The happy owners of the spacious kitchen understand - should not be empty, it needs to be competently equipped. Architectural and decorator techniques help zonate the kitchen, which, with the right approach, can combine both the living room, and the dining room, and directly the cooking zone.
Fundamental rules
The zoning of the kitchen is the right division of space, and in terms of functionality, and from a decorative point of view. There are principles that supervise zoning, not allowing to enter into a conflict of finishing, furniture and accessories of the room.
There are 6 main zoning rules.
- Single style. It is very difficult on one territory to make friends Scandinavian style and modern, or oriental style and rustic. It is almost impossible. If you are not a designer, try to choose a single room style, where several functional zones get along.
Household equipment is desirable to embed and decoratively mask so that it does not disturb the stylistic expressiveness.
- Lighting in each zone should be their own. In the area of the kitchen headset - point, in the living room and dining area - the general and local. Work areas are usually covered brightly, and the dividing territory is soft.
- In the interior, 3 main colors are usually present, their accent tones are allowed. This is true for large, and for small cuisine. Color accents can cross in different zones. The smaller area of the room is made a little darker than big.
- If the room itself is small, to withstand it in bright colors. If you choose the separator massive and large-sized furniture, it can "eat" space.
- Two zones of one room are sometimes divided by filament curtains. Try to make the window design and this curtain delimiter had something in common: color, material, texture or something else.
- If the room is initially long and narrow, you do not need all the furniture to put on the walls - for a long kitchen is a delicious reception . It becomes even more elongated. It is better to put furniture across to visually break a narrow rectangle to squares.
For a small kitchen division into zones - the task is not easy, but in such a situation there are many optimistic design examples.
Separation options for zones
Zoning options can be visual and functional. Visual means use for each zone of own textures and colors, surface finishing materials. Functional options involve the use of light construction elements, arched structures, furniture. Visual zoning may emphasize the functional, make division more expressive.
But there may be a reverse effect: the visual division softens very sharp functional.
We will understand which zones can be in the kitchen.
- Cooking area. The kitchen area is a headset, where everything is needed for storing products, utensils, as well as for culinary classes. What should she be - the decision of the host himself. Someone like compact designs, where there will be no years to accumulate what is actually not used in the economy. In this case, the kitchen zone will be small. But necessarily there should be a powerful extract.
- Dining room and / or tea zone. It may be the same dining group. But sometimes for the tea area there is a fragment of the room, for example, the windowsill is extended, two stools are attached to it - and now you can drink morning tea at the window. But more often the dining area consists of a dining group (and this is not always a big table).
- Rest zone. If the table is located at a cozy, comfortable sofa, there may be a recreation area at the same time. But often the sofa stands separately, opposite it - TV. If necessary, the sofa turns into a sleeping place.
Usually the kitchen is a two-zone room, where the dining area is combined with a place to relax, and the workspace takes less space. But options can be different. Some owners in the kitchen are not at all the traditional dining table, but there is a wide bar counter, it is also a delimiter. Behind the rack dine and dinner. And immediately behind it is a sofa (recreation area), and next to him a low table, which is suitable for evening family tea drinking or for gatherings with friends.
As a rule, it is so equipped with one-room apartments with a large kitchen. The singular room is given under the bedroom, and the living room is transferred to the kitchen space.
Methods
You can zonate two different areas in several ways. In most cases, the task is to be so - the kitchen is divided into two functional zones, and it should be a clear and harmonious division.
Methods of division set.
- Partitions. Obviously, there are nowhere - partition, like a small wall, strictly divides the room into two parts. In some cases, it additionally can serve as a support for the ceiling, can be a place for a home mini gallery.
- Bar rack. In most cases, it is convenient only when it replaces a full-fledged dining table. Often, the owners choose transformable structures. For example, for each day a small family is a fairly bar rack, and when guests come, it turns into a table for a festive dinner. The rack in the form of the island is an excellent option.
- Curtains. If you choose this option, look after the washable models. Nevertheless, the case happens in the kitchen, and therefore, odors and contamination can not be removed. Curtains usually long before the floor, lightweight, flowing. The thread option is the most preferred. There are also beautiful curtains from beads, beads, seashells, wooden decorative elements (they are more practical).
