Not so long ago, for a developer who began renovations, all efforts came down to a simple thesis: clean and tidy. Over time, regulations and standards have changed - and if someone today has a kitchen with a stove in a private house, the design should already be subject to some single concept, the general idea of the entire home.
Moreover, with an obligatory eye on the set of functionality. So simply observing simple, some basic hygienic or ergonomic standards is now considered insufficient. We need a bright image.
Before and now
Until not so long ago, almost all houses, regardless of geography and degree of relation to urban development, had stove heating - this is a mass standard technology used throughout the country (and throughout the world, in fact).
That is why previously they did not pay much attention to the stove in the interior. It was the same familiar piece of furniture as a door, table, window. There were attempts to disguise this rather bulky item by matching the stove lining to the overall style of the room or in the opposite order, but such events, although they took place from time to time, were still carried out sluggishly, without excessive enthusiasm.
Typical solutions of that time were:
- the brick stove is whitewashed - cracks with soot marks are clearly visible on the white background (they require immediate repair for safety reasons). In general, white color slightly reduces the heat transfer of the array, but has a good effect on the illumination of the room;
- a stove with a metal lining (or just a metal stove) was rubbed with a special composition containing graphite - this gave the surface a pleasant matte shine and protected well from rust. In addition, unlike paints, graphite does not change its properties at high temperatures, which is extremely important for a heating device.
Well, then the room was furnished according to the patterns of its time, adjusted for the personal taste and financial capabilities of the owners - the stove had absolutely no influence on the choice of general style or selection of individual accessories. The result was two different, independent solutions - the stove and the interior of the room.
Method of decorating a stove in a kitchen interior
This stove can be finished with tiles. One of the advantages is that it warms up the entire house.
Tiles are a durable and unique material, resistant to high temperatures, and also have an aesthetic appearance.
At the same time, the air temperature in the house is always kept at a comfortable temperature. This is especially necessary in winter.
Additional Information! Here you can cook traditional Russian dishes and bake bread. It's very convenient and simple. The main thing is to do everything in accordance with safety rules. This is an important point that should never be overlooked.
Tile
To finish such a stove with tiles, you may need a small set of tools. You also need to take bulk materials in order to make the appropriate solution and much more.
The choice of tool must be approached responsibly. The quality and speed of work depends on this.
To do this, let's take:
- tile cutter;
- putty knife;
- level;
- Master OK;
- bucket with water;
- spray;
- primer;
- sponge to remove dirt.
Finishing the stove is an important and responsible stage. It is better to entrust the process to professionals.
Stone
To finish a stove with stone, you also need an appropriate set of tools. For the stove, you can choose an inexpensive stone with which you can quickly line the stove. Porcelain stoneware or concrete stone is used for finishing. For finishing, you should prepare the necessary solution in advance, observing all proportions.
Stone for finishing a stove is a win-win option; you can choose one that suits any style.
Plaster
A simple option would be to plaster the stove. It is necessary to plaster the stove so that there are no cracks. When plastering, you should follow the technology and use finishing mixtures in equal quantities.
The traditional solution for stove design is plaster. Simple and tasteful.
Rule of modernity
Today, stove heating is almost exotic. Especially for a city dweller. Accordingly, most people have a stereotype: a stove is an indispensable attribute of rural areas. So any setting of a kitchen room in which there is a stove should, to one degree or another, evoke associations, if not with a dacha, then with some corner of the province. You must definitely feel the rural spirit and mood.
In fact, we simply forget that a stove is a very useful and necessary tool. Therefore, you should not limit yourself to country music or some other pseudo-folk style. You can safely experiment and try to achieve your own special expressiveness.
If a person knows how to choose the design of a bedroom or hallway in an ordinary house, then he can handle a kitchen equipped with a stove.
The only thing to avoid is excessive eclecticism. There is no need to indiscriminately mix styles, schools, directions. Take one line, an idea as the main guide and follow it.
But this does not mean that there is no room for maneuver. This means that the overall image should be complete.
Video description
The video describes how the Swedish oven works on two floors:
The design of the Grum-Grizhimailo stove is also suitable for heating the first and attic floors. It has a round shape. Its operation is based on the principle of free movement of gases. They penetrate into the upper part, where the hood is located, through the hailo - a hole located right in the middle of the firebox. Heat transfer occurs in the upper section. Cooled gas falls, hot gas rises.
Design drawings of Groom-Grizhimailo Source bani-i-sauni.ru
How to wisely manage your interior space
The layout of a 6 by 8 house with a stove or a smaller cottage depends on the location of the stove equipment. According to SNiP, it should be located strictly in the middle of the structure. In this case, the hob turns towards the kitchen, and the stone side towards the living rooms.
