Kitchen 7 square. meters in 9 steps

Kitchen 7 square meters

You do not know how to fit everything you need in the kitchen of 7 square meters. m? We have prepared for you a 9-step guide with tips and 60 photo ideas to help you make your mini-kitchen beautiful and functional.

Step-by-step guide on the arrangement of the 7-meter kitchen

Step 1. We do redevelopment.

Redevelopment is needed not by everyone and not always, especially since it requires a lot of work, financial investments and time. But only with its help you can radically transform and increase the 7 sq. M. Kitchenette. m. There are two options for adjustment:

  • Combination with the adjoining room (loggia, corridor, living room, storage room);
  • Transfer partitions and increase the kitchen due to the adjacent premises.

More often Kitchen combined with neighboring living rooms. After all, such an alteration is simple, and almost always resolved, and the room itself gains many advantages. Thus, in the kitchen-living room, households can communicate and be close by, without interrupting their affairs, mothers can look after children while at the same time doing cooking, and it becomes much easier for guests to join guests in the joint room. Another big plus is the ability to bring a dining room into the living room and not to save on table size. However, before breaking the walls, consider whether you are ready to put up with the spread of smells and noises from the kitchen to the living room (and vice versa), the lack of privacy and the need to always keep both rooms in order.

Kitchen-living room

The interior of the combined kitchen-living room in the apartment in Stalinka

Kitchen-living room

  • To culinary odors do not soak upholstered sofa and curtains in the living room, install a powerful hood and always cook with it.
  • To avoid the feeling of disorganization in the interior of the kitchen-living room, zone the space, say, with the help of furniture or different floor finishes.

Redevelopment with the transfer of walls is good because it allows you to increase the kitchen, and at the same time leave it isolated. This means that everyone will be able to make some noise in it while everyone is asleep, smells of food will not spoil the textiles in the living room, and the work mess will not affect the appearance of the recreation area. Besides, if your kitchen has a gas boiler or plate, then transfer partitions is the only available option for redevelopment. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that the fee for an increase in the kitchen is a decrease in the living room.

Step 2. Make repairs and use hidden room reserves

Are you ready to do redevelopment or not, try to find the hidden reserves of your small kitchen, which can be used during the repair and, thereby, optimize the space.

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  • The window sill will help to save precious centimeters and will bring a lot of benefit, if slightly modified. For example, you can make it part of the headset, equalizing with the level of floor thumbs (for this you need to slightly raise the window) and at the same time closing the radiator facades. So the window sill will perform the functions of the cutting table, and the place under it will become the storage. Another idea is window sill converted to a bar for snacks and breakfasts. Whichever option you want to alter the sill, do not forget to make ventilation holes in its worktop for the passage of warm air from the battery to the window. Otherwise, the window will start to fog up, and this is dangerous due to the appearance of mold.

Sill as a continuation of the tabletop and headset

Sill-bar counter

  • In the process of repairing the kitchen, it is highly advisable to get rid of the door, replace it with a sliding door, or simply rearrange the hinges so that the canvas opens outwards rather than inwards. Keep in mind that the kitchen with gas must have a door, no matter - hinged or sliding.
  • Kitchen with sliding door
  • If at the entrance to the kitchen there is a missing corner, then it is highly desirable to move the doorway at least 30-40 cm to the side, and remove the door or replace it with a sliding canvas. Then you will literally get a place from nowhere where you can put, for example, a shelf on wheels or a cooler with water. By the way, if necessary, the doorway can be narrowed to 80 cm (70 cm for the door) - this width will be enough to transfer the overall furniture and equipment (although the 70 cm wide dining table can not be moved to another room without disassembly).
  • Erecting the partition between the kitchen and living room, think about the device in it niches. So you will provide the room with storage for the service, glass, groceries, cookbooks, decor and other trifles. The partition can be made both through and unilateral.

Step 3. Planning a scenario of lighting and placement of sockets

Lighting is not only a practical function, but also plays a big role in the perception of the room. To the kitchen area of ​​7 square meters. meters seemed more spacious, it should be illuminated evenly, that is, instead of one powerful lamp to use several small ones.

Such a lighting scenario is ideal for a kitchenette: spotlights around the ceiling perimeter (or on two parallel sides) + a chandelier in the center or above the table + furniture lighting.

It is very important to consider the distribution of light sources (especially wall) and the layout of sockets before repairs, so that the future interior has as few visible wires as possible.

