Ever since people came up with the idea that they didn’t have to be content with the apartment layout from the developer, active demolition of old partitions and the construction of new ones began. But what to do if the partition is demolished, but the need to delimit zones remains? Such a simple, but at the same time beautiful decorative element as an arch comes to the rescue. The arch delimits the space, makes it visually wider, and becomes the highlight of the room. Constructing an arch is not a troublesome task, so you don’t need to spend a lot of money or hire a construction team to build it. The design of the arch between the kitchen and living room is easy to create on your own.
What are arches for?
Arches will never go out of fashion, so their use in repairs for a long time is desirable. Functions of arches in the room:
- Space zoning
- Increase and visual expansion of space
- Additional space decor
- Adding individuality to standard apartment layouts
Arch design between kitchen and living room
Decor options for arched structures
Modern arches not only allow you to significantly expand the kitchen space, but can also be used as storage areas. On the side racks you can always arrange small shelves, racks, hooks on which small items, keys, and souvenirs will be stored.
The second interesting option for decorating interior arches is the installation of additional lamps. Most often, spot modular lamps or LED strips play this role. This type of lighting is often used to advantageously accentuate the kitchen area, dining table, and small bar counter.
The arch itself can be used as an additional decor if you install an original metal wicker lattice inside. These can also be ready-made plastic inserts or ornaments carved from wood.
Types of openings decorated with an arch
The arch is considered an ancient architectural structure: it was relevant during the construction of massive buildings of antiquity, and is now used as a partition between zones. The modern interior offers several types of arched opening. Let's look at them:
Classic
The arches have a smooth arch and are framed with platbands. There are no unnecessary elements that attract attention.
Classic arch in the interior
Curly
Arches have different shapes, the lines are not always smooth. The emphasis is on decorative elements. Figured arches are divided into many subtypes, which will be discussed below.
Variant of a figured arch in the interior
The classic type is usually used in the design of the arch between the kitchen and living room. She also shares a hallway and a kitchen. The difference between an arch is that it has a radius equal to the distance between the side walls of the opening.
A traditional arch can be made from various materials. This can be budget drywall or metal, tiles and other building materials.
An arch is also considered a classic if it has a different shape, but its decorative elements are close to the classical antique style. In this case, the perimeter of the opening has a platband made of stucco or its imitation. In the center of the vault there is a decorative element that symbolizes the keystone.
Drywall arch: classic version
Arches are available in many options. Let's look at the main ones:
British In another way, such arches are called “modern”. The arc of the vault has a more straight outline, the radius of the arc is truncated. The corners are smooth. Suitable for rooms with low ceilings.
Slavic Rectangular arches with rounded edges.
Thai The shape of the arch has a right angle on one side, and a rounding of any radius on the other. Such arches are now relevant, their photos are found everywhere.
Portal A rectangular arch with various decorative elements: stained glass, wooden carvings.
Niche A projecting arch attached to a wall. Conceals open niches of various sizes. Photos of the arch can be found by searching on the Internet.
Ellipse The arc of an arched opening is presented in the shape of an oval. Can carry a functional load in the form of shelves.
The trapezoid arch is made in the form of a rectangle with beveled corners. This arch will look great if trimmed with wood.
Circle Vaults in the form of a circle, turning towards the bottom into smooth side lines, have proven themselves in rooms with low ceilings. A round arch smooths out sharp corners and makes the transition from the kitchen area to the living room soft.
Zoning with colors and materials
How to divide a kitchen if every square centimeter counts? You can try to make do with colors and materials.
To begin with, it’s worth experimenting with standard color contrasts. For example, the kitchen is dark and the living room is light. Similarly, you can use different styles.
The kitchen can be decorated in a loft style, and the living room can be decorated in minimalism.
Textural differences are even easier to implement.
You can use any decorative elements, for example, flooring. In the hall you can make the floor from parquet or laminate, when in the kitchen tiles or linoleum would be more convenient.
If you are planning a hidden kitchen in the living room, why not try to design the unit in a sharply contrasting style? If the furniture is made of chipboard everywhere and the furniture is made of wood, you will get an interesting, dissonant, transitional interior.
Materials that are suitable for installing an arch between the kitchen and the living room
Arches can be created from anything. You can make them yourself, or buy ready-made ones, stylized for a certain type of interior. Independent decoration of purchased arched openings is not prohibited. The materials for making arches are as follows:
Plasterboard sheets
Cheap type of building material. Durable and flexible when wet. This allows you to make any shapes of bends from gypsum boards. Easy to install. Drywall can be easily finished with finishing putty and given a finished look. The material is environmentally friendly and can be used to make decorative arches in a house where children live.