Possible options for the location of heating equipment Source www.derev-grad.ru
If you place the stove against the wall (and this is what many owners of country houses do), cold vortex flows will be created below and on the floor, which means the residents will freeze. Only the correct placement of heating equipment allows you to create comfortable conditions without the use of alternative heating systems.
Connection diagram for a furnace with a water circuit Source dachniy-ugolok.ru
The stove is installed against the wall only if a water circuit is to be installed. To do this, a heat exchanger is placed inside the chamber, where the fuel burns. Two pipes are connected to it. One of them will supply coolant, the other will return it for reheating.
The principle of operation of a wood-burning stove with a water circuit Source duval.com.ua
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The heat exchanger is made of metal sheets 3 mm thick. This figure may be higher, but it is more difficult to heat up metal 5 mm thick, and this will require large fuel resources. There are options in which two or three stoves are built in one house at once. Practice shows that this arrangement is not economical: it is necessary to build several chimneys, and fuel consumption increases.
Heating on two floors Source static.tildacdn.com
There are projects of two-story houses with stove equipment. In them, all the heavy parts (foundation, main body with a stove bench and oven) are located on the ground floor. At the top there is a part of the chimney and a heating shield. In buildings with a large number of floors, it is necessary to plan the installation of closed boiler rooms.
The upper part of the pipe is capable of heating the attic Source static.tildacdn.com
Possible options
When the house is small (6 by 4 or 6 by 7) and it is one-story, it is advisable to make a studio inside and use the stove as a space divider. Where the hob and oven are, there is a kitchen area, on the opposite side there is a bedroom, the rest of the space is the dining room and living room.
Open studio with a stove in the middle Source yandex.net
The standard layout of a 6 by 7 house with a one-story stove can be divided into separate living rooms. The principle of organizing the space remains the same: heating equipment in the middle. The partitions are erected according to the diagram presented in the following photo.
The principle of organizing space with interior partitions Source yandex.net/
In this situation, you can organize a fireplace in each room, but having one central unit is still preferable (this will help significantly save fuel consumption). Instead of individual hearths, it is easy to create false fireplaces by providing a small recess in the stove body. This move will allow you to decorate the room, make it more decorative, and also increase heat transfer.
False fireplaces on the back of the stove Source izrazec.by
The layout of a one-story house 6 by 8 with a stove and one bedroom is considered successful, in which the heating equipment from the center is shifted slightly to the side, closer to the hallway. Directly behind it is the plumbing unit. In front of these rooms there is space to organize a living room combined with a kitchen and a bedroom.
A stove for two rooms with a hob facing the kitchen Source i.pinimg.com
At the same time, the firebox of the hearth is unfolded in such a way that it is in the kitchen, and the bed is in the bedroom. There it will remain warm longer, and there will be a corner for comfortable relaxation. The part of the stove facing the hallway is used as a shoe dryer; it is also convenient for drying wet clothes. If the house is used for permanent residence, it is advisable to initially assemble a stove with summer operation. It will allow you to use the equipment without using heating.
Convenient layout of a 6 by 8 house Source archmasters.ru
Two-bedroom layouts are also available. In this case, it is better to place the stove in the wall between the night rest area and the living room. The firebox turns in her direction. In front of it there is an entrance hall and a plumbing unit. They are not heated. And if the installation of alternative heating is not provided, you will have to consider the construction of an air duct system.
Stove with firebox in the living room Source yandex.net
The eyes are afraid, but the hands do
Let's start with something simple. From the exploitation of other people's ideas. More precisely, from the transplantation of some almost standard design solution onto the soil where one nationality had previously grown. In order not to get confused in terms, let's try to look at specific examples in the photo.
Very often the stove is placed in the corner - this makes it easier to arrange other furniture. But it may very well happen that the stove will end up in the center of the interior composition and become its main element. How then should we proceed? Very simple.
If space allows, we add a cutting table and a sink to the oven - such circular accessibility is often exploited by kitchen designers. Modern and comfortable.
The reception is also good where the kitchen is combined with the dining room or living room. Typically, such designs combine several services. So you can turn the fireplace part towards the living room, and something more utilitarian (like in the picture - a wood-burning stove for a cauldron) - towards the working kitchen area. So the functionality will not be affected, and some kind of visual zone separator will appear.
In this interpretation, everything will fit: a classic fireplace and a closed steel firebox, fashionable high-tech and a hooligan loft. In the end, any motive can be played out. There would be a desire.
Passage layout
If there is a walk-through kitchen, designers are faced with the task of how to make it so as to emphasize and highlight the boundaries of the kitchen space. Typically, this requires installing furniture in a special way, additionally organizing sources of artificial lighting, and also correctly using different materials and flooring patterns.
A walk-through kitchen can also become a cozy and interesting place.
