The 12-meter cuisine is a typical option in modern new buildings. It is usually a rectangular room of 3 by 4 meters, where not only a kitchen set can also fit, but also a sofa, but also a full-fledged recreation area (sofa, low table). The space is sufficient to arrange several functional zones on it. And it can be done in different ways.
General rules
The project begins with ideas. There are basic questions, answers to which will be a target to action. A large kitchen (and 12 meters correspond to this definition) - this is not necessarily a large headset, a rather, dining table and the maximum filling of space.
Despite the number of square meters, you can manage them as you like:
- If the kitchen is square, it can be located in it in any way, along one wall, two, three;
- Rectangular kitchens are furnished with a loaf to ensure that the arrangement does not make the room visually, therefore, more often resort to the corner layout;
- You can do the sofa so - it will become part of the dining area or will form a separate recreation area (if you plan to make a sofa with an extra bed).
Often the hosts are solved on the combination of space, because the size of the kitchen allows you to organize a small living room in it. In case the apartment is one-room, the solution is quite reasonable.
Features of finishing
Spacious kitchen with careless, standard finish can lose its visible advantages. The interior becomes fad and flat, very sorry if the possibilities of spacious kitchen are not taken into account. But when the design of the kitchen room is developed carefully when it is divided into zones and special requirements are also presented to zoning, it turns out a very interesting room.
If there is a sofa in the kitchen, the room already looks like a union with the living room. Either part of the space takes on the features of the mini-living room. In most cases, the owners strive to highlight 2 zones, designate their functional difference. From this design, the overall image of the kitchen only wins.
And the following recommendations will help in the correct design.
- The room needs to competently zone. The kitchen headset and other furniture need an ordered arrangement, the arrangement of the recreation area and the dining area should also be ordered. In this case, all kitchen elements visually must maintain integrity.
- Harmonious should be coloristic Road surface decoration scheme , furniture and accessories, decor and textiles. All items should be kept in one stylist.
- Use available space is needed rational: Combining 2 rooms (if you decide for it), you must use all potentially useful - window sills, access to the balcony, if present.
- Limit the number of what is in the kitchen. 12 meters the interior is even easier to overload than in a small kitchen. An integral element of the room should be light and space. Avoid litter indoors.
Well, to the trends in the decoration of the kitchen, today they are very democratic. Rule one: If the room is in a large apartment or house, then any style and any finish materials can be viewed as the main line.
If you can not boast an apartment for more than 90-100 m, think about the relevance of marble surfaces, abundance of gilding and stucco.
In the design of the interiors, apartments are still dominated Scandinavian motifs. They win today High-tech, minimalism and loft. Increasingly, the owners turn to the main postulates of Scandy-style: simplicity and conciseness, the values of space and light, the environmentally friendly selection of materials, the thoughtfulness of each element and individualization in the decor.
Furniture and Technology
On the ways of saving space can be spent even relative to the smallest premises. Especially if you decide to endow them with additional features. If you plan to put a sofa in the kitchen, then Such a project already implies saving space.
And you can save it like:
- Use mainly a light palette in the finish of surfaces and furniture;
- Use additional functional elements - for example, use the window sill zone;
- stop at minimalistic solutions;
- Refuse decorative overload.
Arrange the furniture in the kitchen in 12 squares can be different - the layout really allows. For example, an interesting arrangement is obtained, in which the kitchen set formes the letter P. on the territory, which can become a separator of two zones, part of the headset "wrap up." This protrusion and becomes an zonator: it separates the cooking sector from recreation area (and at the same time the dining area).
You can make a parallel placement: put the entire headset along one wall, and to put the sofa from the opposite. The table in this case is or near the sofa, or by the window (if there is no balcony in the kitchen). With a balcony, the layout varies a bit, but the windowsill can be turned into a bar, which also likes many.
If the sofa becomes not just a mild corner, but represents an extra bed in the house, you try to burn the dining table from it. But at the same time, if in the house guests, the table is easily attached to the sofa. If there is a TV in the kitchen, it is logical that it will be opposite the sofa. This means that the TV is not a place at the wall in the working area. Thus, the sofa must be put perpendicular to the working area.
But it is even easier to equip the kitchen with a sofa and a TV using a clear zoning. This option is more suitable for rectangular kitchen. The room is conditionally divided into 2 parts: in one - the working sector, the cooking area, in the other - a recreation area. Which one will be more, to solve you. But from the idea of the mini-living room it is difficult to refuse, because it is convenient - a sofa and a table, a TV on the contrary, and the separation from the kitchen headset does not distract.
If there is an opportunity to disguise under the headset household appliances, use it.
