Remodeling: kitchen-living room.

Free kitchen, not limited to the living area by doors and walls - today this design solution is the most popular. Its main goal is to increase space by combining several zones. Kitchen-living room is widely used both in the design of Khrushchev's, and in modern spacious apartments, cottages, lofts. It happens that the living room has a small dining room and a large adjoining room. In this case, you can move the wall, while reducing the area of the living room and increasing the size of the kitchen.

Kitchen-living room has many nuances associated with redevelopment. Therefore, the approach to alteration should be carefully and deliberately.

Unfortunately, this design solution has both positive sides and negative sides.

Pros of redevelopment.

• Space expands visually, and light sources increase, since there are now two windows on a single area.
• Convenience of the organization process during the celebrations. The hostess can simultaneously communicate with guests and set the table.
• This design variant is ideal for fans of noisy parties with a lot of guests. After all, in a small dining area can accommodate no more than six people, but the kitchen-living room will cope with this task perfectly.

Disadvantages of redevelopment.

• The smells that accompany the process of cooking will be distributed to the living room.
• Sounds resulting from the operation of household appliances will be heard outside the dining room.
• When combining a zone intended for cooking and rest rooms, it is necessary to understand that the kitchen and everything connected with it will always be in sight. That is why there should be maintained an ideal order.

Design

It is very important that the kitchen area, at least visually, be separated from the living room. This can be achieved through some methods.

- bar counter - the most popular way of zoning space. For this purpose, you can use a part of the wall, which once separated the kitchen and living room, turning it into a semi-partition. For finishing the bar, wooden panels, a facing stone or a laminate are used.

- A multi-level sex. This technique can be used in the presence of ceilings, sufficient height. This zoning involves raising the kitchen floor by 15 centimeters. Under the podium you can hide the wiring, pipes and other communications.

- Island. Performing the function of the bar, it is installed on the border of two zones.

- combination of floor coverings. In the kitchen, tiles are usually laid, and in the living room - parquet, laminate or carpet.

- a dining table with ceiling lights above it. The kitchen combined with the living room requires the orderliness of the space. This can be achieved by placing on the border of two zones a large table that visually divides the room into two parts.

- Demolition of the part of the wall that divided the two rooms, which will leave a wide opening. It can be arched or some other, more complex shape.

- The living room, combined with the kitchen, can be separated from each other by translucent partitions. They can be foldable or sliding. The use of partitions in the interior is very convenient, it allows, if necessary, to hide the kitchen area from the guests' eyes.

If you chose this design decision, you need to think in advance how your kitchen will look like a living room, and that it should be

Intending to make a redevelopment, you should get permission from the BTI. It is necessary to accidentally not tear down part of the bearing wall. Such seemingly, at first glance, detail, can cause dangerous consequences. Doing the redevelopment, remember that in no case can you carry kitchen utensils together in a living room with a stove, a sink, etc.