Kitchen living room: design photo, pros and cons, features

The combination of two rooms into one - spacious, in which you can place everything and leave space - has been used for a long time and is one of the modern solutions for housing. This is a good way to expand the space in apartments where there is a small kitchen or there is no way to make a fairly spacious living room. Sometimes it’s just a desire to follow modern trends and live in an apartment with lots of air.

When the rooms are merged (most often this is the kitchen combined with the next room), a part of the corridor, hallway or pantry can also get into the total area of ​​the kitchen-living room. The result of such a redevelopment is a room where everything that I wanted to put in my living room and kitchen is placed. And there will still be enough space for comfortable movement of the whole family and spending time together (photo of interior design at the end of the article).

In houses built recently, such a layout is assumed initially. Therefore, the design development of the interiors of the kitchen-living room is of interest not only for those who are tired of the cramped kitchenette and narrow corridors. Solving the problem of aesthetic and convenient placement of furniture and appliances, creating a single comfortable space is not an easy task. After all, it is important to make each area of ​​the room functional and useful, not only beautiful.

The kitchen-living room, which has its own style and harmoniously combines aesthetics and functionality, is the task that the apartment owners decide on their own or with the help of professionals.

If you combine the living room and kitchen together: advantages and disadvantages

A space with a minimum number of walls, in which individual zones flow into each other, together creating an atmosphere of comfort and beauty - this decision in creating the design of the kitchen-living room has its own advantages:

• a large space in which you can place everything, embody any idea and create a comfortable, modern room;
• when cooking dinner, you don’t have to squeeze between the refrigerator and the table;
• table setting for a meal is greatly facilitated, ceases to be a task that requires a solution, and turns into an aesthetic daily routine;
• a kitchen where there is enough room for everyone - without fuss and fuss;
• You can cook while chatting with family and watching children.

Of course, there are moments to come to terms with:

• kitchen odors that will have to be disposed of with the help of appropriate equipment, which will cost a fortune (powerful hoods with low noise level);
• you will need to get used to the fact that the kitchen is in the public domain, so you have to wash the dishes immediately and clean everything.

Of the tangible shortcomings, only these two can be called, but with the correct organization of work on ergonomics and the design of the kitchen-living room, they do not even notice them.

You will have to invest in creating effective ventilation, as well as pick up furniture that can be washed and cleaned periodically. All materials used in the interior should have surfaces that are insensitive to humidity and temperature fluctuations, especially if a lot of food is being prepared.

Organization of the space of the kitchen-dining room-living room in the apartment

The network presents a large number of projects for organizing a space with a multifunctional purpose, kitchen interiors there most. The authors of these solutions are usually foreign designers, their ideas are successfully used in our country. However, you need to consider a slightly different approach to family nutrition.

In Russia, many families prefer to cook on their own, from natural products. That is, the hostess will spend much more time in the kitchen, preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner. Ready meals or semi-finished products have not yet received wide distribution with us - perhaps because of their price or quality inferior to home cooking.

Therefore, thinking over the design, you should immediately take into account this moment - all materials for decoration, furniture should be selected with this in mind. The arrangement of interior items and equipment should be carried out according to strict rules. The kitchen-living room in a modern style is a combination of innovative technologies with color, softness and comfort. Everything should be thought out to the smallest detail.

Optimally, when each zone of the room has its own space - that is, it will take more than one design solution for the whole room, which houses the kitchen, dining room and living room, but two or three. In any case, it should be clearly separated from the rest of the interior - there are several ways to do this.

Isle

It is a module that includes several elements of the kitchen (more details). Used for barely intended, conditional division of the room into two. He does not completely block it. It can be approached from any direction, however, it is the border of two zones.

Each side can correspond to its part - from the side of the kitchen area to repeat its color, from the side of the living room to be a different color.

Peninsula

A module that is not self-contained, but is installed at one end to the wall. Using this element immediately solves the problem of visual separation of the kitchen-living room (photo), in addition, it is used for serving and small meals by a close company.

If hanging cabinets are placed above it, the kitchen area becomes almost completely separate, while maintaining a sense of unloaded. The peninsula is especially suitable for the kitchen-living room in the apartment is not the most spacious.

Ideas for its multifunctional use are not limited to anything. From the side of the living room it can be arranged as you like - equipped with shelves for books, place a storage system on it. From the kitchen side, you can fold the dishes in it or integrate elements of household appliances.

