Hidden kitchens: when they don't look and only intuited

1/13 hidden kitchen in a closet

Hidden kitchens are not just for very small apartments or floors.The idea is that the kitchen or part of it remains after a closet or what simulates a panel or wall.Kitchens hide from view to create more neat and clean environments.They are increasingly frequent in decorating kitchens open to other spaces.The island is in sight, more aesthetic as a table, and the rest is hidden.We show you examples that will inspire you with different solutions and cases.

Hidden cooking zone

In this apartment, photographer Lisa Cohen has collected the idea of kitchen organization.It is an open space that "hides" the lack of meters.The island is the place of food and washing preparation.Remains next to the dining room.And since the environments overlap, the kitchen in a closet has been chosen.But taking care of the design, since the zigzag folding doors are washed in the same tone as the furniture that equips the area.Thus, behind the doors a space is hidden, integrated into a front with other cabinets that complement storage in the room.

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2/13Cocina oculta con isla

A front with volume for the kitchen

The Kennedy Nolan Architects studio signs this other project with the Laminex material in which most of the kitchen furniture except the island.The genius is to create an identical front with low wood finishes on which doors of the same vertical design tone are supported but topped in curve at the bottom.When the furniture is closed, the wall seems to have volume but with all the hidden kitchen storage areas.Inside, the space is organized with shelves in which to save outer, food or create work areas with small appliances.

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3/13Cocina oculta tras puertas de madera

A module closet according to cooking areas

This kitchen devised by Ylab Architects disappears and appears at will.It is a design in which the kitchen is hidden behind wooden doors in what looks like a closet.The doors are opened by compartments and each one hosts a kitchen work area: cooking plate, sink, preparation surface, food storage, oven and microwave ... and, in turn, behind the doors, the hidden kitchen countswith upper and lower modules.Up with doors and down with drawers and drawers.

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4/13 Cocina oculta tras puertas de armario en madera

A point in favor of the visual order

The interior of hidden kitchens can be decorated in line with the fronts that hide it or differently.One of the advantages of this type of kitchens is that the visual disorder or noise has no hole in the house.Hence it is such an adequate solution in small spaces or in kitchens open to the living room or dining room.The design becomes cleaner by perceiving only smooth fronts.

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5/13Cocina con isla y otras zonas de trabajo ocultas tras puertas correderas

With sliding doors

The Lignum et Lapis model of the ArcLínea Italian firm is designed to hide the desired kitchen areas behind sliding doors.With these panels you can create the desired environments in the kitchen and hide the less aesthetic areas and leave only the most lived space open.You must keep in mind that the doors in this type of hidden kitchens "occupy" space when they open.For example, with the sliding system open panels cover other areas of the wall or annexed furniture.

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6/13Cocina con isla y comedor y muebles columna

Only the island exposed

In this kitchen open the dining room and so close to the living room, the Santos kitchens brand has created an island with sink and cooking plate, but has hidden the rest of the elements after cabinets.Inside, everything necessary to complement the use of a kitchen has been distributed: drawers, shelves, appliances.Next to the table, the first module becomes a breakfast furniture that has an countertop area for the toaster and coffee maker.When a hidden kitchen is planned, the use of each module to incorporate interior lights and the necessary plugs must be taken into account.

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7/13 Cocina oculta tras puertas con molduras y cuarterones

Seen and unseen

Hidden kitchens are functional and stylish.The fronts after those who hide or hide can respond to the design you want.In this kitchen, for example, Minosa Design's work, doors with moldings that create quarters, teaching and distinction to space have been chosen.A detail that you should take note is the opening of the fronts of this kitchen that favors the effect seen and not seen.These are scamoteable doors that fold in portions and are integrated into the sides of the modules so that they do not protrude practically from the front.Maximize space and can have shock -in -law opening and closing systems that make their use more comfortable.

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8/13Zona de cocción de una cocina oculta tras una puerta abatible

With a superior folding door

Another option when designing a hidden or semi -hidden kitchen is to cover only the upper kitchen work.The low modules are in sight and with direct access to the drawers or doors they have, but the upper one hides.In this case, the IDWHITE study has created a folding upper gate, of the same finish as the rest of the kitchen elements, to hide the cooking area in a kitchen open to the dining room and the room.

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9/13Cocina oculta en un armario en un mini apartamento

Ideal solutions for mini kitchens

In an apartment, when the meters are essential, you have to look for ingenious ideas.One of them is hiding the kitchen in a closet as you see here.When opening the doors of this project, a complete kitchen is seen in the minimum space.Oven-microwaves, shelves, sink, cooking plate, dishwasher and refrigerator.In these cases we must resort to compact appliances (with special measures).The closet bottom will be more than 60 cm, the standard appliances fund.

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10/13 Cocian oculta tras cerramiento abatible

A panel that hides the kitchen

This is another solution to hide the kitchen: a front of doors that are collected on a side in Zigzag and unfold on a rail when wanting to hide the kitchen.It is another idea in which the kitchen does not seem like a closet but it seeks to hide it with a light dividing element.This is Anaunia's harmonic enclosure model.

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11/13Cocina oculta en un pasillo

A hidden kitchen in a hallway

The passage areas can be used but ... Have you considered taking the kitchen to a hall?CT Architects has organized the distribution of this floor so that between the social zone and the rest the hall is taken advantage of, placing the kitchen in it.It has a first countertop module with a plate and sink that is hidden when sliding down a panel.Beside him, a woody wooden door hides the baking module and the rest of the doors hide the rest of the kitchen elements to one side and another in the hallway.

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12/13Cocina semi oculta

The kitchen is but unadverted

Another semi -hidden kitchen solution is this in which the space adapts to a recesses of the plant and remains after a front that does not give clues of what hides on the other side.It is a proposal of culimaat.After a panel of the same finish that the rest of the front is installed a module with sink and plate.The extractor bell is a design that is integrated into the countertop and thus is hidden when it is not used (even more discreet than the bells integrated in the roof).Attached to the walls are the furniture in column.

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13/13 Cocina oculta en un cubo

A kitchen that is a cube

Another solution to hide the kitchen is to do so in structure that simulate cubes in the middle of the plant.These can host the kitchen on one side and a bathroom or cabinets on the contrary, becoming an element with which to organize the distribution.This case, Cucine.Ru proposes a finished cube in ebony wood with sliding and folding panels that are hidden through a slichable system.

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