Kitchen with a berth

Kitchen with a berth

Since in ordinary apartments kitchen occupies a special place, and not only for cooking and eating, but also for communicating with family and friends, our task is  it is this room to make as comfortable and functional as possible. Moreover, most of our residents do not have huge areas, especially in the kitchen. Therefore, furniture is needed so as to save our space. For example, if you arrange an extra bed in the kitchen, the owners will add not only convenience, but also comfort.

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Kitchen corner with a berth - just a godsend

Equipping the kitchen, especially, small-sized, the most relevant is to use literally every centimeter of the available area with use and maximum convenience. For many families, a kitchen corner with a berth, which represents an original solution of designers and serves for multifunctional kitchens, perfectly helps to organize the space in the kitchen. This option is especially relevant for one-room apartments, in which an additional sleeping place is nowhere else and can not be organized, except in the kitchen. It will not be superfluous in both 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. In addition, the soft modern kitchen corner looks very stylish and is able to turn ordinary kitchen into a wonderful comfortable dining room or just a relaxation area.

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The functions that the kitchen corner carries

In general, corners for a kitchen with a berth are usually universal in themselves. However, before you make a purchase, you should still decide what functions we need most.

The fact is that there are corners for the kitchen of simpler models, they take up much less space, and are also economical in monetary terms. There are also chic kitchen corners with a berth, allowing you to use the kitchen as an extra room. They are now gaining increasing popularity due to their ergonomics and versatility. Well, one cannot but admit the fact that it is precisely such an option that is practically the only and optimal one, which makes it possible to combine kitchen furniture with a berth in the best way. This is a universal solution that serves as a dining area during the day and as a bed at night, all the more so when the corner takes up minimal space when folded and its design is so simple that even a child can handle it. The most important thing is to choose the right spread and size.

How to choose the right kitchen corner

When choosing a kitchen corner, it is very important to take into account the dimensions of the room as accurately as possible. furniture should fit perfectly in them, i.e. kitchen groups should be both comfortable and compact, because modern apartments most often do not have large dimensions, however, like apartments in old houses.

The most compact is the corner furniture, which includes a corner sofa section, as well as a table with chairs or stools. There are also very simple small corner sofas for the kitchen, which differ from the sofas for the living room only in small sizes. In addition, there are folding kitchen sofas, representing the optimal solution for small kitchens.

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Also, if you want to save space, you should decide on the number of people on whom this furniture should be designed. From here the size of the necessary kitchen corner is determined. At the same time, sofas should not interfere when working in the kitchen.

In addition, it is very important to carefully consider the zones and their locations. For example, the sink should not be too noticeable, and from a berth it would be nice if the door was looked through - in this case it would be psychologically more comfortable.

It is also advisable to choose kitchen corner sofas complete with other items, such as a table, chairs and ottomans, so that the overall interior design is unified, harmonious and stylish.

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The material from which such kitchen corners are usually made is natural or artificial leather. But flock can also be used, which is also not afraid of steam, moisture or various kitchen odors. Modern technologies represent a sufficiently high-quality and wear-resistant material for upholstery of upholstered furniture. By the way, artificial leather enjoys considerable popularity today, the quality of which, we can say, is no worse than genuine. In addition, there is a wide selection of colors and textures.

Regarding which color to choose, it’s not difficult to do even with already installed furniture. If the kitchen has a little sunlight, then yellow, beige, orange, in a word, sunny shades, which will make the room more light, spacious and comfortable, will be ideal. The most common for kitchen corners is brown with all its existing shades. Such a choice is also determined by the fact that most often furniture is purchased in the kitchen  with wood texture.

Kitchen with a noble beige sofaNicely designed sleeping place in a nicheIf you wish, you can add contrast to the interior, as well as focus on new furniture, if you choose a different shade from the general color scheme. For example, such combinations are often used: green and orange, white and blue,  red and black or white - all this contributes to the creation of an unusual and refined interior in the kitchen.

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Well, the red color of furniture in combination with wooden or metal elements is considered to be trendy - this decision contributes to the creation of creative design.

Kitchen sofas

At the moment there is a wide assortment of kitchen sofas on sale that are in demand by both owners of small-sized apartments and owners of large-sized spacious dwellings. By purchasing a separate kitchen sofa, you will get:

  • aesthetic appearance;
  • compactness;
  • a wide variety of forms - couches, corner sofas, classic with armrests and backs and many others;
  • durability and ease of operation - thanks to modern materials that repel dirt and liquids;
  • in some cases, the presence of model transformation

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The advantages of kitchen corners

Kitchen corners have a number of advantages over chairs and stools:

  • they are much more comfortable to sit on;
  • they take up much less space (space is saved due to the fact that the corner is placed in a corner or against the wall);
  • they host a lot more people;
  • multifunctionality (unlike chairs and stools, corners are a place for storing things, sitting, as well as for sleeping)

The kitchen with a berth serves, first of all, in order to make the apartment more multifunctional, practical, and, of course, more comfortable and stylish.