Many believe that it is the kitchen that must be the most cozy place in an apartment or house. All family members come here in the morning to get a positive charge for a shared breakfast, and for dinner they are going to share news and impressions of the day lived. However, the interior of the kitchen quickly obsolete, begins to bother, and the working surfaces wear out and take a little untidy look. Therefore, everyone is useful to know how to update the kitchen with your own hands, without doing the cost.
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Main approaches in the transformation of old kitchen
Getting Started with a partial update, in search of a solution How to update the old kitchen, it is important to correlate your financial and physical opportunities. Probably the update will have to be broken into several stages, then it will be materially difficult. Something will have to be entrusted to specialists, and some kind of work is available to do and independently. The interior update is also a great opportunity to show their creative abilities, taste and talents. Paint advertising avenues with the offered new furniture - perhaps some ideas on the design of the facade will seem acceptable to the transformation of their interior. Looking through the illustration in the article, you can learn a lot of interesting ideas, but you can embody them in your own way.
Re-equipment of the kitchen can be:
- radical - with a change in overall stylistics and buying furniture;
- partial - with the replacement of some elements and facades of cabinet furniture;
- minimum - with decoration and decoration of some surfaces, filling with spectacular accessories and new kitchenware.
Starting the kitchen restoration with their own hands, it is important to understand one principle - even after partial transformation, all surfaces should look like new ones. Therefore, first of all it is important to assess the scope of the update to remove all defects from the surfaces and eliminate noticeable shortcomings. For example:
- refresh the facade of cabinet furniture and work surfaces, replace countertops, put new handles and other fittings;
- install the missing items in the equipment of the hood type kitchen, assemble in a different way of farming, replace the outdated gas stove and washing;
- refresh apron in the kitchen, make a new leatherette kitchen corner; update the surfaces of stools;
- estimate whether it is necessary to replace the floor covering, change the linoleum or ceramic tile;
- resolve the issue with the replacement of the joinery;
- replacement of lamps and lighting type;
- ceiling update.
If the built-in body furniture is old, but fits well into the overall concept and is most thought out on the configuration, it is not worth a hurry with its complete replacement, it is enough to restrict the restoration of the facade of the kitchen. In the joinery workshop, you can order a cutting of all the doors from the laminate with all the ending and fittings. The finished parts of the facade will only stay on your own, and the kitchen furniture will look like a new one. And all the tables can be combined with a common worktop of plastic or acrylic, and on your size and configuration it can also be cut in the workshop or construction supermarket. Most large outlets have special equipment for this. In most cases, it is enough to update only the outer surface of the door:
- treat self-adhesive film;
- make decorative inserts;
- replace glass (colored, matte corrugated, sandblasting, stained glass, embossed).
Tip: The old facade of the kitchen sometimes makes no sense to decorate after several modifications - replace the doors and the work surface. The way is convenient because the hostesses are getting used to a certain location of the dishes and kitchen utensils, and it is important when cooking on an ambulance hand. Then in the kitchen, externally new, all items will be on old familiar places.
It is impossible not to be considered with the desire of all family members, and especially someone who is engaged in the preparation of the main volume of food. Most women in the kitchen spend a lot of time, so the desire to prepare special delicacies will depend on self-assumption. It was notified that when a person is uncomfortable in the working area, the desire to engage in habitual activity turns into burdensome responsibilities, and on the contrary - the routine brings joy and satisfaction in a favorable setting. This is the most appropriate to the equipment of the kitchens: who prepares on it, he must choose a style, comfortable color gamut and main equipment.
Good taste and inner flair will tell you what to choose the facade, curtains, tablecloth (oilcloth), lamps, door handles, dishes and other kitchen utensils. Sometimes the complete replacement of the diverse dishes on the united kits will significantly transform the kitchen:
- a set of similar pans of different sizes;
- selection of plates of different depths with shared pattern;
- set of a saucepan of different volumes of stainless steel or enamelled with a total pattern;
- tea and coffee service;
- collection of handmade ceramics;
- set of spoons and forks in general design;
- set of knives on a shared stand, etc.
Of course, it is impossible to replace all the dishes immediately, but if you specify the goal, then you can replace something monthly. It looks very beautiful all the kitchen and dishes in a single style - Japanese or Chinese, English classic or country.
Tip: Unfortunately, parting with the boning objects of life and dishes. Replace old cups, plugs plates on those that will make real pleasure and positive emotions. Agree, it's nice to look every day to a plate with a picture like and drink from a cup of favorite shape and size.
Good ideas for updating the old kitchen
If there are no special preferences on the style of the kitchen, you can rely only on your feelings. However, those who understand the style of interiors, it is better to choose their favorite (modern, ethnic, historical or ecosil). And then it is repelled from him in the selection of facade, lighting, dishes and accessories. Sometimes it would be advisable to turn to professional interior designer to make several sketches and choose the most likely sketch.
1. Upgrading the kitchen can be started from the walls, it may be time to change the overall color - on a more "appetizing", light soothing or saturated emotional. Remember that walls can be:
- wake up with washing wallpaper;
- paint one paint or make an interesting coloring;
- apply liquid wallpaper or original textured plaster;
- change the tile or lay out an interesting panel, for example, from a bat tile.
