Ideas for a small kitchen. Tips for decoration and photos

Not everyone can boast of having a spacious kitchen. And I want even a mini-kitchen to be beautiful and comfortable. This can be achieved by knowing some of the techniques that professional graphic designers use in their work. The design of a small kitchen area is an individual matter, and the concept of "small" is quite extensible - it can be 4–5 squares or 6–8 squares. Square or rectangle, the location of the door and window - all this affects the development of the layout. So you will have to try all the ideas for your kitchen.

General rules for the design of small rooms

Let's start by choosing a color scheme. For small spaces, it is advisable to use muted, desaturated colors. The lighter the decor, the more spacious the kitchen looks. The second tip for color schemes is no more than two colors. Bright multicolor will overload a small volume and will "crush". You won't stay in such a room for a long time, and if you consider that the housewives have to spend a lot of time in the kitchen, then she will be very tired. Therefore, we choose two unsaturated colors and try to squeeze everything out of them. Look at the photo.

The next secret concerns the type of paints and surfaces used. Furniture and wall coverings should be solid and glossy. At least a light semi-gloss is highly desirable. Light is reflected in surfaces, surrounding objects and space will visually expand.

It is advisable not to use patterns. If you really want to, then in a very limited amount and dim, but barely expressed. All contrasting combinations "eat up" the volume, which makes the area of ​​the room seem even smaller.

Window decoration

In a small kitchen, you will have to give up frills and multi-layer curtains. Ideal - Japanese, Roman or Roll curtains... In some interiors, blinds are suitable. If you really want to have a curtain, then only light and with a minimum of assemblies, but it is better to do without them. You can close the room from prying eyes with the same roller blinds.

Roller blinds on the window are a great solution

By color, everything is also 1 of the shades, present in the design or the right combination. If the kitchen turns out to be very monochromatic, you can hang a bright curtain on the window and put a couple of gizmos of the same color.

How to make the floor

It's about choosing a color, not a material. As you understand, you need to make the floor and the doors of the floor cabinets the same color. In this case, the boundary between the wall and the floor is lost, and even a very tiny kitchen is visually perceived as more spacious.

If this option does not particularly please you, you can choose the color of the flooring to match the countertop or the finish of the furniture set. Remember that the design requires the use of no more than two colors. So the choice is not very large, to make a very light floor or a little darker, but in the same scale. You see a dark floor to match the countertop in the photo above, and a light one in the photo below.

Light interior plus a couple of brown accents and the kitchen seems more spaciousth

Something like this, with the help of different textures and colors, you can make the room more voluminous.But the most difficult task is to arrange all kitchen appliances and furniture in a small space. Yes, so that it is comfortable and the interior is not overloaded. This task is solved by the competent arrangement of furniture in a small area.

Furniture for a small kitchen

Life is constantly overgrown with new gadgets. What used to be in the kitchen? Stove and refrigerator. Today, a microwave oven is almost mandatory added to them, often a washing machine is installed in the kitchen, those who do not like to wash the dishes and the dishwasher. And you also need an oven, and without a food processor, it's just nowhere. Plus a coffee grinder or coffee machine, multicooker, mixer, etc. And this is not a complete list. All this needs to be put somewhere, and so that it is convenient.

Little tricks

One of the options is to place the microwave and oven (if any) one above the other in a high cabinet, which is also called a pencil case. Drawers can be located below, in which other equipment will be stored, and above you can make a cabinet for dishes or equipment that are rarely used.

A tall pencil case can hold a lot of equipment

Any even the smallest area should be used. For example, there is often a distance of about 10 cm between the refrigerator and the wall. Well, how to use it? Make a drawer for spices or other small items.

You can even use a distance of 10 cm

To save space, cabinets can be made in mini-kitchens, the doors of which do not open to the sides, as we are used to, but slide up. These fittings are quite expensive, but they save a lot of space.

Furniture doors can open upwards

And in general, storage systems allow you to use every centimeter of the area. Of course, they cost money, because the compact mechanisms that provide this functionality provide the work.

Where to put the table

Often the room is so small that it is difficult to put a table. But there is also a solution here, and more than one. The easiest option, if there is a window sill and there is free access to it, is to make it part of the table. It will be necessary to order a worktop of a complex shape and install it in the place of the window sill. The result is a quite decent-sized table, at which two people can dine.

Moreover, it is not at all necessary that the surface of the window-sill table be at the same level as the working surfaces of kitchen cabinets. They can have different heights, and the resulting shelves can be used effectively.

Vertical drop can be used as shelves

The second option is a folding table device. It can be attached to the same window sill, make a retractable tabletop that slides out from under the table top. You can attach a folding tabletop to the free side edge of the desktop. In general, look at the circumstances. Several options in the photo gallery.

Sometimes it happens that there is a place, but by placing an ordinary table, we immediately "land" the entire interior. It becomes flat and uninteresting. The trouble is that the usual one will look heavy. And if in large areas this is balanced by massive furniture, then in a small kitchen, but simply cumbersome. In this case, look for tempered glass. Even if it is not completely transparent, it will not be heavy.

Glass furniture does not clutter up the space

Chairs

Avoiding bulky wooden chairs is good. Chairs and stools on chrome-plated metal tubes look easier (and weigh too). To save space, find one that folds on top of the other. When you don't need all the chairs, stack them up.

The design in the kitchen of a small area is made up of little things. It is they who form not only its external appearance, but are also responsible for the convenience and practicality.

Small kitchen design: photo ideas