With the arrival of hot summer, our summer cottages and adjoining plots become the best place for family celebrations or friendly feasts. There is nothing more pleasant than sitting comfortably in the fresh air in good company and cooking a couple of dishes over an open fire, fortunately, in nature, both the food is tastier and the appetite is stronger. Therefore, one of the most important parts of landscaping the site is the construction of a summer kitchen – a special structure designed for cooking and receiving guests.
In addition, in the summer kitchen you can cook, pickle and preserve without suffering from the heat of the stove and the stuffiness that often occurs in the premises in the summer. And in the fresh air, unpleasant odors from the barbecue and smokehouse will bother you much less. In this article, we will tell you about the types of summer kitchens and suggest a few ideas on how to arrange them.
Before you start creating a summer kitchen, you need to decide where it will be located. It is very important to choose a place that is as far away from sources of noise and unpleasant odors as possible: a road, toilet, garage, manure heaps, and animal pens. It is better to place a summer kitchen in a quiet, secluded, and picturesque place, protected from the wind and sun by tree crowns.
After this, you need to decide on the type of summer kitchen you are designing. They can be open, closed, or combined.
An open summer kitchen is a small, uninsulated structure, often without walls and without a roof (with a canopy). It is easy to build an open summer kitchen yourself from scratch or to refurbish an existing gazebo, terrace, patio or pergola. Inside, you can organize a dining area, barbecue, stove, fireplace, sink – anything that your imagination can come up with. The main thing to remember is that an open summer kitchen is a seasonal structure, which means that it cannot be used in the cold season, so we recommend using the lightest and most mobile furniture possible to equip such a kitchen.
For example, on our website you can find a line of special modular kitchen furniture equipped with wheels and convenient handles. We have tables, chairs, cabinets, bedside tables, barbecues, firewood racks, wine racks and vegetable containers. From these elements you can easily and quickly assemble your own furniture configuration, change its places according to your taste and mood, and put it away in the house for the winter.
A closed summer kitchen is a more complex project. It can be an independent structure or part of a mansion, guest house or bathhouse. Closed summer kitchens are often equipped with glazing, heating and electricity, so they can be used all year round and in any weather. Under the protection of walls and a roof, it is easy to create a full-fledged kitchen with a refrigerator, stove and stove with a chimney, and in the dining area you can use soft sofas and armchairs. To prevent the closed kitchen from being stuffy in the summer, one or more walls are often replaced with panoramic windows that can be thrown open in hot weather, turning the kitchen into a semi-open one. Such options are called combined.
Furniture for a summer kitchen should be chosen wisely, because it must be durable and withstand strong fluctuations in humidity and temperature. We recommend paying attention to the range of HitSad. Our website presents wide lines of furniture that are well suited to such conditions. We have entire sets of wicker and forged tables, benches and chairs made in the same style, as well as cabinets, sinks, barbecues and firewood holders. In addition, it is possible to manufacture unique products to order.
