Kitchen finishing options: we offer photos and recommendations for choosing design and materials in this article. The kitchen has always been and remains today the most popular room in any apartment. This imposes on her the need to be comfortable for any hostess and pleasant for your guests. Everything is important in the kitchen: lighting and the capacity of cabinets, the functionality of kitchen appliances and the color of the curtains, the decoration of the walls, floors and ceilings. Therefore, before proceeding with the design of this room, it is worth taking into account many important factors: temperature differences, high humidity, the possibility of contamination.
First and foremost finishing kitchen should be practical and functional
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Kitchen finishing options: photos and recommendations
To decorate the kitchen space, you can choose any style that the owner likes. It can be classic, with its straight and regular forms, baroque, with its excesses and pretentiousness, oriental style or hi-tech.
Whatever style is chosen, the main thing is that everything in it should be aimed at solving the main task of the room. This is cooking and eating. This process is always associated with a high degree of use of water and grease, which makes corresponding demands on the finishing materials. And this applies not only to the walls, but also to the ceiling together with the floor.
Moisture resistant parquet board in finishing the floor in the kitchen
Wall decoration in the kitchen: photos of different options
There are all sorts of options for decorating the walls of the kitchen. The photos of many of them are simply amazing. Sometimes designers manage to create exclusive objects even from the simplest materials. Today, the most common options for finishing materials that are used to decorate this room are:
- water-based and moisture-resistant paint;
- washable wallpaper;
- plastic panels;
- ceramic tile;
- lining;
- combination of several materials.
Laconic design kitchen-living room in the style of minimalism
Let's take a closer look at some of the options for finishing the kitchen (the photo will help us understand their essence).
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Regular painting with water-based paint
Many experienced builders believe that water-based or fine-dispersed paint is the most suitable finishing material for walls in the kitchen, when considering the value for money.These paints are free of any solvents, which makes them completely safe for human health.
An example of a creative approach to kitchen design
Water-based dyes are applied in several layers. In the process of applying to the surface of the walls, all the water contained in abundance in the paint evaporates. The resulting coating provides the walls with very reliable moisture protection. At the same time, the paint does not flake off the wall surface. It has good breathability and vapor permeability, so it makes it possible to "breathe" painted wall surface.
Kitchen work wall painted with bright yellow water-based paint
Helpful advice! If you decide walls in the kitchen paint, it is better to choose a moisture resistant antimicrobial paint. This water-based composition has an additional property - protection against bacteria. The paint does not contain any toxic substances. Its effective bactericidal action is carried out due to the inclusion of silver oxide in its composition.
Walls and tiles painted in different colors on the kitchen-dining room floor
Wall decoration with wallpaper
Many people love decorate the kitchen with wallpaper... Such a simple finish creates a special cosiness in the kitchen. A large number of color options makes it possible to combine other types of finishes with wallpaper (wood or plastic panels, tiles, paint). Among other things, changing the wallpaper is quite often realistic, since it does not spend a lot of money and time.
For pasting the walls of the kitchen - it is necessary to choose moisture-resistant, washable wallpaper
It is best to use moisture resistant wallpaper types for most kitchen finishes. Photos of the samples available today on the market speaks of their good quality.
Usage example decorative stone in the design of the kitchen space
Moisture-resistant wallpapers are:
- printed type. The drawing on them is done by printing with polymers, which is why they are very resistant to moisture;
- protected by a plastic film on the front side;
- embossed or not wallpaper with a thin polymer color film, which is applied to the paper base itself;
- baseless wallpaper in the form of a film with a polymer pattern (resistant even with repeated washing with warm water and soap);
- wallpaper with texture or structure for painting with a very deep relief. They are suitable for pasting on all surfaces.
Moisture resistant laminate on the kitchen-dining floor
Helpful advice! Best of all, wall decoration in the kitchen (the photo confirms this) can be done with embossed (textured) wallpaper. They are most often two-layer, but somewhat thicker and denser than ordinary paper wallpaper. Such products retain their water resistance even after repeated painting. This is due to the fact that their surface is well impregnated with a special water-repellent solution.
