Because the current small kitchen is very inconvenient to use, I have been considering the design of the new kitchen before the renovation, and I have written my own experience in an article >; How does rhapsody in cabinets make cabinets better? ",I have also visited the cabinet brands and studied their designs.

Now that the kitchen is finally finished, I'd like to post a report here, thanking all the students who have been paying attention to the progress of my cupboard and all the merchants who have devoted a lot of time, energy and efforts to it.

Panorama of the kitchen:

There are two main ideas in designing this kitchen:

1. Maximize the operating table: it is never too big to use the operating table. To reserve as much operating room as possible, it is necessary to find a good place for all kinds of sundries in advance.

2. Maximize storage space: cram as many things into the kitchen as possible, which can effectively reduce the clutter in the living room, dining room and bathroom.

the first step of playing around the kitchen: transform the original pattern and expand the space

the original kitchen is only 3.5 meters long, and the length of the cabinet can only be 2.5 meters after deducting the two large stacks of flue and sewer. You can't make two rows of cabinets with a width of 1.5 meters. If you use this size to make cabinets, the length of the console is less than 1 meter after deducting the sink and cooker. Then put on electric appliances such as rice cookers and microwave ovens, and it is estimated that there is no place to put the cutting board when cooking.

So it was remodeled, and the original wall in the south of the kitchen was knocked out and pushed to the south, and the kitchen door was changed into a sliding door that opened towards the dining room.

This modification has several advantages:

1. The kitchen space is expanded to six square meters;

2. The sliding door is facing the dining room, so it is convenient to communicate between the kitchen and the dining room;

3. The newly-built wall forms a large screen, which prevents the room from being seen by the door at a glance, and also makes room for the porch shoe cabinet;

4. From the geomantic point of view, one is to avoid the taboo kitchen door facing the entrance door; The other is that the entrance door of my house is facing the long corridor in the corridor. In geomantic omen, this is an arrow through the heart. The newly built wall forms a big screen to block the arrow through the heart. Feng shui, whether it makes sense or not, just do what you can, and there's nothing you can do if you can't, hehe.

the second step of playing around the kitchen: unconventional refrigerator location and unconventional cabinet design, and increase the operating table and storage space

Generally speaking, the refrigerator should be placed in the following position:

But once the refrigerator is placed, the position of the cabinet that can be expanded is very limited, only about 3cm wide, which is of little use and very embarrassing.

So I thought of building cabinets all over the wall and putting the refrigerator in this position, which can increase the floor cabinets and hanging cabinets by nearly one meter, and greatly increase the operating table and storage space.

But at this time, we encountered a very difficult problem: the distance between the refrigerator and the ground cabinet is less than 3cm, and the door of the ground cabinet cannot be opened.

scheme 1: the most common solution is to make a part of the fixed door and a part of the openable valve.

I'm actually not satisfied with this scheme, because the conventional thickness of the refrigerator is at least 6cm, which means that the 9cm floor cabinet should have a fixed door (the red part in the above picture) with a 6cm door that can't be opened, and only a movable door with a 3cm door that can be opened. When this movable door is opened, it will just block the space between the refrigerator and the floor cabinet, which is very inconvenient.

because I don't want to use the reason of "storing things that are not commonly used" to perfuse myself, I began to consider various alternatives. The following are all the schemes I have thought of. Although they were not used in the end, some of them are even a bit whimsical, but they are also written to provide some ideas for everyone:

Scheme 2: only make the whole countertop, not the ground cabinet, or just the ground cabinet, not the bucket washbasin under the cupboard door.

advantages: there is no problem of cabinet door switch, and a storage location is found for large sundries.

Disadvantage 1: This position just faces the sliding door. If it is used to put sundries, the visitors can see it at a glance, which is very unsightly.

Disadvantage 2: This kind of sundries are not small, and the space between the refrigerator and the countertop is limited, so it is still inconvenient to take and put them.

disadvantage 3: without a cupboard door, things are easy to accumulate dust.

scheme 3: put two movable floor cabinets with wheels under the countertop. When you want to take things, first pull the movable cabinet out from under the table.

advantages: there is no dead corner for taking things, and everything put in the basement can be taken.

