Quite often people, seeking to make the apartment more spacious, unite different rooms. In the last decades the merging of kitchen with the hall became especially popular (or if to follow the European terminology, from the living room).
Instruction
1. Before making up the mind to such step, carefully weigh everything pros and cons. The apartment will become more spacious, options of arrangement of furniture considerably to increase, besides will monitor more conveniently cooking, without rising from sofa in front of the TV. On the other hand, if in the apartment lives big family, members of household distract for certain the hostess in preparation time of food. Besides the kitchen should be kept always in ideal order, it will be in the public eye and to get rid of smells, it is necessary to get qualitative extract.
2. Having resolved to unite kitchen with the hall, ask for the help in the specialized company. Professionals will make all necessary measurements, will make the design project and will tell whether association of rooms in your house is possible in general. The fact is that if the wall between the hall and re-planning, most likely, will be impossible. Further it is necessary to agree on the plan of re-planning of the apartment and to get official permission from housing inspectorate. Only after execution of all necessary documents it is possible to start merging of the hall with kitchen. By the way, consider that after repair you will need to receive the new certificate on property on the apartment as old after change of planning it will be invalid.