When using finishing materials of light colors - you can create bright color accents using furniture
Wall decoration with ceramic tiles
The tiles in the kitchen are the most beautiful surface that is durable and not afraid of moisture, which is very easy to clean. Tiles of various sizes, textures and colors are produced. Standard tile sizes with a thickness of 3 - 4 mm:
- square: 100 × 100, 150 × 150, 200 × 200 mm;
- rectangular: 150 × 25, 150 × 75, 150 × 100, 200 × 100, 200 × 150 mm.
The most demanded material for kitchen decoration is tile.
The advantage of ceramic tiles is that they are easy to clean. Such walls are not afraid of moisture at all. Hot oil, grease and other kitchen contaminants can be removed easily with any type of detergent. The main disadvantages are its cost and the complexity of self-assembly.
Contemporary accent in kitchen interior — glass work apron
Decorating the kitchen with plastic panels: design photo
The advantage of this modern material is that it does not care about moisture, mold, fungus, or temperature extremes. Panel manufacturers offer many options for the colors and textures of these products.There are even mirror types of panels, but their use is not recommended in the kitchen, as they do not tolerate water.
Plastic panels and decorative bricks were used to decorate the kitchen working area.
Thanks to the variety of colors and patterns, you can create any design for finishing your kitchen with plastic panels. The photo illustrates this perfectly. The main advantage of this option is its simplicity and low cost. Installation of panels is carried out on a crate installed on the wall. Therefore, such work is within the power of everyone. In addition, numerous kitchen communications can be hidden under the surface of such walls. There are much more options for decorating the walls of the kitchen, photos of which are abundant on the network, than methods for covering the floor.
An example of a combination of various materials in decoration - painting, glass and tiles
How to lay the floor in the kitchen
Coating for kitchen floor must have one important quality. It shouldn't be susceptible to moisture at all. The coating should not be afraid even of a puddle that has been on the floor for a long time. After all, the danger of its occurrence in this room of the apartment always exists. For this reason, the kitchen cannot be lined. laminate, carpet or other similar topcoats.
Linoleum will feel relatively good in the kitchen. However, you need to choose for this room all the same more durable and wear-resistant types that do not have a fabric or cotton base. However, the best option was and remains ceramic tiles.
One of the practical finishing options for the kitchen is Self-leveling floors
The advantage of floor tiles for the kitchen: design photo
Floor ceramic tiles, in contrast to the wall, it has a high density, which affects its strength. She is not afraid of kitchen items falling to the floor, or even furniture moving. Cutting and drilling such tiles is much more difficult. There are much more options for shapes and sizes of floor tiles than wall tiles:
- square: 48x48, 100x100, 150x150, 200x200, 250x250, 300x300 mm;
- rectangular: 200x100, 200x150, 300x150, 300x200, 400x300 mm;
- in the form of triangles: 58x83, 68x97, 83x118, 98x139 mm;
- tetrahedral view: 75x173, 85x196, 100x230 mm;
- pentahedrons: 150x86.5, 170x98, 200x115 mm;
- hexagons: 150x173, 170x196, 200x230 mm;
- octahedra: 170x60x85, 200x70x100 mm.
Glossy floor tiles and mirrored apron visually expand the kitchen space
The design of floor tiles for the kitchen (photo is a vivid confirmation of this) is very diverse. Indeed, in addition to shape and size, it has so many colors and patterns that it can satisfy any designer.
An example of the use of hexagonal tile for flooring
Helpful advice! When kitchen decoration it is worth choosing sets of tiles for the floor and walls. They are made in the same color scheme and cultivate one theme. This allows you to play up any theme with tiles, and select the rest of the interior of the room in the style of walls and floors.
Modern kitchen interior with elements of industrial style
Whatever options for finishing the kitchen, the photos of which you could see, you did not choose, the main thing is that they are fully combined with the general style of your apartment and create comfort in the room.
