In recent years, a new background has appeared in the social media posts of the influencers in the United Kingdom. Known as the unsettled cuisine, this room contains independent elements such as wooden huts and butcher-block islands-it jumps over the pond to the USA.
In short, according to interior designer Claire Zinnecker, this undisputed approach refers to a room that mixes furniture and not a complete kitchen of cupboards and built -in. “They enable flexibility, versatility and personality,” she adds.
The best of all is that practically everyone can apply this aesthetics for a budget -friendly, customer -specific look on their house. Here we interviewed interior designers to learn the advantages and disadvantages of creating an unframed kitchen. Read on to get the full ball.
What is unsuitable cuisine
Amanda Meade
Imagine an unequal cuisine like a design puzzle: You introduce individual parts together to create a larger, stylistic picture. Instead of going to a dealer and buying an entire kitchen suite for a fall, designers and homeowners now opt for a piece-by-depth installation. This often includes vintage or repurposed elements – and above all no dependency on typical cupboards.
Although this would have been the norm before the rise of the built -in cabinetism in the early 20th century, the term and style have now become formalized as a modern trend.
“I came up with the idea [for the unfitted kitchen] Decades ago after conversations with my aunt, the grocery author Elizabeth David, ”says the interior designer Johnny Gray, who recently restarted his company,“ we believed that the equipped kitchens, the phrase that we use in Great Britain, were on unfriendly, border -quality dysfunctions and not much for interior design. ”
According to Gray, free-standing kitchens are as functional as their fully built-in counterparts and they offer more versatility.
Why are you so popular?
“The kitchen is generally the heart of the house,” says interior designer Amanda Meade. “By making a more personalized space that reflects the taste of the home owner, you create a” room “, not just a” kitchen “.
Meade adds that she sees an increase in customer inquiries for something else. Nobody wants to go to someone else's house and have the feeling of making a copies paste in the kitchen-a risk that you run from the exhibition floor when buying one. “The current trends are that a home has a personal style and contains the formulaic path,” she notes.
“They are simply more fun, friendly and flexible,” says Gray about the trend. “Customers can use the kitchen to work from home and are sociable – either entertaining or relax with the family.”
How to design one
Johnny Gray
All experts agree that the advanced planning is of crucial importance in the event of an unused cuisine. Since you do not order a flight of devices and integrated booths to fit together, it is important to understand how you use the room in an everyday context.
For example, do you bake a lot? Do you need plenty of storage space? Are elements like a coffee station or a wine storage important? Although aesthetics are a driving factor for this trend, the functionality must also be carefully taken into account.
Gray suggests taking two main furniture types into account. “Heroic pieces give the size and character and in between, [there are] Simple, modular basic cabinets, ”he says. Imagine it, like the traditional furniture in a library or in a living room, with the modular basic cabinets in a niche or in a corner.”
Key elements
Since built-in cupboards are not an option-and all elements of a not uninterrupted kitchen should be modular-requires the determination of a slightly different approach. Instead of a traditional island, for example, many designers opt for vintage-Farmtical or easily modular modular units.
Gray recommends a peninsula for smaller rooms. “Either [an island or peninsula] Take an area in the middle of the room, which is usually not used and at the same time allows a simple edition. It is crucial that it promotes eye contact between the cook and others. ”
“A dining table that can be moved is preferable to every solid piece,” adds Meade. “Even units in storage trolley style enable flexibility if you want to create more space.” Instead of integrated cupboards, floating shelves offer space for art, dishes or cookbooks.
Zinneck chose the cupboards that she had moved into from the Facebook marketplace for her uneasy kitchen. They give the 120-year-old cottage that she has renovated a vintage charm.
Online auctions, vintage stores and antique fairs are all excellent places to achieve parts that show their personality. “Have fun and not too stressed to meet things,” says Zinnecker. “It's about creating a versatile collection.”
Advantages
Amanda Meade
The biggest draw of unsuitable kitchen is flexibility and adaptation, but another bonus is that it is often more affordable. “For us, we bowed to this look without realizing it because our renovation budget was tight and we could not afford a complete cuisine of new cupboards,” says Zinnecker. It is also a more sustainable approach, since they are often upcycling, instead of buying them again.
Meade agrees. “Perfectly adapted kitchens can be very expensive. They also have no lifespan in style and they are difficult to recycle,” she says. “By creating an unpaid kitchen you can invest in pieces that you can take with you and you can keep for a lifetime. My butcher block has been with me for 40 years and over 10 houses and is still the used and the most beloved items in our household.”