Real estate is very expensive in our country becausewhich is why studio apartments and one-room apartments with large kitchens are becoming more popular every year. In the second case, the stove and sink are often moved into the room, and a bedroom or a nursery are made instead of a kitchen.
A huge advantage of combining the kitchen with the living roomis to increase space, it is especially convenient in small apartments. Such redevelopment of premises helps to save space in the home. But there are also disadvantages: you need to somehow get rid of the smells of food in the living room and delimit the space in the room. The first problem is easily solved with the help of a powerful hood. can be done with the help of sofas, cabinets, bar counters, erecting a wall or partition, using curtains. Each of these methods differs in complexity, cost, efficiency. The choice is influenced by the size of the living room and the construction skills of the owners of the house. Separating the kitchen with furniture is the simplest and cheapest option. In this case, only a visual delimitation of the room occurs, but in fact nothing changes. Building a wall is the most expensive method, but also the most effective. The partition divides the room into two parts. It immediately becomes clear where the kitchen and the living room are. Drywall, sibit, bricks, plywood, fiberboard or chipboard are used for construction. The oldest method is using curtains. It is simple and effective. In the past, people in private homes often hung curtains instead of interior doors. Now this can be played out in a modern way and used to separate the kitchen and living room.
How to arrange furniture and hang curtains?
You can separate the kitchen from the living room with the help ofplasterboard partition, which can be made in the form of a bar counter or shelves. A good option for separating the kitchen is a bar counter. It is very fashionable, convenient and beautiful. You can make it yourself, choose a kitchen set with it in a store, order custom furniture from some company. It is better to do it yourself or order it. Finding a set with a bar counter in a store that suits you is very difficult. It is functional: shelves and cabinets are made in it, small refrigerators are placed. If you buy high chairs, you will get a small dining table. You can install glass holders on top to save space in the set. You can highlight the kitchen area in the room with the help of cabinets. For this, it is better to use 2 cabinets at once. On the kitchen side - a crockery or other, and on the living room side - a wardrobe or bookcase. They are placed with their back walls facing each other. In this case, the cabinets must be the same height and width, otherwise they will look unsightly.
Installation diagram of a plasterboard partitionmetal profile. The thickness does not matter. You can divide the space with one cabinet, but then on the other side there will be an empty, useless and uninteresting back wall. If you decide to do this, do not forget to install additional lighting fixtures in the kitchen, because the cabinets will block some of the light. The easiest way to conditionally divide a room is to put a sofa on the border with its back to the kitchen furniture. The main thing is that it is comfortable for you and your guests to sit and talk on it. The next method of division is to hang curtains. Do not use a regular curtain for windows, but one like in a bathroom or like in a fitting room of a store. For curtains, you need to attach a curtain rod. To do this, take a metal tube with a round or square cross-section and two fasteners for it. Drill the fasteners opposite each other to the walls, and insert a hailstone from the pipe into them. Hang the curtain on it, instead of hooks - rings (like in a bathroom). Another option is on the border between the living room and the kitchen. You can close them all the time or only when necessary. Return to contents</a>
The choice between a partition and a wall
If the room is large and there is a kitchen areawindow, you can put up walls and a door. Then there will be two different rooms: a small kitchen and a living room. Such a redevelopment can be done in a studio apartment. For example, a room of 20 m² can be divided into 5 and 15, 7 and 13, 8 and 12. But this is expensive and not always convenient.
Bar counter diagram.You can make a partition or wall not to the ceiling and not the entire length. It solves several problems at once: the interior becomes more interesting, you can put or hang additional furniture in the kitchen and living room, you will not need additional lighting for the kitchen. To separate the kitchen and the room, use wood, stone or plasterboard. If you choose brick or sibit, then to build a wall you will need:
- roulette, level, pencil;
- solution, bucket, water;
- trowel and spatula;
- grout for seams and rubber spatula;
- plaster.
The mixture for fixing materials is sold inhardware store. Although you can make it yourself. Mix the solution with water in a bucket until it does not fall off the trowel, but is well spread. Then start fastening in rows. Spread the solution, then put a brick or sibit on top, remove the rest of the solution. Check the evenness with a laser or regular level. After the solution has completely dried, coat the joints with grout. Then the wall or partition needs to be plastered. Then you need to paint it, stick wallpaper or tiles on it. As for the brick partition, it can be left in its natural form if it suits the decor of the room. In addition to stone, plywood, fiberboard, chipboard or plasterboard can be used for the partition. They are much lighter than bricks, and easier to work with. The most popular material for building partitions is plasterboard. To work with them you will need:
- metallic profile;
- roulette and level;
- screwdriver or drill;
- self-tapping screws;
- a saw for a tree;
- sandpaper.
First you need to choose the place where it will standwall. Then a frame made of profile is built on it. Sheets of plasterboard or wooden materials are attached to it using screws and a drill. Paints, wallpaper, tiles are used for external finishing.</ ul>
