Kitchen open to the living room – interior, which lives together with the household.

Kitchen open to the living room is a solution, increasingly found not only in single-family houses, but also in apartments and even apartments located in old tenement houses. It is one of the best ways to visually enlarge the space, an opportunity for integration and active participation in family life, as well as an excellent option if you want a stylish arrangement of the house. The kitchen open to the living room is a great way to emphasize industrial chic, Scandinavian lightness, smooth, minimalist lines or classic elegance in a modern version.

When planning such a space, it is worth remembering a few things, that will guarantee a successful living room-kitchen marriage and make the kitchen space smoothly transitioning into a seating area, will be both functional and aesthetic.

1. First of all, an exemplary organisation

The exemplary organization of the kitchen open to the living room is crucial both for the convenience of use and for preserving the aesthetics of this space.

When planning a kitchen, take care of spacious drawers, enough kitchen cabinets (cargo) or pantry. In kitchens open to the living room, the fewer things are on the countertop, the better, because all visible kitchen accessories – whether we want it or not – become elements of space arrangement.

Think of designer organizers, such as minimalist cutting board containers, magnetic knife strips mounted on the wall, elegant breadcassers, decorative organizers for spices, etc. However, remember that there are not too many of them and that their style harmonizes with the style of the house.

Remember about perfect ergonomics and carefully plan the placement of all kitchen appliances – this will reduce clutter and reduce the energy consumed to move around the kitchen

Multifunctional kitchen appliances play a big role in the exemplary organization of the space in the living room, which allows for better organization of work, offers clever and practical solutions and facilitates everyday activities. When choosing appliances for your kitchen, remember that what truly counts in the kitchen open to the living room (as in any other) are smart solutions for maximum functionality and saving space, time, electricity and water. Hot water faucets, smart cooktops or multi-level, multi-purpose ovens are sure to make your kitchen activities easier and make your routine work simple.

You will find intelligent design even in a sink. The latest collection from Deante – Magnetic, is the equipment that offers much more than standard products of this type on the market. Thanks to their magnetic properties enabling the installation of a steel grille, that separates the main compartment from the side shelf, the user receives additional functional space. After applying the grille between the chamber and the shelf, a water draining gap remains, so that the resulting space can be used to drain washed cutlery, vegetables, fruits, and even as a place for a pot with herbs, which will be a natural decoration of the kitchen. Additional accessories in the form of matching baskets with a seer (deeper and shallower) will help.

Among the available accessories from the Magnetic collection, there are also special hangers for a washcloth and a sponge. These handles are not only very comfortable, but will also help to maintain hygiene. By hanging them on the wound of the sink, the washcloth and sponge will dry faster and will not come into contact with each other, which will reduce the multiplication of bacteria. In addition, placing them inside the sink chamber will make them not visible from the outside, and the area around the sink will remain free from inelegant additives. It is for this reason that Magnetic sinks also offer the possibility of inserting a dispenser for dishwashing liquid into the housing. All this for the sake of elegant space and perfect organization of kitchens open to the living room.

The Magnetic sinks are made of granite – a material that is extremely hard and resistant to both discoloration, impact or thermal shock – and are available in 5 finish colours, which will prove extremely helpful in planning a kitchen open to the living room – a space where harmony plays an extremely important role.

2. Want to open your kitchen to the living room? Don't forget about the harmony between the two!

When planning space, furniture, lighting and accessories, it is worth paying attention to the materials and colors used. In contemporary interiors, monochrome colours and minimalist colours – black, grey and white – reign supreme. When designing a kitchen open to the living room, it is worth paying attention to the elements that will make the space as well as possible in line with the seating area. These are:

Kitchen fronts – now we are moving away from the fronts in high gloss in favor of elegant matte and dark, refined colors. Choose black, anthracite, graphite, pomegranate or bottle green (if you plan to repeat elements of this color in the living room part),
Cabinets without handles – let go off decorative handles, bet on Tip-on solutions, which, when pressed in the right place, open the furniture front. This will make it easier for you to unify the kitchen space with the living room décor,
Glazed upper cabinets and decorative gouging of the fronts – these details will emphasize the classic interior style and will work especially in smaller, darker rooms,
Lighting – make sure that the lamps in the kitchen refer to the style, colors and shapes of the lamps used in the living room. Treat the living room with open kitchen as your one room.

3. Bet on durable materials

It is extremely important to use suitable materials in the design and arrangement of the kitchen open to the living room. Materials that, on the one hand, will not impose themselves on their character and interfere with the design of the interior, and on the other hand will guarantee long use, beautiful appearance despite the passage of time and resistance to kitchen incidents – hot dishes falling on the floor, a glass of wine smashed during a reception, falling knife or bubbling in a curry pot, splashing sideways aromatic, but very colorful and a bit treacherous sauce. Such materials are various natural raw materials, as well as conglomerates, concrete or some plastics.

An excellent material that will work great in the kitchen open to the living room will be granite. It is a material characterized by hardness, resistance to discoloration, thermal shock and high temperature. In addition, granite has hydrophobic properties. Granite sink will certainly be a hit.

4. Be Eco-friendly!

Whether your kitchen is to be a kitchen open to the living room or a separate room, it is worth thinking about eco-friendly solutions and design, which goes hand in hand with the latest trends that promote responsible behavior. If you want to take care of the planet, remember about:

high-end dishwashers,
batteries with aerator, aerating the water jet or with flow lock,
energy-saving appliances for baking and cooking (here also take care of reducing odors and an excellent extract, so that the smells from the kitchen do not reach the couch),
an energy-efficient refrigerator and freezer,
a tap water filtering system (thus limiting the purchase of bottled water),
when planning a space, remember not to place the refrigerator in the immediate vicinity of the oven, hob, radiator or other sources of heat or sun,
special containers for the segregation of rubbish,

Our advice! We are well aware of how big of a headache a segregation of rubbish can be, especially in a small kitchen. Take care of it when planning your sink, so that you can organize the space for segregation containers as efficiently as possible. Space-saver siphons might come very handy with your setting - with a flat design, they take up much less space under the sink, as compared to standard products of this type.

We hope you already know what to look for when planning a kitchen open to the livingroom. If you take care of excellent organization, multifunctionality and intelligent solutions, the resulting space will please the eyes of its users for many years to come.