Zoning is one of the mosteffective, popular and widespread design techniques. If necessary, it is best to use it. Zoning helps any room to gain a lot of advantages, effectively use the functional and aesthetic space and create maximum comfort even in the smallest area.
By separating the kitchen from the living room, you cansignificantly increase the space in which you can safely receive a large number of guests without worrying about where to place them. How can familiar rooms acquire a new sound, become fashionable, and please the residents of the house with their unusual decoration? To solve this problem, you need to consider the most effective design zoning techniques used for various interior styles.
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Combining the kitchen with the living room is only suitablethose who do not plan to actively use the kitchen, for example, for canning. This is how the living room is commonly called. Before you start arranging or rearranging furniture, you must analyze what changes in the usual interior will lead to. Experts usually do not recommend dividing the living room into a large number of zones-parts. If you follow the path of excessive fragmentation of space, the room will look sloppy, overly cluttered with interior items. The guideline in zoning the living room should not only be fashion trends. The pursuit of trends often replaces a person's attention to their own taste preferences. The living room is intended for informal relaxation, but will it be comfortable where a person is surrounded by things that irritate him? Designers in matters of zoning living rooms go different, often even opposite paths, but it all comes down to the fact that the living room should be a model of comfort. Return to contents</a>
To meet guests and eat
The main disadvantage of combining the kitchen with the living roomis the mandatory legalization of such redevelopment, which must be carried out even before the repair. Some believe: the most stylish option is when the living room space is zoned into two "poles": a place to eat and a sofa for relaxing. Others assure: the room must be divided taking into account the age characteristics of the residents of the house. And as a result, the living room turns into a room consisting of two parts: children's and adult territory. The third prefer to see the basis of zoning in dividing the room into two parts: private and public - intended for receiving guests. The issues of zoning the living room can be solved with minimal costs if you use various shelving units for this purpose. No less interesting is the use of fashionable transforming furniture. Decorated curtains and a wardrobe can play the same role, dividing the space of the room into sections. If there is an aquarium in the house or apartment, it can also be used as a zoning tool. Fashionable plasterboard shelves are sure to suit this purpose, becoming a real decoration of the room. Return to Contents</a>
Universal elements
Effectively zone the kitchen, living room and other areasrooms in the house can be done using a variety of interior items and designs. Among them, there are those that will suit almost any room. Furniture is a fairly common and universal zoning item. Along with it, you can also use false partitions - a relatively new, but already widely popular decorative element. Fabric screens will help to cope with this task, but there is no point in zoning the kitchen using them, since this room has constant humidity and temperature changes. They will negatively affect the condition of the materials, and they will quickly lose their attractive appearance under the influence of external factors.
The most common methods of zoningkitchen with a living room are: dividing the room with a bar counter, contrasting color solutions on the walls, and so on. The use of glass structures will be unusual and practical as false partitions. They will not weigh down the space of the house and will give the rooms airiness. Arches can be used for both the kitchen and the living room. However, it is necessary to remember: they do not harmoniously combine with every furniture. When deciding how to zone a kitchen or living room using arches, you need to know two simple rules. Firstly, arches are perceived as a stylish element of decor only in a room where the furniture has round or rounded shapes. And also: arches are intended primarily for classic interiors. If the style of the kitchen is hi-tech, arches in it look absolutely alien elements. The ceiling can be used for zoning the kitchen and living room, or rather - the texture and color of the ceiling covering. Plasterboard frames will help to cope with the task; It is very important that the color solutions in the ceiling design do not contradict the overall style of the apartment or house. Chandeliers and backlights are some of the simplest and most effective ceiling zoning tools. Light can divide the space of the room into different areas. In some cases, you can even do without rearranging the furniture. As universal zoning elements, you can also use:
- podiums;
- wallpaper;
- carpets;
- floor covering, etc.
For these purposes, everything that the interior decoration of a modern house consists of will do. Return to contents</a>
By the rules and without them
You can zone the kitchen with the living room usingfloor coverings. For example, you can lay linoleum or tiles in the kitchen, and laminate or carpet in the living room. It is believed that zoning a kitchen is much more difficult than zoning a living room, since the location of plumbing equipment dictates its own rules. There is some truth in this statement, but it does not mean that it is impossible to zone a kitchen in an original way. This work is difficult to do, because its interior decoration should not conflict with the purpose and everyday functioning of the room. A common mistake of beginners who want to apply the rules of interior design in practice is filling the kitchen with the maximum number of things, sorting them by area of application. This should not be done. The main finishing material for the kitchen in most cases is tiles. Its color schemes, the play of different colors and contrasts can be used for zoning space. A carpet for the kitchen is not the most practical solution. Whether it will cope with the zoning task or not is unknown. The kitchen is rightfully considered the room that is most often exposed to pollution. Therefore, between the kitchen carpet and the ceiling, which is no less effective in zoning the space, the latter is chosen. It is quite difficult to properly illuminate the kitchen: excessive brightness of light causes inconvenience. It is better not to use strong lighting as a tool for zoning the space. Light and lighting installed in the kitchen should be soft, conducive to relaxation. That is why it is not customary to zone the kitchen using only one light. Several components work to zone the room at once. One of them is the dining table. There are rules for arranging furniture, according to which you can zone the kitchen without spending additional funds on the purchase of furniture, finishing materials, and decorative elements. The first rule provides for the arrangement of objects along three walls. The second - offers as an alternative to transform the kitchen due to furniture placed along two walls in a corner. The third rule: all equipment and furniture should be installed along one wall. If we consider design solutions from the point of view of traditionalism, the kitchen should be zoned so that its main elements are the table or stove, and all other zones “revolve” around them.