Disadvantages: It is troublesome to take out the basement every time you take things.

scheme 4: 3 sliding doors instead of 2 opening and closing doors.

advantages: when you want to take things, you can open a space of 6cm by pushing all sliding doors to the wall, which is much more convenient than the original fixed door scheme.

Disadvantage 1: Three sliding doors need three tracks, which are thick, and the three doors are not on the same plane, which is not as beautiful as opening and closing doors;

disadvantage 2: the sliding door is not sealed.

Before I came up with the ultimate solution, sliding door was originally my favorite solution. Although I have to sacrifice a little beauty and thickness, considering that most cupboard doors will be blocked by refrigerators, it doesn't matter.

the ultimate solution: folding doors open on both sides.

after I persistently put forward my various whimsical cabinet door solutions to the designer of Muyuan and asked about the possibility of realization, I don't know whether I was moved by my sincerity or really annoyed by me. When Yang Zong of Muyuan was in my house, he suddenly came up with this genius design to design the cabinet door into four folding doors with a width of only 22cm. When opening the cabinet door, two cabinet doors open to the wall and two cabinet doors are folded back to the flue: < When closed, the four cupboard doors are flush, which is very beautiful:

To tell the truth, I didn't really admire Yang Zong, who had a close relationship. Anyone can do conventional design, but only by innovating according to local conditions can a designer's basic skills be truly tested.

for this special design of my house, a wooden edge was tossed up and down, and a * * * came to my house five or six times. Finally, Yang Zong personally went out to find this special hinge that can be opened to 175 degrees (the conventional hinge can only be opened to 9 degrees, which can't meet the needs of my family), and made these two doors:

These two doors are the biggest difficulty in the design of my cabinet. After this special design is completed, the back is very easy. There are 9cm more cabinets, hanging cabinets and countertops out of thin air. Because this table is separated by a flue, I intend to put small appliances such as rice cookers and electronic tile-supported egg cookers, which will not affect the operation platform for washing vegetables and cooking, but also avoid the oil stains of the appliances to some extent.

Play around the kitchen Step 3: Hang the oven and microwave oven in the air

In order to save the console as much as possible, I dug two holes in the hanging cabinet to put the microwave oven and small oven. Otherwise, the little console I have worked so hard to save should be taken up by these two good brothers again.

The sockets of microwave oven and oven are hidden in the hanging cabinet above, which is very beautiful.

However, students who mind the radiation head of the microwave oven should use this trick with caution, hehe.

the fourth step of playing around the kitchen: adding partitions is to double the storage space

Because the house price and land price in Japan are super expensive, their designs usually make the best use of the space. I studied the design of Japanese sideboards and found that their biggest secret is to divide the space more carefully. At present, in the conventional cabinet design in China, there is only one partition in the cabinet of the ground cabinet hanging cabinet. In this way, when putting short things in the cupboard, the space above is wasted. I added a partition to each of the two hanging cabinets, which greatly increased the space utilization. All clapboards are movable clapboards, and the height can be adjusted by yourself. Just remove the clapboards when they are not needed.

By the way, I chose the horizontal handle, because I think it can double as towel bar, which is more convenient. But unfortunately, the door near the wall in the above picture is also made into a horizontal handle, which leads to the situation that the handle hits the wall when opening the door and the door cannot be completely opened. If it is installed vertically, the door conflict will be smaller than that in the horizontal direction. I didn't stare at it when I installed it. It's not easy to change after installation.

the fifth step of playing around the kitchen: an essential accessory pot cover rack

If you want to save the space of the operation desk, the pot cover rack is essential. Otherwise, if you open the pot and put the lid on it, most of the operating table will disappear, and you don't know where to put the dishes.

In addition, remember to put chopsticks with hollowed-out bottom, or you will get moldy if you cover the chopsticks with too much water:)

There is a socket under the hanging rod, and you can use a splash box. If you don't like the splash box, you can also have the same effect by wrapping it with plastic wrap (private secret, I won't tell others)

Play around the kitchen Step 6: Match the true and false drawers to increase the overall feeling of the cabinet

This design is quite satisfactory, only the cabinets are connected in a common way:

After I chose the door panel with black and white dark flowers, I said that I would use black dark flowers in the drawer and white dark flowers in other door panels.