In the kitchen area, you can lay tiles in a checkerboard pattern, and use another covering outside the boundaries, for example, laminate or plain tiles. The floor in the kitchen area can also be highlighted with a brighter and richer color. It is very convenient when the kitchen has a heated floor; even in winter such a room is cozy and comfortable, this is especially important for large rooms in a private house where there may be drafts. The technology for laying warm electric floors is not so complicated and you can do it yourself. To focus attention on the working surface of a walk-through kitchen, you need to hang several lamps above it.
The table in the walk-through kitchen should be placed in such a way that the cabinets and the workplace itself do not interfere with the passage.
Victorian version
Until the end of the 18th century, people in England cooked on fireplaces. At the same time, the power of the fireplace was determined by its length - the wider the firebox, the more skewers or boilers can be placed in front of the fire. There was only a linear layout.
That is, if we draw an analogy with modern burners, then the only layout solution of that era was to arrange them in one line. So the kitchen fireplaces turned out to be indecently large - to cook soup and boil a kettle.
But then an industrial boom began, and firewood was replaced by high-calorie, but rather smelly coal. We had to come up with a way to protect food from sulfur smoke. Thus began the era of mass production of cookstoves - metallurgy already made it possible to cope with a similar task.
And then the question arose of connecting these slabs to the chimneys. The design is more modest in size than previous fireplaces, but also less demanding on chimneys. And what to do with those fireplaces that have already been built?
The Victorians didn't come up with anything special. They simply slid the new stove into the portal of the old wood-burning fireplace. As a result, the fireplace pipe began to work both as a stove chimney and as an exhaust hood. Very comfortably.
The same can be done today. There is simplicity and versatility here. And if you add modesty to the interior and remove the excessive pomp characteristic of the interiors of that era, you will get a good motif of a rural farm cottage.
Furniture made of simple pine, lattice frames on windows and doors, solid chairs and massive dining tables, monochrome ceramic tiles on the floor or aged floorboards are the main style markers.
Rustic kitchen design with stove
Before you start arranging your kitchen, you should start with the rational use of space. Furniture should not take up much space, everything should be compactly arranged. At the same time, it is necessary to leave space for the installation of small and large household appliances.
Important! Equally important is the selection of lighting, which should be in the form of hanging or spotlights. Much attention is paid to lighting fixtures, since the light in the kitchen should be bright, not dim.
Here you can even choose beautiful curtains for the windows that fit well with the interior. The use of a hood that is easy to install is becoming popular. At the same time, it does not take up much space. You should pay close attention to the design of a kitchen with a stove, as this is the main thing you need to pay attention to.
Curtains for the windows serve as the final element of the interior. For a harmonious image, it is important to choose a color scheme and style.
A brick oven can take pride of place in your kitchen. For this you will also need firewood, which should be in a separate place. And on top you can decorate with a large number of designs and ornaments in the Russian style.
Quite a village
As already mentioned, whitewashing of stoves began for purely practical reasons. It’s just that the surface that is not finished with anything, bare brick, gives off heat better. So in many country houses, the owners do not even think about masking the brick with anything - its surface itself is very expressive.
The furnishings and decoration in such a house can be subordinated to the idea of an unfinished stove. This does not require any special tricks. Simple wood and plain panels on the walls are enough. But such puritanism can be diluted with contrasting furniture or some decorations on the walls.
This method works especially well in small spaces. Although a large summer kitchen can only benefit from this approach. Moreover, such a project will not require large budget expenditures.
The special charm is that this is almost a panacea for those who like to make things with their own hands, but are little familiar with the stove business - the first independent designs, as a rule, turn out to be rather unsightly in appearance. And this approach allows you to turn the imperfection of form into an advantage.
By playing with shortcomings in this manner, we seem to elevate them to the category of special finds, individual characteristics. Imperfection also has its own, unique beauty.
Finishing materials for the kitchen with stove
To transform the kitchen walls, you can paint them with light paint. Gluing washable wallpaper is also becoming popular.
The choice of wallpaper pattern depends on the overall design idea of the kitchen space.
The best option would be to use vinyl wallpaper. Not only can they be washed, but they also do not fade over time. Moreover, such wallpaper does not absorb any odors.
Note! In addition, you can use decorative plaster. One of the advantages of such plaster is its unique patterns. The plaster composition is applied to the wall and various designs are created.
In addition, plastic panels can be a popular finishing material. They are moisture resistant and durable. They do not require special care or installation.
Ceiling finishing
As for the ceiling, you can paint it with water-based paint. You can also cover it with ceiling tiles. Tile patterns come in a wide variety, ranging from simple to complex. You can hang a small chandelier or hanging lamps in the middle. Now this is becoming relevant. Everyone can choose at their own discretion.
Beams on the ceiling add a special effect and are great for a rustic style.
Wall decoration
The walls can be painted any color. The use of drawings made by artists is becoming popular.
