Kitchen open-plan in fashion has long been: from Western interiors, they switched to Slavyan's apartments, and people were able to appreciate the convenience of such solutions. The kitchen combined with the living room seems to be a spacious room, but not any layout contributes to this. But even a small kitchen-lounge is able to become comfortable, functional and useful to the entire family room.
Advantages and disadvantages
Before deciding on such a design, you need to weigh all its pros and cons. When a deaf wall disappears between the hall and the kitchen, the dwelling concept is changing. And you need to start with the theme of psychological comfort: an open layout will like those who are configured to communicate, constant contact with the interlocutors.
In the family it is really convenient, but not all owners will agree to cook when literally behind the rest of the household communicate or watch TV. Some prefer to create culinary masterpieces in solitude.
But usually people who decide on the combined project understand and take such a feature of the room in advance. Instead of two rooms, one studio with kitchen features and living room . And the studio is always a brighter, visually more spacious format where not to hide from households.
Unquestive pluses of combined premises:
- the ability to communicate with family during cooking, watch TV;
- The opportunity to look after a small child who can sleep in a crib or playing a lancepen in the hall zone, while mom is preparing;
- Sensation of space, the interior now does not look small and closed;
- Large design capabilities, because the dining table can be taken out of the kitchen in the hall, and therefore, in the kitchen you can install a larger headset.
The main minus is that it is impossible to retire in the kitchen or in the living room now. Combining the kitchen with the hall requires a single stylistic solution, in rare cases, two zones are performed in different styles.
Zoning - an important nuance
In almost every project of combined rooms there is a separator that separates one functional zone from another. It may be small and conditional, but there are zonators that are comparable to the separation wall.
Separation options may be different.
- Falc wall made of drywall. The solution is common, but not so popular. Often, shelves or niche are made in a similar partition, in which it is possible to place decor items. In a small-sized apartment, it makes no sense to make a wide wall of GLC, as this "will eat" part of the useful area. But the meter wall is a good option. Often, the kitchen is blocked (for this account you can expand the bathroom), the entrance to the kitchen is planned through the living room. In this case, there may be two false walls of 1 m wide each.
- Bar stand . Already not the most popular option, but if you refuse the idea of installing the design on a metal leg, everything will be not so old-fashioned. Bar rack may look like a miniature island. But in this case, you will have to put a couple of bar chairs next to the design, and this will also take part of the space.
- Rack. This option can be called successful, since the rack through, not so massive as a wall. On the shelves of the shelving, you can arrange flowers, books, souvenirs and other decor elements.
- Glass partition. The glass does not look so deaf as a false wall, because often the owners of small apartments set such a partition. The glass design does not "eat" the light, it can be very compact and stylistically coincide with the design concept of the room.
- Sofa. If you put it on the line of separation of zones, it will conditionally separate the kitchen from the living room. But on such conditions in the kitchen there should be a powerful exhaust system, as textiles absorbs smells well.
Many owners of such united premises cost without an explicit separator. Sometimes the living room begins with a dining group, which is no longer included in the source area of the kitchen.
Finally, zoning the territory in the house can be finished. In the kitchen area, due to its functional features, moisture-resistant and ferry-resistant materials are used: this is a ceramic tile, porcelain stoneware, artificial stone, and tempered glass, washable wallpaper. The hall is more convincing wooden surfaces, laminate, as well as carpet, decorative wallpaper. The difference between the textures and will serve as a visual zonator, but the coloristic and stylistic solution should be solid.
Coloricy small kitchen-living room
Non-road light colors create an illusion of increased space in the room. And if you use dark and rich shades, room, on the contrary, visually decreases. That's why The optimal solution for a modest kitchen-living room will be white, gray, pastel and beige shades.
Attention! Avoid in a small and multifunctional space of distrend and large prints, bright contrasts and decorative accents that will be very highlighted on a general background.
It is worth paying attention to fashionable colors in the interior of 2019.
