All apartments in Khrushchev of any type and year of construction are distinguished by very small sizes. The area of kitchens in such houses is within 5-6-7 square meters. m. When they make repair of the kitchen in Khrushchev, the main leitmotif is rational to use each existing centimeter. And make it so that the interior is comfortable and beautiful. To fulfill this condition, it is necessary to correctly pick up the color palette and furniture.
Choose color and finishing materials
In small rooms for wall decoration, the bright tones are best used. They visually increase the volume, the situation is felt as "light". For walls in the kitchen there are several finish options:
- Wallpaper. Washing or not - your choice. Convenient and relatively inexpensive. About how to choose wallpaper for the kitchen, read here.
Wallpapers - one of the most popular types of kitchen finish
- Decorative plaster. It is perfectly clean, has a long service life, but it is expensive.
Decorative plaster has different textures and color
- Plastic panels. Using wall panels (non-ceiling) you can quickly update the walls, and get a flat surface, without binding to their alignment with plaster.
Plastic Wall Panels - Economy Option for Kitchen Repair in Khrushchev and not only
- Painting walls. Most often it is a waterfront with acrylic or silicone base. They can be washed many times, and their plus is that they also paint small cracks and are not very demanding in the quality of the painted surface.
Walls under painting need to be prepared carefully
The ceiling is also needed to do white or light and better - stretch glossy or semi-tensile. Due to the reflection of the light, it allows you to blur the boundaries between the walls and the ceiling. Two other popular options are just a smooth spacious ceiling or suspended calmer, but no worse. And if you make a plasterboard ceiling with backlight, it also adds the size of the volume.
Light furniture and white ceiling do not give the feeling of "loading" of a small space
For decoration floor, you can also use light color. It does not "load" the space that in a small kitchen in Khrushchev is far from superfluous. Indeed, on a small area you need to place the maximum of furniture.
Light floor creates a feeling of lightness of the interior
About the types and choice of kitchen apron read here.
What should be furniture
Kitchen set in Khrushchev make linear - along one wall or corner - putting the cabinets along two adjacent walls. At the same time, the furniture does not seem cumbersome, it can be done using light tones. A good modern option is two-color facades: the doors of floor cabinets and light-bottom are darker.
The bright facades are well "work" in the kitchens of up to 6-7 sq.m.
Good in small rooms look glass doors. They can be in a metal framing or completely without it, the result is one - light design. In the lower cabinets, the glass does not put, it is impractical, but in the upper it looks great - slightly challenges, scattering the light and drawing attention.
Glass doors - a way to make furniture more "easy"
In general, the organization of working surfaces in Kitchens in Khrushchev is a whole art. On one or two small walls it is necessary to place the stove, sink and refrigerator. The working surfaces that remain between them are clearly not enough. For such a case, the multi-level countertops came up.
Multi-level table tops - a way to increase the Catholicism of the Working Square
You can also make retractable countertops. In the folded state, they are hidden under the main working area, and if necessary, put forward. It turns out practical and convenient.
Retractable or folding countertops are convenient
Often it is necessary to put a dining table with chairs on such a small area. Since the passages remain very small, order or find a countertop with rounded corners. Bruises at the inhabitants of Khrushchev will be less. In the dinner table can also be folding additional part, which is extended from under the main one.
Another option is to buy a glass table. Such furniture even looks great on tiny kitchen. The glass is used tempered, so that with a careful handling it will not be anything. Another designer reception allowing to push the boundaries of the room and play with light - mirror surfaces. It can be a kitchen apron from a mirror or metallized tile, a real mirror on the wall (in the photo below).
Glass table - excellent solution
The chairs choose the lungs, which in the adjustment state do not clutter the space. There are such models that fold one to another. They are light and compact.
Read more about the rules for choosing kitchen garnings, read here.
Tricks that help save space
The biggest problem in the kitchen in Khrushchev - find a place for the refrigerator. Well, if there is a warmed balcony. This miracle of technology can stand there. And if not, it has to be sophisticated. If the inhabitants are a bit, a small refrigerator can be defined on the "second floor" - put on top to the floor end.
Put the refrigerator to the locker, taking place until the top
You also need to fully use the place in the cabinets. Best of all, various storage systems are coping with this. They cost a lot, but allow everything to streamline and organize space most conveniently.
There may be a problem with the placement of microwave: work surfaces and so few. It can also be raised higher by making the shelf in one of the cabinets without the door - just under the microwave.
Under the microwave make a special shelf
If you have wide window sills, and you do not plan to occupy them under work surfaces, kitchen appliances can be put there.
Windowsill - than not place for equipment
To fully use a few square meters of kitchen in Khrushchev, pay attention to the windowsill. Even in the panel houses with a very small thickness of the walls, it can be replaced by a tabletop. There are many options here, choose.
The windowsill smoothly flowing into the table
Very unusual location of the kitchen headset - on the wall with a window
Under the window made cabinets
Washing near the window - another non-standard solution
Even just a wide windowsill can be used as a place to store equipment.
Space under the windowsill is occupied by a cabinet
Another option of rational use of meta in the kitchen in Khrushchev
Making the kitchen repair in Khrushchev is not everyone is solved to close the heating radiators, which are usually located under the window. But not all today is heated by traditional radiators. There is a warm floor, there is a plinth heating. If desired, radiators can be transferred to another wall. Where they will not interfere. So this problem is solved, albeit with solid costs.
