Any hostess wishes her kitchen to be highly practical and comfortable, and the time for the shabby and the guidance of purity was spent as little as possible. To do this, it is necessary to properly organize a workspace or having another name - a working or gold triangle.
Description
A few years ago studies were conducted - how many steps make a woman in the kitchen. As a result, it became known that every good mistress approximately makes 8,000 steps during the day. And it is only on weekdays and only in the kitchen. And imagine if it is cooking for a family holiday or reception? All this explains, as a result of which, when organizing premises for cooking, serious conditions and a special approach to business are put forward.
The cooking procedure should be delivered not only aesthetic pleasure, but also to protect the strength and time of the hostess. Then the revenue once again research.
Scientists from Germany still in the 40s of the last century were dealt with ergonomic task - how to reduce the number of steps in the kitchen. The fruit of this research began to be widespread a working or gold triangle, which is practiced and still. What does he represent? The kitchen room is visually dismembered into three zones.
Storage area
Naturally this is a refrigerator, the modern modifications of which have impressive dimensions. If it is not localized not at least points, it will bring dissonance and divide the workspace.
Preparation zone
The stove must be located near the work surface, where the preparation of provisions for heat treatment is made. In the same time She should not impede free movement so that the danger of burns does not appear.
Sink zone
Actually, the hostess exercises the most time when it is located in the kitchen room. The sink is considered to some extent a crown of a triangle.
If short, then the meaning of the working triangle is quite simple: the visual merger of key kitchen objects - plates, sinks and refrigerators.
Storage area, sink zone and cooking zone are support points, In which a qualified approach to the systematization of the useful area in the kitchen is based.
Necessary standards
To make all the movements in the kitchen are acceptable at spent time and applied efforts, the distance between zones should not be extremely short, but also long too. The optimal distance is if all working areas are in the corners of an inaccessible triangle. It is preferable to leave a distance between the sections at least 1.2 meters and no more than 2.7 meters.
However, it is necessary to note that these standards were created in the middle of the past century and most relevant for kitchens with small dimensions.
Currently, there is almost no possibility to withstand the same distance between the parties of the Golden Triangle: Kitchens in newly built houses rarely meet less than 10 m², often more, because they are consolidated with dining or living areas. Of course, you should not forget that The triangle distance is depending on the kitchen configuration and should not always be flawlessly the same.
Planning features
Let's look at how the gold triangle can be organized with different furniture melting in the kitchen in modern conditions.Linear kitchen
Linear or layout in one row It implies the placement of the kitchen headset along the length of one wall - in this case, the triangle becomes one line, on which one by one is placed a fridge, a cooking panel and sink. Often, such a plan is chosen for small or not very wide and long kitchens. When the area is actually small, it is more convenient to place the sink between the panel and the refrigerator.
Thus, the optimal possibility of access to products will be guaranteed. You can quickly get, wash, cut and then prepare them.
The dishwasher, if you select a place for it, it is desirable to set about the sink so as not to complicate the loading procedure of dirty kitchen utensils. Linear layout is better not to use for large cuisines, since the distance between zones will increase, and the movement between them will be at all uncomfortable and energy consumption.
Corner kitchen
Corner kitchen is M-shaped either L-shaped, it all depends on the kitchen headset. With such a localization of furniture, observe several recommendations of the arrangement of the triangle: leave the sink in the corner, on the sides of it from it the table tops (under the tabletops - dishwasher).
Next from the sink on one wall, put the cooking surface and the oven, and on the opposite - the refrigerator.
At the same time, the placement of the utensils to be handled in suspended cabinets over washing and dishwasher. If there is no desire to arrange the sink in the corner, Try to place a fridge and a panel with an oven at two corners of the kitchen, and in the center - sink.
Kitchen letter P.
P-shaped kitchen is the perfect option for kitchens with a big hid, then the "golden triangle" is planned according to three sides. On parallel running sides, storage and cooking zones are arranged, and then the sink with a dishwasher and a worktop. Such melting is characterized High comfort and spacious working surface.
Double-line layout
Two-row, parallel or double-row placement of kitchen furniture rationally for wide kitchens, no less than three meters Otherwise, it will be close, uncomfortable and imperative movement.
With parallel layout, it is better to arrange working areas for two opposite parties.
For example, on one side - the zone of the sink and the panel, and on the opposite - the refrigerator.
Island layout
The cuisine is the island is a dream of a set of hosts, because it looks attractive and implies the comfort of cooking and location. This layout should not be chosen for kitchens less than 20 m², since the island visually delivered space. With such a layout It is wiser to place the panel on the island, and on the other hand, the sink and storage area.
The sink, of course, can be put on the island, only in this case there will be extra costs for the reconstruction of communications.
The kitchen is one of the most important rooms in the house. Consequently, its layout must be Maximum comfortable. The Rule of the Golden Triangle is not an immutable truth. If you do not know how to use in your interests this rule, then pick up your combination, trying to arrange the zones in accordance with your project.
About the rules for creating a working triangle, see below.