Kitchen combined with a hallway: 14 design tips, help on redevelopment, 40 photos

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14 tips on arranging the kitchen, equipped in the hallway, and the kitchen, combined with the hallway

The kitchen hallway can be formed as a result of redevelopment or be such initially. The latter option is sometimes found in studios, private houses, apartments with open or free planning. Such a non-standard solution has its pros and cons:

Pros: an increase in living space in the apartment (with full transfer of the kitchen to the corridor) or living space in the kitchen (with partial / complete demolition of the interior partition). Another plus is the convenience of loading and unloading products, taking out garbage.
Minuses: when the kitchen is completely transferred to the corridor, the room becomes cramped and narrow, so instead of a dining table, the bar counter is most often used, and a full-fledged dining area is set up in another room, such as a living room. Other cons of the hallway kitchen:

The need to carry out more cleaning;
The spread of culinary odors in all adjacent rooms;
In the kitchen through passage, cooking and moving around the house becomes uncomfortable and even unsafe;
Often there is not enough natural lighting in the kitchen;
The process of transferring engineering communications and the demolition of the walls is bureaucratic and technically complex and costly.

Anyway, the benefit of such redevelopment is often worth all the difficulties. Moreover, with careful planning, the disadvantages of the combined space can be minimized. From this material you will learn how to equip the kitchen-hallway / kitchen combined with a corridor, and in what cases redevelopment is permissible, as well as draw interesting design ideas from a selection of 40 interior photos.

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Moving the kitchen to the corridor in the apartments with a standard layout, whether in Khrushchev or a new building, it is quite possible, but, unfortunately, not always and only under certain conditions:

Coordination of the redevelopment project with the architect of the house and all local housing inspections. Otherwise, the apartment owner will be obliged to return everything to its original form and pay a fine.
In order for the redevelopment project to be approved, it is necessary that the apartment on the floor below under the future kitchen hallway does not have a living room or a gasified kitchen.
In the apartment on the top floor above the place where you want to equip the kitchen, there should not be a bathroom or toilet.
The kitchen-hallway should have a window (at least in the adjacent room) so that enough daylight can penetrate it and it can be aired.

It is neither possible to combine the gasified kitchen, nor to move it into the corridor, since it must be isolated from the other rooms with full partitions. Even arched and open doorways are unacceptable.
You can only demolish notload-bearing walls and structures.
According to the rules of fire safety, the aisles in the kitchen-hallway, already furnished with furniture, must be at least 1 meter. But it is best to make the passage even wider - about 120 cm.

14 tips on arranging the kitchen, equipped in the hallway, and the kitchen, combined with the hallway

Tip 1. Floor cabinets of increased depth will make moving through the kitchen through passage safer.

If possible, purchase custom-made kitchen furniture so that the lower cabinets and the worktop have not the standard depth (60 cm), but increased (70-80 cm). Then you can install the sink and stove closer to the inner wall.

If you install a sink about 5-10 cm from the edge of the tabletop, there will be less water spray on the floor.
The stove should be installed even deeper - at a distance of 10-15 cm from the edge of the tabletop. So you will reduce the risk of accidentally burn yourself on a hot burner or turn the pan over with food, in a hurry when going to work.

Tip 2. Discard open shelves, cabinets and rails

In the kitchen, combined with the hallway, dust accumulates much faster than in an isolated room. Therefore, open shelves and railing should prefer closed cabinets. Moreover, they will not only protect dishes and groceries from dirt, but also visually make the kitchen look neat.

The ideal solution for the kitchen-hallway will be a mini-kitchen, which is closed by hinged doors and in this form is indistinguishable from the usual cabinet. Examples of such furniture are presented in the photo below.

Tip 3. The width of the aisles should be at least 120 cm

From the kitchen to the opposite wall or furniture, the width of the passage should be at least 120 cm, and preferably 1.5 meters. Otherwise, the room will become not only inconvenient, but also unsafe.

You can save space due to the furniture in the hall area. Moreover, the wardrobe, shoebox and chest of drawers about 40 cm deep instead of the standard 60 cm are not only more compact, but also more convenient.

Tip 4. Use a powerful hood

In order for culinary smells and grease not to soak all the clothes stored in the hallway and adjacent rooms, it is necessary to install a really powerful hood.

First, it must be domed or built right above the slab, and secondly, its performance must be at least 900 m³/hour.

See also material on the topic: Hood in the kitchen - what you need to pay attention to when buying.

Tip 5. Try to follow the rule of the "working triangle"

If you place three work points (sink, stove and refrigerator) not far from each other and so that they form a triangle, the kitchen will be as comfortable as possible. But in the narrow and small kitchen, combined with the hallway, to observe this rule is quite difficult. For example, for too narrow corridors, the only possible option of arrangement of kitchen is linear planningwhen all working furniture is built along one wall. The disadvantage of this scheme is that the cook during cooking has to spend extra time and effort on moving back and forth along the kitchen.

