How to make your kitchen a comfortable 10 tips from the chef

Flatplan - is a service for creating interior design projects. Working on the project, Flatplan designers consult with experts: fitness trainer He knows how to make the apartment comfortable for sports, but experienced freelance - how to arrange the office. In a joint project, we seek the advice of experts from different fields.

This time, we asked the restaurateur William Lamberti talk about how to make a comfortable kitchen for cooking and relaxing.

1. Let in more light into the kitchen

Cooking in a dark room tedious. Your eyes quickly get tired, if you are in the dark will carve fish or rice to touch.

Well, if the kitchen in the large picture windows or a balcony. Do not close the windows with thick curtains and do not force a balcony shelves for jars of jam: the more light, the more it seems more spacious kitchen.

If in the kitchen a lot of sunlight, its size does not matter. It is good to cook, even if it's tiny.

To visually enlarge the kitchen with the help of artificial lighting, the work area on the ceiling hang spotlights. washing zone and cutting products can additionally illuminate via LED strip or individual lamps under cabinets.

2. Separate the cooking zone of the dining area

The most important thing - to arrange wash area, storage and cooking so that everything was on hand. Together, these zones constitute working triangle.

The ideal work triangle should be an isosceles triangle, with sides not less than one and a half meters. In life is rarely obtained, because in modern apartments are very different dishes.

• In small or long, narrow kitchen is recommended to the linear arrangement of the furniture. Between the zones of the triangle should be at least one empty table top.
• The L- and T-shaped kitchen sink is best placed in the corner, and the stove and refrigerator - on either side of her.

Even if you can not fit into your kitchen canonical work triangle, it is necessary to separate the cooking area from the dining. We should have a cooking area that can not be shared with family members who have decided to have a snack.

3. Make the kitchen convenient to communicate

All of the most important conversations take place in the kitchen. When you have a large family or often visit, you are sure to communicate during cooking. To maintain a dialogue with his back to the other person uncomfortable.

If the area allows, place the front of the island or kitchen set the bar with the letter G. The small kitchen is located dining group is not in front of the kitchen furniture, and a little diagonally across from it.

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Now trending concept of "open kitchen". Make the kitchen as much as possible to view, to be able to chat and cook at the same time.

The dining table should be such that was comfortable for them to get together. It is important that everyone can see and hear each other. To this end, a better experience on the table round or oval. If long, then without sharp corners. Dining area is best to place the window.

4. Get rid of the cobwebs of wires

The modern kitchen a lot of devices. Refrigerator, oven, dishwasher, extractor, blender, coffee maker - everything is included in the network.

The kitchen is constantly used sharps and pours the water. Therefore unmade wires, adapters and carrying - is not only ugly, but also safe: you can trip over or get an electric shock.

Think about where they will switch, and where you put the kitchen appliances, better yet at the stage of planning. The number of sockets is always better to count with a stock and do them at different points in the workspace.

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When the socket is conveniently positioned, the wire will not intermingle and interfere. Here is a diagram that tells you exactly where to place the outlet in the kitchen.

If the number of extensions exceeds the limit, but there is no possibility Stroebe walls and make new outlet is going to spend in special boxes, or hide them in the plinth and cable channels on the wall.

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5. Avoid sharp corners

Imagine if you are carrying the heavy hot pot to the sink, stumble and strikes the sharp corner cabinet or countertop. If this angle is sharp, you can get seriously injured. Therefore it is better if all the corners are rounded off to the kitchen. Especially in hanging cabinets and shelves.

6. Consider storage system

The smaller the kitchen, the more rational it is necessary to use the area. All elements must be in harmony not only with each other but also be useful. At the stage of design concepts Consider the most convenient storage: where will lie utensils, and where - Spices and food.

The problem with the kitchen cluttered decides designed storage system.

You can make a functional kitchen apron, Hang him magnetic knife guide rails or to keep handy spices and small kitchen utensils and unload cases.

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Covers of pots and pans that are in cabinets occupy a lot of space, can be stored on the doors or the inner walls of the cabinets. At the same time they will all be on the mind - it is easier to find the right.

If you have a corner kitchen, then a so-called magic corner - design, which will help to increase the usable area of ​​the cabinet. Instead of conventional doors is better to choose withdrawable mechanisms.

7. Hang the kitchen clock

We used to watch the time on your smartphone, and clocks in many homes become part of the decor. But not in the kitchen when you have your hands and all around in agony, the smartphone is best to clean away. And not to overexpose the meringues in the oven and do not miss the boiling soup, hang in a prominent place a large clock with a second hand. So it will be convenient to pinpoint the right time according to the recipe and monitor how much time is left before the arrival of guests.

8. Create a kitchen that looks like you

If you love to cook cakes and flowered curtains and carved cabinets cause you tears of emotion, it is unlikely you will be comfortable in the kitchen in high-tech style. Most likely, your option - country or provence.

Interior - is part of the cooking process. Choose something in the environment that you feel as comfortable as possible.

Regardless of the style, try to avoid congested parts of facades and excessive eclecticism. Otherwise, even a purely tidied the kitchen will look cramped and cluttered.

Do not use a lot of colors. It is better to choose three shades (two close to each other and one contrast) and beat them the entire interior.

Before starting repair all looking magazines and Internet portals with examples of interiors. Sometimes it helps in the selection, but someone may confuse. Our customers, we offer go testWhich reveals the preferences of style and color.

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9. Equipping a kitchen, keep in mind the general style apartments

To the kitchen was cozy, its style should be in harmony with the appearance of the whole apartment as a whole. This does not mean that all the room you need to decorate the same material. It is enough to find some unifying decorative element.

10. If you are uncomfortable cook in the kitchen - not torture, and redo

You may be the most common cups and spoons, and instead of tablecloths - a bright oilcloth. Food from this there will be less tasty. But that cooking was a fun experience, the interior should be designed. Comfortable maybe even a small kitchen.

The main thing in the kitchen - comfort. Everything must be done so that cooking does not cause trouble, and at dinner you can rest and relax. Flatplan help you equip the kitchen so that it was comfortable to cook, eat and entertain guests. The price does not depend on the complexity of the project and the size of the apartment: up to 29 900 rubles you can get ready fletplan entire room with the drawings, estimates and tips for builders.

To start, you need to pass a short test on the site and choose a favorite from the interior of the proposed collection. Flatplan adapt it to suit your desires and particular apartment. Then come the designer, all measure, and in a week you will be in the hands of a detailed design project.

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