Lighting a small kitchen

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Step 4. Choose a finish to visually increase the space

If you do not want to reflect on the design of your kitchen for a long time, just paint the walls with white paint and lay tiles of a neutral shade on the floor. As a result, you will get a 100% successful result - the kitchen will be practical, bright and visually more spacious.

However, designers have more interesting techniques for decorating small spaces with which you can create the illusion of space.

  • If the kitchen is narrow, paint one of the walls with horizontal stripes to visually "push" the walls.
  • Extend the kitchen by height will help wallpaper in diamond or vertical stripes. With striped wallpaper should be careful, as they have a side effect - the narrowing of space.
  • Kitchen Design 7 square. m
  • If one of the walls pokleit photo wallpapers with the image of a road stretching into the distance, a forest path, a city street or any other picture with a perspective, the kitchen will seem less crowded. True, such a bold reception requires a neutral background, otherwise the interior will “overload”.

Photowall-paper on small kitchen

  • A mirror wall or a mirror apron can work to increase the space. With that, the larger the mirror, the stronger the effect. And if you install a mirror opposite the window, then the light in it will become doubly more. However, an apron with such lining is suitable only for those who rarely cook at home, because it is not very practical and easy to clean. But the mirror wall, installed away from the stove and sink - a completely universal solution.

Mirror in the design of the dining area

  • A safe way of laying the floor (any) for a small kitchen - laying diagonally or across the room (for a narrow kitchen). The desired pattern of laying wooden floor - in the run or "herringbone."

And now about the "finishing" contraindications.Wallpaper with a large and bright print, if allowed, then only on one wall (see photo below). But the wide floorboard in the 7-meter kitchen is completely banned.

Kitchen with wallpaper on the same wall

Step 5. Make up the color scheme

As we mentioned earlier, there is no surer way to increase the small kitchen, how to paint the walls with white paint. And white can be not only walls, but also furniture, floor and even curtains. We hasten to reassure - the care of white surfaces requires the most common (except for fabrics). But thanks to such monochrome, you will create the effect of lack of boundaries, ease bulky furniture, “mask” pipes and a gas column. In addition, a pure white interior is good if the room faces north and it does not have enough daylight. Well, to avoid the similarity of the kitchen with the hospital ward, combine different shades of white, as well as interesting textures and materials.

White small kitchen in Khrushchev

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If you want to introduce color into the interior, we recommend combining no more than 2-3 colors with each other, while applying bright and dark shades in small doses, and using the same white as the basis.

The interior of a small kitchen

By the way, dark shades are especially good on vertical surfaces, for example, in an apron, in the design of a single accent wall or on the facades of a headset. The trick is that black is surrounded by brighter shades, as if drowned, giving space and depth to space.

Black and white kitchen 7.5 sq m

And one more color advice: if you don’t like white, a light gray, cream, light beige and other diluted shades can become the background of a small kitchen.


Beige kitchen

Step 6. We plan the configuration of the kitchen set

This stage of kitchen design is 7 square meters. m is almost the most responsible. After all, how you plan your kitchen set depends on the functionality of the room, its convenience, the size of the dining area and the number of storage spaces. Here are a few ideas and tips to help you choose the best kitchen cabinet configuration:

  • Corner (L-shaped) kitchen layout in most cases is the most optimal. First, it captures two walls and a corner at once. Secondly, it allows you to conveniently arrange the stove, sink and refrigerator on the principle of "working triangle". And third, it keeps enough space for a dinner table.
  • Corner small kitchen

If you are more inclined to the corner kitchen, then note the following two ideas for optimizing it:

  • Tumba-trapeze, although it takes more space, but it is very convenient for washing dishes, it looks neater, and the cabinet under the sink makes it more spacious.
  • One of the sides can be made more narrow and beveled, then the passage to the kitchen will become more free.
  • Kitchen with sloping sidewall
  • By the way, a trimmed corner stand-trapezium will be well combined with a narrowed sidewall. Below is a rough plan of this configuration in combination with the ventilation duct.

