Design of a small kitchen with a refrigerator

The kitchen is the most popular place in the house, so you need to make it beautiful, comfortable and practical. In the kitchen, all the details should harmoniously fit into the interior design, creating coziness and warmth.

To create a cozy kitchen in which you want to spend your time with the whole family, it is important to carefully consider the layout.

Since the space is small, there are many details to consider.

• You can move the dining area to another room. This will make the kitchen wider and easier to use for its intended purpose.
• Since the door takes up about half a meter of kitchen space, you can abandon the doors, and remake this part in the form of an arch.
• It is possible to purchase a long and close kitchen set, putting all the kitchen appliances in their places.

For small kitchens, 2 options for installing furniture are mainly used:

• angular;
• in one row.

With these methods, the kitchen visually expands. And when planning a kitchen, especially if it is small, you need to follow a number of simple rules:

• functionality;
• simplicity;
• brevity;
• more light and bright colors.

The choice of color scheme for the kitchen is influenced by conditions such as the size of the room, its lighting, location on the cardinal points and design. Often in the interior, tones are chosen that are close to red. This color represents warmth and comfort. Blue is considered a cool color, which denotes neatness and convenience.

Consider color combinations. You can use a monochrome model - shades of one color, or you can use a combination of two or three contrasting colors. For example, such as red with blue and yellow; yellow with red and green.

Greenish and yellowish hues are an excellent combination for creating a serene and balanced compact kitchen. And if you take blue as a base and mix it with yellowish and beige, you will get a suitable look for a rustic kitchen.

No need to use dark bright colors, it is better to choose simple, light combinations... The walls are usually painted or pasted over with wallpaper in light colors, the floor is selected in colors to match the walls.

The refrigerator is a special part of the kitchen. If the kitchen is small, then the question arises of how best to place the appliance so that it is comfortable to use it. Consider examples of how you can successfully place the device in a small kitchenette, so that the room itself becomes comfortable.

To avoid visual clutter in the kitchen, the refrigerator must be placed in the farthest spacious corner, then the device will not interfere with the family. With this method, household appliances will become less noticeable, and visually can even raise a low ceiling.

In all kitchens there is a corner, in which one wall will turn into a workplace, and the other will adjoin the window. This place is the most convenient to fit the device. If the plans include placing the refrigerator in a corner, then you need to choose the highest and narrowest model.

If there is a corner layout of the kitchen, then it is better to put the refrigerator near the window, not far from the working area, it will be convenient to use it when preparing food. This option allows you not to clutter up the kitchen and leave more free space on it. A long and narrow type of device is needed in order to push it closer to the wall.

There is always a free space near the sink, in which nothing is placed - that's just where it will be possible to place a refrigerator. It could be an empty corner or a niche. A household appliance placed there can transform a small kitchen. The space around will look lighter and larger.

To easily find a place for a refrigerator in a small kitchen, try removing huge and rarely used kitchen appliances and replacing them with more compact furniture and modern appliances. For example, you can choose an oven with features such as a steamer and microwave. Instead of a large food processor, use a simple hand blender.

A dining place can be easily planned in the living room, and a light bar counter can be installed in the kitchen, which will act as a dining table.

There is another good corner for placing the refrigerator - near the front door. It all depends on the layout of the kitchen: perhaps a roomy corner or a flat wall will form near the door. These methods are well suited in order to fit the device. The main thing is to correctly combine the device with the rest of the technique.

A good and comfortable way is to place the refrigerator in a niche. It is there that the device will be protected from sunlight, pollution and household influences. But you need to carefully consider all the rules for turning on the device, and make sure that nothing can interfere with the spacious opening of the door.

If there is no niche, then you can equip it yourself, but before that you need to consult with an architect, since the arrangement will require approval from government agencies. It is necessary to establish air circulation in the niche so that in the future the refrigerator does not overheat and cannot disrupt its work... In the instructions, the manufacturer must indicate the minimum dimensions of the niche that are needed for embedding.

The refrigerator can be placed against a wall with a window niche, and next to it can be placed with a washing machine. You can buy a narrow type and build it into one of the lockers.

If the kitchen is small and there are two people living in the house who do not need to keep a huge supply of food, then equipping a small refrigerator under the windowsill is a good way. The windowsill can serve as a dining table.

If a small family lives in the house, then you need to buy a small refrigerator and install it under the countertop. The device can be placed under the dining table or under the bar counter. Directly the height of the device should be no more than 51 centimeters.

To place a refrigerator in a closet, you need to choose a kitchen kit that fits in size, and the device itself should fit nicely into the interior. This is a great way to get more space.

To place the refrigerator on the balcony, you need to take into account some rules: the kitchen needs to be heavily insulated, since if this is not done, then the refrigerator will deteriorate from dampness. Good ventilation must be installed on the balcony.

The balcony itself must be fortified in order to firmly hold the huge mass of the household appliance. Keep the device out of direct sunlight... It is better to use an extension cord to turn on the refrigerator, because it is forbidden to install sockets on the balcony.

When choosing a design for your kitchen, it is better to dwell on some styles, such as minimalism, classic, Scandinavian. The main characteristic that unites them is the predominance of light shades and the minimum number of elements, which allows you to visually increase the space.

A snow-white tone, monochromaticity, severity, brevity, simplicity, a minimum of details prevail. Often furniture does not even have handles; doors and drawers have built-in handles or magnets. Here, it is better to hide the refrigerator inside furniture or under a windowsill.

This design has maximum lighting, beige, white and other lightened tones, natural materials and practicality. For example, handles on furniture are rails or staples so that they can fit well into the interior without standing out from the general background.

White ceilings dominate, in which carved cornices are emphasized, walls with soft pastel colors. Used beige, milky and honey shades. The floor is made of high quality bleached tiles. Furniture should be chosen with dark colors. To make the interior personify home comfort and aristocracy, you can hang a picture or a chic chandelier in a small kitchenette.

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