On all the intricacies of the organization of space in a small kitchen, read here.
Light and ventilation
The lighting in the kitchen requires multi-zone, especially in a small room. Usually make the backlight of the working surfaces, attaching the tubular lamps to the bottom of the upper cabinets. It is convenient and functionally.
Highlighting the working surface with lamps attached to the bottom of the mounted lockers
Separately illuminated the dining area. Several small lamps above the table look more organic than a big chandelier. She seems to emphasize the small sizes of the kitchen.
Lamps can be ceiling, but small
Doing the repair of the kitchen in Khrushchev do not forget about ventilation. So that in a small space it was comfortable to breathe and smells did not apply all over the apartment, good ventilation is needed. Previously, odors and excessive humidity went through the slots in the windows, the pairs went out through the walls - they were vapor permeable. Energy savings led to the fact that wooden windows change to plastic, and they are almost completely sealed, the walls are insulated outside the foam, which steam does not spend absolutely. Therefore, to ensure normal humidity in the apartment requires a good extract. It is usually connected to the available ventilation. If Ventkanals are not provided in the house, they conclude into the wall.
Powerful extract is needed for normal atmosphere
Repair order in the kitchen
Any more or less serious repairs begins with destruction. Clean the old furniture, remove the finish. Modern requirements for the quality of finishes are such that, in theory, it is necessary to knock down the plaster to the main wall, and then align them, plastering on the beacons.
Kitchen in Khrushchev is ready for repair
Replacing communications and engineering systems
But before the start of plastering, it is necessary to replace all communications and engineering systems. At this stage, they are replaced with wiring, supply wires to places where it is planned to put household appliances, including lamps. The electrical pipes are laid in the shoes - the grooves retired in the wall, which then shut the plaster mortar.
First make shoes in the walls for new wiring
Wires fit into them, install junction boxes
Be sure to change water and sewer pipes. If when repairing a kitchen in Khrushchev, you transfer the sink to another place, not to avoid. But even if it remains in the old place, it is necessary to change the pipes up to the insertion in the riser. At the same stage, heating radiators and pipes going to them can be changed if you plan such work.
How to change the mixer in the kitchen, read here.
Ceiling, walls, floor
After the communications are laid, the walls are aligned. To do this, plaster or plasterboard can be used (how to align the walls here). Kitchen apron mounted on aligned walls or decorative plaster is applied. (How to put a tile on the walls here).
Posted on a kitchen apron, laminate laminated
Then it is necessary to solve one of the main tasks - to put the ceiling in order. There are several options:
- Remove the old whitewash / painting and put off to an even state of painting;
- make suspended plasterboard ceilings;
- Order and install stretch ceilings.
Different options for finishing the ceiling suggest a different sequence of repair in the kitchen. If you are going to bleve or paint the ceilings, we need to put the ceiling together with the plaster walls. Plasterboard assembled before the start of the alignment of the walls, and the stretch is installed after the walls are aligned and all dirty works are finished. Sometimes even after the walls are finished.
Walls are aligned, plastered, ready for the installation of the stretch ceiling
Popular lateral floor. The apartments are the most convenient - electric heating. Under the tile it is more convenient to lay cable mats, under laminate or linoleum - carbon films. If there is an individual heating, you can make a water warm floor. Use for heating the floor centralized heating is prohibited. It has a very high hydraulic resistance and simply locks the movement of the coolant for the riser. Also, with a warm floor, the water goes almost cold and the neighbors will freeze.
When all construction works are finished, collect kitchen set
The floor in the kitchen usually put a tile or a good quality laminate. Economy option - linoleum. Under any type of coating requires a surface with a height drops of no more than 5 mm per square meter. With large drops, it is required to align. The most common option is a device of a concrete screed. The minimum thickness is 3 cm. With such a thickness, it will not crack. Just keep in mind that not in all Khrushchev can pour out the usual concrete. The houses were built a long time ago and the bearing ability of the walls may be insufficient. You need to clarify the operational organization, what is the safety of the strength of your home. If a heavy concrete weighs too much, you can pour a lightweight concrete or make a dry tie - on the floor, the ceramzite of the shallow fraction is put on the floor, there are two layers of plasterboard.
Latest strokes - kitchen table, chairs and a sofa. Kitchen repair in Khrushchev is over
After the floor is made, the final stage occurs in the walls of the walls, if the wallpaper is selected for this. How to glue the wallpaper right here. The last stage of repair of the kitchen in Khrushchev - installation of sockets, switches. At this stage, furniture is brought and installed it. We can assume that the repair of the kitchen in Khrushchev is over.
Photo ideas of repair kitchen in Khrushchev
If two people live in Khrushchev, such a small table is enough
Very bright and very easy to get a kitchen
So that the place between the wall and the refrigerator is not empty, you can make a special retractable shelf there.
Cream and cream design is nice for the eyes and absolutely not annoying
When designing the kitchen, the main thing - do not overdo the color accents. They should be a little
If it is decided to make facades bright, all other colors are neutral
Sine-steel gamma is almost a classic. It will be good in the kitchen overlooking the south
Fashionable modern style - strict lines without frills
White kitchen with small black accents - always relevant
Beige-brown gamma - another traditional option for small kitchens (the cabinet on the right is a refrigerator, and under it - a box for vegetables)
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