How to furnish a small and narrow rectangular kitchen?

Over the years, home spaces have shrunk, it is rare to find large houses with large surfaces to furnish. And even the kitchen, which has always been considered one of the most important rooms, has to be much smaller, essential and easy to move around in order to be able to do all the daily chores in the best possible way.

But this is not a good reason to neglect good taste and style.

The genre can vary, from the most classic, elegant, to something more rustic or industrial. The important thing is that the whole is harmonious and characterizes the entire environment, including the dining room, the table and chairs. And it is precisely the latter that give the extra touch to a house, of modernity, elegance or practicality, it all depends on your personal tastes.

The fundamental aspect that you should not give up is the comfort. The chairs for the kitchen must have comfortable seats and be practical to clean.

Kitchen 3 meters by 2, how to furnish it?

Often in an apartment the space for the kitchen is reduced to a corridor, where you have to furnish a small and narrow kitchenette. Managing to fit furniture and appliances is not easy, all the furniture must be properly placed to be able to contain:

• pots
• plates
• glasses
• cutlery
• food

The best way to exploit a long and narrow room is the height, putting all the objects of less common use at the top you will not need to use the ladder too often and you can avoid sacrificing tools that can always come in handy.

Essential appliances, drawers, shelves, hooks, are the secret to a small and functional kitchen. And thanks to a few tricks, the use of mirrors, the right color combinations, games of volumes, lights and maybe with the help of a window overlooking the outside, even the smallest room will seem large and spacious.

Accessories inside the kitchen

There are beautiful accessories and design complements to be inserted inside a small kitchen that allow you not to give up space and give the house a touch of practicality and elegance:

TavoliSedie.com offers for sale a very convenient floor bottle holder, perfect for those who do not want to deprive themselves of a practical wine cellar and prefer to keep their wines in a proper position.

Developing in height, this bottle rack occupies very little space and allows you to always have available your favorite labels. The frame is entirely made of metal, it is 93 centimeters high and it is only 36 centimeters deep and it can hold a maximum of eight bottles, arranged in a horizontal position, suitable for the most longeval and delicate wines.

There are other similar solutions, both for wall and floor mounting, all very practical and flexible, they can in fact adapt to different environments, the most classic or the most modern ones, as well as rustic and essential.

Since nothing must be left to chance, the garbage collection can be a great cue to add cheerful and colorful details to the interior of the kitchen.

The Cedro recycling container, proposed by TavoliSedie.com, can be a useful element to avoid having to hide the waste. Often, in fact, the containers are placed under the sink, on the terrace, closed in special furniture, but thanks to these practical and colorful aluminum containers everything will be in order and clean.

Each color corresponds to a different waste, there is blue for paper, yellow for plastic and so on, they can be purchased all five or even individually, each occupies 70 centimeters in height and 30 in width and depth.

They are perfect for a small room where nothing must be left to chance, not even the waste bins.

Kitchen on two sides

An excellent solution to reinvent the space and arrange the kitchen in a functional and uniform way, is to put it on two sides, taking advantage of two walls, or combining it with an island. This option is perfect for those who like to spend time at home and loves to cook for friends and relatives, all the plans and appliances are well distributed, allowing you to make fast and organized preparation of various foods.

There are really many different solutions and combinations.

The best structured kitchens on two sides usually have on the longest wall the installations: the hood, the hob, the dishwasher and the sink, on the second one there are the appliances and the fridge.

The most interesting design options place the sink or cooktop in the central part of the kitchen, on the island, some even place both.

Linear Kitchens on one wall

In some cases the only way to arrange the kitchen is in a linear way, using a single wall and obtaining a practical and space-saving solution with sink, hobs and appliances all on the same line. There are many advantages of a kitchenette arranged on a single wall, first of all it is simple, essential, tidy, everything is at hand.

Perfect for an open space, having at a glance all the furniture lined up is very pleasant, whether the decor is more classic or modern.

The elements that absolutely cannot be missing are: the appliances, the sink, the stove with the hood, the storage cabinets and the worktop. For a narrow kitchen, the minimum measurements should be at least 60 centimeters of the top and three meters in length. In this space, however, it will be necessary to sacrifice a few drawers or the dishwasher, but if you consider being little at the stove is a perfect solution.

How long does it need to be? 3 or 4 meters?

There is no perfect size for the kitchen, it depends on how you plan to organize the space and how much you think you will use it, certainly those who live a little house can also think of not having a dishwasher and use a small refrigerator, can not miss anything instead to those who love to stay at the stove and maybe have a large family to feed.

In any case, for a simple and essential kitchenette three meters are perfect, there are also many ideas and modular solutions.

But four meters are the right compromise to have space and not having to give up anything. Everything will be more orderly and functional with a comfortable 90 cm sink, a column fridge, 60 cm burners and a nice work surface on which to place even the small appliances that you absolutely must not give up.

How to enhance a small kitchen?

It is only thanks to the details and light games that a small kitchen can become beautiful and original, thanks to its small size can be even more welcoming, being attached to the dining room becomes an excellent convivial room for the whole family during the various moments of the day.

To enhance it is not necessary to put too many decorative elements, just a few details that can also be made up of the same appliances, such as a nice colored fridge, or stools that capture the attention of the room and enhance it.

Natural light can be a great help in a small space, the ideal would be to have a rectangular kitchen with a French window that enlarges the environment and makes it much more harmonious.

But where it is not possible to have windows, the use of mirrors or transparent dividers, illuminate the kitchen and do not make it too closed and suffocating. Harmony, light and color are therefore the answer for a small kitchen essential but practical and elegant.