Planning and repairing a small kitchen

• What can and should be done during the repair process?
• Repair of floors
• Repair of walls
• Repair of ceiling
• How to get permission for redevelopment?
• Repair with integration with living room or balcony on the example of 3 apartments
• Repair with changing walls and entrances
• Repair with optimization of space: niche, window sill, gas boiler and communicationsOnly modern overall new buildings can please their owners with the scale of the premises and a spacious kitchen as well. In the houses of the old stock, "Khrushchev", model serial houses 1950-2000.In most cases, this room has a very modest size of up to 10 square meters.m, and often even 4 or 5 square meters. The height of the ceilings in these houses is most often 2.4-2.75 m. The owners of “Stalinok” were more fortunate - the kitchens in them have an area of ​​up to 15 square meters.m and a height of up to 3.5 m.

  In addition, such houses often have their own design features. Particularly specific houses are old pre-revolutionary buildings, in which partitions and beams are often made of wood and need strengthening, and "Khrushchev-houses", with their thin walls of 40 mm, poor hydro, thermal, sound insulation and gas columns.

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  Therefore, repairing a small kitchen in a new building does not cause obvious difficulties - after all, you need not only to make a beautiful design, but also to insulate, upgrade, replace, reschedule, move, demolish, build. ..is not always true. After all, often to save space, you need to use non-standard ideas and customized solutions "to order."In this case, the best way to save money is to do most of the work yourself.

  But do not be intimidated ahead of time and do not lose enthusiasm, because you have a big, sometimes nervous and, nevertheless, very interesting work.

  Let you be inspired by large windows or a beautiful view from them, the presence of a loggia, a nonstandard niche, the location of the kitchen on the sunny side or just that this is your favorite home.

  
  

  What can and should be done in the repair process?

  In the process of overhauling or redecorating a small kitchen, you can / should:

  1. Strengthen, align and trim partitions;
  2. Demolish and / or erect walls;
  3. Install sliding doors;
  4. Align and re-trim the floor and ceiling;
  5. Align the window openings, widen / narrow / redo the windowsills in the worktop, insert new windows if they are not already there;
  6. Strengthen, insulate and soundproof walls and floors if necessary;
  7. Run the wiring again;
  8. Replace battery;
  9. Replace / move / hide / beat all communications in the interior: old pipes, gas pipeline, geyser, ventilation box.

  In this case, the main task in repairing a small kitchen is to preserve and optimize its space as much as possible.

  To make repairs in a small kitchen, you need to go through the steps in the following sequence:

  1. Generating ideas, drafting a project, planning;
  2. Selection and purchase of building / finishing materials;
  3. Dismantling of old coatings from the walls, ceiling and floor;
  4. Redevelopment with demolition / walling / arch building, etc.;
  5. Preparatory work: leveling the floor( creating a new screed), installation of electrical wiring, sewer and water pipes, leveling walls with putty, primer ceiling and walls;
  6. Finishing - decorating the ceiling, creating a kitchen apron, wallpapering walls, installing switches and sockets, installing flooring.
  7. Furniture assembly and installation of sanitary appliances and household appliances.

  Repair of floors

  • First you need to level the floor, it is better to make it with a thin layer of screed. Keep in mind that not every floor in a typical house will withstand a thick and heavy layer of cement-sand leveling coating. How to effectively level the floor in a small and low kitchen with the minimum thickness of the screed, see this video by Alexey Zemskov:
  • You can put on the floor: ceramic tile, porcelain stoneware, stone, commercial / semi-commercial type linoleum and moisture-proof laminate;
  • If the area of ​​the room exceeds 7 square meters.meters or repairs are made in the combined space, it is possible to divide the dining and work areas or kitchen and recreation areas. To do this, you need to make a combined floor covering combining different materials or the same material from different collections.

  Repair of walls

  In the process of repairing old walls often need to be leveled. How to do it, saving, as far as possible centimeters and even millimeters of small-sized kitchen?

  • The easiest and most effective method is alignment with beacons, but then the layer of plaster may be too thick. Therefore, drops up to 60 mm in partitions are better to level off with several layers of starting putty.

  If the wall acts locally in one place, but in general it is straight, then in order to save costs and precious centimeters, you can simply beat off the ledge with a punch and then trim the wall with a putty.

  

  • Can be sheathed walls with thin sheets of drywall. If you want to insulate and soundproof the kitchen, re-pave and hide the communications, then you need to install the plasterboard sheets on the frame, but this way you will significantly reduce the kitchen. Therefore, in order to save space, it is better to put gypsum plaster on glue, after having previously cleaned and primed the walls. Perhaps this method can be called optimal;
  • If you decide to demolish and erect concrete walls, then get ready for tedious, noisy and very dusty work, preferably with at least 2 assistants, and better entrust this part of the work to the repair team. How to do this, see the video:
  • But to build a wall of plasterboard on a metal frame and you can do it yourself;
  • If you live in the house of an old foundation or “Khrushchev”, you need to find out what the walls in the apartment are made of. The walls of wood should not just be leveled, but reinforced with metal corners and trimmed with a reinforcing mesh;
  • As for finishing, the kitchen often uses washable vinyl wallpaper on non-woven base, but you can also paint the walls with water-based paint for rooms with high humidity;
  • For the decoration of the apron, most of them choose ceramic tiles, mosaics or glass panels - wear-resistant and durable materials with increased moisture resistance and the possibility of easy washing.

