The kitchen seems to be the most comfortable and sweetest place in our homes. It is a real pleasure to meet with the whole family on a Sunday night and wait for a specialty prepared by the lady of the house. Even today, the tradition of a hearty kitchen party lives on, when people gather in one place to discuss business, meet new people, and chat.

Perhaps you prefer to meet your friends for lunch or dinner in cafes and restaurants. Today, however, it is almost impossible to imagine a contemporary home without a kitchenette. Another matter is that with an ever-expanding variety of interior renovation options, individual preferences and desires are always the top priority when making a selection decision. Accordingly, our desires and preferences are affected by many diverse factors: the number of household members, the lifestyle of the owners, the design of an apartment, color and taste preferences, and many others.

You must be very selective when choosing a new kitchen design. The open kitchen is one of the hottest trends in kitchen remodeling options. The integration of the kitchen with a living room can be considered as a virtual step back to the origins of the kitchen tradition, when the hearth was located in a general room. With a similar interior solution, today a wall between a kitchen and a living room, or between a kitchen and a dining room, is totally or partially demolished; and now different options are available to further separate one functional zone from the other: placing partitions, or bar counters, or applying various color solutions for the walls and floor. Undoubtedly, this type of interior has advantages and disadvantages.

Open-plan kitchens are often made into one- and two-bedroom apartments, making it possible to expand a living room and expand the space. Here there are a number of options, such as the demolition of walls that separate a kitchen and a living room, or the installation of partitions. It is convenient to use plasterboard partitions and glass bricks; and also, the use of glass bricks is recommended to “relieve” the available space, that is, to achieve an aeration effect. Also, to save space, it is possible to install built-in shelves in the dividing wall. It can be, for example, a U-shaped decorative design. Such an object is practical and multifunctional. It can serve as a screen, separating a kitchen and a living room, it can hide the tube of an extractor hood or support the plasma panel of a television.

You can think of another popular option – using the space between a guest zone and a kitchen, where instead of a typical dining table you can install a breakfast bar countertop. As for the walls and ceiling of the kitchen, they should be covered with waterproof paint, so that they maintain a tidy appearance.

When planning installation work for a new kitchen, it is important to keep in mind that when cooking, odors that spread throughout the apartment can be a big drawback for having an open kitchen. Fighting odors is quite easy by using a high quality and reasonably expensive range hood.

It is known that combustion residues are produced during firing. It is not healthy to inhale them. Also, grease and smoke are also not good for kitchen cabinets, ceilings, and walls. Therefore, you need to purchase a kitchen hood, or, as specialists call it, a canopy hood.

Caring about the overall aesthetic outlook of a kitchen area, modern kitchen designers offer various options for interior solutions. When too bulky extractor hoods are hidden in cupboards and shelves, or disguised through specially elaborate designer frames.

Today, home appliance producers strive to carefully consider the design of cooker hoods. The modern market offers a huge variety of models that do not need to be hidden, as they can be a kitchen decoration in themselves.

Those willing to convert a kitchen into a modern open plan kitchen are likely to be selective and seek the advice of professional kitchen installers.