The purpose of the kitchen sofa is to create a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere for the owners and guests. In the kitchen, they not only eat, but also communicate. Sofa - a complete replacement for stools and chairs. Its dimensions should be such that the convenience and design of the kitchen are emphasized, not spoiled.
Varieties
The shape distinguishes between straight and corner sofas. If the kitchen (or kitchen-living room) is spacious enough, a direct sofa is suitable for organizing a recreation area in this room. With a rather modest size of the kitchen, the corner option perfectly emphasizes the convenience of the room. Often, the kitchen, not combined with the living room, has a small quadrature - especially in apartment buildings.
No matter how many rooms there are in the apartment - at least one, at least five, in the vast majority of cases, the kitchen itself will hardly exceed one and a half dozen "squares". In this case, it is the small angular design of the sofa, possibly a non-separable model, that will be an excellent solution.
A folding sofa is not only comfortable seats for 3-4 people, but also a kind of mini-pantry in which you can store rarely used dishes. The bench sofa is small, lightweight and as compact as a full folding sofa.
All sofas are placed near the dining table.
Dimensions
The size of the kitchen sofa is chosen to accommodate up to several seated people. If there are more guests, the rest will use stools or upholstered chairs. Typical sizes of sofas are from 110 to 180 cm, if the kitchen is small. To free up additional space, the backs are not attached to the seats, but are placed close to the wall.If the sizes in the furniture stores did not suit you, then order an individual sofa.
The design of the kitchen corner sofa is such that its corner part on average occupies no more than one square meter. Its angular backrest contains something like a shelf without sides, where behind a person sitting in this place you can place, for example, a vase of flowers or a stack of magazines.
The main parts of the majority of small corner sofas, located on different sides of the corner part connecting these fragments into a single whole, take from 120 to 160 cm in length. The height of the corner sofa is no more than 90 cm, the total length of the sofa (on the back) is no more than 3 m. The width of the seats is 45-60 cm, the height of the person sitting on such a sofa is 45-55 cm.
Possibility of use as a berth
Sleeping on such a sofa, if its longest part is less than 1.9 m, is difficult without putting a pair of stools or a chair under the legs of the person going to bed. An ideal solution would be a kitchen sofa corner, made in the form of a transformer.
Its modular design with lifts will allow you to turn it into a universal sunbed, which can be used in any of the rooms. This design is an ideal minimalistic option for kitchen-living rooms: here you do not need a regular sofa bed used in the bedroom.
The typical dimensions of the corner-transformer with the function of a double bed are 2x1.5 m, which allows two guests to spend the night with comfort when the apartment is small and one-room. Such a corner combines three useful functions at once, including storage. There are corners that come complete with additional seats, coasters, reminiscent of something between a stool and a pouf. These elements extend the berth (or both berths if the sofa corner is folding) by 50-60 cm.
“Eurobook”, or a folding sofa, which if necessary turns into a double bed, similar to ordinary sofas for a bedroom - a smaller version of the latter. One of the berths during the day serves as a back for the seated.
The width of the seat and backrest can match - 60 cm, which allows you to comfortably spend the night for two not quite well-fed people.
Examples of ready-made solutions
Among the small sofas, the most common sizes are 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160 and 180 cm. The product characteristics indicate the length, width, depth and height of the structure.
- Corner Bonn - 160x120x85 cm, height of landing of people - 46.5 cm, non-separable steel base, soft upholstery. The rest of the designs in this list are assembled for a landing height of mainly 45-50 cm.
- Modular "Tom" - 183x121x97 cm, wooden structure with upholstery, steel legs.
- "Business Design 2" - open corner, suitable for an office buffet, but also useful to those who appreciate the "working" design and minimalism: 225x63x78 cm.
- "Kit-S" - Corner leather, good for spacious kitchens, suitable for office. Dimensions - 209x179x75 cm, suitable for an overnight stay for one person, 4 seats. Wooden structure, genuine leather upholstery.
- Cube 3 - triple, massive "closed" design, 234x156x72, depending on growth, two guests can sleep on it already. Leather upholstery, solid wood base.
- "Corner-Modern" - two-triple corner, 135x135x80, under the seats there is a storage without lifts (the seats are easy to remove from their seats), leather upholstery. Close to the record for weight - up to 140 kg of load on each seat.
- Zhanna-Art 222 - direct, for two people, without armrests, 120x80x85 cm, an excellent solution for a small kitchen or veranda, wood, leather upholstery, storage under the seat. Two other standard sizes - single with a length of 80 cm and triple - 180 cm. Two or three different or identical types of sofas form a fragmented sofa corner, easy to transport and transfer to another room, not requiring installation and disassembly.
- "Banquet flagship" - a sofa without a backrest of “bed” type, open design, 127x52x45 cm, leather upholstery.
The vast majority of budget (in some cases, and mid-price range) options as the main filler use polyurethane foam (foam rubber), which does not have the best effect on health.
Conclusion
Meters - and somewhat larger - products suitable for houses and apartments where the kitchen is not combined with the living room. If you are the owner of a spacious kitchen, which also serves as a dining room and living room, then you may get a sofa for the bedroom, including a large corner.
See how to make a corner sofa for the kitchen with your own hands in the next video.