  Wallpaper for a small kitchen is desirable light colors, but if you want to add colors and brightness to the interior, do not reject this idea and only decorate one wall with colored or photo wallpapers, thus highlighting the food intake area.

  Repair of the ceiling

  Repair in a small kitchen necessarily includes finishing the ceiling according to its height and size.

  • If your apartment has a height of more than 2.7 m, then in principle you can choose any suspended ceiling: plasterboard, stretch, batten, wagon. In addition, you can additionally insulate and soundproof ceilings. Even a small decor is admissible - a sculpted rosette, ceiling moldings and decorative beams, such as in this design project, which was implemented in a two-room apartment in Volgograd:
  
  
  • kitchen, in this case, the best option - stretch ceilings, which are not afraid of flooding and with proper operation will last up to 20 years. And most importantly - they are quickly and easily installed, while “eating” a minimum of height;
  
  • When repairing the ceiling, you can use new wiring and install lights, for example, spotlights in the working area, and hang a beautiful chandelier above the table;
  • Whatever ceiling you install, do not forget to remove the old finish and prime the base with an antifungal primer of deep penetration. And if the mold has already arisen - get rid of it immediately.

  See also material: How to equip a kitchen of 6 square meters.meters

  How to get permission to redevelop?

  The path to a beautiful kitchen with redevelopment is through BTI, housing inspections or OSBB, treat this issue with understanding, have patience and go through the following steps:

  1. Go to BTI for the technical passport of your apartment;
  2. In the received technical passport we draw a sketch of the redevelopment and return it for approval to the city housing inspection. Keep in mind that the bearing walls can not be demolished;
  3. Then we wait for official permission and we begin repair.

  There is a second way to quickly and easily determine the option of redevelopment. In the housing inspection and on the Internet, there are catalogs of model projects in which you can find a suitable and authorized scheme for the redevelopment of apartments for a house of any series. In this case, permission to work is not required. However, after the completion of the repair, the housing inspection is obliged to check and approve the results of the redevelopment.

  Renovation with a union with a living room or a balcony on the example of 3 apartments

  

  

  Here is an example of a successful reorganization, repair and design of a small apartment with a combined kitchen and living room. The author of the project is a young designer Maria Dadiani.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  And here is an example of combining a narrow kitchen with a living room in an old foundation house with a ceiling height of 2.7 m in St. Petersburg.

  

  
  
  
  
  

  Combining with a balcony is also a great way to increase the kitchen by a couple of square meters, you get a kitchen, as if with a bay window. But such redevelopment is not acceptable in all homes. This is how a rather large kitchen was converted by a square meter of 12 sq. M.m with an adjacent semicircular loggia of 2.5 square meters.m and parallel arrangement of furniture.

  
  

  Repair and arrangement has not yet been completed, but it is already clear that the kitchen will be very functional and well thought out.

  

  It is forbidden to carry the batteries to the balcony, so the owners installed a warm floor in this area.

  

  Pay attention to the good location of the refrigerator - it is close to both working and dining areas.

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  See related material: Kitchen 7 sq. M.meters in 9 steps.

  Repair with changing walls and entrancesprofiles or channels;

• Replace the usual doorway on the arched;
• Install a sliding system instead of a regular swing door.

Let's start in order and consider an example of a very successful unification of a small kitchen( 10 sq. M) from the living room, which is shared by a built small partition - a plasterboard bar counter. The owners of this bright Scandinavian-style apartment live in Belarus.

Combining the two rooms, the entrance to the kitchen can be simply transferred and closed by a sliding door in the style of the wardrobe, that is, on the guide profiles installed on top and bottom. As it was done by Elizabeth and Vitaly in their bright Provence-style kitchen with just 5.7 square meters.m.

There is another way to visually enlarge the kitchen - by creating an arch. The arched opening instead of the door looks very cool in the kitchens in a classic style, country, shebbi chic, Provence. Here is an example of repairing a small kitchen with a wide arch, St. Petersburg.

Repair with optimization of space: niche, window sill, gas water heater and communications

Kitchen can be enlarged not only at the expense of the living room, but also at the expense of the adjacent bathroom or hallway, forming a plasterboard niche for a refrigerator or cupboard with a built-in oven and microwave. Here is an example of a small combined kitchen in an ordinary Khrushchev with a niche for a refrigerator.

