Corner sofa in the kitchen

For most of us, the kitchen is asso­ci­at­ed not only with a place for cook­ing, but also with a cozy cor­ner where all fam­i­ly mem­bers gath­er at a large table. A cor­ner sofa in the kitchen will help make it warmer and more com­fort­able. Such mod­els eas­i­ly fit into any design, save kitchen space and pro­vide the nec­es­sary com­fort.

Corner sofa in the interior of the kitchen

Kitchen cor­ner sofas are very pop­u­lar due to their prac­ti­cal­i­ty and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of using them in var­i­ous style solu­tions. Their mod­el range is quite wide, so for any inte­ri­or, a cor­ner sofa can be cho­sen with­out prob­lems.

Such fur­ni­ture is often used for zon­ing a room, divid­ing the din­ing area and a place for cook­ing. In this case, oth­er kitchen zon­ing ideas are not required.

In a small kitchen, made in a min­i­mal­ist style, a lacon­ic sofa with sim­ple geom­e­try and sooth­ing tones will be appro­pri­ate.

For moder­ni­ty, a more ele­gant cor­ner is select­ed. It is char­ac­ter­ized by round­ness and smooth­ness of lines. For an eco-style kitchen, mod­els with slight­ly curved backs and uphol­stery made from nat­ur­al fab­rics are suit­able.

Choos­ing mod­els with inter­nal draw­ers and fold­ing seats that allow you to store a vari­ety of house­hold items, you can “unload” the room a lit­tle. And the pres­ence of shelves will allow you to dec­o­rate the inte­ri­or with small dec­o­ra­tive ele­ments char­ac­ter­is­tic of a par­tic­u­lar style.

The cor­ner sofa for the blue kitchen can be made in beige and brown tones (light wood­en frame and brown eco-leather) and have a sim­ple design. Provence is char­ac­ter­ized by twist­ed legs and carved decor. The Scan­di­na­vian style pro­vides for light, calm tones and clear lines.

By pur­chas­ing a cor­ner sofa bed for the kitchen, the land­lord there­by pro­vides an extra bed, which is impor­tant in a one-room apart­ment.

Varieties of sofas for the kitchen

Sofas for the kitchen can be divid­ed into two groups: a sofa bench and a sofa bed.

• A more com­pact mod­el is a sofa bench. It is dis­tin­guished by the absence of a back and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of easy move­ment around the room.
• The fold­ing kitchen cor­ner sofa is large in size, requires addi­tion­al space for instal­la­tion, how­ev­er, its func­tion­al­i­ty is much high­er.
• There are mod­els that go around the table not from two, but from three sides, pro­vid­ing a max­i­mum of seats, but at the same time occu­py­ing a large usable area.
• There are dif­fer­ences in frames, filler, uphol­stery and lay­out mech­a­nisms.

The device of a folding corner sofa in the kitchen

A fold­ing sofa in the kitchen allows you not only to com­fort­ably eat, but also to relax. It con­sists of a sup­port­ing (and in the pres­ence of a box and a lift­ing) struc­ture, a bed, a back­rest, arm­rests and a lay­out mech­a­nism.

Layout mechanism

Cor­ner sofa-trans­former is a great option for the kitchen, it eas­i­ly solves the prob­lem of lack of space. Depend­ing on the type of mech­a­nism used, the sofa can be laid out in dif­fer­ent direc­tions.

The most com­mon trans­for­ma­tion mech­a­nisms are “book”, “euro­book”, “dol­phin” and “accor­dion”. They are quite sim­ple and do not require much effort when unfold­ing. The kitchen cor­ner fold­ing sofa can be equipped with a French fold­ing bed trans­for­ma­tion mech­a­nism, which is unfold­ed in sev­er­al stages, but this mech­a­nism is not designed for dai­ly use.

Choose a filler to sit comfortably

When buy­ing a cor­ner sofa, you need to make sure that it is soft and cozy enough. Fillers can be foam rub­ber, polyurethane foam and holofiber. Each mate­r­i­al has advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages. Foam rub­ber is the most bud­getary filler, how­ev­er, its ser­vice life is also the short­est. It wrin­kles quick­ly enough, so sit­ting on such a sofa can quick­ly fail.

