How to make your apartment spacious despitesmall area? You can use an open plan. This is the name of a design technique that allows you to combine two functionally different rooms in one area.
Combining the kitchen with the living room is idealsolution for small apartments. A dining room combined with a kitchen and a bedroom connected to a guest room help to visually "expand" the space, reduce the number of corners, and increase the usable area. Renovating a kitchen-living room requires a special approach. The design of such a room requires mandatory zoning, the right choice of color scheme, and multifunctional furniture.
Zoning of premises
It is recommended to start kitchen renovation withredevelopment of the premises, if necessary. Most often, to expand the area, the wall between the hall and the kitchen is removed, sometimes the partition separating these rooms from the hallway is removed. To expand the living room, you can combine any rooms, but it is important to remember: if food is prepared near the bedroom, the smells of cooking food from the kitchen will interfere with rest.
You can separate the kitchen from the living room with the help ofbar counter, combined with another functional room, will be successful if it is correctly divided into zones. Usually, designers recommend highlighting:
To make the kitchen-living room look harmonious andholistically, use special zoning techniques. Usually, the place where food is prepared is separated from the rest of the space by a bar counter. This is convenient because:
Instead of a counter, you can divide the rooma two-sided wardrobe, a sofa, a decorative partition. The same zoning techniques can be used when equipping a living room bedroom. It is not necessary to use vertical "dividers", be it a sofa, a wardrobe, etc. The area intended for cooking can be highlighted by raising the floor a few centimeters. Such a podium looks great, but is inconvenient for older people and children. You can zone the space using different floor coverings, multi-level ceilings, contrasting color schemes. The most striking zoning method is a fireplace. Facing the living room, this unit can become the center of the interior. Return to contents</a>
The choice of color solutions when repairing the kitchen of the living room
You can separate the kitchen from the living room with the help ofdifferent floor coverings. Naturally, the choice of color scheme depends on the tastes of the owners. However, there are rules, following which allows you to create a harmonious kitchen-living room space:
It is necessary to think about the lighting of the kitchen-living room.Usually designers recommend combining general lighting for the entire room with separate lighting for each zone. Built-in lamps will be appropriate in the kitchen itself, for the living room you can use sconces, floor lamps, chandeliers, etc. Return to contents</a>
Nuances of decoration and repair
Kitchen hood diagram. Everyone who is doing repairs should know the following:
Renovating a kitchen-living room, carried out according to all the rules, will not take much time, but will make the room as comfortable and functional as possible.