The peninsula is suitable if, for example, in an apartment building you cannot completely tear down the wall between the kitchen and the next room. In this case, part of the wall remains in the interior and is used to install the peninsula, and the doorway expands.

Partitions

Separation of two zones can be done with various partitions, screens. For example, in the kitchen combined with the living room, install a partition with a built-in fireplace. The fire can only be seen by those who spend time in the living room, or arranged so that it can be seen from two sides - the kitchen and the living room.

Canteen

If the kitchen and the living room are together, then the dining room can be the separator of the space of these two zones. Properly located table and chairs serve as an excellent border, the presence of this element allows you to use the area as efficiently and economically as possible, freeing up space for storage systems.

Upholstered furniture and carpets

From the side of the living room, a sofa, corner or linear armchairs can serve as an excellent separator of space. Emphasizes the border of the carpet on the floor. In the design, such furniture sets create cozy separate spaces in which it is convenient to communicate and spend time.

Levels

Separating zones using floor levels is effective if the ceiling is high and the room itself is spacious. The kitchen usually rises to a small podium, it can be emphasized by lighting.

For these purposes, a ceiling is also used - a multilevel suspended ceiling is created, together with a lighting system it will clearly outline the boundaries of the kitchen-living room.

Lighting

Thoughtful lighting It is an ideal zoning element in any version for any area. Each zone should have its own separate lighting, and organization options can be varied:

• traditional chandeliers, selected according to the task;
• spot lighting;
• ribbon lights;
• a combination of different methods.

Lighting elements can be placed both on the ceiling, which is always effective, and below. Wall lamps and cozy floor lamps do an excellent job.

You can use the lower surfaces of the hanging cabinets to place the fixtures - it is so convenient to illuminate the workplace.

Style colors

There are a few universal color gamut solutionsthat will make the room modern and aesthetic, in line with fashion trends.

For example, light colors are always relevant for the modern design of the kitchen-living room. For a small space, light shades with a predominance of white are suitable - even a small room will be visually enlarged.

It is also necessary to take into account the location of the room relative to the cardinal points - colors that can add light and space are relevant for the north side. The color scheme should not be monotonous - there should be color accents in the design that will attract attention and emphasize the general idea.

As for style, modern design allows not only strict reproduction of style moments in the interior, but also eclecticism, allowing you to do whatever you like - subject to a general harmony.

Uniform diversity - unifying elements

Despite the presence of two or three zones in the room, it should give the impression of a single whole. For this, finishing materials are used, which are used to design surfaces.

Ideally, if one style of walls, ceiling and floor is maintained throughout the room, because the interior of the kitchen and living room together is developed immediately. An exception may be a kitchen apron - it is made of especially durable materials that can be cleaned and washed.

However, do not forget that adhering to the same color when decorating the walls and ceiling, you can get a room with blurry borders. Therefore, even choosing white as the main color, one should remember the accents that will give shape to even one-color space.

It will be very cozy and warm in a room where white is combined with surfaces and interior items made of natural wood. Accents can also be indoor plants in beautiful bright pots, a bright carpet in the living room area.

The use of contrasts is always relevant - in this way you can create the original look of the room, guided only by your instinct and taste. Numerous examples posted on the network will help generate your own approach to the problem.

Especially when you consider that light and white shades can be combined with almost any color - including black.

Dark colors used correctly can expand the space. For example, the dark lower tier will make the ceiling visually higher.

Always relevant and fashionable warm colors: shades of beige, cream, sand colors. In the room, decorated in these colors, it is always bright and comfortable, light air.

You can solve the color problem by taking gray as the basis - the most neutral and universal hue. In the kitchen, it will be perfectly combined with metal surfaces and household appliances. To give comfort, you can use inclusions made of natural wood or the surface of warm colors. The problem of creating a color spot can be solved by one bright wall - in a large room it will be an accent. If the overall color scheme of the interior is in one color, the surfaces are solid, then this will add color and eliminate monotony.

On the wall can be a drawing or just beautiful wallpaper. Any option will help to achieve the goal - to give space certainty and form.

Photo: modern interior design of the kitchen combined with the living room

Of course, in addition to the design of the living room kitchen in the apartment, the owner of the house will have many worries. We'll have to redo the wiring, bring out enough power outlets for a multi-purpose room, take care of communications and ventilation. However, the result will pay off all the troubles - a spacious room in which it will be convenient to cook, gather with the whole family and receive guests.