The traditional placement of furniture in the kitchen often casts boredom. And what if you experiment and place tables and cabinets at an angle. What are the benefits? What should be considered? Can it be used in small kitchens? Learn about modern shelves, "magic corners" and other furniture filling.
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Features corner kitchen furniture. How to choose?
The main selection criterion is convenience for the hostess. Kitchen furniture includes tables of different functions, cabinets, shelves. They differ in size, material, internal content, design. facades, color and style.
If you want more space, the corner kitchen suite will be an excellent option.
In small rooms, the optimal angular placement of furniture. In this case, it is easier to install equipment, kitchen appliances, and organize storage places for dishes and kitchen utensils.
Corner kitchen is practical space management solutions.
The "principle of the golden triangles" is the basis for the design of such furniture:
- Fire - oven, oven (cooking).
- Water - washing (washing products, dishes).
- Cold - refrigerator, freezer (food storage, meals).
The ergonomic arrangement of these items speeds up work, facilitates movement, gives calm and brings comfort.
This placement of furniture will be a practical and functional solution.
Advantages and disadvantages
Why is this option popular? Angular placement is convenient for the hostess. The furniture is compact. Less time spent on movement, all the necessary tools, dishes, equipment, equipment at hand. Besides:
In this arrangement, the kitchen is everything you need.
- It creates several working areas: for dirty and clean work. For example: processing of raw vegetables, meat, fish and preparation of salads from finished products.
- More space for a dining group.
- The work area includes lower tables and upper cabinets.
- Built-in appliances, furniture fits better into the triangle.
- A wide variety of furniture sets. You can swap individual modules. Choose an elongated or equilateral option.
- Installing g-shaped furniture visually resizes long, narrow kitchens.
- You can use the window sills as a cutting table (more on this below).
- It is possible to use hard-to-reach (corner parts) of small rooms.
- Well in harmony with the kitchen "islands" for the stove or sink.
For the corner kitchen a mandatory individual project from a competent designer
Such kitchens are difficult to buy in finished form. Need an individual project. Time is lost for making an order and furniture assemblers are needed for installation. The drawers in the open state make it difficult to open the side doors. If the sink is located in the corner, it is difficult to use the space under it. These are small flaws in the L-shaped version. They are solved if you order a project from a competent designer.
The space under the sink in the corner is difficult to use, there can not do without the hints of the designer
Let's talk about the subwindow block. An interesting opportunity to place another table. Sill and window dismantle, order a new one. The bottom of the window should be on a level with desktops. Opening lay brick. The project of the working plane with counter topmoving into the window sill.
Kitchen set in bright shades will make the space easy and cozy
If you remove the battery, you can install a narrow table. How to solve the problem of heating, described in the subtitle "Why remove the battery and set the table."
Kinds
U-shaped furniture set, if it is possible to use the space near the window.
Peninsular accommodation applicable in apartments and houses with a free layout. Desktops are perpendicular to the wall and separate the kitchen unit from the zones recreation, the corridor or living room.
U-shaped furniture set so as to use the window
Association with bar counter helps to do without a dining table. This is an ideal option for families who spend the least amount of time in the kitchen.
G-shaped installation is acceptable in rooms less than 6 m². A sufficient number of shelves and cabinets guaranteed.
If you combine the headset with a bar, you can do without a dining table
Kitchen Aprons
Cooking can hardly be called clean work. Therefore, choosing a headset, you need to take care of the protection of the walls. Some features:
The larger the tile, the easier the cleaning
- The tile of the big size facilitates cleaning (a lot of time is not spent for interplate joints).
- Mosaic creates a cozy atmosphere. However, it is difficult to wash.
- Glass panels are expensive. This problem can be solved: stick the wallpaper on the walls and fix the hot glass on top. This is a budget option for decorating.
Float glass apron - modern design for working walls in the kitchen
A little bit about the exotic. For wall cladding choose float glass. Reliability and durability provides an option of at least 4-6 cm thick. Unusual effect gives glass with sandblasted pattern, with reinforcement, tempered. Optionally, you can dismantle it, stick it wallpaper with a different pattern and the interior changes.
Float glass coating makes it possible to easily change the interior - just by gluing the pattern under the glass
Small kitchens
Limited space requires careful planning of furniture. L-shaped form allows you to install more spacious desks and cabinets. All the necessary utensils will be hidden, and in the kitchen perfect order. This set is cheaper because manufacturers tie the price to the footage of the tables and shelves.
L-shaped allows you to install more spacious desks and cabinets
The problem may arise if there are ventilation ducts in the room, there are projections and niches. But these disadvantages can be beaten by developing an individual project with such features in mind.
Materials
The quality of the material depends on the time of operation. But, more importantly, the beauty of the whole room. What manufacturers offer:
Corner kitchen set is an excellent design solution for a spacious kitchen.
- MDF is a reliable material with high strength. Consists of several layers, decorated with veneer. Maintains high temperature, humidity, mechanical stress.
