Bar counter for a small kitchen (42 photos), a table for the living room with your own hands: instructions, photo and video lessons, price

Designing small spaces is a tricky issue. It is necessary to build on, first of all, on the dimensions of the room, and only then, take into account your wishes and possibilities.

However, if everything is properly distributed, then in a small kitchen you can create coziness and comfort. The owners of large kitchens will be jealous.

Where to get ideas from

Small kitchens with a bar are always the dream of the owners of small apartments, but they do not always work out. The obstacle is not money opportunities, but the lack of interesting ideas that could serve as the basis for the embodiment of desires.

To help find tips on where to get interesting design solutions, we have provided several sections as examples. We hope they can help you. Or look at the photo under the section, there are unusual bar tables for a small kitchen.

Children's kitchens

• Do not hesitate to stare at kitchen corners designed for children's play. First of all, they were created by designers who need to cram all kitchen appliances into a small space: oven, refrigerator, microwave and kettle.
• Take a closer look at how the designers solved various issues using appliances and kitchen cabinets.

• Children's kitchen sets have all the necessary elements: countertops, additional shelves, plinths, cornices, glass doors.
• Often you can choose a color scheme for your kitchen, looking at toys.

Roughly correlate the scale of the children's corner and your kitchen, add a few additional cabinets, and you will get a unique design of the headset.

Note! There is no bar counter in the small kitchen for children, but we can easily continue the existing design of the room on our own.

Read also about the use of semi-bar stools for the kitchen.

Kitchens in small rooms of hotels and bungalows

Also, your attention may be drawn to the design of a small kitchen in hotel complexes.

Often they install kitchens in 1–2 meters of living space so as not to embarrass guests.

• There are many options on the Internet how to make a kitchen like a hotel. It is best to consider foreign hotels.
• Many may have bar counters that are used as a dining area and a work table.

Bar counter in a small kitchen

However, the main problem cannot be solved with the help of an idea; a small bar counter for the kitchen remains a controversial and problematic option. So let's see how this moment is still bypassed by people with tiny kitchens.

Read also the article "Tiles in the kitchen: design and modern trends."

Using the rack as a dining and work surface

Consider the example of a kitchen of 5 square meters (2.2x2.3):

• First of all, divide the room conditionally into two zones: the first is where the household appliances and a sink are located, the second is the area for rest and eating.
• The entrance to the kitchen must be free, otherwise you will be uncomfortable. Try to make the most of one wall without creating L-shaped headsets.

Note! It is better to make the wall (top) cabinets more bulky so that everything that needs to be stored in the kitchen fits in them.

• In the recreation and eating area, on the wall where the window is, make a mark at a distance of 40-50 cm from the perpendicular wall. The beginning of the bar will be here. Approximately, this mark will be near the beginning of the windowsill.

• The next mark is where the table top ends. The bar counter in a small kitchen should not be wider than 40 cm, otherwise there will be difficulties with movement. The length of the product, preferably no more than half of the wall along which it is located.

If the space that you got for the working area is not enough for you, you can safely transfer the cooking to the bar counter, which is securely fixed. We will talk about how to attach the rack a little later.

Bar counter as an extension of the kitchen

There is another option when you have an L-shaped kitchen set:

• The countertop of the bar counter is mounted along the last floor cabinet, which is located near the entrance to the kitchen.

• The optimal length of the countertop should be chosen so that the drawers or doors under the bar can be easily opened.
• The height should be such that there is a distance between the bar and the kitchen countertop for any items.

Important! Such a bar table for a small kitchen will not accommodate a large number of people. At most two will sit down for him. This raises the problematic question of where the bar stools will be stored.

How to install a bar counter

You shouldn't have any problems with the workflow of installing a bar countertop. To facilitate this issue, we have compiled an instruction with a detailed description of all stages.

Tools

• Drill or hammer drill.
• Screwdriver.
• A hammer.
• Roulette.
• Building level.
• Hacksaw for metal.
• Bar countertop.
• Hardware.
• Fasteners for the bar pipe.
• Steel pipe with a diameter of 50 mm.
• The corners are L-shaped, the minimum size is 30x30 for a meter countertop.

Materials

Mounting

Work begins with markup:

• First of all, fixing elements for the pipe are attached to the tabletop.

Attention! If you will be using a floor / ceiling mount, then stock up on a double set of mounts and a pipe that will equal the height of the ceilings in the room. The price of the products will not greatly affect your budget, but the tabletop will be more reliable.

• Then install the L-shaped corners on the wall.
• A tabletop is placed on the corners, with a fixed pipe to the floor.
• The lower fastening is marked on the level and attached to the dowel-nails.

The following steps are necessary for those options where the bar pipe rests against the ceiling. As you can see, all this can be done by hand.

• Attach the fastener to the bar counter.
• Insert the chrome pipe into it and level it.

Note! The pipe size should be 1-1.5 cm less than the distance from the table top to the ceiling.

• Circle a circle on the ceiling, drill holes for self-tapping screws.
• Put the fastening ring on the pipe, reinsert it into the fastener fixed to the table top. Fix the upper edge with self-tapping screws.

A small kitchen with a bar counter is quite capable of existing if the space is used wisely.

Designers' tips

In this section, you can read several interesting and informative recommendations that will definitely help you make your kitchen more attractive and cozy:

• Give up stereotypical thinking. There are many interesting mechanisms in the furniture market that allow you to use a small space to the maximum.

• Replace your usual household appliances. Large electric ovens are bulky devices that perform all the same functions as a microwave oven with a grill or airfryer. Although there are more compact devices, for example, multicooker.
• The sink can be not only a place where dishes are washed, but also a work surface. For this, special lids are sold, installed on the bowl.
• A small kitchen-living room with a bar counter will look much more practical if the bar countertop divides the room. Use additional lights that delimit the kitchen with the seating area.

Well, to justify, so to speak, support for a small kitchen, I would like to add that with a competent room environment, it becomes the most practical than large kitchens. You will ask why? Because everything is always at hand, no unnecessary movements.

Conclusion

At the end of the article for everyone interested there is a video: bar counters for a small kitchen for individual projects. In it you will find a lot of interesting and informative information, you can also get acquainted visually with how to install the bar stock yourself.

Kitchen interior with a bar counter: a tribute to fashion or a step towards comfort

Gallery