Do you have a small apartment? Are you tired of the crowded little rooms? There is a way out! Interior designers propose to combine, for example, the kitchen and the living room. Such a technique will visually expand one zone at the expense of the other, but their functionality will, nevertheless, be divided. The only "but" - if the wall between the kitchen and the living room is a carrier, it can not be demolished. If such a combination is possible, then some aspects should be taken into account. First of all - the spread of smells of food being prepared. After all, even the most powerful hood can not completely remove odors. Additional sounds will also be added, for example, from a running dishwasher or MB-oven. If you are not embarrassed by such nuances, then safely embody such an idea in life.
As mentioned above, the functional purpose of each of the zones should be maintained. Therefore, they (zones) should be separated visually. For this purpose, a technique is used, such as zoning space.
Ideas for zoning kitchen and living room
The emerging question of how to design a kitchen and a living room should not frighten you. There are a lot of options. First of all, the most used and effective method is the zoning of the kitchen and the living room by a partition. The part of the wall that separated these rooms can successfully perform the function of the partition. In this case, such a partition is equipped with a bar rack, which, if necessary, can also be an additional working surface. It can be left not only a horizontal fragment of the wall, but also a vertical one in the form of a very wide opening of an arched, semi-arched or some bizarre shape. Zoning kitchen and living room can also be carried out using mobile elements - screens, the same partitions, shelving. As zoning elements, you can even use furniture. For example, a sofa with a fairly high back, when the zoning is based on the principle: on the one hand ("soft") - you are in the living room, you will get around - you will find yourself in the kitchen. No less effectively and effectively divide the space and a large beautiful dining table, set at the border of the two zones. And by placing low lights above the table, you will also divide the space with a "light curtain". If the area allows, then a piece of furniture such as a kitchen island, also installed in the "border zone", can act as a separator. In this case, you will get a double use of the island - as a bar counter on the side of the living room and as an additional work surface from the kitchen.
Kitchen-living room
If you are a happy owner of a large kitchen, and she simultaneously performs also the role of living room, then as options for zoning such a kitchen-living room, you can offer the following:
- Allocation of different zones with a different level sex. If the ceiling height allows, the "kitchen" zone can be raised by 10-15 cm relative to the "living room" zone. Such a podium not only effectively zoned space, but can serve as an element under which it is easy to hide communications, pipes or wiring.
- Zoning with a combination of flooring. In the cooking area, it is more practical to use a facing tile as a floor covering. But for the living room area is better to choose a more "noble" coating - parquet, laminate, carpet.
The same method of combining materials can also be used in wall finishing. In this case, for example, the contrast of color and texture of materials for decorating walls - wallpaper, plaster is played out. As a bright zoning element can act and kitchen apron - part of the wall above the working area.
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