2. Upgrade Apron (panel for gas stove and along the working surface). The surface that is most dirty and most often ished, needs more frequent replacement. It can be painting, lad out a tile or plastic facing. Color selection depends on preferences and practicality. You can make a complex decor, for example, a panel from a bat tile, but the more smooth this surface will be, the easier it is to clean. However, if the gas stove has a posterior shield, and the kitchen is equipped with a powerful hood, then the contamination of the apron will be minimal.
3. Upgrading the kitchen table may be limited to the update of the tabletop in the kitchen, for example, to imitation of natural stone - onyx, malachite, lapis. Today, synthetic countertops from acrylic and other materials imitate any natural materials. It is especially beautifully replaced by a common material:
- countertops and window sills;
- working surface of cabinet furniture;
- bar rack surface.
4. Replacing the laminate or linoleum in the kitchen can also significantly transform the kitchen. There are more expensive coatings - bulk floors or bay colored petty pebbles.
Remember: the laminate should be moisture-resistant, and the linoleum - without a thick substrate, because if moisture penetrates there, it will be difficult to remove it!
5. Replacing accessories on the same handle for the whole kitchen will significantly transform it. Today, there are handles on the cabinets and doors of any configuration and style, from a different metal and other materials. Thin and elegant chrome-plated - for the style of techno or high-tech, copper forged - for retro-kitchens, accurate wooden - for country, etc.
6. Changing washing and crane will also update the appearance of the kitchen. Pay attention to the type of mixer, the shape of the crane, metal color, handles for cold and hot water - all of them must also match the overall kitchen design.
7. Update kitchen facades in different ways:
- paint;
- decorate to obtain a special effect (and other);
- make insertion by leatherette in a tone of a soft corner under the frame;
- refresh kitchen self-adhesive film;
- use any decorative materials for fragmentary finish;
- insert other glasses or salary from the inside with a stained glass film;
- fully replace the doors or apply a layer of a veneer of the chosen wood texture.
8. Replacement of textiles and window design can significantly transform any kitchen, but they are important to pick up the kitchen style:
- mesh curtain bound in a crocheted technology;
- flat Japanese shielded curtains on a special cornice;
- thread curtains;
- decorative curtains or curtains in an interesting Hand-Maid technique (Applique, Patchwork);
- roman curtain;
- beautiful multi-layer curtains.
9. Small shelves around the perimeter of the kitchen at the ceiling will be transformed the appearance of the kitchen. They will give a new place for the collection of ceramics or "exhibitions" in the same glass jars:
- spices;
- dry herbs;
- croup;
- seeds;
- rain tea.
Long linen towels with a decorative braid or openwork border can be fastened on the shelves. Add kitchen embroidered towels and tablecloth in the same style. And so that it does not dump in everyday use, you can use a transparent silicone or polyethylene film from above.
10. Update the kitchen ceiling in different ways, including a complex decorative finish. The simplest way is to paint with water-level or acrylic paint, which is practical in care. If with a good hood on the ceiling on the soothes soot, then you can make stretch ceilings that are also easily clean. Matte ceiling absorbs slightly, glossy has the properties of the mirror and visually increases the height of the room.
11. If the old door to the kitchen is replaced, think about whether it often use it. Is it not better to refuse it or replace the new door, beautiful and modern? Think over the type of handles so that they match the style and the material with the rest of the fittings and handles of the mixers.
12. If the door of cabinet furniture in the kitchen passed the conversion of self-adhesive film, perhaps in the same style it would be worth updating the heated door of the old refrigerator and household appliances.
13. A wonderful way to give old things a new species is molding, that is, the design of the surfaces with decorative overhead elements. Special decorative elements, straight and rounded strips are suitable. Perhaps under the frame it will want to insert some beautiful finishing material - any braid, rattan, plastic, a chicken, an embossed foam (under painting) and others.
14. The surfaces of the facades of the kitchen and other planes can be decorated with inserts from ceramic tiles under the frame or inserts from the plexiglass, which is well cut and saw.
Tip: Plexiglas When cleaning, it is impossible to wash abrasive substances, it can scatter, but it is very practical - it does not fight when hitting.
15. One of the most simple methods to give the kitchen a new look - update the seats of stools and drag the soft corner. The optimal solution is artificial leather that is suitable for decorative inserts. However, this is not limited to this - today there are various washable furniture fabrics for upholstery, which are very practical in use.
16. To decorate stools and chairs can also be in different ways, it all depends on the selected stylistics and textiles. For example, conventional stools will be converted:
- new soft seats, broken with fringe;
- crochet Removable Covers;
- capes from artificial fur, which can be equipped with decorative elements (lambs, cats, etc.);
- velvet capes with ruffs and others.
This is only part of ideas that will help make a new kitchen on an old material without expensive repairs. But remember that it is impossible to do something first, and then evaluated, like it or not? It is important to take into account all the wishes and opportunities so as not to be disappointed and redo.