Stone, concrete, brick
This type of material is used mainly in large areas, for example, in a private house. It is possible to install such a structure in an apartment, but this will require large expenses and qualifications. The weight of the material is quite large, so you need to take into account that not all old panel houses will be able to withstand the additional load on the supporting structures.
Wood, chipboard, MDF, metal
You can make arches from these materials yourself, but purchasing them assembled is more profitable. The price of the structures is high, however, the purchase will add an additional style element to the combined space. Arches from such materials are made to order in workshops for the individual interior of an apartment or private house.
How to decorate an arch in the kitchen
However, the correct form is not everything. Much depends on how you design the arched opening. What to make an arch from, how and what to decorate it with - these issues are best resolved at the design project stage. Let's look at the most popular materials for decorating kitchen arches.
Most often, modern designers use drywall. An inexpensive material that can take on any shape and color - an ideal solution for decorating interior arches. It is quite easy to install and lasts up to fifteen years.
One of the disadvantages of drywall is its low strength. However, visual properties and low price compensate for this disadvantage.
Less commonly, arches made of stone or wood are installed. Such designs are much more expensive and require special knowledge and experience. They look impressive, but they are not suitable for every apartment - it is unlikely that masonry or an arch to the kitchen with bricks will look good in a small Khrushchev-era building.
Another fashionable material is plastic. It will cost more than drywall, but is much stronger and easier to maintain. Plastic arches are now used even in classic designs - the correct coloring allows them to be disguised as any material.
What to make the structure from
A plasterboard arch is mounted in the same way as all other structures consisting of a frame.
Attention! Install arches only in openings whose height exceeds two meters. The design takes 0.1-0.15 m from the height of the opening.
Before you start installing the arch in the apartment, stock up on tools and materials for construction. To make an arch you will need:
- Metal profiles: guides (28*27) and rack (60*27)
- Screws for working with metal and dowel screws
- Plasterboard sheets for arc and side walls
- Arched corner to strengthen the arced edge
- Self-tapping screws
To perform the zone delimitation action, you will need the following tools:
- Tape measure
- Screwdriver manual or electric
- Metal cutting scissors
- Drill
- Stationery and regular knives
- Marking pencil
- Nail
- Nylon thread
The listed tools and materials are inexpensive. A drill and screwdriver for one-time work can be rented at a tool rental.
Plaster structures in the kitchen
Drywall today is a universal material for forming an arched structure instead of a doorway. It is quite durable and resistant to most factors (moisture, temperature changes).
It is easy to cut out decorative grilles from plaster for romantic arches in a unique design. For installation, you must first level the surface of the opening, and then weld the metal profile.
Sheets of cardboard are attached with self-tapping screws to the profile at several points. The last, but no less important stage is to decorate the surface: opening with varnish, paint, original stencil painting.
First stage of work
Begin work on installing the arched opening by preparing the surface. To do this, dismantle the ceiling between the living room and the kitchen, if this has not been done previously. If there is a door between rooms, remove it from its hinges and remove the frame from the opening. If necessary, expand it to the required size. Clean the surface from any remaining decorative coatings and remove the plaster. Be sure to degrease the surface and make it as smooth as possible.
Measure the width of the opening - X, the distance from the top floor beam to the highest point of the new arch - Y. The measurement results will be used to make some parts of the structure.
Making the side parts
- Cut a strip from the gypsum board sheet equal to the obtained x value (opening width). x/2 – the middle of the central axis. Measure the value on a strip of drywall and use a pencil to mark it with a vertical line.
- Add the y value to the mid-axis value. Measure the result obtained from the top edge of the workpiece in the center of the axis. The resulting point will be the center of the arc circle.
- Use a nail, pencil and nylon thread as a compass. Place the nail in the center of the future circle. Calculate the radius of the circle using the formula 1/2x and draw its boundaries. You will receive a diagram of the side part with an arched cutout.
Finishing an arched kitchen doorway
If you have chosen an arched opening to the kitchen, then you should think about how best to decorate it.
Plaster
The most budget option for finishing an arched opening. This finishing method is very simple and absolutely anyone can handle it. Using plaster, you can imitate any type of finish, which is especially important if the budget for repairs has been allocated small. In addition, you can install lighting.