Corner kitchen plan with ventilation duct

  • If the spaciousness of the dining area is your priority, then you can choose a more compact headset layout - linear. However, you have to sacrifice the size of the cutting area (however, you can use the dining table for this) and the number of storage places. In addition, the linear layout is considered the most inconvenient, because during cooking the cook has to move back and forth many times. In the next photo slider you can see the kitchen interior with an area of ​​7 square meters. m with a linear layout.
  • Kitchen 7 square. linear layout
  • In cases where the dining room is brought into the attached living room, you can consider more comfortable, but less compact layouts - U-shaped and double-row. U-shaped headset is more suitable for a square room, and a two-row layout - for elongated. Anyway, the passage between kitchen furniture must be at least 1 meter.
  • Two-row kitchen layout of 7.3 square meters. m
    Kitchen area of ​​7.3 square meters. m with a two-row layout and dining area in half.
  • How to provide the kitchen with as many storage places as possible without damaging its footage? The answer is simple - use its height, raising the headset to the ceiling. In the uppermost lockers you can store items that are rarely used - for example, a stock of jars for pickles, a festive set of dishes or groceries. At the same time in the additional tier, you can hide the duct.

Below is a photo-example of a kitchen design of 7 square meters. m with a high set.

  • Kitchen Design 7 square. m
  • Kitchen Design 7 square. m
  • Not only the top of the kitchen can be useful, but ... its base. Built-in drawers will be an excellent storage of trays, skalok, lids, molds and other kitchen trifles.
  • Boxes in kitchen bases

Step 7. Choose household appliances and plumbing

In the arrangement of the kitchen area of ​​7 square meters. m account goes on centimeters, so as far as possible the equipment should be chosen in a reduced size. Moreover, the functionality of the mini-equipment does not always lose to its standard counterparts.

  • Thus, a 45 cm wide dishwasher (see photo) fully meets the needs of a family of three. And for 1-2 people, the 35-40-centimeter model will do.

Narrow PMM

An ideal cooking surface for a standard family - with three rings. For a couple or one tenant there are enough 2 rings. The refrigerator should be chosen narrow, but high. Even a fridge with a chamber volume of 120 l is suitable for lone residents. In this case, the top will be able to place a microwave or TV.

  • And to save space in the kitchen, you can use multi-functional appliances such as oven-microwave or multi-cooker-bread machine.

An important caveat - appliances in a small kitchen should be built. It pleases the eye and saves space.

Step 8. We select chairs and a table

The choice of a dining table largely depends not only on the size of the kitchen, but also on the lifestyle of the tenants and their number. So, for 1-2 people, who eat little and rarely at home, there will be enough a double sliding table, which, if necessary, can easily be transformed into a 4-seater. For the most mobile people, a bar counter, a bar counter-sill, a coffee table or a folding wall table are suitable at all.

Ideas for arranging a mini-dining room can be found in the next selection of photos.

Bar counter in a small kitchen in a niche

Sill-bar counter

Sill-bar counter


Kitchen Area

Kitchen Area

Folding table for a small kitchen

A full dining area for 4 people in the 7-meter kitchen is much more difficult to equip. Here are some tips:

  • The table should choose a square or rectangular shape, since they spend space more efficiently. Well, if the corners of the tabletop are rounded - in a cramped room with them safer.
  • Best if the table will be folding or sliding. By the way, before buying it is not superfluous to make sure that when assembled, it will “slip through” in the doorway. So you can make a table in the living room for parties and home parties.
  • Unfortunately, massive tables are a privilege only of big kitchens. Light and graceful models with thin legs, perhaps, with glass top.
  • Chairs should be light. Folding models (a la garden), as well as transparent polycarbonate chairs, by the way, are very practical and inexpensive.

Folding chairs in the kitchen

  • A little space can be saved at the expense of a bench or stool, installed close to the wall. Though they are stationary and slightly less convenient than chairs, they have built-in storage boxes, they do not have backs and they do not require a reserve of space for pushing-in. The distance between the table and the bench is always the same - it is 10-15 cm. So, to provide, say, 5 seats at a rectangular table, you need to put a bench near the wall, on the other hand put two chairs, and a chair or stool at the end of the table .
Design project kitchen area of ​​7.3 square meters. m

Design project kitchen area of ​​7.3 square meters. m

Design project kitchen area of ​​7.3 square meters. m

  • It is desirable that the chairs do not have armrests and can easily move into the table.

Step 9. We decorate and decorate

Choosing curtains, decor and accessories for small-sized kitchen area of ​​7 square. m follow the slogan "less means more." However, you should not get involved in minimalism.A clock on the wall, a kitchen textile matched to the interior, plants in pots and a couple of posters on the wall - this is the optimal set of decorations.

  • The windows in the kitchenette are better arrange short curtainspossibly with an easy build. Roman or roller blinds, curtains cafe, jalousie and the curtains are slightly lower than the window sill and the space will not be overloaded, and the cleaning will be easier.

Kitchen decor

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