More convenient types of layouts that are available for a narrow kitchen hallway are:

Double row - the sink and stove are arranged side by side, and the refrigerator is located on the opposite side, for example, next to the wardrobe. When choosing this type of layout, remember that the passage width should be at least 120 cm.

L-shaped - in this case, the kitchen is built along two adjacent walls.

If the corridor has a width of more than 3.2 m, then you can build a kitchen even P-shaped. For example, as shown in this design project:

Tip 6. Decorate the interior in bright colors

This will allow, firstly, to visually enlarge and expand a small space. Second, make the kitchen lighter. For dark kitchens, located in the corridor, the light in which comes only from the window of the adjoining room, the light color of the walls and furniture is especially necessary.

The most effective way to increase space is to paint the walls white and pick up white furniture.
If the kitchen set and the walls match in tone, the interior will become visually easier - the bulky furniture will merge with the wall.In the following photos you can see an example of such design in the kitchen in the corridor, combined with the living room.

Tip 7. Zone the room

To make the interior look orderly and comfortable, the kitchen area should be visually or physically separated from the hall area. For this you can use the following techniques:

Make a different finish floor and / or walls. For example, the floor in the working area can be revetted with practical tiles, and the rest of the apartment should be finished with wood as shown in the photo below.

An example of zoning kitchen-hallway in a studio apartment

Line up partition with arched opening or glazed (see photo above).
Use furniture as a separator, for example, a bar, a peninsula, a rack, a chest of drawers, a kitchen cabinet (see photo below).

Create different lighting scenarios for different parts of the room. For example, in the hallway you can install hangers, spotlights, wardrobe lights, in the working area - wall sconces or furniture fixtures, and the dining group is better to allocate more elegant suspensions or chandelier.
The kitchen or, on the contrary, the entrance part of the room can be highlight carpet.

Tip 8. Illuminate the kitchen-hall evenly to expand the room

The light from the central chandelier will further narrow the narrow and small kitchen, so instead of it or in addition to it, it is necessary to illuminate the space. spotlights (around the perimeter of the ceiling) or wall sconces.

Tip 9. Choose doubly practical materials for wall and floor decoration.

A walk-through kitchen, a kitchen-hallway and a kitchen combined with a corridor pollute faster than any other room insulated by walls. To facilitate cleaning you will help super-practical, moisture and wear-resistant finishing materials.

The walls are best painted., and make the apron tiled, tempered glass or a metal panel (more in the material: Which kitchen apron is better?).
Paul stands revet with ceramic tiles or porcelain stoneware. Also keep in mind that dirt, crumbs, water spots and dust are much less noticeable on a light floor than on a dark one.

Tip 10. Use large mirrors to visually increase the space.

The mirror can be hung on the wall, revetted with an apron or wardrobe door.

Tip 11. Wardrobe in the hallway is better to choose with sliding doors.

In order to save space in the kitchen-hallway, wardrobes with hinged doors should prefer a wardrobe with sliding doors.

Tip 12. Build a kitchen set to the ceiling

To fit all things in your small kitchen, combined with a corridor, choose a set with three tiers. In the upper cabinets, you can store things that are not used often.

Tip 13. Try not to overload the interior with dissimilar surfaces, an abundance of colors and prints.

For example, it is worth refusing from the colorful decoration of the apron, kitchen and wardrobe facades. If a you decide to glue wallpaper, we recommend to choose a monophonic covering or cloths with a small and inconspicuous pattern.

Design of the kitchen, combined with the hallway

Household appliances should be built in and best of all, hidden behind the facades.

As for the color scheme of the interior, it is better to make up from 2-4 neutral shades. However, bright accents are quite acceptable, but they should be quite a bit.

Tip 14. Lunch group should be light, multi-functional and / or compact.

If there is no place at all in the kitchen-hallway, then the dining area is best organized in the living room. If it is still possible to carve out at least 1-1.5 free square meters, then it is quite possible to organize a mini-dining room. The main thing - to choose compact furniture. Here are some ideas and solutions:

The dining table can replace the bar, at which it is convenient to have breakfast, snack and even work at the computer.

Another mobile option is a folding table, which is mounted to the wall and when folded it looks more like a shelf.

If you often come to visit you, the best choice would be folding convertible table.

Chairs are better to pick up light and compact, for example, folding, which can be stacked or hung on the wall.
Another good option is transparent chairs or ghost stools made of polycarbonate. They do not clutter up the space and make the interior very stylish.

Replicas of Louis Ghost chairs are sold in many online stores and cost about $ 80

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