The classic bar counter is narrow and pretty.a high barrier table located in a pub. It is convenient to rely on standing people or those who sit on special chairs. Thanks to the convenience and practicality, these structures imperceptibly and gradually entered the life of many people, often finding their place in kitchens.
Designers use a large number of differenttechniques and techniques to design bar counters for the kitchen. Do your own hands such designs under the force of not every home master. However, inspired by the ideas of professionals and armed with instructions, you can create a simple and functional rack of wood, chipboard or other available material.
What are bar counters and what are they for?
If there is enough space in the room,This design will serve its intended purpose: people will be located next to it with drinks and snacks. Many say that the bar counter for the kitchen (with their own hands they make it according to a project prepared in advance) is indispensable for breakfast and snacks with coffee.
The specificity of such racks in their equipment: here you can not do without holders for glasses, wine glasses and various glasses, shelves for juices, fixtures for bottles and other similar elements.
A classic bar counter for the kitchen (you can do it with your own hands only with special tools) have several versions of supports:
- Wall.
- Side edge of kitchen furniture.
- Separately standing element (island).
Bar counters for small spaces
Based on the size of the kitchen and the location of the headset, designers offer racks that differ in appearance, size and type of attachment.
For small kitchens bar counters designseldom. This is due to limited space and the lack of need for such an element. However, at the request of the customer, the kitchen can still be equipped with a counter, which is turned into a dining table or used as a separator into zones. The latter option is especially relevant for studio apartments and small-sized hotels. In those cases, when the bar is made for the kitchen with their own hands, it is often attached along the wall. This option does not apply to the standard, but is practical.
How to install racks in large and medium-sized kitchens
To equip a medium sized kitchen,Resorted to the installation of the bar counter- "Peninsula". That is, the end of this element is adjacent to another piece of furniture, most often, to the table top. Since the height of the rack is different from the size of the workplace, you need reliable fastening.
The core standards are based onproportions of the human body. For placement of bar counters in spacious kitchens any option is suitable. Even the installation of a detached island will not “steal” the much needed workspace. There is also no need to reduce the decorative elements: the racks may have various projections, curtain rods, volumetric pedestals and drawers.
Sometimes craftsmen resort to installing a specialplasterboard partitions, which is then attached to the bar for the kitchen. Modeling options are endless, because there is the possibility of combining this material with metal, wood, plastic or even glass.
Functionality and practicality - the main principle
Still, most often the bar counter is used to separate the kitchen area from the living room or from the corridor (depending on what is combined).
The raw materials are the materials purchased in the hardware store or what was found in the workshop (wood, plywood, brick, drywall or chipboard).
In order to make the rack practical and convenient, there are several techniques:
- Installation of shelves, cabinets, cabinets under it.
- Placement of various mounts above the rack: on the pipe-holders or under the ceiling.
- Raising the table top. That is, the installation of a two-tier rack.
Standard bar counter sizes
Норм для возведения барных стоек не существует.There are indicative sizes that are rather recommendatory in nature. Thus, the height of the bar can be from 1.1 to 1.2 meters. It will be very convenient for a standing person to use it, but in order to sit down, you will have to use a special bar stool.
The width of the rack should not be less than 30 cm. This is due to common sense: if the tabletop is already, it will be difficult to put plates on it, and it will be problematic to rely.
It is believed that the width of 50-60 cm is optimal and comfortable. In this case, it turns out really practical bar counter at home in the kitchen (self-assembled or ordered in the salon).
For convenience, lockers under the tabletop can beequipped with lighting. Usually it is mounted using LED lamps or strips. This option is extremely economical: LEDs consume little energy, practically do not heat up and serve for a very long time.
Base options for racks
The classic is considered the base in the formmetal pipe, which passes through the tabletop and rests with one edge on the floor and the second on the ceiling. Experts recommend choosing pipes from German or Polish manufacturers. Externally, Chinese bases may look exactly the same as more expensive ones, but very soon their coverage will peel off. In the tabletop make a hole for the pipe and string the future stand on the support. On the bottom side, a nozzle-stop is installed, which is called a “fastener ring,” and from the front, it is all masked with a decorative overlay.
To fix the pipe on the floor and ceiling, use universal mounting and "thrust bearing". Different shelves and holders are placed on the pipe before it is installed.
В том случае, когда барная стойка располагается along the wall, for fixing apply decorative brackets. To make the design truly durable and reliable, they are placed fairly close to each other.
How stand is attached to the wall
The second side of the bar can rest ontable, cabinet or attached to the wall. In the latter case, the master will have to take care of buying reliable corners. They are normal and reinforced (if the tabletop is made of natural wood or a high surface load is planned). Color can be selected, focusing on the rest of the furniture or on the wall covering. The bar counter for a small kitchen, made by hand, often relies on one corner, and the wider and heavier models - on several.
Bar counter above the worktop
Sometimes the rack is placed above the work surface.the kitchen. For such fastening there are special oblique pipes. They are fastened to the table top and to the back of the rack, and the joints are masked with decorative rings.
This placement allows the most productive use of kitchen space, opening access to all its corners.
Drywall: to be or not to be?
В современных квартирах довольно много элементов made of drywall. Of course, this material cannot be equated in strength to wood, but plus it is that it is very convenient to work with it.
Drywall boards are mounted on in advanceprepared frames. Such a method is indispensable if you need to erect a false wall, a partition to separate one zone from another, build a cornice for lighting on the ceiling, equip a niche and in most other cases.
Of course, drywall will be useful and master,who wants to create their own bar. He will need a framework for the frame (metal corners, profile, wooden slats or bars), tools for working with these materials, fasteners, drywall, as well as putty, paint or other decorative tools.
Assembling the plasterboard for the bar
Before proceeding with the installation of the cabinet,draw the future design. This stage is necessary, otherwise you may encounter a shortage of material, violation of dimensions and proportions. Thanks to even the simplest sketch, the master will have a symmetrical and durable bar counter for the kitchen. Drawings can be developed using paper, pencil and ruler, or use a special 3D-program.
When assembling the frame the most important condition -observance of vertical and horizontal planes. This helps a good level and plumb. Finished construction sheathe drywall, putty corners and traces of fasteners and decorate. Sometimes a primer is applied before a layer of paint.
At the last stage, the selected tabletop is attached.
The second life of wooden pallets
Today, many apartment owners are tryingequip your home furniture from environmentally friendly and natural materials. Of course, not everyone can afford to buy a wood set, but almost everyone likes the idea of making a bar counter from recycled materials.
Often, masters accumulate variousresidues and trim bars, waste pallets and boxes. Fantasy, ingenuity and patience will lead to the fact that an original and functional bar counter will be installed with your own hands in the kitchen. How to do? Ideas do not differ in complexity: it is enough just to fill the prepared bars and planks on a solid frame.
Wooden racks
Depending on the project of the master and his ability to handle wood, the bar counter can have the appearance of an elementary long barrier or become a modern and indispensable element of the kitchen.
In the first case, the main task is toto create a strong frame. For this purpose, all the same metal corners, wide bars and parts of chipboard are suitable. On top of this design stack tabletop (wood, chipboard, plastic).
In the case where the master wishesto experiment with the drawings, he can provide the bar with a cabinet, drawers, shelves, additional fixings and holders. By the way, LED lighting is very appropriate on such products. It gives them charm and comfort.
If everything turned out with the main designwell, don't stop there. The bar counter for the kitchen, made by hand, can be supplemented with chairs and benches in the same style.
