Zoning the kitchen and living room (41 photos): popular ways

  • Dec 20, 2020
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Content

  • 1 Zoning as a design move
  • 2 Methods and techniques
    • 2.1 Bar counter
    • 2.2 Arch
  • 3 Furniture items
    • 3.1 Podiums
    • 3.2 Shine
  • 4 Conclusion

More and more often you can find kitchens combined with living rooms in modern apartments. Indeed, today's trends and styles of interior projects are increasingly exploiting this design move, dictated by Western fashion and the wishes of customers. But let's not judge, we will discuss. And advise.

What is the best way to arrange the zoning of the living room and kitchen, if the capital construction funds are already running out, and the artistic and architectural arsenal of our imagination was spent on major repairs and requires replenishment with fresh ideas? Do not despair: we will nourish with ideas, warm with advice, inspire with examples!

zoning of the kitchen and living room

Combinations of zoning methods give remarkable results.

Zoning as a design move

zoning of the living room and kitchen

Use the features of the layout of the apartment.

Since you have decided combine the living room with the kitchen, which means that you are a modern person and do not worry about traditions. Continue in the same spirit: you live in this apartment, so listen only to your own considerations.

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Design is an area of ​​artistic thought, which means that you should free yourself from templates and generally accepted cliches, listen to yourself and understand what kind of interior you really like.

But it's also not worth inventing a mousetrap, the old one is quite deadly for the insidious inhabitants of the underground, so we we will give you some ideas and a general direction for the flow of pure creativity of our own essays. So, get ready to listen, let's go.

Important!
This part of the text was written not to entertain the reader, but with only one purpose: to awaken a creative fervor and reduce the level of dependence on stereotypes.
If you come up with a zoning method that is not in this or any other article, then we were not trying in vain!

Methods and techniques

how to separate the kitchen area from the living room

The most unpredictable details sometimes cope with the task of differentiation.

Bar counter

living room kitchen zoning

The bar is the alpha and omega of kitchen zoning.

Using kitchen bar as a dividing element - this is perhaps the most common way to separate the kitchen area from the living room. However, this is not a consequence of a lack of fantasy or a desire for imitation at the level of lower primates. No.

The use of this element is due to its convenience and a host of other reasons:

  • The material for the rack is most often the wall, which is dismantled, so the benefits are obvious;
  • The counter performs many useful functions: it is both a table and a counter for transferring dishes during holidays, and a good workbench, and a place for a TV during a family cinema, and an additional countertop;
  • This is a piece of wall that actually separates the kitchen area from the living room, as opposed to lighting ceiling levels or flower pots;
  • It can be used for its intended purpose - for drinking beer on high chairs with the company of serious men;
  • From the side of the kitchen it can be equipped with shelves and other useful accessories;
  • It's stylish after all, especially if you're a fan of Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone, listen to Motörhead and like to feel like the dangerous type;
  • The rack can be turned into a kind of rack, then it will perform another important function;
  • Do-it-yourself bar counter.
living room kitchen zoning

The rack can take various forms and perform additional functions.

Advice!
Bar counters are often used in apartments with modest spatial capabilities, since they do not take up much space, while doing an excellent job of separating the kitchen area.

Arch

The arch allows you to play with gothic elements and retro classics.

  • Another way of rational use of the wall sentenced to annihilation. Instead of total dismantling, this part gets an unexpected reincarnation in the form of a stylish architectural form of life - a stylized arch.
  • Competent thoughtful decoration transforms nondescript ruins into a familiar arched doorway of the era Knights Templar, and a wrought-iron chandelier-candlestick complements the sacred crucifix, under the shadow of which rest especially sweet.
  • A powerful U-shaped sofa completes the zoning of the kitchen-living room, and relaxed guests forget about the transience and irreversibility of the river called Life. And only satisfied owners send each other smiles, the meaning of which is clear only to them.
  • During dismantling work, you can show your imagination and leave some parts of the old wall, so that later you can recreate the unique original forms inherent in different historical eras.
  • You can also move away from standard forms altogether and surprise your friends with something unprecedented and original. Why not? You are the creator of your home, down with the rules!

