If the family had at their disposal a kitchen room that could not be called close to the square, but easier to characterize as long and elongated, then during the repair it becomes necessary to develop such a design of a narrow kitchen so that it would be convenient for the person responsible for cooking to work there, and the rest to gather at the table and receive the pleasure of communication. When designing, one should take into account all the norms of ergonomics, provide for the location of the necessary household appliances, cabinets, work surfaces, and expand the space with the design tools and make it harmonious.
Such a kitchen can be represented in two options: a narrow small room and an elongated, but significant in area. Each has its own secrets of design, selection of kitchen furniture, technical equipment.
A small-sized kitchen is a legacy of post-war Soviet architecture, or a sign of modern urban planning based on saving the area of utility rooms in order to allocate more square meters to living space.
Also, a narrow kitchen can be designed for a house where the family has breakfast, lunch and dinner in a separate dining room, and the kitchen is purely utilitarian in nature, used only for cooking (often it is cooked not by the hostess, but by hired staff).
Meeting layout options:
A rectangle with a window and a door on opposite end walls.
A rectangle with a window and a door on opposite elongated walls (large window, door in the center).
A rectangular room with a window located at the top of an elongated wall (Baltic, Scandinavian house designs) and a kitchen door, shifted closer to one of the corners.
A rectangle with an exit to the balcony at the end and a doorway on the adjacent wall.
Very narrow room (1.5-1.8 m), endowed with a small window.
A case without windows adjacent to the dining room, either separated by a door or decorated with an open doorway.
Furniture placement options for various layouts
With the door opposite the window at the end and the sufficient length of the kitchen room, the most optimal design technique for a narrow kitchen will be the transverse division of space into two zones - work and dining. The design of the cooking zone is a parallel option for placing a kitchen set. The passage left between the working lines should allow moving along the route “refrigerator - sink - stove - countertop” during cooking and be sufficient to ensure free opening of the oven door, convenient use of floor cabinets, sliding drawers.
If the kitchen is stretched out in width and not in length, the main wall is occupied by a window, and the door is in the middle of the opposite wall, then the area near the window should be given to the dining group, and the narrow ends should be taken up with work surfaces with appliances. One side will contain a refrigerator and a sink connected by a worktop, the other a stove with a surface for preparing products. Such a technique will allow you to adjust the elongation of the room, make the space close to a harmonious rectangle.
If the window opening cuts through the upper part of the wall (the third version of the layout), the space under it can be occupied by the worktop, cutting into it a sink, hob, and place a low refrigerator below. The dining area should be given a dull corner, providing good local lighting, and hung on the wall opposite the window kitchen cabinets of small depth to the ceiling, having arranged a voluminous place for storing kitchen utensils.
When designing a narrow kitchen, pay particular attention to the handles of kitchen cabinets. Far projecting parts, staples with sharp corners can be traumatic. It is better to use rounded elements or click-clack technology (a way to open doors with a simple click).
Inconvenient layout - the ability to apply imagination
The last three of the above planning options can be described as "minimal kitchen area." They are less common, and equipping them in such a way as to ensure ease of use is more difficult.
The kitchen, which has a balcony, leaves almost no opportunity to place a full dining and working area. However, having built a surface along a long wall and placed it under a window (combined with a window sill), you will get enough space for your culinary experiments.
Directly near the front door, it is better to use floor cabinets of reduced depth for convenient movement around the kitchen.The dining table of this option can be rolled out perpendicularly from under the countertop, provided for the rise of the panel covering the lower kitchen module, or mounted on a folding wall table on the opposite wall. The mobile dining group is complemented by comfortable folding chairs.
During the cooking process (moving along the countertop), the chairs are folded and hung on decorative wall hooks to eliminate possible inconvenience, or are pushed inside a special niche under the work surface.
A very narrow space of the kitchen (less than 2 m wide) implies a single-line placement of the kitchen set, folding dining furniture. To reduce the width of the countertops, you should use mini-format household appliances, kitchen modules of reduced dimensions.
The kitchen-pencil case involves only the working process of cooking. When arranging it, it is proposed:
U-shaped arrangement of furniture set or G-option;
the small width of the “case” dictates the use of cabinets of reduced depth along the longitudinal walls;
full-format household appliances fills the end of the kitchen or goes along one of the walls (the L-shaped way of arranging furniture is preferred).
Large elongated kitchen
Such a large area is found in country houses, where the kitchen and dining area is allocated a part comparable to the scale of the living room.
Design techniques for a narrow volumetric kitchen suggest:
Dividing the room into the cooking zone (U-shaped with open space inside for freedom of movement) and the dining area (with sliding windows to the floor facing the garden, or framing a beautiful view).
