The so-called "LDK" is actually the abbreviation of three English characters, namely the living room, the dining room, and the kitchen, and each has its first letter. Simply put, the living room, the dining room, and the kitchen each have independent functions, but there is no cl

2025/06/0701:44:38 home 1978

For the decoration planning of home space,

In addition to its aesthetics and practical functions, modern homeowners also attach importance to "interaction".

Therefore, in order to solve the "LDK" layout of narrow spaces, it has become one of the mainstream designs for decoration.

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The so-called "LDK" is actually the abbreviation of three English characters, namely the living room (Living Room), the restaurant (Dinning Room), and the kitchen (Kitchen), and each takes its first letter; and when it appears in the decoration design, LDK represents the spatial layout of "integrated guest, dining and kitchen".

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Simply put, the living room, dining room, and kitchen each have independent functions, but there is no closed partition wall to divide the space, and they are connected to each other to form a large public area. The vision, light and air flow with each other, making the originally crowded space appear relatively spacious because of the lack of partition walls.

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Interestingly, the original LDK design was mostly used in small apartments, allowing small houses to have basic living functions and indirectly create expansion effects; but because the sense of space presented after decoration is too good, even ordinary houses, large flat floors or luxury houses have also introduced LDK layout design.

Basically speaking, LDK layout has 5 advantages:

││Enlarge the sense of space

The most feared by small homes is that too many partition walls will cause the sense of space to be broken and lead to the formation of a cramped atmosphere; and the LDK layout that removes partition walls is relatively conducive to the extension of sight, which naturally helps to amplify the feeling of space and relieve the feeling of crowding.

│ Increase lighting and ventilation
Reduce the obstacles from partition walls, and light and air from the outdoors can flow freely, greatly improving the indoor lighting and ventilation.
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│ Improve space utilization

The thickness of each partition wall in the room is about 10 to 12 cm. Once the excess wall (except the load-bearing wall) is removed in the public area, the extra space can plan life functions, such as decorating a restaurant, a bar..., etc., to make the space utilization better.

│More possibilities for use

When the living room, dining room and kitchen become a large space, more possibilities for use will be created. For example, family members will have more activities and rest areas, and not only will the original space for play become larger, even if there are more relatives and friends visiting, the dining space can be extended to the living room and kitchen, so you don’t worry about excessive crowding. In addition, daily cleaning is also less difficult to clean because there are few partitions.

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│ Enhance interaction

LDK layout is an open large space, and no matter the members are in the living room, kitchen or dining room, they can still maintain interaction; especially for housewives with children at home, the unobstructed LDK pattern allows them to take care of the children in the family while doing housework.

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Common LDK layout

LDK layout The most common arrangement is to arrange the living room, dining room, and kitchen in order; this layout is a good layout planning for narrow and long houses. But in addition to long spaces, L-shaped, square or even irregular shapes can also be planned to meet the space needs in life.

long LDK planning

narrow and long small apartment space is the most commonly used to plan the internal layout; but what is fun is that although each functional area is arranged in sequence, three arrangement methods can still be changed as the kitchen is located.

kitchen counter "vertical" wall layout

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After the public area is roughly planned to be divided into three equal parts, the kitchen table (stove) at one end is connected to the side wall in a vertical arrangement and faces the living room. In this way, in addition to the kitchen having a relatively complete space, the boundary of the field is also obvious, and the sight is facing the living area, which has better interaction, and you can also take care of the children while cooking.

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Kitchen counter "parallel" wall layout

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Advantages: expand the dining space and shorten the dynamic line distance

This layout is to plan the kitchen table in the center, arrange it in a "parallel" way to the wall, and connect it with dining table , as shown in the figure. The advantage of this is that the dining table can be used as a temporary dining table, which is equivalent to indirectly expanding the kitchen table area.

Secondly, because it is arranged in the central position, there is an additional channel (moving line) in front of the kitchen counter. In addition to helping the kitchen plan "paper-shaped moving line", it also shortens the distance between entering and leaving the kitchen in and out of the various fields.

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Advantages: Maximize the public area of micro space

For micro homes, the planning of bringing the kitchen counter to the wall is conducive to retaining a larger central area and matching movable dining tables and chairs; in this way, it can maintain the functionality of the LDK layout, but also create more activity space and usage possibilities as other furniture moves (such as dining tables and sofas).

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L-shaped LDK planning

is different from the long LDK layout arranged in sequence. The L-shaped LDK layout usually separates the cooking area from the rest area, and can be roughly divided into two major blocks: living room (L) and dining kitchen (DK).

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Due to the characteristics of the layout, compared with the long LDK layout, the L-shaped will have at least one more moving line, so more space is required; however, the advantage is that once you leave the dining and kitchen area, the kitchen is usually invisible in the living room, and the relatively independent field will have a better rest atmosphere. There are three common L-shaped LDK layouts in

, and they also produce different patterns according to the kitchen (table) planning.

Kitchen counter "set" layout

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Advantages: strong interactiveness, easy to communicate

L-shaped LDK layout, usually the kitchen and living room are laid out in a "diagonal" way, and conventionally, the living room layout is relatively fixed, which will change the kitchen layout, thereby meeting the space conditions and usage needs.

The most common "two-shaped" kitchen, cabinet is decorated close to the bottom wall, while the kitchen counter is placed in the center of the space (similar to the "center" layout) and facing the restaurant. In addition to being conducive to serving food, family members are easy to interact whether they are sitting in the dining room or the living room, and people usually watch TV in the kitchen.

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Kitchen and restaurant "connection" layout

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Advantages: Expand the dining space and facilitate family gatherings

Like to entertain relatives and friends at home, this layout is very suitable. The kitchen table is connected to the dining table and turned into a long layout. In this way, in addition to using the dining table as a dining table, if the kitchen table can be equipped with a movable table, it can increase the dining position and accommodate more people to eat together; and there is no obstacle to communication in the kitchen or restaurant.

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Kitchen "sticking wall" layout

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Advantages: The space is elastic

Whether narrow "long" or "L-shaped" home, once the space area is not large, LDK layout is required, then it will be a better way to move the kitchen counter (room) to the wall; especially when the width of the L-shaped space is insufficient, whether the kitchen counter is vertical, parallel or placed in the middle, it may cause the operating counter space to be too small, or affect the smoothness of the channel.

Therefore, the LDK layout of the small space may be planned in the above picture. Moreover, if necessary, you can move the dining table and chairs to give up more space and transform it into a field of indoor sports and children's games.

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Finally, it provides a "deformed" design for LDK layout. Because, for homeowners who like to make a big fry, the fully open layout will always worry that the whole house will be filled with smoke every time they cook. To solve this problem, it is recommended to install folding sliding doors or sliding doors in the kitchen area, and it is best to use iron glass material to avoid affecting the transparency of the space.

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The above LDK layout is often used in the design of small apartments; it should be noted that it is not limited to small apartments, and most apartments are also suitable, and it is not only for long and L-shaped layouts, square or irregular spaces are also possible; in other words, if you like the open sense of space and better interactivity, LDK layout will be a good choice.