Weightlessness of the laws of architecture and the design of the future.

How long can you tolerate the consequences of the square-nested way of thinking of Soviet designers and graduates of art-industrial universities? Why is the word “zoning” itself still associated with the transformation of a place into a special purpose institution?

Load-bearing walls and imagination limit you.

That's all, let's not talk about the symptoms of diseases. With the help of arches, you can create wonderful interior compositions. Moreover, the price of such beauty depends on your hands, because the instrument can be rented and sculpted! For a start - an instruction, but when you feel that "gone", do not stop! The main thing is to feel the dimensions of your apartment ...

Notice the zoning is complemented by a podium and floor covering.

Furniture items

The zoning of the living room-kitchen with the help of pieces of furniture can be considered, if not the main one, then at least one of the style-forming methods.

Decisively, strictly, nothing more.

As you can see in the photo, the zoning of the kitchen-living room was done using just one element: a media panel mounted in a small false wall. The floor and ceiling remained intact. Such minimalism is not the fruit of the owner's stinginess, which can be easily identified by expensive furniture and fittings. This is an example of sufficient, if necessary.

The sofa plays the role of a barrier in the literal and figurative sense.

The separator can be used:

  1. A sofa, preferably large and powerful.
  2. Cabinet with shelves for dishes, spices, culinary literature or jars.
  3. Rack with plants: flowers, cacti, bindweed or other representatives of the plant and even animal world. A terrarium with carnivorous pythons (with a certain entourage) will look very nice.
  4. Rack with souvenirs: rare things brought from different countries, dried and covered with special varnish insects and reptiles, skulls of fossil animals, rare fish and other inhabitants of our beautiful planets.
  5. Design techniques: podiums, suspended ceilings with zoning, special lighting, different floor finishes in the living room and kitchen, the same applies to the walls.

Advice!
We have just listed the popular zoning methods, which in no way should limit you. Think, create, implement the most daring ideas!

Podiums

The podium as a means of zoning space.

Let this be my personal opinion, but I managed to walk up the steps even at the entrance. No wonder, by the way, the elevator was invented for these purposes. I wonder when they will offer the installation of an elevator to the podium as a bonus? What about wheelchairs? The poor fellow will die of hunger!

And if it's no joke, with the help of a small podium, you can emphasize the kitchen area. Often this technique is duplicated using a false ceiling.

The podium is doubled with a false ceiling for greater expressiveness.

Shine

The kitchen lighting kind of hints to us where the work area is.

It is clear that the lighting of the working area should be somewhat brighter than the rooms for eating, sorry, the dining room. You can't carry a fork past your mouth, but you can easily cut your finger, not to mention sugar instead of salt and similar culinary blunders.

To illuminate kitchens, point zonal directional lighting is used, while a common chandelier is enough for the living room.

Well, visually, each zone stands out, especially since there is a bar counter, a podium (with or without an elevator), an arch, and the walls are painted with different colors. Really. And in the kitchen, the floor is tiled, as well as the walls.

Most often, several methods are used at once or, if you like, zoning techniques. Floor tiles are a fight against moisture and dirt, wall covering can also be viewed from this point of view.

The rest is at the discretion of the landlord, although the bar is still good. Ok, I'm quiet. Decide for yourself.

Conclusion

To visually separate the zones of the combined kitchen-living rooms, various methods are used, and most often their combinations. It serves for decorative and aesthetic purposes, and partly for operational and functional.

The best option would be to combine these properties into one beautiful and well thought out elegant solution. You can clearly imagine the possible options for such an arrangement in the video at the end of the article.














If the area of ​​the apartment allows, three zones can be distinguished at once: cooking, dining and relaxation

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