A kitchenette open on the living for those who prefer a fluid organization of the home space.
With a fundamental rule: only stainless steel for water and fire.
A large and bright living area is ideal, in a modern house, to carry out multiple different, compatible tasks. The relax, TV and conversation area obtained beside the dining table and its chairs can be accompanied by a workspace, with computer station, some shelves and a filing cabinet. Moreover, those who have toddles hardly resist the temptation to lay down a wide and soft rug lit by the natural daylight and surround it with toyboxes, booklets and crayons.
Those who prefer this fluid organization in their daily lifestyle generally show a strong preference for a specific, informal and rather compact type of kitchen: the one open on the living. I myself, as an architect and a tireless experimenter in search of a perfect (and impossible) home organization, am one of them.
|| Living room with kitchenette in the restoration project.
As part of the restoration project that involved my apartment in Rome, I focused in particular on the re-organization of the living room, which, before removing a couple of old and annoying bulkheads, did not look very bright and appropriate to host a family life.
The original living room, from the period of construction of the building, now incorporates the surface of the kitchen, which was previously clearly separated from it, not only by a simple wall, but also by a tiny hallway. An industrial oak wood parquet, laid on the whole surface, visually fillets all the parts of the living room, unifying and, simultaneously, differentiating them in an overall view.
The space is wide, therefore I already knew at the planning stage that, if I wanted to make it balanced and harmonious, I should have imposed a number of precise rules on the choice of the furniture. When a work on the house begins with a solid base, everything proceeds almost magically, without even realizing the effort made.
The first rule I imposed on myself – I remember it as if it was yesterday – was: “stainless steel for each technical feature, both water and fire parts”.
Thinking of steel and connecting it to Mina took me a short time, really short.
|| Taps in MINA’s stainless steel for the kitchen.
As it’d already happened for the project of one of the new bathrooms, I knew quite well that taking inspiration from their kitchen taps catalogue would have comforted me on a technical point of view, both immediately and in the long run, and it would have offered me new aesthetic solutions, capable of communicating with specific design choices, like the ones of freestanding cookers in Fenix Verde Commodoro.
Two of Mina’s elements draw the details of my new kitchen open on the living room: the sink mixer and the pot filler placed beside the cookers.
To be more precise, I installed a brushed stainless steel AVA 9030, a single lever sink mixer with swivel spout and pull-out hand shower. The tap, which is almost 50 cm high, turned out to be practical in the daily use of the kitchen and is characterized by a unique aesthetic prestige: its pronounced linearity, together with the lack of non-functional accessorial elements, perfectly highlights the countertop.
This one is, in fact, collocated in a central position on the long side of the kitchen, which follows the shape of a large C; the washing-up area is easily detectable at the sight of the kitchen, even from the farthest place of the living room, precisely because of the heavy concentration of steel elements, enhanced by the huge amount of natural daylight coming from the side windows.
|| Here comes the must-have: I got Pot-Filler in my kitchen.
The element which intrigues the most my guests is quite unusual in our kitchens: it’s called pot filler and, in my opinion, it’s a nevermore-without. Since I’ve installed it, I promised myself that I would have recommended it to anyone addressing me for new house project, considering the extremely positive experience I’ve had in my daily use.
Let’s start from the beginning: what is a pot filler?
It is a cold water faucet with extensible and adjustable spout which, if positioned beside or right on top of the cooker, facilitates an exhausting activity that everyone of us experiences in their daily life, while preparing the meals: filling the pots, especially the ones with a large capacity.
To sum up, the pot filler overcomes the need to move pots and containers full of water, from the sink to the stovetop, limiting the effort and – for those who move clumsily in the kitchen, me included – the risk of unpleasant spills of water on the floor or on the cooking surface.
The 9600 pot filler has a maximum extension, with the arm fully outstretched, of 40 cm. This allows you to cover a wide portion of the cooking surface, even though it has a larger size than the standard one (60 cm).
My pot filler is placed on the left of a 90 cm high freestanding kitchen and covers about half of its surface. Therefore, I can use it in total comfort, moving the pots I need for cooking under its powerful waterjet.
The element design, practical when fully open and compact when shut, communicates with the other parts of the kitchen, integrating on the wall as an accessory with a strong technological value. Indeed, as I have always wished at the planning stage, it strengthens the image of a modern, efficient and essential house, remarkably characterized by a material, textural and chromatic finish.
My name is Nora Santonastaso. I live and work in Rome as an architect. My projects focus on enhancing the spaces in the home, a space to which I also devote the stories that populate the pages of my blog, design outfit, active since 2013.
