Kitchen-dining room: interior design

We bought an apartment with a free lay in new or started a major overhaul? Do not miss the chance to bring to life one of the most fashionable ideas in the kitchen Design - combine two functional areas into one. So in your home will be luxurious kitchen dining room. Today the owners of modest square meters are increasingly coming to this decision, to somehow extend the kitchen area. But without a well thought-out plan and a clear idea of ​​the future interior of this goal you can not achieve. Let's understand the nuances of everything a kitchen, experiment with design options and see photos of the interiors.

planning Features

Placement of furniture in the work zone, depending on the shape of the room and common area can be virtually any:

• If the joint space to get really big and bright, you can afford a U-shaped furniture wall or even arrange a full island.
• Corner furniture saves space when the kitchen dining room, even after repair can not boast of a large area. This universal solution suitable for any room.
• If you want to overshadow the utilitarian kitchen and organize a comfortable sitting area, it is best to use a single-row set. For greater effect, it can even be put in a specially created niche in one wall.
• After the repair and redevelopment have turned a huge kitchen? Feel free to combine standard scheme of arrangement of furniture, changing room design to your liking.

kitchen layout should be subordinate convenience hostess. All the main work surfaces should be within walking distance, and the path from the stove to the table is not cluttered with unnecessary items.

If you decide to allocate to the new kitchen and even a relaxation area, turning it into a kind of living room, dining group appropriately positioned somewhere in the middle, to dissociate themselves working area (see. Photo). This will make the meaning of a bunch of different areas and to create a truly comfortable and functional interior. But try to put a table with chairs where a lot of natural light - in the window. In extreme cases, take care of additional lighting.

In general, be prepared for the fact that in the new large kitchen you need a lot of different fixtures. Consider the lighting system before the repair to competently perform the wiring.

zoning space

Although the demolition of the walls, you strove to unite the space, a division of the semantic area, at least symbolically, still need. Otherwise, the kitchen dining room, and even the transition to the living room, will look unnatural.

What part of you will share a common area, decide for yourself. Someone needs a small working area, but very spacious dining room, and someone is willing to "bite off" a few square meters of living area. We only list the ways how to arrange the division in the interior of the kitchen:

• wide arched passage or decorative columns;
• bar, kitchen outlining boundaries;
• low partition remaining after repair;
• rack, cabinet or cupboard longest;
• split-level floors or ceiling - suitable for any design;
• isolation built-in light (see photo).

When zoning the overall kitchen space, living room and dining room is not so much to separate them clear boundaries as to schedule the demarcation line. If space is not enough to do this with the help of furniture or architectural elements, it is possible to resort to a more simple, but effective way - contrast finish.

Color and texture coating materials of floors, walls and even the ceiling may vary. In addition, the design of a combined kitchen allowed to change the color of furniture, but the general style decision should be maintained in every corner. Designate the unity of the interior help echoing each other accessories and balanced color palette, and choose shades help numerous photos on the Internet, for example, in our gallery flowers.

Zoning the kitchen space with the help of finishing materials is carried out in accordance with their practicality. For example, carpet and wallpaper are good for the dining area, and laminate and tile are perfect for working.

Rules "living together"

If the kitchen is perfectly visible from the living room and dining room, it makes the owners carefully maintain order in her. Even small details, which do not pay attention to the separate kitchen, there may be much to spoil the overall impression of the interior. Not that the dirty dishes in the sink - even a clean towel on the mind should not be left. For this reason, in the design of a kitchen is not welcome to use railings or open shelves. All utensils must be hidden behind the beautiful facades, giving way only decorative tableware and accessories.

To worry less about how the kitchen looks like a living room and dining area, you can try it to "hide". High bar created during repairs on the remains of interior partitions, in this case, can be very useful.

You can place a cutting table, stove and sink so that they were behind it and not visible from the seating area. See how it looks in the photo.

Will also have to buy a good and modern technology to the level of comfort in the living room remained satisfactory, despite the proximity to the kitchen. Refrigerator, microwave and hood must be chosen with minimal noise. In this case, it is a search for a suitable exhaust equipment having the biggest problems. Despite its quiet operation, it should be powerful enough to smell food and water vapor does not spread throughout the room.

If there is something to hide from the equipment does not work, even if it will decorate the entire premises. Models of refrigerators and hoods with luxurious decor, rhinestones or decorative painting is now readily available. It is only necessary to choose those that will meet the general idea of ​​the interior.

A radical solution - the device of sliding doors or folding screens between the kitchen and living room. In this case, you can in the circumstances to share and combine the space of a single motion again. Various photos of a kitchen dining room can be found in the photo galleries on our website.