The device along the walls of two parallel lines - one (blind), to accommodate the kitchen and the necessary equipment, the second (with windows along the entire wall) to be installed below the window of a long table for snacks (option implies a separate dining room).
The device is perpendicular to the long wall between the windows of the kitchen peninsula of large width, protruding into the room. Furniture, household appliances are located in the form of an unfinished letter "P" on the free walls. The remaining square of the square is used as a breakfast corner or a resting place (it is possible to place a separate table with chairs, or a set with sofa benches).
Design a narrow space: the choice of color, texture, decor
When choosing a color scheme for a small, elongated space, one should adhere to the axiom “white - expands, dark - reduces”. The monochrome nature of the kitchen does not make it boring, you can add mood by including several bright accents, the main thing is to observe the measure and the rule of laconicism: "If you can do without something, it is better to do without it."
The objects
Recommendations
Vertical surfaces (walls, furniture, apron)
The most successful for the walls is the use of light colors
In the “all white” version, the furniture dissolves in the walls, plays the role of one whole with them
Against the background of light walls, painted kitchen facades (light green, blue, sand, peach) harmoniously look
Reflective materials can be used for the apron - glossy tiles, chrome-plated plane, glass
Horizontal surfaces (floor, countertop)
The floor can be either dark or light.
When choosing a floor covering, you should take into account its tonal combination with a countertop
Features window decor
The dark window frame against the background of light walls becomes invisible, does not require textiles
Instead of the usual curtains that reduce space, it is more practical to install roller blinds
Window sill - a place for a beautiful flower or aromatic greens, plants will revitalize the kitchen, make it cozy
The interior of a narrow kitchen should be thought out, combine only the most necessary, excluding the fragmentation of space by small elements.Filling the shelves of the headset with collections of miniature objects of various colors, the use of alternating colorful spots of decor, bright geometric ornaments will be inappropriate, the room will become even more compressed. If the walls provide for the installation of open shelves, then it is better to expose one-color sets of tableware or serving glass of a single shape.
Good lighting will make the kitchen bigger
Small narrow kitchens, in addition to the limited useful area, usually have one more serious drawback - low natural light, especially if the window is at the end of the room. In this case, when designing the design of a narrow kitchen, it is necessary to especially carefully work out the placement of lighting devices, and pay great attention to the good illumination of the working area. A sufficient amount of light is a visual expansion of the volume of the room, the convenience of the hostess, the guaranteed absence of minor household injuries.
The general lighting plan includes:
work area lighting;
interior lighting of the upper kitchen cabinets;
general overhead lighting;
local lighting of the dining area (a ceiling lamp or a three-dimensional wall sconce descending above the table).
The last point is very important - good lighting of the table where a family dinner is held, gives a little bit of bright sunshine to the home atmosphere, fills it with warmth and coziness. In addition, psychologists say that well-lit foods look more attractive, arouse appetite, and better disappear from plates.
When decorating a limited room or choosing fixtures, you should not get carried away with provocative details, it is better to choose a calm style design.
Several transparent pendant lights, as an option for overhead lighting, perfectly fulfill the necessary function, give a modern accent to the interior of a narrow kitchen, but will not burden a small space.Large-sized “Ilyich’s bulbs” or techno-fixtures may look especially interesting against the general background.
If the family had at their disposal a kitchen room that could not be called close to the square, but easier to characterize as long and elongated, then during the repair it becomes necessary to develop such a design of a narrow kitchen so that it would be convenient for the person responsible for cooking to work there, and the rest to gather at the table and receive the pleasure of communication. When designing, one should take into account all the norms of ergonomics, provide for the location of the necessary household appliances, cabinets, work surfaces, and expand the space with the design tools and make it harmonious.
Such a kitchen can be represented in two options: a narrow small room and an elongated, but significant in area. Each has its own secrets of design, selection of kitchen furniture, technical equipment.
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Small narrow kitchen
A small-sized kitchen is a legacy of post-war Soviet architecture, or a sign of modern urban planning based on saving the area of utility rooms in order to allocate more square meters to living space.
Also, a narrow kitchen can be designed for a house where the family has breakfast, lunch and dinner in a separate dining room, and the kitchen is purely utilitarian in nature, used only for cooking (often it is cooked not by the hostess, but by hired staff).
