Kitchen-hall: features everything

A limited number of rooms for the rational the organization of living space It causes the appearance of unexpected options zones overlapping, one of which is the kitchen hallway, attractive with the eccentricity and the ability to be creative.

Recommendations for redevelopment

Types of apartment layouts are different, so in each case, the project is developed individually, and the resulting kitchen hallway gets a unique flavor. Experts give advice, which can be taken as a basic framework or partially used.

In situations where the toilet is in the center of the room, obtained after combining the kitchen with a small entrance hall and a corridor, thus the best solution is often to transfer bath and toilet room, leaving one projection wall as finished walls, or making a single space. The main difficulty will be recast sewer branches, but with the help of plastic pipe and standardized connecting elements, this part of the work is quite feasible. If you do not want to complicate the upcoming adaptation, you can leave the bathroom as a natural border zone and former kitchen hallway.

A good option is not the complete demolition of the wall bordering the kitchen, and a large improvement in it a through hole of a rectangular or round shape of the upper opening. Particularly in that the lower part is a convenient table for serving, and will receive an entrance stream of sunlight from the kitchen window.

In the case of the L-shaped kitchen layout with respect to the hall, have to bear the load-bearing walls, but this action requires the mandatory approval. However, even the dismantling of light partitions sanitary rooms without written permission may cause undesirable problems, especially in the sale of apartments. It can be obtained in case of failure and kitchen gasification.

Innovative trends in interior arrangement

The emergence of fashion trends, presented by the complete absence of internal walls and the presence in the same room not two, and even three functional areas (kitchen, living room, hallway) requires competent determining borders. They can act as podiums, different ceiling levels, bars, texture and color tones of flooring, fabric curtains, light partitions, including RV. And as separators kitchen areas are the lamps.

Sliding doors perfectly serve as a decorative wall covering kitchen compartment cooking time.

Rails for them can only be mounted on the floor, but it is more reliable design with upper and lower rails. However, the powerful extractor hood in the kitchen must be provided to the entire room atmosphere remained fresh.

Advantages and disadvantages kitchen association with hallway

The decision to expand the small kitchen at the expense of the hall with a successful version and receiving all permits allows to obtain positive results:

• acquisition of additional meters, creating freedom of movement during the preparation of food, cooking, washing dishes;
• visual perception, spacious, functional room without extra walls, promotional sense of comfort;
• the appearance of natural light in the corridor and hallway.

Some experts believe that the kitchen in the hallway has a serious drawback of the difficulty of maintaining order in it, as the entire room at once from the entrance is for review. This leads to the need to maximize the use of closed storage places, everything built appliances.

Saving hygiene kitchen surfaces in a hallway

In the planning of such a multi-functional interior design, as the kitchen entrance, a key criterion becomes cleanliness, take to this simple but important steps:

• shift workers and hobs in the kitchen sector from entering deep into the hallway;
• provide sites for removal and storage of everyday shoes, and outerwear necessarily closing the facades;
• arrange at the site before the entrance door special grating for cleaning dirt from footwear and high quality, well-absorbent mats;
• It can be combined to make the area warm floors with surface finish of linoleum or tile, making it possible to not have to worry about wet tracks and easy to care for;
• provide frosted partitions, closing the kitchen and serving an additional decoration for the hall, made of durable glass or plastic (to help and mobile screens, it is easy folding);
• excluding tufted carpets and rugs that bring a lot of hassle cleaning.

Placing furniture

Placement of furniture in the kitchen area is not particularly different from the traditionally established options:

• U-shape, which creates a convenient movement within a light bar, which will identify a transition between zones.
• In the case of T-shaped layout becomes convenient to use an open top line as the boundary designation. Then the dining table will fall comfortably in the free angle kitchen near the window. For small areas can be raised working cabinets on a small podium. Considering that such an architectural structure affects the visual perception of the volume, it would be justified and harmonious with a ceiling height of ≥ 2,8 m.
• The variant with central island kitchen capable of burdening the general perception, correct select sufficient area for rooms.

If even after redevelopment kitchen hallway is compact, then it is advisable to move the dining table in the living room, as a meal near the entrance may not seem very comfortable.

Design techniques for the arrangement of the hall kitchen

Resulting after the unification of space must purchase a single finished appearance, which in the arsenal of interior designers, there are many methods:

• use the same type of finishes, for example, in dealing with the kitchen space in the home country style appropriate place near the entrance of rattan stools;
• change of direction of putting some monochromatic tiles or panels in different areas, giving the dynamics;
• the obligatory presence of the dominant element that unites the entire interior of the kitchen and hallway (color, furniture, textiles, etc.):
• selection of contrasting textures of furniture relative to the total background.

For the walls will be more suitable environmentally friendly materials that are easy to clean and are resistant to aggressive environment especially in the kitchen area, is washable wallpaper, tile.

The desire to keep longer fresh look can be embodied in the overall background is dark walls, but in this case, furniture should not be massive. Bright stained glass facades and elements throughout the atmosphere will give a refined finesse.

With sufficient space in the hall area and will look great small dressing table with a large mirror above it. To illuminate the sides attached BRA, and additionally installed sophisticated lamp. Upholstered bench completes the image of the cozy corner.

Zoning by different colors of the walls is tempting, but it should be remembered that the most advantageous will coexist colors arranged in a circle near the spectral (yellow - orange), or shades of colors, obtained by adding white paint.

In sharp contrast undesirable (Purple - yellow, green - red), since eventually becomes annoying.

Wardrobe in a fairly wide corridor, put end to one wall will be an excellent element to cover up the kitchen space from the entrance. Fully enclosed facade, lighting, door mirror - all this creates the perfect order at the door and allows the hostess at the stove to feel calmer.

A sense of proportion and artistic taste may encourage on avant-garde embodiment different style directions, for example, at the entrance to the minimalist and restrained in Scandinavian cuisine combined ceiling trim and a single color of the walls. Rational distribution of a variety of fixtures is played not only in the allocation of a separate site, but also creates a changing view, that will not let him get bored. The most intense light flux directed to appropriate working planes above, and at the entrance hall to the former will be more interesting soft indirect lighting. It remains at the peak of popularity arched structure, which may have a wood decoration, marble or identical to the general background.