The advan­tages of polyurethane foam include soft­ness, strength, resis­tance to fire and safe­ty for the health of all fam­i­ly mem­bers. Its price is high­er, there­fore, a prod­uct with such a filler will be more expen­sive.

Hollofiber is not infe­ri­or in per­for­mance to polyurethane foam, and its main advan­tage is the abil­i­ty to restore shape after heavy loads.

Kitchen sofa upholstery

For uphol­stery of the seat and back of sofas, leather and its sub­sti­tutes, eco-leather and tex­tiles are used. This fur­ni­ture is intend­ed for the kitchen, where there is a pos­si­bil­i­ty of con­t­a­m­i­na­tion. There­fore, it is bet­ter to give pref­er­ence to those mate­ri­als from which it is easy to remove dirt and stains. Leather and its sub­sti­tutes are easy to clean, but such uphol­stery has its draw­back — it dark­ens over time and los­es its attrac­tive appear­ance.

Fab­ric uphol­stery is very diverse and brings home com­fort and har­mo­ny to the inte­ri­or. When choos­ing tex­tiles, pay atten­tion to its thick­ness — only durable fab­ric will last a long time with­out chang­ing its char­ac­ter­is­tics.

Anoth­er option to pro­tect the uphol­stery from pos­si­ble con­t­a­m­i­na­tion is sewing cov­ers that can be eas­i­ly washed in a machine. Thus, you can change the col­or scheme of the din­ing space in the kitchen.

Deciding on sizes

First you need to deter­mine what size the sofa should be. It depends on the size of the room itself and the num­ber of peo­ple.

The stan­dard dimen­sions of this fur­ni­ture are: length — 2 m, width — 1.1, 1.3 and 1.75 m.

You can win some kitchen space and give the sofa a small­er shape by attach­ing the back not to the seats, but to the wall. But the best option is to make the prod­uct to order if the spec­i­fied para­me­ters are not suit­able for the select­ed place.

What to look for when choosing a sofa for the kitchen

The sofa in the kitchen, where there is almost always high humid­i­ty, must have a sol­id frame. It is nec­es­sary to pay atten­tion to whether the mate­r­i­al will with­stand an aggres­sive exter­nal envi­ron­ment. Kitchen fur­ni­ture is made of wood, chip­board, met­al or durable plas­tic. Wood­en frames fit eas­i­ly into many inte­ri­ors, and the pro­tec­tive treat­ment allows the prod­uct to with­stand high tem­per­a­tures and humid­i­ty. A cheap­er ana­logue of wood is chip­board. These frames are also quite strong.

The sec­ond thing you need to pay atten­tion to is the height and incli­na­tion of the back. Suf­fi­cient­ly high back will pro­vide the nec­es­sary com­fort when sit­ting, and its slight incli­na­tion will relieve ten­sion from the back. If the cor­ner is fold­ing, you need to check how eas­i­ly it folds out.

Where to place the sofa

The loca­tion of the sofa is deter­mined in advance, before the pur­chase, and based on this, the choice of mod­el is made. In small kitchens, this is the cor­ner. A soft cor­ner sofa will make the emp­ty cor­ner area use­ful. This is the most prac­ti­cal option for minia­ture kitchens.

If the area allows, you can turn the sofa, set­ting it in the oppo­site direc­tion from the cor­ner area. So you can sep­a­rate the work area from the din­ing table, and the back of the cor­ner will serve as the bor­der.

In large kitchen-din­ing rooms, a sofa with a berth will look beau­ti­ful against the wall. The pro­trud­ing part of the side sec­tion will visu­al­ly sep­a­rate the work­ing area of ​​the kitchen from the din­ing area.

Sofas with a berth are locat­ed away from radi­a­tors and stoves so that it is not too hot in a dream.

How to DIY

Mak­ing a soft cor­ner with your own hands is easy. To do this, you will need a tim­ber (base), fiber­board sheets, ply­wood, foam rub­ber, pieces of uphol­stery fab­ric, con­struc­tion tools, Moment glue.

It is impor­tant to make the cor­rect draw­ings of the future kitchen cor­ner, make blanks accord­ing to them, and then assem­ble the prod­uct.