Stone
An excellent finishing option. With the help of stone, the transition from the kitchen to another room will look presentable and quite original. Working with stone will require skill and it is better to hire a specialist for this task. Stone is quite an expensive material, but durable and reliable in use. The stone arch in its appearance will be referred to the Middle Ages.
Brick
A finishing option that will help diversify the classic interior of the room will make it somewhat brutal and contrasting against the background of everything else.
Mosaic
An excellent decoration option. If you already have experience in laying tiles, then dealing with mosaics will not be difficult. The only thing you need to remember is that to install it you will need a perfectly flat surface of the arched opening.
Tree
Wooden trim looks very elegant and impressive. This is the most practical material of all, which is perfect for the kitchen. The only difficulty lies in the actual bending of wooden products, with which you need to be extremely careful. Therefore, to decorate an arch with wooden elements, it is better to hire a specialist who will carry out the work at the highest level.
Preparing drywall
To make a classic opening, you will have to bend drywall for an arc. This is done in two ways:
- Dry. This method is complex and is not always possible for a beginner in repair matters. It consists in making cuts on one side of the sheet, with the help of which further bending occurs.
- Wet. As the name suggests, drywall needs to be wetted. Cut off an element of the future design from the sheet and apply multiple punctures with an awl. Wet the part with water and place it on a template previously made from any materials. As soon as the gypsum board gets into the improvised form, it will take the same shape. The part can be used for further work after drying.
Kitchen-living room in modern styles
Household appliances, transformable furniture, strange, rich colors and contrasts, asymmetry, high-tech devices and a minimum of decor. If you have discovered your preferences and weaknesses in this list, this is a hint of modern style design.
Let's find out what will surprise us with the modern design of a living room combined with a kitchen by looking at popular style trends.
Loft
This native of the United States quickly assimilated into our climate. A loft-style kitchen-living room is an excellent choice for creative individuals who do not want to surround themselves with pretentiousness and luxury.
Distinctive features:
- brick or concrete walls, untreated plaster;
- beams, caissons on the ceiling are white, gray or brown;
- high ceilings and huge windows;
- slightly rough but functional furniture;
- pendant lamps and rotating spots;
- no extra walls or partitions.
Tip: since a brick kitchen apron is not a good idea, decorate it with brick-like tiles or imitating waterproof wallpaper.
Scandinavian style
Do you like white or wood wall coverings, natural materials and simplicity of shape? Pay attention to the Scandinavian style design. And if you manage to ensure environmental friendliness and maximum natural lighting, the purity of style will be guaranteed.
The kitchen-living room in the Scandinavian style does not deny the presence of ceiling beams and brick walls characteristic of the previous direction. Only the brick here is white. A distinctive feature of the style is a pendant lamp with an unusual lampshade in the dining area, much more soft and warm wood, complete freedom of action in terms of eco-decor.
A lampshade made of twigs, wooden shelves, a branch hanger - all this will only bring you closer to the Scandinavian setting.
Neoclassical
Have you already seen that most modern music carries classical motifs? Something similar is happening with apartment design, where classic elements take on a stylish and modern look.
Restraint, neatness, symmetry, mirrors, stucco molding, monograms, a little antiquity combined with modern materials and forms - this is what characterizes neoclassicism. This is a wonderful and most suitable choice for connoisseurs of elegance and tradition.
Minimalism
Minimalism is modern elegance, functionality, monochrome, maximum open space and minimum decor.
The kitchen-living room in the minimalist style is characterized by straight furniture facades, strict geometric shapes and smooth, non-textured surfaces. If your life credo is “nothing superfluous,” perhaps this style was invented especially for you!
High tech
Are you nervous about new technologies and high-tech systems? Then a high-tech design is more suitable for you.
It has:
- strict lines;
- straight, simple, but at the same time very functional designs;
- monotony with small rich accents;
- minimum of natural materials;
- chrome elements;
- high ergonomics;
- no textiles;
- smooth surfaces of furniture, walls, floors and ceilings.
Well, if modern trends are not to your liking, let's go back to the roots.
Installation plan for a classic arch between the kitchen and the living room
After you have completed all the preparatory activities, proceed directly to the installation. It is not difficult, but requires care and patience. Let's look at the steps:
- Install the profile frame. Strengthen the guide profile with dowels. Make reinforcements on both sides of the top floor. On the side walls of the opening, install similar parts from the top of the structure to the end of the rounding of the arch arch. Fasten the frame parts using self-tapping screws. Next, strengthen the arc elements onto the U-shaped profile. This design needs strengthening. Rack profile strips will help with this.
