Kitchen-living room 16 square meters (47 photos): DIY video instructions for installation, design, price, photo

Making a kitchen studio even on a fairly large area is already a rather difficult task in itself. Well, if you have at your disposal a relatively small room, for example - a kitchen - a living room of 16 sq m - then the complexity of such a task increases many times over.

And yet, even in a limited area, you can create a cozy room! The main thing is to carefully look around and notice suitable design finds...

Kitchen-living room of 16m2

Layout of a small kitchen studio

Features of the layout in a small area

Combining kitchen and living room in a single room, as a rule, has one goal - to get a more spacious room in which it will be convenient to cook and relax. However, in the case when both the kitchen has a small area and the living room does not differ in size, the resulting room may not be spacious enough.

That is why, before starting work on the reconstruction of your apartment, you should think very seriously - "is it worth the candle?" In other words, will we get a comfort gain as a result of the merger?

If you are satisfied with the answer, and as a result of calculations, a room with an area of ​​at least 16 m² - you can start redevelopment.

One of the layout options

Note!
Any changes to the apartment that affect its layout must be approved by the BTI.
If you turn to architects, then, as a rule, they will carry out the coordination, well, but if you decide to combine rooms with your own hands, you will have to run through the instances.

At the same time, the layout of a kitchen-studio in a small room has features that should be taken into account:

• First, the less furniture there is, the better.. If you do not plan to keep all the supplies right in the kitchen, feel free to refuse massive cabinets, leaving only the most necessary ones.
• Secondly, detached equipment takes up more space than built-in. By correctly choosing compact models of household appliances, you can assemble a kitchen set in a very limited area.
• Third, your main ally is the height of the room.. By "driving the whole environment" into a vertical position, we not only significantly save space, but also give kitchen modern style.
  In this case, of course, one should not forget about convenience: what is used more often should be placed at an accessible height.

We use the area to the maximum

Advice!
To find the best design, try to study as much as possible all available sources: magazines dedicated to interior design, specialized sites, videos on the web, etc. it is quite possible that any of the options offered to you like it!

Separating the kitchen and living room

If in large kitchen-studios the main problem is zoning, that is, delimiting the recreation area from cooking zones, then in the compact kitchen-living room, highlight the zones quite clearly practically impossible.

And yet there are several techniques that allow you to visually separate the kitchen from the living room:

Room zoning

• The easiest way is the differences in wall, floor and ceiling finishes. It is not difficult to lay a patch of tiles near the kitchen countertop - but it will clearly show where the border between the territories lies within the same room.
• In a small kitchen-living room, you probably shouldn't install a full-fledged bar counter - it will take too much meta.
  But it is quite possible to install a folding structure, combined, for example, with a window sill. Such bar counter in the kitchen-living room if necessary, it will serve as a kind of "marker" of the border, but at the same time it can be folded into a compact position.

Foldable bar counter

• Another way of separation - and, perhaps, optimal for a sixteen-meter kitchen-living room - is to install a dining table in the center of the room.
  It is advisable to make such a table folding - then it can be removed if necessary.

Note!
Not only a folding table, but any transformable furniture is suitable for such premises.
The main thing is that it unfolds easily, and when assembled does not take up much space. Therefore, if the price allows - feel free to purchase such designs!

Design tricks

Visually increase the area of ​​the kitchen-living room

So that the kitchen-living room does not seem very small, it is not enough to choose the interior items correctly.

There are several tricks that will visually increase the area of ​​this room:

Decorating the kitchen-living room in light colors

• The lighter the finish of our kitchen-living room, the more it will seem. This is why any design instruction advises: avoid dark colors in the finish, opt for beige, peach, light green, etc.
• Vertical lines on the wallpaper make the room taller, but narrow it down significantly. Therefore - if, of course, you do not want to visually "raise" the ceiling - it is better to refuse wallpaper with a vertical print.
• The more windows the better. Any window increases the area of ​​the room, therefore, if possible, plan the kitchen-living room so as to capture more windows. It's good if you manage to combine several windows into one.
• An additional plus will be joining a loggia to the living room, as shown in the photo. In this case, it will be necessary to qualitatively insulate its walls - but then we will get additional space!

Attached loggia

Kitchen-living room lighting

In order to further support the style of our kitchen-living room, it is necessary to choose the right lighting. Lighting fixtures should be positioned so that they provide uniform and sufficient illumination - both for the recreation area and for the kitchen.

Of course, it is fashionable to hang one sufficiently powerful chandelier - but this is hardly a good choice for a small room, since the bright light will interfere with those relaxing on the sofa in the living room.

Therefore, it is worth installing several lamps:

• General - for lighting the entire kitchen studio.
• Directional light - above the kitchen work surface and above the stove.
• Local lamp - near the armchair or sofa.

This gives us adjustable lighting that can work together or separately.

Lighting of the kitchen combined with the living room

Of course, developing a thoughtful and functional kitchen design - a living room of 16 sq m - is not such an easy task. But if you have already decided to combine these rooms, then you can cope with the problem of lack of space by following the recommendations given in the article.

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