- Spicy honey. This is a pleasant warm caramel shade, it, depending on the partner color, as well as the lighting, accepts amber, sandy and woody color. It is a comfortable and cozy color that makes the room warmer. For the formation of a traditional style, it is ideal.
- Bamboo color . You can call this tint dimly orange. It is well suited for finishing the focal wall of the room, for choosing upholstered furniture.
- Serious coffee. Cozy and at the same time as illuminating color. It will be perfectly combined in the kitchen-living room with a sky blue and pale gray-beige. For southern solaries - a good option.
- Pink quartz. The color is elegant and "powdered", very warm and soft. It will be a good solution for the northern kitchen, which is worth making a little warmer.
If the transformation occurs in a two-room apartment, try to make the arrangement of the rooms somehow echoed with each other. One color palette and one interior style are basic requirements. But if you have gotten a bright and warm kitchen-living room, the bedroom can be just a dairy, discreet. Nevertheless, the rooms have different tasks, and if everything in an extended kitchen communicate, rest together, arrange gatherings, the bedroom should become an ideal place for privacy.
Use of different styles
Decide with the style immediately - the task is complex. I want to make such a repair that long will still look fresh and relevant. To do this, make it on the standards of fashionable a couple of years ago the magazines are not worth it, but to look at what is now on the edge of fashion, it will be the right decision.
Designers pay attention to important nuances.
- Personalization of interior . In the era of information make the room exactly as in the photo in the interior log or popular site is easy. Today, residential space requires personification. It can be crafting furniture, art objects in the interior and even mixing styles.
- Bocho. . The interiors in the bright boho today are very in demand, but for a small kitchen-living room it will be a difficult version. However, if you are inspired by stylish examples, and do not overdo it with the details, it may be very beautiful space.
- 70th. Aesthetics of the 70s today is experiencing a new wave of popularity. Olive color, warm shades of ocher and terracotta, velvet and geometric ornaments are returned to the living room.
In fashion and active ornament in the interior, which will reveal well against the background of flowers such as French vanilla, gray-green, mint, brown hazelnut, warm gray.
There are currently binders with nature elements in the city interior - flowers and greens, first of all. Popular Hand-Maid Decor: The old good macrame today is in demand and decorates the walls of many kitchen-living rooms.
Those who intend to make the room in the Scandinavian style may not be upset: this decision can no longer be fashionable or not, it has become a classic.
Just do not forget to personify your scand-interior articles of the decor of our own manufacture, beautiful ceramics, paintings by local painters.
Beautiful examples
Visual examples of the arrangement of space in which the kitchen and the living room are located on one territory, will be erecting many fashionable descriptions.
8 kitchens and living rooms with a modest square.
- Actual shades of the season - Coffee gray, white and blue - connected in the kitchen in 18 squares, which the owners decided to make the room "2 in 1". A good option for one-room apartment: a living room will fit in a large kitchen, and the former hall can be turned into a bedroom.
- The zonator in this case protrudes the sofa. The space seems spacious, although it is typical rooms. White color serves as a "conciliatory" zones and interior elements.
- Beautiful classic , a lot of light and relevance of each interior element. Without such a solution, the kitchen and living room would look narrow and crowded.
- Kitchen + dining room + living room. And all in warm woody shades, which add heat to the room.
Nothing superfluous, everything is strictly in its place, a very good distribution of zones.
- Very small space well equipped - Small kitchen, comfortable, albeit a small dining table, a cozy sofa. For lovers of compact sizes of furniture and kitchen, the option is very good, the feeling of space and fresh air is preserved.
- An interesting zonator in the form of a filament curtains clearly separates the kitchen from the living room, but it would be quite different it would look like a deaf wall. An excellent example of how in a small space you can apply fantasy and make a fashionable interior.
- It seems, the living room suffers from separation, becomes small. But this is not the case: due to the location of the dining group at the intersection of the zones, the space becomes a spacious studio, where everyone will place.
- Everything is very compact and very harmonious . And the table for the whole family, and a cozy sofa, and a TV, and not the smallest headset - everything fit here. Another option for those who believe that the living room can be moved into a large kitchen.