- Manufacturing of cladding. Take the strip of drywall on which you previously made marks with dimensions. Try it on the opening and if it fits perfectly into the structure, make another similar part. After this, secure both parts with self-tapping screws to the frame of the arched opening on both sides. Place the screws at a distance of 10 centimeters from each other, press the caps deep into the sheet. Cover the inner part of the arc of the arch with a plasterboard strip curved in the shape of the arc. Attach the screws to the profile in increments of 5-7 centimeters.
Important! Mount the frame with a retreat of 0.15 centimeters into the opening depth. This is the distance that the sheet of drywall along with the finishing will subsequently occupy.
At this point, making an arch with your own hands can be considered complete. Now the entire structure requires finishing. Remember that by using an arch as a separation of spatial zones, you oblige yourself to adhere to a certain style in the design of the common space of the living room and kitchen. An arch is a durable element that will never go out of style. Depending on changing tastes, it can be decorated in a new way each time: this can be done together with the existing interior or separately, adjusting it to it. If you get tired of the arch, its dismantling will not be expensive either in time or in finance.
Pros and cons of an arched opening in the kitchen
When starting renovations in an apartment, we think about how to make the design of the room original and at the same time avoid fatal mistakes, the correction of which will lead to large material costs. After all, as you know, rebuilding is always more expensive than building.
If you have chosen an arch for the design of your kitchen opening, you need to carefully study all the pros and cons that you may encounter during operation.
One of the main advantages of an arched opening is the increase in the working area of the kitchen. After all, the kitchen is a common room where the whole family gathers, and, as a rule, there is always not enough space.
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Also in favor of the arch is the fact that the kitchen does not require privacy and the absence of a door will not bring discomfort to your personal life.
ATTENTION! The absence of a door in the kitchen will make the adjacent room brighter and visually create the impression of a single space.
The original design of the arched doorway will make your apartment modern and memorable.
The presence of an arch in the kitchen does not allow air to stagnate and promotes rapid ventilation of the room.
Arched openings help visually divide the room into zones. This is very important if you live in a studio apartment.
Another argument in favor of the arch is cost savings. After all, its design will cost several times less than purchasing and installing an interior door.
The disadvantages of an arched opening between the kitchen and the living area of the apartment include, first of all, the lack of sound insulation. If you refuse a door in the kitchen, you risk constantly hearing everything that happens there from anywhere in the apartment.
Cooking smells can also follow you throughout your living space. But this disadvantage of the lack of a door is easily solved by purchasing a powerful hood.
When installing an arch, you should think about the unified design of the kitchen and the adjacent room, which is very important for maintaining the aesthetic side of combining two rooms into one. And the mess that sometimes happens in the kitchen can no longer be hidden behind a closed door.
Color solutions
When choosing a color for a kitchen combined with a living room, you should take into account:
- design style;
- rules for combining colors in the interior;
- personal preferences;
- psychology of color.
Some may classify the last point as esoteric, but this is not so. If you have already decided on the interior style, let him point you to the right combinations. For the classics, these are pastel, delicate shades, diluted with dark brown or black in the minority.
Provence loves soft blue, pink, light green in combination with wood. Scandinavian style is a mix of white, gray and wood. Country styles are characterized by national colors. Art Deco is decorated in black and white, sometimes in beige-brown or silver-black.
There are rules for choosing colors that are associated not with style, but with proportions and the number of colors, and here they are:
1.60x30x10 is color harmony. 60% of the space belongs to the main color (wall decoration, upholstered furniture), 30 to an additional color (furniture facades), and 10% should be devoted to accents.
2. A color-balanced interior is represented by one or two primary colors and the same number of additional colors or accents.
Whether to follow the rules is up to you to decide. One way or another, their violation is only welcomed by the latest fashion trends.
Let's start with the main thing, and this is the color of the walls. A kitchen-living room in white is a universal solution and convenient in its own way. This way you will further increase the area of the room, and later you can easily paint it in any other color.
There is only one minus - in the kitchen area the white will quickly lose its freshness, so be prepared for regular wiping.
More suitable from this point of view would be a design in beige or gray. This wall color is an excellent background for all other colors and most styles.
In monochrome interiors, the accent will be the unusual color of the wallpaper, decorated with photo printing or three-dimensional images. A bright, cheerful and at the same time waterproof design for a kitchen apron is the best gift for every housewife.