Meeting layout options:
Furniture placement options for various layouts
With the door opposite the window at the end and the sufficient length of the kitchen room, the most optimal design technique for a narrow kitchen will be the transverse division of space into two zones - work and dining. The design of the cooking zone is a parallel option for placing a kitchen set. The passage left between the working lines should allow moving along the route “refrigerator - sink - stove - countertop” during cooking and be sufficient to ensure free opening of the oven door, convenient use of floor cabinets, sliding drawers.
If the kitchen is stretched out in width and not in length, the main wall is occupied by a window, and the door is in the middle of the opposite wall, then the area near the window should be given to the dining group, and the narrow ends should be taken up with work surfaces with appliances. One side will contain a refrigerator and a sink connected by a worktop, the other a stove with a surface for preparing products. Such a technique will allow you to adjust the elongation of the room, make the space close to a harmonious rectangle.
If the window opening cuts through the upper part of the wall (the third version of the layout), the space under it can be occupied by the worktop, cutting into it a sink, hob, and place a low refrigerator below. The dining area should be given a dull corner, providing good local lighting, and hung on the wall opposite the window kitchen cabinets of small depth to the ceiling, having arranged a voluminous place for storing kitchen utensils.
Inconvenient layout - the ability to apply imagination
The last three of the above planning options can be described as "minimal kitchen area." They are less common, and equipping them in such a way as to ensure ease of use is more difficult.
The kitchen, which has a balcony, leaves almost no opportunity to place a full dining and working area. However, having built a surface along a long wall and placed it under a window (combined with a window sill), you will get enough space for your culinary experiments.
Directly near the front door, it is better to use floor cabinets of reduced depth for convenient movement around the kitchen.The dining table of this option can be rolled out perpendicularly from under the countertop, provided for the rise of the panel covering the lower kitchen module, or mounted on a folding wall table on the opposite wall. The mobile dining group is complemented by comfortable folding chairs.
During the cooking process (moving along the countertop), the chairs are folded and hung on decorative wall hooks to eliminate possible inconvenience, or are pushed inside a special niche under the work surface.
A very narrow space of the kitchen (less than 2 m wide) implies a single-line placement of the kitchen set, folding dining furniture. To reduce the width of the countertops, you should use mini-format household appliances, kitchen modules of reduced dimensions.
The kitchen-pencil case involves only the working process of cooking. When arranging it, it is proposed:
Large elongated kitchen
Such a large area is found in country houses, where the kitchen and dining area is allocated a part comparable to the scale of the living room.
Design techniques for a narrow volumetric kitchen suggest:
Design a narrow space: the choice of color, texture, decor
When choosing a color scheme for a small, elongated space, one should adhere to the axiom “white - expands, dark - reduces”. The monochrome nature of the kitchen does not make it boring, you can add mood by including several bright accents, the main thing is to observe the measure and the rule of laconicism: "If you can do without something, it is better to do without it."
In the “all white” version, the furniture dissolves in the walls, plays the role of one whole with them
Against the background of light walls, painted kitchen facades (light green, blue, sand, peach) harmoniously look
Reflective materials can be used for the apron - glossy tiles, chrome-plated plane, glass
When choosing a floor covering, you should take into account its tonal combination with a countertop
Instead of the usual curtains that reduce space, it is more practical to install roller blinds
Window sill - a place for a beautiful flower or aromatic greens, plants will revitalize the kitchen, make it cozy
The interior of a narrow kitchen should be thought out, combine only the most necessary, excluding the fragmentation of space by small elements.Filling the shelves of the headset with collections of miniature objects of various colors, the use of alternating colorful spots of decor, bright geometric ornaments will be inappropriate, the room will become even more compressed. If the walls provide for the installation of open shelves, then it is better to expose one-color sets of tableware or serving glass of a single shape.
Good lighting will make the kitchen bigger
Small narrow kitchens, in addition to the limited useful area, usually have one more serious drawback - low natural light, especially if the window is at the end of the room. In this case, when designing the design of a narrow kitchen, it is necessary to especially carefully work out the placement of lighting devices, and pay great attention to the good illumination of the working area. A sufficient amount of light is a visual expansion of the volume of the room, the convenience of the hostess, the guaranteed absence of minor household injuries.
The general lighting plan includes:
The last point is very important - good lighting of the table where a family dinner is held, gives a little bit of bright sunshine to the home atmosphere, fills it with warmth and coziness. In addition, psychologists say that well-lit foods look more attractive, arouse appetite, and better disappear from plates.
Several transparent pendant lights, as an option for overhead lighting, perfectly fulfill the necessary function, give a modern accent to the interior of a narrow kitchen, but will not burden a small space.Large-sized “Ilyich’s bulbs” or techno-fixtures may look especially interesting against the general background.