A spacious kitchen with a dining room where you can gather all the household members for a family dinner is the dream of every housewife. However, modern apartments cannot boast of impressive size and a sufficient number of rooms. It is for owners of small apartments that designers offer an interesting solution - to combine these two rooms. The interior of the living room, combined with the kitchen, allows not only to increase the space of the guest room, but also to get a convenient and multifunctional room for cooking.
One of the main advantages of such a redevelopment is that instead of two tiny rooms you get one - spacious and bright. A well-equipped interior of the living room combined with the kitchen offers family gatherings, ceremonial meetings with friends and dinner parties. Now, in order to cook food, you do not have to leave guests alone. Table setting is also simplified. Now you do not need to run from the room to the kitchen for every dish. In the combined kitchen you can, without interrupting the preparation of festive dishes, look after, by the way, young children.
However, such a redevelopment has its drawbacks. So, when combining rooms, you actually lose one room, and your apartment from a "two-room apartment" turns into a one-room apartment. If your apartment had one room initially, be prepared for the fact that the interior of the living room combined with the kitchen will necessarily require a powerful hood. Otherwise, the entire flavor of the prepared food will spread throughout the room. Also, the combined living room needs to be kept in perfect cleanliness, which means you will have to abandon carpets and bedspreads in bright colors. Leaving dirty dishes in the sink overnight is also unlikely to work.
The design of the room, combined with the kitchen, requires the complete merger of the two spaces. This means that both rooms should, if not harmonize, then complement each other. Organizing a competent interior of the kitchen-living room (photo is located below), designers apply several options for dividing the space and zoning the room.
Tiered floor
This technique allows you to hide unnecessary communications and looks very impressive. However, it should be remembered that the difference in level heights should not be more than 15 centimeters.
Bar counter
The interior of the living room, combined with the kitchen, where the counter plays the role of the partition, is suitable for young carefree people who often use their apartment for friendly parties. The stand can be either attached to a part of the wall, or freestanding.
Combination of finishing materials
Zoning the room is possible by combining various floor coverings. For example, the kitchen area can be tiled, while the recreation area involves finishing with laminate or carpet.
Also, you can visually delimit a room using translucent sliding partitions or furniture. For example, it can be a large table with lamps hanging low above it.
Before organizing the interior of the living room combined with the kitchen and re-planning the premises, it is necessary to contact the appropriate authorities in order to obtain permission to demolish a fragment or an entire part of the wall. This is done in order not to inadvertently dismantle the load-bearing wall of the building, which can lead to its complete destruction.