There is another idea how to optimize kitchen space to the maximum in the process of repairing a small kitchen, if its size is less than 6 square meters.metersThe window sill can be used as a cutting table - for this it is replaced with a tabletop, and a small locker is placed near the radiator. It is clear that in this case, the furniture will have to produce yourself or order on an individual project. In the place of the window sill you can also make a sink - for this you will have to provide a box under it, in which communications will be hidden. An example of such alterations look at the photo below.

But how to make repairs in the kitchen with a gas water heater and pipes? How to refine the interior with communications?

Keep in mind that:

• It is impossible to transfer a column from the kitchen to the bathroom, but vice versa - it is possible, but only after coordination with the gas workers;
• You can move the column to the hallway, but not in every case, since the transfer conditions must meet certain requirements. The easiest way to coordinate the transfer of the water heater at a distance of 1.5 meters from the "native" place;
• It is also undesirable to hide gas equipment in the closet, because there must be space around the column filled with air. Often, the owners “embed” the column into the cabinet without bottom and top, as well as with indents from the front and sides. Inside, such a cabinet is sheathed / treated with fire resistant materials.

If you don’t want to go through the instances, but you need to make repairs, then the best solution is to accept and enter all communications into the interior or hide what can be hidden, but what remains to be seen can be decorated or simply updated.

Here is an interesting example of how gas and water pipes with a gas water heater can harmoniously fit into an ordinary small kitchen.

And here are the interiors of kitchens with a gas column and pipes.

See also material: Design and repair of a kitchen with a gas column.

But it's much easier to beat the window between the bathroom and the kitchen. The frame needs to be painted and the glass replaced, the main thing is to choose suitable colors and textures and then it will easily fit into the interior, such as in this Provence style kitchen. Designer: Elena Evteeva, design bureau "Remarh".

Designing a future kitchen in 3D - how to plan a design for a small-sized kitchen

Repair a small kitchen should begin with the drafting of the project. Generally speaking, for a visual increase in space, you need to use ideas that ensure the play of color and the expansion of space, and the functionality is ensured by the harmonious arrangement of the furniture.

That is why the repair in a small kitchen does not begin until all the nuances and trivialities are clarified on paper, but better in 3D visualization programs.

Since we decided to do all the repair work( or almost everything) with our own hands, we will create the design project ourselves. How can I do that? Here are the free programs in which you can create a photo-realistic project, while the principle of working in them is intuitive - even a beginner can figure it out:

• Planner 5D;
• Autodesk Homestyler;
• KitchenDraw;
• PRO100;
• Sweet Home 3D;
• Roomle( English).

So, the repair of a small-sized kitchen is planned in accordance with the following requirements:

1. Furniture planning and finishing of a small kitchen are carried out at one stage. Here it is necessary to provide for the place of installation of the plate and sink, which are tied to communications.
2. The gas stove must be placed within the gas hose of standard dimensions( it is undesirable to extend it).In the case of an electric stove, you also should not lengthen the electric cable, since it can overheat and not withstand increased loads.
3. When displacing the sink, care must be taken to hide the newly made pipeline.
4. Stove and sink are not located side by side - water should not fall on hot cooking surfaces. So what is the convenience for the hostess can turn into a vehicle breakdown.
5. The stove with gas burners should be located at least 30 cm from the window - this will not allow accidental draft to blow out the fire.
6. The length of the curtains is also taken into account - this is important for ensuring fire safety.
7. When planning repairs in a small kitchen, you should also not clutter the space above the hob with cabinets - it is better to use this area to place the hood, especially if it is a kitchen-living room.

What colors would be appropriate in a modestly sized room?

• The classic color scheme in bright colors visually increases the space and perfectly reflects the light. White color will always be relevant, but any pastel shade can be the basis - gray, blue, pale pink, beige.

White trim and baseboards are a great idea! After all, they are suitable for any style, any walls, floors and ceilings in absolutely any color.

• You can make repairs in a small kitchen and in bright colors - in this case, the facades of furniture, an apron or one wall will become an accent, but the prevailing color in the decoration / furniture should still be light.

Take a look at examples of kitchen design projects of 5.6.7 square meters.meters, some of them were implemented and some were not, however, they may inspire you to create your own kitchen interior design project.

The famous St. Petersburg designer Elzbety Chegarova’s project, implemented in Moscow in the usual Khrushchev fashion.

3-D small kitchen project in beige color by designers Anna and Dmitry Rims.

Small white kitchen with purple accents in the decor and textiles, which, if desired, you can easily change and then change the whole interior.

Here is an example of a monochrome white small kitchen. The refrigerator in this kitchen is hidden behind the cupboard with a built-in oven and microwave.

Designs of small kitchens in a classic style.

Modern small kitchens.

We hope that the ideas and tips from this article really helped you. We wish you patience and creative inspiration on this difficult but interesting way from dream to reality.

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