Hours in kitchen are not just the device for counting of time. And not only part of interior. If to approach selection of hours intelligently and heart, then kitchen hours can become subject with the sense creating mood.
The first hint: hours have to be combined with interior, but not merge with it
Hours have to fit organically into kitchen interior - it is unconditional. But you should not understand it only as coincidence of materials, forms and colors. Such approach, as well as carrying handbag and shoes is "to match" hopelessly obsolete.
Of course, if the kitchen is arranged in strict classic style, then and watch should be bought well matched: in the wooden body, with the Roman digits. And if the space allows, it is possible also with the pendulum.
But if you have kitchen in one of modern styles - experiment! Why not to choose to light furniture and walls watch with the bright dial? And in kitchen with dark facades to give to hours role of "light spot"? Or in kitchen with traditional repair not to hang clock in the unusual body?
That watch "was not lost" in the general situation or, on the contrary, was not beaten out from it, it is important to show consideration for the size of hours. There is rule: the size and kitchens and are directly proportional hours each other. That is, on the big kitchen you should not hang small clock, and on small-sized - large.
But also from this rule there are exceptions. If you have wide kitchen in modern style, and you prefer the electronic clock whether it is worth placing surely on wall huge board? It is possible to choose the compact device, and to give role of the main wall ornament to other accessory.
On the other hand, watch with the large dial can sometimes look good also in small kitchen. For example, in minimalist interior. And that the chronometer did not look massive, choose the thin body and reserved decor.
The second hint: the price - not the main thing
The interesting thing not necessarily costs much. Even if you have ultrafashionable set from solid salon, it is not obligatory to choose the expensive watch at all. The choice in shops such is that among the mass of banal devices it is possible to dig out also something not really normal.
And if there is a wish for something unique, then too it is possible to manage the small budget. For example, to remember that new is well forgotten old. Rummage in grandmother's stocks - whether is not present quite capable retroweight clocks have become dusty at it? Today similar things are relevant again.
One more option is to make hours most/most. Handymen buy watch with the suitable body and arrows (mechanical or quartz option - matter of taste). Then disassemble the device and manufacture the new dial. As material apply boards, solid cardboard, plywood, metal - that will be prompted by imagination.
The self-made dial can be painted with paints or to issue in other equipment available to you. Or at all to leave naked if it allows interior. For example, in space in style the loft hours pieces of plywood "will perfectly take root", and the "old" board with shooters will well fit into country kitchen.
Originally and unexpectedly kitchen hours from the objects which are initially intended for other purposes look. For example, the clockwork can be built in frying pan, old teapot, metal dish or directly door of one of cabinets.
The third hint: hours can report not only time
If all of you prefer not grandmother's heritage and not hendmeyd, and modern factory products, then in search of non-standard it is possible to go some other way. For example, to hang in kitchen clock with several functions.
If on hours not only time, but also temperature, air humidity or date, then it "not as at all" is reflected and it is useful at the same time. Perhaps, the multifunction analog watch it is more interesting, than electronic - all have already got used to informational content of the last. Besides, also the combined hours meet: with the analog dial and electronic board for other data.
The fourth hint: hours have to be visible from any point of kitchen
In kitchen it is better to hang clock so that they were well looked through at least from three places:
- From point near plate. The hostess or the owner need to see, the dish is what is the time cooked. Even if the timer is exposed, many people during culinary creativity all the same look at the watch.
- From space near finishing table - for the same reason.
- From dining table. Most of people look for hours during meal, especially breakfast - inadvertently not to sit up and to be late.
At the same time clock should not be hung too highly. It is not really convenient to lift up the head on ten times in one or one and a half hours of stay in kitchen - it, after all.
The fifth hint: hours with "kitchen" decor - it is worth thinking
Today on sale the set of hours of "kitchen" design is provided. In the most primitive option it is the mechanical device with photographic still life on the dial. Hours can have more graceful the image of food and drinks more expensively.
Still there are chronometers in the thematic body. For example with silhouette in the form of cup, teapot or apple. More difficult option when elements in the form of tableware or kitchen accessories are fixed into the body.
But before purchase of similar hours it is worth thinking here of what:
- Whether are necessary in kitchen of the image of food and/or ware? You so see similar every day, and in the natural form.
- The beautiful image of juicy fruit, grape clusters, cups with the smoking coffee and so forth stimulates appetite. Would you like to cause in yourself desire something to chew at each look for hours?
- And whether, at all, the additional kitchen attributes in kitchen are "oil oil"?
Perhaps, for kitchens with open storage of ware, accessories and some products similar hours - the wrong choice. And if everything is hidden in deaf cabinets then why and is not present?
It is not banal hours with "kitchen" decor look in youth studio apartments with mini-kitchen. In this case the chronometer also designates where in this room eat, heat food, and sometimes even prepare.