Kitchen corner – photos of the best solutions for your kitchen. We will help to determine the shape and style. We will tell you how to fit the kitchen corner into a small kitchen and what decor to choose.
Comfort for the kitchen is as important as for the bedroom or living room. Especially if the kitchen also serves as a dining room or a place for evening gatherings. To create not only practical, but also a cozy design of the kitchen, a kitchen corner will help you. And how to do it better – look at the photo below.
Content
- 2.1.Sofas
- 2.2.Chairs / Stools
- 2.3.Dinner table
- 3.Types of kitchen corners
- 3.1.Material
- 3.2.In shape
- 4.Stylistic solutions
- 4.1.Modern
- 4.2.Rustic
- 4.3.Retro
- five.Kitchen corner with a berth
- 6.Kitchen corner in Khrushchev
- 7.We decorate a kitchen corner
General information about kitchen corners
The kitchen corner is a cozy and compact sofa, which, as a rule, is located near the dining table (although it happens without it). The use of this type of furniture has a number of very significant advantages:
- The ability to accommodate a significant number of guests in comparison with chairs and stools. With rare exceptions, when one of the guests is ready to sit on each other’s lap, kitchen chairs or stools suggest placing one person in one place. In the case of the corners, everything is much simpler: it can accommodate as many guests as it actually fits throughout its length. In crowded but not mad.
- The charming atmosphere of softness, warmth, comfort in the kitchen is created precisely thanks to the kitchen corner. Entering such a kitchen, it immediately becomes clear that this is not a simple working room for cooking, but also a place of friendly gatherings.
- The kitchen corner, due to its convenience, can become an alternative place of leisure for one of the family members. This is especially true for one-room apartments, when sometimes you want to relax from each other or watch different programs on TV.
- As a rule, kitchen sofas are equipped with an additional place for storing utensils, kitchen utensils or products (cereals, pasta, sugar, nuts).
- The wealth of colors of textile upholstery (especially from Ikea) allows you to create the perfect kitchen set for even the most demanding esthetes.
- An extra bed, which can be equipped with a kitchen sofa, will help you out during a sudden invasion of friends or relatives.
Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember the disadvantages associated with the kitchen corner.
- Placing guests at the kitchen table on the sofa significantly limits their freedom of movement – in order to leave the table, you will have to disturb the people sitting nearby.
- The kitchen corner sofa significantly complicates cleaning in the kitchen, because moving it is as easy as a stool (especially if the dishes are stored inside), you will not succeed.
For a small kitchen, it is better not to use a corner kitchen sofa, since it will take up a huge amount of space.
| Minimum | 100-110 cm |
| Standard | 180-195 cm |
| Maximum | 241-250 cm |
Furniture in the kitchenette
The kitchenette differs from the dining group by the presence of a sofa. As a rule, a kitchen corner is sold as a single set, but it also happens that all the details must be selected and combined independently. What are these details?
Sofas
Kitchen sofas are significantly different from sofas in the bedrooms. Like other furniture for the kitchen, the kitchen sofa must be functional. In addition, it is very important that it is easily cleaned of dirt..
Sofas can be on legs, and can be equipped with drawers for storage of dishes and products from below..
The dimensions of the sofas depend solely on your needs and the size of the kitchen.
Chairs / Stools
Specialists categorically do not recommend being limited to a sofa for the kitchen as a place for a seat.
- Firstly, during the meal, only that part of the dining table will be used, next to which there is a sofa, which significantly limits its capacity.
- Secondly, even if you are having lunch together, it is sometimes more pleasant to sit opposite each other, which is almost impossible with a corner sofa.
- Thirdly, chairs or stools are sure to come in handy on the farm, for example, if necessary, put something on them during conservation or to get something from the upper shelves of the hanging cabinets.
Chairs and stools that come complete with a kitchen sofa are combined with it according to:
- The wood of which they are made
- The appearance of the back
- The appearance of the legs
- Upholstery color (for upholstered chairs)
However, you can also combine kitchen furniture on your own..
For a small kitchen, instead of chairs, it is more convenient to use stools, since they can always be hidden under the table so that they do not interfere.
Dinner table
When choosing a table for the kitchen corner, you should focus on how many people will regularly have dinner with him.
If you are periodically visited by large companies, it makes sense to purchase a folding dining table, which can increase in size by two to three times.
Using a dining table with solid ends instead of legs together with an angular sofa will be inconvenient – the person sitting next to them simply has nowhere to put their legs.
For small kitchens, it is better to use tables with streamlined round shapes (for example, oval).
