices will always be within reach, but at the same time completely invisible.
Do not buy unnecessary
Think about what you really need in the kitchen, and what will only be in vain to take up space. If you do not buy products for future use, do not bring berries and fruits from the dacha, if your family is small and you rarely cook at home, think about whether you need a large refrigerator. Perhaps enough, and a small model refrigerator? Also, think about whether you often need 4 burners on the stove. Can not you do with two? If you rarely bake, do not buy an oven or stop on a compact model.
Combine
Very often ideas for small kitchens are designed for a larger area than you have. The apartment has several rooms, one of which is adjacent to the kitchen? Combine them, but first consult with the designer, how to equip the kitchen-living room and get permission to redevelop. Bringing down the wall between the kitchen and the room or making a passage, remember that the smells of preparing food very quickly absorbed in furniture and carpets, wallpaper and curtain ceilings. Get a good hood, best of all, a small size.