Transformable Hide-Away Kitchen
Written by Jennifer Heyns
For people living in cramped quarters, space-saving mechanisms can be the difference between residing in a home and living in it. Architects and designers are coming up with ideas, some simple and some outrageous, but all are surely unique.
Polish designer Jakub Szczęsny of Centrala has created the Tamka Apartment, located in Warsaw. It includes the very unique feature of the transformable kitchenette. The transformable kitchenette is quite small and therefore isn’t really the best choice for preparing large meals, but it will come in very handy for small apartment dwellers that need nothing more than a place to store a few small appliances, dishes, a sink and a table.
The L-shaped feature has a set of cabinets and a small sink along one wall. The opposing wall is flat and unoccupied, staying completely out of the way. Although if you’re looking for a table top for eating, working or playing a game of cards the wall’s center panel can rotate 90 degrees to provide such an appropriate surface. When rotated, the area is big enough to comfortably seat four people for entertaining.
Although the transformable kitchenette truly is meant to be used, it’s when not in use that you can see the design genius. Setting the table top back into its stored position, it becomes a door that can be shut up against the cabinet-laden wall. In this fashion, the entire kitchen looks like nothing but a storage closet standing in the center of the room, making it a great room divider.
Since there’s no room for larger kitchen appliances, this transformable kitchen may not fit the needs of apartment dwellers who want to prepare entire meals. But for those who only need an occasional area in which to work, or who primarily don’t cook at home, the kitchen is a great, space-saving alternative.
The ideas are endless with this transformable kitchen. One thought is to use a transformable kitchen as an expansion to your existing kitchen space. Setting the unit on the edge of your own kitchen area could lend you some extra cabinet space, as well as some countertop room and an easy-access seating area for guests. And when you don’t need it anymore? Simply shut it into position and it’s no longer in your way.
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