Read our material on how to choose kitchen table.
Types of kitchen corners
Material
Of course, kitchen sofas, like any other kitchen furniture, can be made of different materials:
- Wood
- Metal
- Plastic
- Particleboard / MDF, etc..
However, we would like to surprise more attention not to the frame, but directly to the seat.
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Hard kitchen corners
The seats and backs of hard kitchen corners are usually made of the same material as the frame (although there are exceptions, for example, a metal frame and a wooden seat).
By and large, this is an ordinary bench (angular or linear), stylized as a common kitchen interior and made by a single ensemble with stools and a table. These sofas may or may not have storage space..
Since there are no soft upholstery, such a piece of furniture is very practical and easy to clean. Dust does not accumulate in it, and it can be washed almost completely.
Soft kitchen corners
Islet of comfort on the kitchen largely created precisely thanks to the soft textile upholstery of the sofa.
They are very comfortable and their appearance is very charming..
If you have a soft kitchen corner, then it is advisable to select all kitchen textiles so that it harmonizes with the upholstery.
The most common and practical upholstery materials for kitchen corners:
- Leatherette
- Suede leather
- Jacquard
- Flock
Unlike other materials, leatherette does not absorb moisture, which is why experts recommend it for upholstery in the kitchen.
Combined kitchen corners
Combined kitchen corners suggest a combination of soft and hard materials. They look very stylish and quite functional. Combined solid inserts allow you to use such a sofa not only as a place to sit, but also as coasters or shelves.
In shape
Corner Kitchen Sofas
As the name implies, corner kitchen sofas are an angular design. They can be either solid or modular, which is much more convenient, since if you need to rearrange, you can “deploy” the corner in the direction you need. Such sofas allow the most efficient use of the space in which they are placed, including the corner of the kitchen. The only, but very significant drawback is that it is not recommended to put such a sofa in a narrow small kitchen, since it will occupy a large part of it and will complicate movement around it (including the cooking process).
Linear kitchen sofas
Linear kitchen sofas, unlike corner sofas, are very compact and comfortable. They do not take up too much space, so it’s very convenient to use them even in miniature kitchens. In principle, from any modular corner sofa, you can select one module and install it as a linear one. A smaller module, in turn, can be used as a chair and put next to or opposite.
Stylistic solutions
Modern
Modern kitchenette – not overloaded with details. It can be made of a wide variety of materials. A distinctive feature of a modern soft kitchen sofa is a rich rich palette of upholstery colors. Such sofas fit perfectly into the styles of hi-tech, minimalism, industrial, fusion.
Rustic
A corner that fits perfectly into the country style must be made of wood. It is best if it is an ordinary wooden bench. However, comfort should not be sacrificed to the style, especially since in this case it is not so necessary: soft textile upholstery is quite acceptable. Textiles should be made of natural fibers, discreet and natural colors..
Retro
Give a new life to the old Soviet kitchen corner? Easy! Make it a stylish vintage thing in retro style! Today, the Internet is a dime a dozen firms that are engaged in the restoration of furniture. If you are confused by the price of their services, you can handle the restoration yourself. The amount of effort depends on the amount of work required. But most often you need to update the varnish or color of the wooden parts and change the upholstery.
Also, the kitchen corner in retro style can be made to order or look in the catalog – today this style is very relevant, so the assortment is diverse.
Kitchen corner with a berth
An extra bed is never superfluous. Especially in one-room apartments. You can never guess when a second cousin comes along or a childhood friend comes to your city for business. The designs for turning a simple kitchen sofa into a full-fledged sleeping place are very diverse. The photo below shows only some, but their most popular types. However, a kitchen sofa with a berth will not fit in every kitchen, because at least one side of it should be human in length (that is, almost 2 meters!).
The sofa with a berth has another drawback – the need to put a kitchen table somewhere to spread it out.
Kitchen corner in a small apartment
Kitchens in Khrushchev, even in the largest apartments, are small. And to place a full-fledged kitchen sofa in such a kitchenette is very problematic. It is best to prefer linear small sofas or a kitchen set of a triple corner sofa, a round table and stools instead of chairs.
We decorate a kitchen corner
From the point of view of practicality, decorating a kitchen corner is a stupid undertaking. But beauty and comfort should not be logical! All their charm is precisely in the emotions that they cause.
You can decorate a kitchen sofa with beautiful pillows (which is very important for a kitchen in ethnic style). For the same purpose you can use charming rugs.
The backs of the sofa, if they are flat, can be used as shelves for all kinds of little things, figurines and other decorative details.
