Kitchen Layout and Design: 7 Best Examples

1. How to Decorate a Narrow Kitchen

Efficiently managing space in a kitchen, organizing both a functional area for food preparation and a cozy zone for gatherings with friends and family, is not easy. When the kitchen is also narrow, the task becomes even more complex. Designer Anastasia Mestiyakova planned an unconventional kitchen space so that it accommodated the workspace, dining area, and living room. And for this, no re-planning was even necessary!

2. How to Increase Kitchen Area

Kitchens have long ceased to be just places for eating meals – now they are spaces for family gatherings, conversations with friends, and intimate talks. Thanks to thoughtful layout, connecting a balcony, and creating a full working and dining area, designer Masha Yashina fulfilled every housewife's dream: transforming a typical rectangular kitchen into a functional space with well-thought-out storage systems and convenient furniture.

3. How to Add Light to a Kitchen

In a typical Soviet-era brick house, Marina Sarkisyan had to decorate a kitchen with an unideal layout – rectangular. Its area is nearly 13 square meters, yet the elongated kitchen required a proper arrangement of the cabinet, a standalone refrigerator, and a full dining area so that the homeowners could find it comfortable and convenient in this space. In addition, natural light was blocked by a long balcony that runs along the entire apartment – several lighting scenarios were simply necessary.

4. How to Arrange a Small Kitchen

Making a functional and convenient space in a kitchen in a Khrushchyovka (Soviet-era housing) is always problematic: lack of space and inconvenient layout make things complicated. Working on a kitchen with just 5.8 square meters of area, architect Maxim Tikhonov cleared the space to the maximum: old attics and walls separating the kitchen from the living room disappeared. Thanks to re-planning, ceiling heights increased (from 2.7 meters to 2.85 meters) – spacious wall-mounted cabinets didn’t clutter the space. Space was also saved by joining the kitchen countertop with the windowsill.

5. How to Play with a Bay Window on the Kitchen

A bay window in a kitchen indeed brings in more natural light, but on the other hand, it limits homeowners in furniture placement options. The owners of such a kitchen in the Moscow region needed plenty of furniture: not only a kitchen cabinet and dining table, but also a bar. Designer Rustem Urazmetov fulfilled all the customer’s wishes: the dining area was placed in the bay window, the kitchen cabinet was given a curved working surface, and the bar counter was made to continue the countertop.

6. How to Visually Make a Kitchen Look More Spacious

When designing a kitchen for a young family of three in an 8.7 square meter flat, Marina Sarkisyan expanded the workspace and designed storage systems. The designer also selected a color palette that visually lightened the space: the walls were covered with light vinyl wallpapers, the floor was clad in ceramic granite resembling wood, and the kitchen cabinet was made in a white-gray tone. Transparent chairs helped create a feeling of spaciousness – they completely dissolve into the setting.

7. How to Decorate a Kitchen in Loft Style

An elongated 10 square meter kitchen with a window on the side wall is hard to call a field for experimentation. Besides being functional, the client wanted the kitchen decorated in a loft style. First and foremost, designer Evgenia Lykasova worked on the finishing: she added faux timber framing, walls were covered with plaster with a rough texture and faced with white and red brick. Furniture followed the loft style: it was made from aged metal, wood, and linen. The main decorative element was a luxurious mirror-window.