Kitchen-dining room - ideal for a modern home:erases the boundaries of space and brings family members together. But how can you combine two rooms with such different functions without sacrificing any of them? It is possible, both experts and manufacturers are convinced
Three in one: kitchen-dining room-living room.The fashion for unification came to us in the 90s from Europe and America and immediately became widespread. And this is understandable. The concept of "open" space in one fell swoop solves the main problems of standard planning: both the lack of useful footage and the need for fresh ideas.
How to make a kitchen-dining room beautiful, unusual,functional and as convenient as possible for all household members? For advice and technical solutions, we turned to the Nolte factory, a leading German kitchen manufacturer with a 20-year history in Russia.
Alexander Malinovsky, Director of the Nolte Küchen Representative Office in Russia:
— Unity of German traditions, moderntechnologies and quality materials — that's what the Russian consumer loves Nolte for. The fundamental philosophy of our design is an individual approach that allows you to use the space and style of your kitchen as efficiently as possible. The kitchen, dining room, living room or its combined version will be as unique as you are and will satisfy the personal needs of each family member. nolte-kuechen.ru
New design trends, modernmaterials, a huge selection of fittings, colours and textures allow you to combine the realm of home cooking with any non-kitchen space quite naturally and harmoniously. As a result, there is a feeling of freedom and air, and the interior becomes complete. And the household members feel closer to each other, even if one is surfing the Internet and the other is cooking soup. But with all the advantages of such a solution, he
Technique
The first of them is not to put unnecessary kitchen details on display. Thanks to built-in appliances, this task is not at all difficult to solve today.
Our opinion:
— The main thing is that the technique is stylisticallycorresponds to your premises and is located in places convenient for you. In addition to basic items, it is advisable to provide "hides" for small items, such as toasters, steamers, coffee machines, etc. This way, you can save space and avoid clutter on the countertop, which is forgivable in the kitchen, but inappropriate in the living room. If desired, all kitchen appliances can be hidden behind doors and sliding panels and achieve a sense of monolithic furniture. This allows you to visually expand small and narrow areas, making the furniture an extension of the walls.
Thanks to powerful hoods, we can no longerworry about kitchen smells. But there are still sounds. It is clear that in a combined space you will have to take care of a refrigerator and a low-noise hood. The rest will be helped by the fittings: it is better to use smooth and silent mechanisms. Such are installed in all Nolte opening cabinets.
If you need to visually enlarge the spaceor disguise excess volume, try to choose facades with hidden handles or without them at all. They not only add elegance, but also help to create a sense of unity and lightness.
Direct dialogue
Both areas - the kitchen and the dining room - should beconnected to each other, but at the same time not to merge: that is, to “speak” frankly, but without familiarity. Aesthetically, this is perhaps the most important task in the process of combining such different rooms. There are several techniques for its solution. Firstly, these are dual-purpose elements that are appropriate both in the kitchen and in the living room: low storage systems, racks, open shelves that can equally successfully “lighten” the upper tier of the kitchen and become a decoration for the wall in the living room; various modules that will create a smooth transition from one zone to another.
Alexander Malinovsky, Director of the Nolte Küchen Representative Office in Russia:
— Modular furniture system with a wide rangesizes and shapes creates inexhaustible possibilities in this sense. Firstly, furniture made exactly to the provided dimensions will allow you to use the useful space as efficiently as possible, and secondly, it will expand the kitchen-dining room into a multifunctional living space. Kitchen modules from the Nolte neo collection, which was developed together with the famous art director and designer Mike Meiré, for example, include a bookcase, a fireplace, and a separate office, and also offer the widest range of facades: from solid wood to glossy varnish and avant-garde prints. This is how the traditional kitchen opens up and evolves. nolte-kuechen.ru
Divide and cook
If you love and know how to cook, your family is very lucky. If you love and know how to cook for an audience, your friends are lucky too. A kitchen-diner will help your talent to blossom.
Alexander Malinovsky, Director of the Nolte Küchen Representative Office in Russia:
- If you spend a lot of time in the kitchen, youyou will surely like our new development — the Matrix 900 frame. It allowed us to achieve the optimal combination of design and ergonomics: 90 cm high cabinets are placed on a five-centimeter plinth and covered with a thin tabletop, 12 mm thick. This results in an ideal working height that will not force you to bend over and will preserve your health and strength for the arrival of guests or a family dinner. nolte-kuechen.ru
If space allows, the best solution is tokitchen-dining room - an island. It helps both to visually separate the two zones and to throw a logical bridge between them: scaffolding and parterre. From the kitchen side, the island can be quite kitchen-like and technical, and from the dining room side - elegant and functional: a glass display case, or a table, or a bar counter. Above the island, you can make a hanging structure with a hood, light and brackets for kitchen utensils.
Our opinion:
— For zoning of the combined spaceyou can use many techniques: a difference in the height of the ceiling or floor, a podium, columns. For people who cook actively and often, or for a large family, glass screens and sliding partitions are suitable - they will save household members from smells, grease and other irritants associated with cooking. If there is not enough space for an island, you can make a bar counter or its low modifications, a peninsula - something in between a bar counter, a dining table and storage space half the standard depth of cabinets, or zone the space with a dining table of an interesting shape or texture.
Color, light and volume
Contemporary design offers a variety of approachesboth to unification and to . Which one to choose is a matter of taste. Fans of free airy spaces will appreciate an emphasis on the lower part and a light upper part of the kitchen: open, display or simply very small shelves in the upper part and a lower part reinforced with additional depth. The main thing is that this decision is not made at the expense of practicality. Open or through shelving works on the idea of lightness - they can also play the role of a dividing strip between zones.
Fans of futuristic style will love itrounded facades, and for lovers of modern art - avant-garde design of individual objects. Color and shape will help to ensure stylistic unity of both zones. But they do not have to be the same. Like children of one mother, they should echo and harmonize with each other.
.In the kitchen area, where you have to cook a lot, lighting is the most important element not only of design, but also of safety. It should be bright and varied. In the dining area, the light is usually more subdued - a separate decorative item with the most important aesthetic function. Selecting lamps for such a space without the help of a designer is a very difficult task. That is why Nolte specialists decided not to limit themselves to kitchen units and began to produce lighting, decorative items and even textiles that match the collections.
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