Kitchen design in "stalin" without hanging cabinets

Russia, Moscow region, Moscow+79041000555

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The owners of this apartment are Galina and Sergey. They lived abroad for a long time, but when a child appeared, they settled in a country house in their homeland in Belarus. During their stay abroad, the couple often came to their native capital, and stayed in this apartment. Now it has been renovated, and the apartment is rented daily. Writes an online magazine about Minsk CityDog.by

When the repair was planned, it was decided to do everything independently: from mulling over the interior to its implementation. Serious expenses were not planned at the same time, and it happened - a conceptual repair for only 15 thousand. Now the repair has undergone some changes. For example, instead of paintings depicting Spain, on the walls are pictures of a real estate agency through which this housing is rented out. However, the general idea remained the same.

The kitchen contains several functional areas at once: it is a dining room, a living room and even a bedroom, where you can relax with a book in your hands. This effect was achieved by abandoning wall cabinets cluttering up the space.

The weak link here is the window, which was not possible to replace during the repair.

The wiring is brought out intentionally. Instead of ditching the walls, they decided to decorate the wires. Sockets and switches were purchased in Spain and Italy, since domestic ones are not adapted for this type of wiring.

When it was time to finish the work surface in the kitchen, the owner was away, so I had to look for craftsmen from the outside. As you can see in the photo below, the tiles on the countertop are laid strictly in a checkerboard pattern, although it was originally planned to arrange it more randomly. Apparently, the masters misunderstood the idea of ​​the customer. Therefore, if possible, it is better to do everything yourself, since the image that exists in the head, no one can bring to life better than the owner himself.

Facades lower cabinets are made independently by the owner. The store bought ordinary doors, some of which were cut. But before everything turned out as I wanted, I had to redo it several times. But the result in the end came out very good.

Sofa for this kitchen was made to order. In the center is a table from the Soviet era, but it has been repainted and slightly renovated. A mirror bought in Vilnius fits perfectly into the overall picture of the interior.

On the ceiling are lanterns that were bought at the store. There were no drawings on them, they were added later. A ceramist helped in this difficult matter. Now each of them has a unique painting to the style of the overall design of the apartment.

The floor in all rooms was done independently. The effect of attrition was originally conceived. It was possible to achieve it as follows - a layer of paint was applied and rubbed, then another layer and so on until it was not possible to reach the desired result.

The biggest difficulty in repairing the kitchen caused the walls. I did not want to shoot down the old plaster and glue the wallpaper, so it was decided to paint the walls in one tone. But they applied not one, but several layers, while in different directions. This approach helped to achieve the effect. decorative plaster "Venetians."