Bar table for the kitchen: photo options

Bar table as opposed to the traditional lunch is not only higher, but also much more compact due to the small size of tabletops. Of course, it is not suitable for a Sunday family dinner, but one or two of them for a place exactly there. However, a variety of designs and design ideas allows you to choose furniture for all applications and kitchens very different areas.

Traditional bar tables

classical bar furniture It has a small and often round tabletop, although just to its shape and dimensions particularly strict requirements there. But the height of the entire structure is regulated tightly enough - it must be not less than 110-115 cm. Also from the ergonomic considerations such table is equipped with one or two stable legs - and again the same it is not mandatory. The absence of severe restrictions untied the hands of the designers of furniture, so that the structures and models of today are very much - it remains only to choose.

The classic bar table can serve as a model in a series of Bilsta from Ikea, produced in white color. They have been developed specifically for use in public places, so are highly reliable and easy to care for.

1. Roundtable Bilsta

Has a height of 1.05 m and a diameter of 70 cm, that is designed for two people. Worktop fiberboard is coated with melamine and additional protection acrylic lacquer.

It gives inexpensive base scratch resistance, tolerates contact with hot objects, moisture, cleaning agents. The upper part of the legs are provided hooks for bags and cross screw for precise adjustment of the table for greater stability. In general, the standard model for a cafe, but through pure white color it will look good on the home kitchen, if you combine it interesting bar stools from Ikea.

Equally popular round models Tulip - this is perhaps the most favorite form designer. The main difference between the "tulip" - a smooth transition line from the countertop to the leg, as well as a solid foundation, though reflecting the top. These models, in spite of a constant and recognizable for many photo silhouette are unique, we need only to play with color and texture, try new stuff. We, the buyers of furniture, much more important that manufacturers provide a huge selection of round tables that will decorate any kitchen. In addition, it will be easy to pick up a set of chairs or bar stools Tulip Jan-Inge from Ikea, elegantly complete the composition.

1. rectangular table

From its round "relative", this model Bilsta different form, increased worktop (70h130 cm) and a higher price. Behind it can already accommodate 4 people. Thus ergonomic metallic podstole not hinder sitting - frame construction legs located along the axis. There are an assortment of Ikea and compact "one-legged" version with top 60x70 cm.

Console (trim) the type

Often it is not even a desk, and a worktop, fixed longitudinal portion along the wall. It is enough to hang on, "the bar" the height of 1.1 m and ushers high chairs. The material may be any, as long as it is protected from moisture and not spoiled by contact with hot dishes. Great choice of suitable countertops for the kitchen can be found in store Ikea. They are made of chipboard budget covered with plastic and has a sufficiently large length of from 1.86 to 3.8 m.

most countertop size is selected in accordance with a free kitchen area so that it does not interfere during cooking, but to accommodate all family members. Form will determine the style of the room, but it's better when it has at least rounded corners - it avoids random painful blows.

Console table today called any samples dining furniture, which have little depth, because of what appear to be (and sometimes are) not too stable. But the owners of close cuisines such products fit just perfect: no long worktops are no restrictions, so that even with a large surface area, they do not take up much space. Console tables first appeared in the French royal court, so that the lines of sophistication and rich decorations for them - the norm. But now available for bars model of simpler forms, as in the photo below. So in today's dynamic interior and there is a place for them.

As a console models can be used and full bar tables, which differ only by dining height. Otherwise, they have quite a traditional rectangular shape, stable number of 4 feet and made of the usual materials for kitchen furniture (wood and its substitutes, metal, glass). An example of such a "grown-up" table may be shown in a photo model Sturnes from Ikea. It is quite spacious countertop 127h70 cm, and a height of 1.05 m - intermediate between the familiar dining furniture and the minimum allowable for home bar.

Sturnes made of natural wood, and to prolong his life in difficult conditions cuisine, an array is covered with waterproof layers of polymer and acrylic resins. The color of pure black models, but expressive texture of pine clearly visible. In the catalog it is possible to Ikea to pick up comfortable padded bar stools from the collection Henriksdal.

bar counter

Although we are used to perceive it as a separate piece of furniture, it's the same bar table. Name any specific features that distinguish these two pieces of furniture, it's hard. It is believed that the rack should be a continuous or fixed base, but there are models on high legs, so that the boundary between these concepts blurred. Closed-type desk stand allows you to use it not only to distinguish between too much space, but also to hide from the eyes of an additional utensil storage. In some cases, the frame bars can even embed small appliances, if the rest of the kitchen there was no place for her.