Floral patterns on the walls of a rustic kitchen fit harmoniously into a rural interior.
Often photo wallpapers are used, which are easy to glue and at the same time they require special care. They will decorate any interior of an apartment or house.
The white color of the walls will fill the kitchen with airiness and create a feeling of large space.
The walls can also be decorated with plaster.
An unusual option is plaster and stone for walls in a country house.
Its advantage is that it can be applied to any type of material. Uneven surfaces and cracks can be repaired. At the same time, it is considered durable and not subject to temperature changes. Each finish has its advantages. Choose what is closest to you!
Combination as a fundamental principle
In most cases, one method of finishing the stove surface is chosen. Plaster, tile, metal, brick. But this is not the rule. This is a habit, a stereotype. So there will be nothing terrible in ignoring it.
There is especially a lot of freedom of action where the oven is large. Large ovens mean more surface area. And as a result, there is room for expression. Like an artist's canvas. The larger the dimensions, the larger the idea. There’s a lot that can’t be put into miniature.
Large stoves are especially attractive because each of their walls can be decorated in its own style. And there will be no bad taste in this. The zones adjacent to these walls are played out in the same way.
The project below illustrates a similar principle of spatial thinking. The wall with a cassette fireplace contains a minimum of decorations, gravitating towards simple lines and overall minimalism.
And in that part of the kitchen where the Russian stove is facing, a certain amount of riotousness and floridity is quite appropriate. There is a bright, almost oriental tile, a polished samovar, and even a modern induction hob. Modern elements get lost in such folkloric abundance unless overused too often.
Epilogue
In conclusion, I would like to add that no achievements of modern civilization will displace brick kilns from the life and everyday life of Russian people. After all, they are all quite easy to use, do not require expensive fuel and do an excellent job of all important functions (read also about how to make kitchen furniture at home).
Well, if an alternative solution is found in this regard, then the old Russian stove will remain as an exclusive and unique element of kitchen interior decor. For dessert, especially for you, we have prepared an interesting thematic video. Enjoy watching!
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Guest house
A dacha is a place of rest. Unfortunately, a person cannot devote most of his life to such an exciting activity. Therefore, a dacha in no way refers to permanent housing - it is a temporary comfort zone.
It makes no sense to spend money on a country house in the same way as on your main home. Country aesthetics are always simpler, less expensive and expressive. Often with a play on rural motifs, the room must nevertheless resonate in spirit with the surrounding landscape.
Actually, the idea of a kitchen as something like a cozy hotel room or guest house comes from the above calculations. A small kitchen-dining room is especially suitable for this look.
Dense arrangement of furniture, minimum decorations. The center of the room is free - a large common table would fit well there. Natural wood color, wooden furniture, floors, frames, ceilings, curtains. Linen curtains or stylized homespun curtains, simple patterns on the fabric and patchwork rugs.
Simplicity here does not mean inconvenience and lack of comfort. This is just an image that disconnects us from the overabundance of city bustle and helps us relax.
Dining room
The main advantage of a large house is the ability to combine the kitchen with the dining room. A separate room for eating is a luxury for owners of small apartments, but commonplace for owners of a private house. The work area and eating area should be separated from each other. You can zone the space either with the help of partitions, or with the help of separate lighting for each zone, or through the correct arrangement of furniture.
Above the dining table, surrounded by chairs, you can hang a floor lamp, which will create coziness during an evening dinner. You can also raise the work area by making the floors in it a few centimeters higher than in the rest of the room. The design of the kitchen and living room dining room should be made in the same style.
Scandinavian approach
The so-called Scandinavian style - a peculiar elaboration of Provence - allows us to reconcile modernity and archaism. This is northern country, initially focused on modern standards of comfort.
The Scandinavian style is not characterized by technological delights and the contrast of fashionable materials such as glass and steel. This is primarily stone and wood, complemented by a soft natural palette. This setting would suit a rough stone or brick fireplace. A sort of mixture of natural asymmetry and human perfectionism.
Selection rules
When choosing a stove for a rural or country house, first of all you need to be guided by the area and features of the room, as well as the preferences of the owners. If the design will be used exclusively for heating, the best option would be to install a Dutch oven, which will quickly heat a room of about 50-60 m2.
If the house is small and the stove will be used for heating and cooking, it is better to install a Swedish firebox, which can be heated with coal. If the kitchen is large, it is possible to install a classic Russian stove.
Choosing the right finish
There are several rules that should be followed in the decoration and decoration of such spaces.
- Materials for finishing the structure itself and the surrounding area must be fire-resistant: paint, plaster, brick. It is advisable to avoid large amounts of wood untreated with fire retardants near a burning installation.
- Try to choose natural materials, and you should avoid plastic, gloss and modern technology (for example, a TV).
- It is advisable to use stone and porcelain tiles when finishing the floor.
