Today, more and more popular is the creation of a design of a combined kitchen and living room. In some apartments, the living room is small, and the kitchen is large or vice versa. By combining these two rooms, you can significantly increase the usable space. If you correctly approach the layout of the kitchen-living room, then as a result you can get a universal room, which successfully combines a place for cooking with a place for rest and reception. And parts of such a united room do not merge with each other, but very successfully complement each other.
Kitchen-living room layouts
Combine the kitchen with the living room preferably when it is not very active use of the kitchen. After all, even the most modern hood can not always cope with kitchen odors. But if you're not a big fan of cooking, you'll have to install a powerful hood above the stove.
If the kitchen in your apartment is very small, then removing the partition between it and the living room, you will get much more free space, where three people will already comfortably settle. And if the door from the corridor to the kitchen is laid, then in the resulting niche you can put an additional cabinet or even a refrigerator.
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It is very important to properly zonirovat common space, so that your guests do not have the impression that they are taken in the kitchen. For this, designers often use different floor coverings and differently decorate the ceiling and walls in the kitchen-living room. It can be either different materials or shades-companions used in the design of the room. For example, the floor in the kitchen area can be made of tiles, and on the floor in the living room will be used parquet, laminate or carpet.
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A good option for dividing the living room and kitchen area may be a podium or a bar counter. However, it is better not to use the podium if you have small children and elderly people in your family who will be difficult to climb. In this case, it is better to use a two-level ceiling for zoning.
The bar counter will be more pleasant for young families who often receive friends and arrange receptions and parties. In general, the bar rack can be used as a surface for cooking and eating, and simply as a decorative interior decoration. As a bar, you can use an island from the kitchen set or the bottom of the wall, which once divided the living room and kitchen. For its finishing the laminate , facing stone or wooden panels will suit.
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In addition, the kitchen-living room can be zoned with the help of furniture. For example, by installing a sofa or a large aquarium perpendicular to the wall, you will get two different parts for cooking and rest. Or you can install on the border of the living room and kitchen a large dining table with hanging lights above it.
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Another variant of zoning kitchen-living room - a semi-transparent partition separating the room only partially. Such a partition can be foldable or sliding, so that if necessary, the kitchen area can be hidden from other people's eyes.
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Planning for the integration of the kitchen with the living room can assume a different degree of illumination in different parts of the room: in the kitchen area, the lighting should be brighter, and in the living room - a little muffled. In addition, in the kitchen you can hang on the window blinds, and in the living room decorate it with elegant curtains.
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If you always dreamed of installing a fireplace in the apartment, then by combining the living room with the kitchen, you can install a common fireplace, which will be one side to go into the kitchen area, and the other - into the living room or vice versa. Yes, and to buy a second TV, you can save in this case by buying one large panel and hanging it on the wall in the living area, but it will be visible from the kitchen.
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The combination of kitchen and living room is not always used only when planning small apartments. In a spacious cottage or studio apartment, the living room combined with the kitchen is interesting in itself.
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