- Sliding modules. The kitchen with sliding doors that perform the separator function is a frequent example of a combined room. Modules can be different: in the form of Japanese shirms, glass partitions (matte or transparent), wood, fabrics, plastic.
- Flooring. Very often you can see that the kitchen zone highlights the tile, and the living room is laminate. It is both visual and functional division. It is simple, but self-sufficient. For a more interesting effect, it is possible to divide the territory not by traditional geometry: changing the angle of the separation line.
- Furniture. And there are several own methods. For example, if you zonate the territory by an angular way, the furniture will be placed along the two walls, and the headset is able to go into two walls at once. In the island kitchen, the island can be formed by an angular sofa, a coffee table and several chairs.
- Wallpaper. Another sought-after decision is zoning with wallpaper. Everything is simple: in the kitchen, wallpapers are alone, in the living room or dining room - others. And it is even not necessarily partner wallpaper. For example, in the kitchen, wallpapers imitating brickwork, and in the living room zone - neutral sky-blue. Wallpaper quality is different, in the kitchen sector there must be walls that can be washed.
It is right to note that Not always the kitchen will have to put on its territory a dining room or living room. . Sometimes the kitchen space takes the office, and this also requires zoning. In the second zone, the desktop will be located on which all the necessary equipment and high-quality lighting will be. Another name is the kitchen-workshop.
The kitchen combined with the bedroom, the option is very rare, but encountered. A full-fledged wide bed in the kitchen is usually not put, but a convenient transforming sofa there can be. By the way, not single families who acquired odnushku with a very large kitchen live like this. In the kitchen, they separate the living area (recreation sector), and in the estimated hall arrange a nursery.
Beautiful examples
Consider on specific examples how you can zonite the kitchen, And that from this it turns out - 12 cases of successful zoning of the kitchen.
- The small room in which there was a place and the working area and the rest area. Perhaps in such modest conditions, this is the perfect version of the arrangement. Of course, in the event that there is no place for a full living room in the apartment. The room is contrasting, but the colors are distributed so correctly that the visual space is not "eaten".
The separator in this case appears the bar counter.
- Very cute option: from the long kitchen made a combined space. Separates one territory from another two convoluted false walls, as well as the difference between floor coverings and wall decorations. The space turned out to be warm, cozy and unifying - all households together, even if everyone is busy with their own business.
- Bar rack replaces the dining table, is in the kitchen area and does not take up much space. The separator is an outdoor coating, but the wall decoration is repeated. Due to the qualitatively designed headset, the kitchen does not look overloaded.
- Plasterboard construction, different ceiling and floor design perfectly divide a large kitchen into two spaces. See how healthy is combined by the upholstery of the sofa and curtains. Such design rolls are very related to the space, make it stylish and weathered.
- The kitchen zone is hardly no more than the living room area, but in this case it looks spectacular and convincing. The separator serves as a powerful island, but a sofa table is quite possible, transformed into a full dining table.
- Stylish wooden design - hardly the main accent of space, at the same time it is clearly and strictly divides the territory in the kitchen and living room.
- Glass sliding doors do not darken the general territory, but it is clearly divided. The dining area is perfectly separated from the kitchen.
- The studio option where the kitchen, living room and bedroom are adjacent on one territory. For a young family without children or for loners - a decent option.
- There was a project in which the territory made friends the kitchen, living room and office. Such a transformation often happens to kitchens that can boast loggias. The divider of the working area and the recreation area has become a bar counter.
- Very interesting and simple kitchen arrangement. The headset is made so that one of its parts has become a separator. But there is also a transition of wall planes, which can also be considered the boundary. Note that the kitchen headset and the module wall in the living area are made of one material.
- The curtain became the separator, careless and uncomplicated in the device. Interestingly, she divides her kitchen and bedroom, rather than the kitchen and living room.
- Another cool idea for those who are not afraid of bold solutions. The wall lasts the bar, and everything looks very organic together.
Successful search for the perfect option!
On the video, see several original ideas on the zoning of the kitchen.