Cooking in the summer heat is always very uncomfortable. Unfortunately, the residents of apartments can not avoid this fate in any way. What can not you say about the happy owners of private houses. They can well endure the process of cooking and conservation outside the home and not suffer from debilitating heat and moisture.
In addition, with a strong desire for a summer kitchen, you can attach a veranda, a terrace or a gazebo and organize breakfast, lunch or dinner in the open air. And if you install a brazier here, then you can also shish kebabs in a cheerful friendly company.
Variants of summer kitchens
Depending on the configuration, summer kitchens can be of different types. For example, a summer kitchen with an attached veranda adjoining the house. However, it can be a free-standing summer kitchen with a private terrace for rest and a comfortable meal.
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Summer kitchen can be combined with a gazebo . In fact, it is an open area for cooking with tables, behind which you can have a snack in the fresh air. For protection from the sun and rain there is a roof, so that in the end the whole structure reminds a gazebo.
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No less common version of the summer kitchen is a kitchen with a bath. Such a combination will seem strange to someone, but a person tends to improve their housing, and if it is convenient, you can combine anything. Moreover, construction on the same foundation and under the same roof is always cheaper. Terrace at the bath can turn into a kitchen only in the summer season. In any case, a sauna with a kitchen is a profitable solution.
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The summer kitchen, supplemented with a barbecue area, is the dream of every homeowner. Who does not like to gather for the holidays a big friendly company, to fry meat and vegetables, to have fun in the evening? Well, when next to the barbecue and (or) barbecue immediately there is a place where you can sit at a table and do not run to check shish kebabs away.
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Before that, we considered the designs of open summer kitchens, but you can often find a closed kitchen, reminiscent of another tiny one-room house. Such capital summer kitchens made of bricks, wood or other materials are more protected from weather phenomena and are great for residents of the northern regions, where even in the summer it is not always possible to cook or eat quietly on the street. And if you additionally warm the walls and the cover of the kitchen, spend heating here, then the kitchen from summer will turn into all-season.
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Where it is better to place the summer kitchen?
The best place for a summer kitchen in a private house is as close as possible to the main kitchen. This minimizes effort and waste to bring communications. In addition, you will have less to move kitchen utensils and products.
In order not to block the approaches to the house, it's best to arrange the summer kitchen from the kitchen window. Well, if in the planned place there will be a shadow from the trees, so that the roof does not overheat from the sun.
It is desirable that the kitchen main and summer had one common wall, then you will not need to build it twice.
How to build a summer kitchen?
For the construction of an easy open kitchen, you can use any materials, even those that are left from the basic construction. The frame can be made wooden, and inside trim with a stone, a brick or also a tree.
The floor can be covered with boards, the walls - lining, impregnated with moisture-resistant solutions. If you decide to finish the gazebo with a cane, get a cool kitchen, as the stone creates an ideal microclimate.
Some prefer to decorate the kitchen with "home" materials - linoleum, ceramic tiles, laminate. In this case, you can put them directly on the concrete screed. The space around the plate is best laid out with fireproof material.