Where to put a fridge in the small kitchen: Photos and examples

Little assumed kitchen area from 6 to 9 square meters. Although, as a legacy of the Soviet era, there kitchens and smaller. Where to put the refrigerator in a small kitchen - not a simple task, but solvable. Especially because the people's ingenuity will always find a way out of the predicament. Consider all ideas and options in detail.

Option 1. At corner

In the corner, he was not where the refrigerator is no longer a kind of column that prevents the review and movements. Most often used farthest from the door angle which the wall of the window and any of the side walls of the kitchen.

The main recommendation - choose narrow and at the same time, high model refrigerator. They take up less floor space, but its capacity is not inferior to standard refrigeration colleagues. Narrow refrigerator can simply push the corner can be rolled into a makeshift niche from MDF or use the built model of the refrigerator which "disappear" behind furniture fronts headset.

Recommendation! Since refrigerators are contraindicated in direct sunlight, try to protect them from your household appliance, when you install it near a window.

Option 2. At the entrance to the kitchen next to the door

If you are lucky with the layout, the next to the door can also be the angle formed by two walls. And let the refrigerator to find their hiding place there.

Perhaps the kitchen layout is such that forms a natural small niche, where you can place a significant portion of household appliances: the refrigerator, and stove, and a microwave, and even in the frame lockers.

And if you're out of luck, then immediately at the entrance, to the right or to the left, you will have to wait for the wall of the refrigerator, visually blocking the part of the kitchen. If you are willing to put up with it easily, then so be it.

Maybe on your little kitchen at the entrance no walls, no doors. Then the refrigerator may well stand at the beginning of the kitchen units are not blocking anyone without disturbing anything.

To use the storage space on the refrigerator, and for a small kitchen is very important, create a wall cabinet system with a niche under the refrigerator.

Again narrow model here will be very useful.

Recommendation! Think carefully about which side should open the refrigerator door, so as not to interfere with entering the kitchen. Buy refrigerator door, which can outweigh the.

Option 3. kitchen replanning

Very often, for the sake of expanding the kitchen space, it is combined with the living room, having alterations with the demolition of the walls. If this is your option, not to demolish the wall completely, leave it a small part of which can comfortably hide your refrigerator.

You can do another radical way and seal the passage from the kitchen to the hallway, creating a niche there is a refrigerator. And the entrance to the kitchen from the other room to organize.

And you can do the exact opposite and not hide in the corners of the refrigerator and niches. Cute fridge in the room kitchen-living room can find a open space and become part of the apartment design.

Option 4. Under countertop, under a window sill or in the closet

How? Buy a small refrigerator in height from 50 to 85 cm. Stand-alone or built-in model. For a small family of 1-2 persons a refrigerator will be a godsend. It easily snaps under worktop kitchen units or a wide window sill. Next to him, or at some distance from it in the same way you can put a miniature model of the freezer. And all the issues with storing and freezing foods solved.

Small refrigerators in the kitchen is easy to hide in a vertical narrow closet. Part of the refrigerator cabinet at a portion beneath the other technique or utensils.

Mini-fridges can be installed under the bar, if you have any, or, in extreme cases, directly below the dining table.

Option 5. Installation in the niche

Niche can be created artificially, it is literally hollowed in the wall between the kitchen and another room.

Niche can be construction of plasterboardAs the design concept, created to separate cooking zones.

Organize a niche and can be finished in a small storage area, which is in the majority of flats built in the '50s,' 60s and '70s of the last century. However, this niche will have outside kitchen and more relevant to our next version.

Option 6. In the corridor

Of course, the refrigerator in the kitchen space. But what if all the options to put a fridge in the kitchen area "divided" the size of the latter or other circumstances. One way - to move the refrigerator in the hallway. The closer to the kitchen, the better.

If you have a large family, and the kitchen is small, combine the version 4 and version 5. In the kitchen under the sink, set a small refrigerator for the first necessity products, and a large refrigerator or freezer put in the hallway. And not have to constantly run around for food from the kitchen into the kitchen.

To the refrigerator does not interfere, you can hide it in a built-in wardrobe in the hallway next to the coat hanger.

Option 7. On the balcony or loggia

When out of the kitchen there is access to the loggia or balcony, it is a good option to install there the refrigerator, do not have far to run for groceries. Only we must remember that a loggia or a balcony should always be well insulated.

Recommendation! Check out the instructions of the refrigerator, where it is specified climate class and the corresponding ambient temperature.

Ideally, when balcony combined with a single space in the kitchen. This will require coordinated with government agencies of redevelopment, but will create more opportunities and territory in the kitchen. Including access to the refrigerator. In this case, the refrigerator will fall well formed in parsing the wall niche.

additional recommendations

1. Refrigerator dislikes proximity with hot surfacesNamely, a heating radiator, with oven and hob. Separate it from these devices space or furniture at a minimum distance of 30 cm.
2. From the walls of the room refrigerator should also separate the short distance of 3-5 cm. This allows air circulation and cooling of the surfaces of the refrigerator and its grille.

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