Don’t forget that dark colors are space eaters and should be used in the minority. A fashionable decoration for the guest area will be an accent wall, the role of which will also be played by a dividing partition.
The design of the ceiling is most often a color continuation of the walls, but there are also more modern options - combined or two-level ceilings with PVC or satin fabrics. A glossy or textured finish will harmoniously complement the kitchen set and upholstery of upholstered furniture in the living room.
Decorating the floor in white is a very bold, but not entirely rational solution for the kitchen, and even more so for the living room. A more cunning move would be white “marbled” - with veins or inclusions, beige, brown, gray or black. Striped, checkered and patchwork options are also very relevant, but not for very colorful interiors.
The color of the furniture in the kitchen should echo the furnishings in the living room. You can bring it there, for example, using elements of an accent wall, textiles or sofa cushions. It wouldn’t hurt to transfer the color that is present on several vertical surfaces to one of the horizontal surfaces, combining these planes into one.
A little about the psychology of color: bright, flashy colors tone up, increase appetite and can make it difficult to fall asleep, and children are most sensitive to this. If you have them, just in case, check out the characteristics of the selected color.
Kitchen arches and doorways to the ceiling
In one article we looked at the topic - is a door needed in the kitchen, or is it better to dismantle it? So for those residents who decided to demolish the kitchen door, today the conversation will begin.
If you are determined to remove the kitchen door, then the doorway will need to be redone somehow. And here another question arises: what is better? Build a beautiful arch, or disassemble a doorway to the ceiling. And thereby give the kitchen a feeling of spaciousness and height.
For clarity, we will show you several photos of kitchen openings. Both with and without arches. And you decide for yourself what you like best and what is suitable for your kitchen.
Photo of openings to the ceiling in the kitchen
Let's start our photo review of arches and openings from the kitchen of a two-room apartment, panel house P44T. As you can see in the photo, if the kitchen opening is removed completely to the ceiling, the kitchen becomes even more spacious and it is visually felt that the ceiling has risen to the skies.
Another photo of a kitchen opening up to the ceiling, taken in the kitchen of a two-room apartment in a vest.
In this photo, a kitchen opening was made in a one-room apartment of a P44T panel house
Here is an interesting job on decorating a kitchen doorway in a two-room apartment. The ventilation shaft was lined with stone tiles on all sides.
The beauty of the doorway was let down by the box running along the wall.
Photo of classic round arches in the kitchen opening
Let's now look at the classics of the genre. And we are presented with a kitchen in a two-room apartment of the line, panel house P44T. The kitchen arch is made in a classic way, creating at the edges the effect of resting the upper semicircle on pillars.
This is already a kitchen with a bay window in a two-room apartment. We see how residents did not build a kitchen arch themselves, but bought and installed a ready-made arch in the kitchen opening.
So, the next photo shows us a classic arch with a semicircular top. But along the edges the arch is made without the effect of resting the upper part on the pillars. Thanks to this, visually, some kind of lightness and freedom appears in the design. It seems that the arch is hanging in the air.
Another example of a classic kitchen arch, without support on pillars. The semicircle is deep. It sounds like something oriental.
Well, here they didn’t make a deep semicircle.
That everything is circles and circles - let the semi-diamond be an arch.
Photos of kitchen semi-arches - in the top five popular styles in the kitchen. One edge of such an arch is smooth, and the other is rounded. Giving the doorway the appearance of a drawn bow.
It seems that in the photo above and in the photo below the semi-arches are identical in meaning. But the difference, as they say, is obvious.
They added some edging around the edges of the semi-arch, and it looks much more beautiful.
Well, the last kitchen semi-arch in our collection.
Photo of kitchen arches with plasterboard shelves - if you’re tired of all the classic arches, it doesn’t matter. Using drywall, you can make any arches to your taste. At the end of the article I would like to show a very interesting kitchen arch with shelves, made of plasterboard material. Such a beautiful arch with shelves was made in a one-room apartment in a P44T panel house
Especially in the evening, when you turn on the arch lighting, it will sparkle in all its glory. And it will delight not only your eye for a long time, but also all the guests who come to visit you.
This is the unusual arched photo report we got. I hope now you already know what your kitchen doorway, or maybe an arch, will look like?
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Peculiarities
As you know, a kitchen is a room where food is constantly processed and dishes are prepared. Most of the time it is filled with vapors and food odors. All this makes the room damp and quickly dirty, which makes it much more difficult to maintain the doors, shortening their service life, and this is especially unpleasant if they are made from expensive types of wood.