Racks are distinguished by type:

• Linear - the easiest option. This table is easy to make, even with his own hands from suitable materials (plasterboard, wood, brick), and the tabletop to buy in the same Ikea store.
• Radius - elegant models, very demanding to the kitchen area. They need to be careful - on the background of excess furniture modules, they will be heavily overloaded space.

Bar table - the most popular variety of high tables, because it not only saves but also successfully delimits the space. It can be used in the kitchen of any size, from a tiny Khrushchev, where a dining group does not fit, to spacious studios.

Folding table

Ideal for very very cramped kitchen, where cooking is inconvenient to engage in a free passage blocks a dining group. This table top can be folded at the time, and if necessary, return to the operating position. No particularly complex mechanisms are not here, so if you want a folding bar table is easy to do with their hands. And Ikea such neat patterns, as in the photo, you can buy for just 2.5-3 thousand rubles:

• Norberg - snowy small countertop of chipboard with a durable plastic coating and laminating film. It has a size of 60h74 cm, so that more than 1-2 people can not fit him.
• Norbu - light folding table from birch massif is covered with transparent acrylic varnish, and the humidity in the kitchen it does not threaten. In the unfolded state has a size 59h79 cm, not exceeding 8 cm in its retracted depth.

Ikea offers such models and folding stools in a series of Franklin, who, after dinner, you can remove the pantry or to the wall so they do not interfere. Alternatively suitable high stools Roskug - they are not transformed, but simply placed on top of each other on the principle of nesting dolls.

Another version of the collapsible bar table - a rack-transformer. Kind of a rare, but with different ways of folding (one shown in the photo). There are models, where the dining table top using a folding base bar furniture, but you can find a design that simply slides out from under the higher module.

Serving - this bar table is in fact a kind of counter, but it does not rely on a stationary base, and casters. Withdrawable model should not be confused with the cart, since the height and scope of these types of furniture are markedly different from each other.

New types of bar furniture

Modern designers are developing new models that are not only in design but also in its structure significantly different from the traditional bar tables. As a result, there are various types of the original representative of kitchen furniture.

island version

Such tables, as in the photo, are only suitable for large rooms: kitchen a large area, studio apartments and common rooms. Very common are the island bars, combined with other pieces of furniture. This can be a work area with a sink, cutting table and a stove, or just hidden on the other side of the shelves and drawers with kitchen utensils. Such complex systems are usually not sold separately - their manufacture have to be ordered individually. And just table bulky structure is not called, because high tabletop is only a small part of it.

Combines (ladders) model

These tables from bar there was only a small table-top size up to one meter, but in the growth they noticeably lost - only 90-95 cm. Such furniture become owners of compact kitchens and use them as a dining area or extra work surface, just put to the primary headset. Independently such tables are not applicable, since they are not very functional and can be unstable due to the smaller number of supports.

But there are positive aspects. For example, today ladders modules are so popular that buy ready-made item that is perfect for your kitchen, it is a snap. In an extreme case, you can order the production of combines bar table in size or make it yourself. This new acquisition will cost inexpensive, but the food will be much more functional. Look at the picture as a work area won by the presence of attached module.

select the Features

Today, there are often tables with adjustable height tabletops - these models can be bought, even if you have not picked up the bar stools. Due to the lack of any strict standards, they can be a little higher or lower, and a gap of 30 cm between the table and the seat should be maintained.

Kitchen combined with living room, you can choose from a two-level bar table top, as in the photo. In this case, it is set lower side in the direction of the kitchen and is used as a dining or acts as an extra work surface. The second tier is the part of the dwelling, which already looks like a traditional bar.

Do not forget that high furniture is still a feature of the modern dynamic of the interior, so the more "old" styles to try on these chairs and tables need to very carefully. Classic, vintage, romance direction in design require perfect bar furniture falling into the overall picture. Play with color, decoration and materials, and then high table easily fit into any interior.