When re-measuring, Lao Yang suddenly had a brainwave and changed the door panel at the flue into three black dark drawers. In this way, the true and false drawers echo each other, and there is a contrast between black and white, which makes the whole set of cabinets suddenly vivid and become very design-oriented. Because of this connection, the cabinets have become a lot longer out of thin air, and the feeling of luxury houses has come out, hehe. I don't know that my family is a small apartment. Just look at this kitchen and cupboard and think it's a big house!

Step 7 of playing around the kitchen: I have all the advantages of a big sink and a small sink.

In order to save the console space between the cooker and the sink to the greatest extent, I was bent on identifying a single sink. Because I like big sinks, in such a small space, if I want a double sink for myself, each sink is very small and I feel inconvenient. Later, Sun Rui recommended this rice-pot-in-a-pot to me. Putting a small pot on it is a double-slot, and taking it off becomes a big single-slot, which makes me have both fish and bear's paw in such a small space. It feels very cool.

The material is the best 34 steel.

Multi-layer launching design:

I prefer large baskets to shallow launching. Because a little debris in shallow water used to be blocked, it's disgusting to have to dig it out with your hands.

If sundries leak in the past, they can be taken out from this position, which won't block the sewer. I like this design very much. At that time, the sink at home didn't have this design, and it was extremely difficult to clean the sewer pipe after it was blocked (and it was very disgusting).

when you buy a sink, you must ask the merchant to take out the matching water fittings. Squeeze the sewer pipe with your hands. There is a steel wire in the sewer pipe, so it can't be pinched.

Both the drain basket and the cutting board can be placed on the basin, which saves space. The small basin and the cutting board can be freely switched left and right.

The soap dispenser is intended to hold detergent, so it is convenient to press it directly when washing dishes.

the eighth step of playing around the kitchen: side smoking machine and 7-wide cooker

still to save the operating table, I chose both the smoking machine and the cooker with a width of only 7 instead of the one with a width of 9.

The main reason for using the side smoking machine is, of course, that side smoking is the cleanest. There are two other reasons that are rarely mentioned. One is that the side suction does not occupy the position of the hanging cabinet above the cooker. It is actually very convenient to put some relatively uncommon condiments in this position. When cooking, you can reach them with your hand, and the bottles and jars will not be stained by oil smoke, and the countertops will be kept clear and untidy. Another reason is that if you choose a Chinese or European hood, the wall between the cooker and the hood will be emptied, and this wall is the easiest to be covered with oil smoke. It is best to stick an anti-oil film or the like. If it is a side smoking machine, the soot sprayed at this position is directly sucked away, and there is no such problem.

I chose a smoke machine with a delay device, otherwise I often forgot to turn off the smoke machine in order to absorb the oil smoke for a while after frying.

The cooker is made of ceramic panel and cast iron pot rack, which avoids the possibility of bursting. Although the toughened glass panel is beautiful, the enamel pot rack is easier to clean, but it may burst. I am timid, so I won't take the risk.

one of the stove eyes is a rolling fire, and the other is a direct fire. The fire power of rolling fire is greater than that of direct fire, and the two cooking eyes adapt to different cooking needs.

an essential function: the center of the automatic flameout device

has been raised, and the periphery is sealed, so that it will not leak under the cupboard when the pan overflows.

Well, I've emptied out the hatchets in my kitchen. I hope it will help you a little, hehe:) Cabinet: Yimuyuan, bought from Wanjiadeng in South Beach, imported door panel from Feidelai+E cabinet panel of Lushui River+Keri quartz table top +harn damping hinge +Harn damping drawer;

hood: Opel, purchased from Shilihe Shengniu Exhibition Hall, OP39, side suction+three-speed air adjustment+automatic delay;

cooker: Opel, purchased from Shilihe Shengniu Exhibition Hall, OP13, ceramic panel+cast iron pot rack+automatic flameout device;

Water tank: Miduo, purchased from Shilihe Shengniu Exhibition Hall, is a basin-in-basin, with 34 steel+multi-layer sewer+steel wire sewer pipe, delivery faucet, soap dispenser, drain basket and chopping board, and installed in package;

hanging rods, pot cover holders and chopsticks holders: they are purchased from Wanjiadeng in the South Beach, and should be available everywhere where hardware pendants are sold.