But this is not the only problem - it is known that doors visually make already small rooms smaller. In addition, the need to open the doors reduces the space for arranging functional areas - the designers calculated that a standard swing model hides about 1 square meter. m area.
An open doorway, on the contrary, will visually expand the boundaries of the kitchen and ergonomically combine the kitchen with the living room or dining room.
The advantages of open openings also include aesthetics and a non-standard appearance - with proper and stylish decor, the passage can look very stylish.
The absence of a door leaf blocking the movement of air masses promotes normal air circulation and maintains a favorable microclimate in the room.
However, not everyone likes doorways without a door, since they do not allow the room to be completely isolated.
In fairness, it should be noted that when it comes to the kitchen, this is not critical, unless, of course, the door is needed to separate the room from the bedroom or children's room.
Kitchen-living room in classic (traditional) styles
By classic we mean a whole family of trends, essentially differing in the level of pretentiousness and avant-gardeism, color palette and correctness of forms. We will go through the most notable of them.
Kitchen-living room in Provence style
This romantic and very gentle destination, named after the southern French region, will fill your home with comfort and warmth. A kitchen-living room in the Provence style is an abundance of daylight, decor, textiles, ornaments, floral patterns and soft, pastel colors.
To fully match the style, furniture should be made of light painted wood, while natural, artificially aged materials can be safely combined with imitations. The monochromatic design of the walls will be diluted by curtains with a checkered or floral print.
And short curtains to match the color of the tablecloth or kitchen apron will replace the doors of the kitchen unit.
Cute vases and figurines, bottles and pots decorated with ribbons, forged elements, bows, lace - if you think that there is never too much beauty, you will find yourself in this style.
Classic style
If you:
- are obliged to correspond to high status in everything;
- want to emphasize your noble origin;
- you simply do not accept changes and are not ready to part with antique interior items;
- Do you consider decor an integral part of comfort?
– think about decorating in a classic style.
It accepts expensive, noble materials in the decoration of floors, ceilings, walls and furniture, a symbiosis of laconicism and decorativeness, elegance and strict symmetry of forms.
A classic kitchen combined with a living room is and will remain timeless, as these photos will confirm.
Country
Having considered Provence - a type of French country - it would be unfair not to pay attention to other national village styles, united by the simplicity and comfort of design. The meaning of style is the ability to escape from the bustle of the city by simply returning home.
All that remains is to choose a country that is close to your soul - your native one or a distant but beloved one. It turns out that there are many types of country music - Russian, Italian, Indian, Egyptian, American, Japanese, and they differ in objects, materials and colors.
But here's what they have in common:
- eco-materials;
- antique, vintage items;
- knitted, patchwork, hand-made textiles;
- authentic decor items;
- often - a round wooden table with a “great-grandmother’s” tablecloth.
Art Deco
The brilliant brainchild of neoclassical and modern, art deco is an exquisite combination of steel, glass, leather, mirrors and silk. All this may well end up in your kitchen combined with the living room.
The originality of the style is manifested in strong lighting, the play of light and shadows, multi-stage design, contrasting stripes or cages. But the style decoration of the room will be considered complete and fully consistent with the style, provided that the interior contains objects of art and elements of luxury.
Modern
Especially for refined natures, connoisseurs of exclusive products and accessories, we will consider a fabulous version of the Art Nouveau style (Tiffany).
Imagine it as if in a classic kitchen combined with a living room. Now you asymmetrically stretch the doors and furniture, giving them curved shapes, add stained glass instead of glass, optical illusions on the walls and ceiling, and make the combination of white and blue colors dominant. You're almost there!
American Art Nouveau - and Tiffany also bears this name - is characterized by simplicity, elegance, practicality, and the presence of the latest technologies and objects of applied art.
Tips for choosing
When choosing methods for decorating an entrance without a door, it is imperative to take into account the characteristics of the kitchen area and the entire apartment as a whole.
Advice: if the walls around the opening are wider than 0.8 m, then you can decorate the projections with shelves and niches - such a solution will greatly increase the ergonomics and functionality of the space.
The color of the finishing panels can be contrasting with the walls, but should not stand out from the overall color scheme; the ideal option is when the passage lining matches the shade of the floor or ceiling. An effective solution would be to use asymmetrically shaped openings, but they will look most advantageous in tandem with plain walls.