- Glass is the trend of recent years. Manufacturers offer single-color models of different colors, with patterns for decorating cabinets and table tops.
- Natural wood is an environmentally friendly material. It needs special treatment with impregnation, stain and varnish. Otherwise, the appearance loses its appeal.
- Chipboard - not an expensive option. Good price, but short life. The material is brittle, quickly swells in a wet environment.
- Plastic - easy to operate and maintain. It makes it possible to realize projects that are fantastic in color.
Decorating the kitchen with the help of wood is a great design solution always in trend
When choosing, do not focus only on price. Budget kits will have to change more often. Dear go out of fashion, and sorry to throw. Rational choice of cuisine from the average price of good quality.
The working space near the window gives you the opportunity to admire nature while cooking
Furniture fittings
Accessories, it is not only door handles. Modern furniture includes functional elements:
- Hangers.
- Bottles
- Corners (provide a great opportunity to efficiently use a deep angle).
- Retractable shelves, drawers, baskets of various sizes and depths, including with closers.
- Roll-out baskets.
- Holders for small items, towels, cutlery, etc.
Rational use of space helps maintain order
Such "helpers" help maintain order in the kitchen. Each item has its place. As a result, time is saved for preparing and cleaning the room.
Door Features
This is an important element. The doors more often than in other rooms open and close, as a result, the mechanism can wear out and become loose. The doors overlap adjacent shelves. To prevent this, when choosing, pay attention to the suggestions of the developers:
Black and pink kitchen with well-designed functional headset
- Folding - consist of narrow panels interconnected. The doors are installed on corner cabinets, shelves, tables. Important for small-sized of furniture.
- Lifting - used for hanging cabinets. Opened with microlifters (special devices).
- Jalousie - do not take up much space. When lifting do not steal space. Convenient for the length of the shelves with food, home first aid kit, mask water heaters.
- Sliding - move horizontally (right and left). Convenient for long tables and cabinets. In small rooms create discomfort.
Microlifts provides silent closing
Style Directions
In small apartments, the choice of style depends on the overall decoration of the premises. In large rooms and houses there is a lot of space for fantasy, but you shouldn’t combine classical and high-tech, minimalism and baroque, Provence and Egypt. Consider the main areas:
Classic has clear lines. Used expensive materials. Colors: natural wood, beige, white. On the door handle antique.
Design in a classic style is expensive, but this interior is always up to date.
Provence easy style. Light furniture, carved elements, wooden details. Color range: all shades of light colors: green, blue, beige, baked milk, brown.
High tech - metal elements, laconic lines, reflective surfaces. Colors indigo, white with black, acid orange, gray, metallic (silver, golden).
Provence style kitchen in light olive colors with wooden accents
Eclectic (mixing) - well combines natural and artificial materials, elements of various styles.
Minimalism - straight lines, lack of decorative elements, concise handles.
Minimalism gives ease in the interior
For rooms with a free layout
Combining several rooms gives considerable freedom to choose furniture. With the help of corner options easier to organize zoning. In the houses and apartments of a large area, the corner kitchen is combined with a bar counter.
Organize zoning with corner furniture
Unusual organization of space: the angular version is used for preparatory work, and for the preparation and washing of dishes set the island design.
return to menu ↑Equipment
A comfortable kitchen cannot be imagined without modern equipment, which helps save time, improves the indoor climate, helps to organize cooking and washing dishes. These items are built into the furniture set:
Modern equipment helps to save space, time, resources
- Dishwasher.
- Oven.
- Furnace (gas, induction, electric).
- Wash.
- Exhaust hood
Technique can be hidden in closed shelves, so you will not waste space
In order not to spend a lot of time on additional equipment, use shelves with a slow cooker, a coffee machine, and a food processor. They can be used without removing from the cabinets. For placement take into account their size, methods of loading products and other features.
Large corner fitted kitchen with dining area - perfect perfection.
Do I need lights?
Cooking is work too. Therefore, it is necessary to organize comfortable conditions, comply with safety techniques. It is difficult to disagree that in the twilight it is impossible. Overhead chandeliers do not always give enough light.
Lights under the hanging shelves provide lighting on the desktop
Rational option: plasterboard ceiling above the desktops is made lower by 30 cm. The spotlights built into it will provide sufficient illumination. As an option, the backlight is installed under the hanging shelves and illuminates the desktop.
Natural lighting plays a huge role
Why remove the battery to set the table?
Placing the kitchen unit along the wall with windows allows you to reduce energy costs. Cooking comfortably in natural light. But, in most modern kitchens, a battery is placed under the window.
With natural lighting, electricity is saved.
If it is closed or simply cut, then the heat will not flow into the kitchen in winter. Low temperatures, combined with high humidity from cooking and washing dishes, will do their “dirty deed”. A fungus or mold will appear on the walls. An alternative to a battery is a warm water or electric floor.
An alternative to a cut out battery can be a warm floor.
To summarize: corner kitchen furniture - an option for a kitchen of different sizes. It helps to determine the boundary between the work area and the dining group. It makes rooms compact.
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