Send to a niche microwave, to a special cabinet - refrigerator (yes, it is still relevant). Try all what you do not use often, clean with the visibility zone.
Style solutions
One of the most interesting and difficult elections is the kitchen style. Many refuse to determine if it is an optional point. Or just think that the kitchen made in a certain style is always expensive. In fact, the style disciplines, orients does not allow to be mistaken in combination.
What style can be a kitchen of 12 meters?
- Modern style. Popular and easy to implement. In the design of life there is an unshakable rule - in the modern kitchen dominates functionality, convenience, compactness, practicality. The motto of such a style is a refusal of superfluous, insignificant. The style is represented by monophonic smooth surfaces of neutral shades, closed shelves, practically absence of textiles and minimal, barely noticeable decor.
Materials are commonly used artificial stone, plastic, tempered glass, chromed steel. Such an up-to-date embedded technique on sensory control.
- Scandinavian style . The aesthetics of apartments of the Northern Europe countries are beautiful in that it does not emphasize the material status of the owner, creates a fresh and easy atmosphere that will not be crushed. In such a room there is always a pleasant coolness, a little nordic mood that works in contrast with natural accents - a natural warm tree, woven rugs, etc. From the colors of the absolute dominant, it is possible to name the white, with which the gray, blue and blue and blue are friendly. Episodic inclusions of yellow, red and green are harmonized with a total freshness and ease.
- Classic style. It involves the use of furniture made of natural wood covered with varnish or enamel. Facades The headset usually decorate the fillets, used actively golden fittings. Often the worktop workspace are made of artificial marble. Large equipment is preferred from retro collections so that modern microwaves and refrigerators are not dissoned with a vintage kitchen mood. Walls and ceiling are usually white if there is a plaster stucco - then in unobtrusive quantity.
- Loft. Not for all associations with an attic room are negative, many aesthetics of Industrial captures, inspires, and I want to transfer it to my apartment. Naked walls of bricks, open pipes, refusal of textiles and window design, preference for dark colors is the laws of the loft. The brutal style is difficult to call cozy (in the usual perception of this word), but the fact that it can be beautiful, bold and very stylish, is no doubt. The main thing is that all households are close to such design.
- Olive style. Give preference to gentle pastel shades and natural colors. It is great if you manage to find the headset in retro-style, and thin, exclusively decorative beams will appear on the ceiling. Decorating the space subjects that are associated with rural holidays: wicker baskets put in a row jam jars, beautiful spices, which are not hidden in the lockers, and are in mind. Lightweight curtains are gently peashed on the windows, on the wallpaper you can see cute wildflowers (small), the tablecloth can be openwork or linen.
Hood in the form of a chimney will be an excellent choice for olive cuisine. Tree, clay, copper, natural textiles are close to Provence, but from toned glass, chrome metal and glossy plastic need to be refused.
This is definitely not all possible styles, but only the most sought-after today. You can go to the aesthetics of the country, to fit the ideas of a colonial style, bring the subtlety and grace of Shebbi-chic in your home or make expressive cuisine in style ethno.
Standardization, the same type of interiors is a matter of habit, because in stores today there is everything so that your kitchen does not become a copy of the kitchen neighbors.
Beautiful examples
The options proposed below can inspire on bold projects to be carried out in your kitchen. Let us give 7 successful examples of 12 square kitchen design. meters.
- Very calm and weathered classics. The bright space does not seem close and compressed, it remains a place for the sofa. But if you decide to put it at the wall, you will have to outweigh the TV somewhere.
- Corner sofa personifies a full-fledged area of recreation in the kitchen . A compact dining table will not interfere with watching TV. Place for manipulations with a sofa remains. Space zonator serves as a protruding part of the headset.
- This is not a completely standard sofa, but also such a decision may be interesting. The kitchen is very summer due to bright color accents and wicker stool.
- Brilliant color solution for modern kitchen. In this case, the sofa cannot serve as a sleeping place, and there is no TV on the other. But if you need an angular kitchen sofa, this project is very good.
- The kitchen is narrow, but light colors in the decoration soften this perception. The owners chose the Tahtu, which is not inferior to the sofa. Excellent can be called an idea with photo wallpapers and promising on them - a good reception for visual expansion of space.
- Clear zoning, calm color gamut, living area and dining area fit on one territory. The sofa, which is folded, in the folded state looks like a convincing element of the kitchen.
- An interesting option to arrange square kitchen. The sofa is very pretty, serve and a sleeping place. Properly chosen color gamut does not "compress" the space.
For the features of the kitchen arrangement, see the next video.