FUNCTIONALITY AND STAINLESS STEEL: THE KITCHEN ACCORDING TO DESIGN OUTFIT
by Nora Santonastaso
A kitchenette open on the living for those who prefer a fluid organization of the home space.
With a fundamental rule: only stainless steel for water and fire.
A large and bright living area is ideal, in a modern house, to carry out multiple different, compatible tasks. The relax, TV and conversation area obtained beside the dining table and its chairs can be accompanied by a workspace, with computer station, some shelves and a filing cabinet. Moreover, those who have toddles hardly resist the temptation to lay down a wide and soft rug lit by the natural daylight and surround it with toyboxes, booklets and crayons.
Those who prefer this fluid organization in their daily lifestyle generally show a strong preference for a specific, informal and rather compact type of kitchen: the one open on the living. I myself, as an architect and a tireless experimenter in search of a perfect (and impossible) home organization, am one of them.
|| Living room with kitchenette in the restoration project.
As part of the restoration project that involved my apartment in Rome, I focused in particular on the re-organization of the living room, which, before removing a couple of old and annoying bulkheads, did not look very bright and appropriate to host a family life.
The original living room, from the period of construction of the building, now incorporates the surface of the kitchen, which was previously clearly separated from it, not only by a simple wall, but also by a tiny hallway. An industrial oak wood parquet, laid on the whole surface, visually fillets all the parts of the living room, unifying and, simultaneously, differentiating them in an overall view.
The space is wide, therefore I already knew at the planning stage that, if I wanted to make it balanced and harmonious, I should have imposed a number of precise rules on the choice of the furniture. When a work on the house begins with a solid base, everything proceeds almost magically, without even realizing the effort made.
The first rule I imposed on myself – I remember it as if it was yesterday – was: “stainless steel for each technical feature, both water and fire parts”.
Thinking of steel and connecting it to Mina took me a short time, really short.
|| Taps in MINA’s stainless steel for the kitchen.
As it’d already happened for the project of one of the new bathrooms, I knew quite well that taking inspiration from their kitchen taps catalogue would have comforted me on a technical point of view, both immediately and in the long run, and it would have offered me new aesthetic solutions, capable of communicating with specific design choices, like the ones of freestanding cookers in Fenix Verde Commodoro.
Two of Mina’s elements draw the details of my new kitchen open on the living room: the sink mixer and the pot filler placed beside the cookers.
To be more precise, I installed a brushed stainless steel AVA 9030, a single lever sink mixer with swivel spout and pull-out hand shower. The tap, which is almost 50 cm high, turned out to be practical in the daily use of the kitchen and is characterized by a unique aesthetic prestige: its pronounced linearity, together with the lack of non-functional accessorial elements, perfectly highlights the countertop.
This one is, in fact, collocated in a central position on the long side of the kitchen, which follows the shape of a large C; the washing-up area is easily detectable at the sight of the kitchen, even from the farthest place of the living room, precisely because of the heavy concentration of steel elements, enhanced by the huge amount of natural daylight coming from the side windows.
|| Here comes the must-have: I got Pot-Filler in my kitchen.
The element which intrigues the most my guests is quite unusual in our kitchens: it’s called pot filler and, in my opinion, it’s a nevermore-without. Since I’ve installed it, I promised myself that I would have recommended it to anyone addressing me for new house project, considering the extremely positive experience I’ve had in my daily use.
Let’s start from the beginning: what is a pot filler?
It is a cold water faucet with extensible and adjustable spout which, if positioned beside or right on top of the cooker, facilitates an exhausting activity that everyone of us experiences in their daily life, while preparing the meals: filling the pots, especially the ones with a large capacity.
To sum up, the pot filler overcomes the need to move pots and containers full of water, from the sink to the stovetop, limiting the effort and – for those who move clumsily in the kitchen, me included – the risk of unpleasant spills of water on the floor or on the cooking surface.
The 9600 pot filler has a maximum extension, with the arm fully outstretched, of 40 cm. This allows you to cover a wide portion of the cooking surface, even though it has a larger size than the standard one (60 cm).
My pot filler is placed on the left of a 90 cm high freestanding kitchen and covers about half of its surface. Therefore, I can use it in total comfort, moving the pots I need for cooking under its powerful waterjet.
The element design, practical when fully open and compact when shut, communicates with the other parts of the kitchen, integrating on the wall as an accessory with a strong technological value. Indeed, as I have always wished at the planning stage, it strengthens the image of a modern, efficient and essential house, remarkably characterized by a material, textural and chromatic finish.
For this project Nora | Design-outfit has chosen:
AVA | 9030
Single lever sink mixer with swivel spout and pull-out hand shower – stainless steel AISI 316L
POT FILLER | 9600
Cold water faucet – acciaio inossidabile AISI 316L