Corner Cupboard: forms, materials, content, design solutions

Regardless of the size of the apartment, when choosing furniture people pursue the following goals - reliability, functionality and design, which allows further decorate the room. The optimal solution is to acquire the angular furniture that allows you to hide the visual shortcomings of the room, as well as solve a lot more problems.

Advantages and disadvantages

The undeniable advantage of the angular furniture is its ergonomics. Angular design models allow free up additional space premises, which is especially important for small apartments. In addition, despite its small size, angular furniture enough capacious.

Also, the positive qualities include the convenience and practicality of operation. For example, on the shelves of the corner wardrobe, set in the living room, you can place video and audio equipment, and corner kitchen owner creates ideal triangle workspace refrigerators-plate working- surface. Children's bedroom furniture manufacturers offer a transformer, which during the day is used for its intended purpose, and in the evening it can be transformed into a bed.

In addition it should be noted that currently there are many designs, including exclusive that will give the room personality and originality.

Corner wardrobe - the variety of forms of structures, their types

In the domestic market Corner closets are relatively new, but rapidly gained popularity among the population and strongly occupied a niche in the furniture market. By type of construction are built-in wardrobes, and modular housing.

In the first case, closets installed in existing recess and are mounted on special holders, however in such constructions may be omitted side, top or bottom wall. They have greater capacity, compared to the body.

Corps wardrobe has a body and can be used as a single piece of furniture or as a link between the two rectangular enclosures. The advantage of the design is its portability, i.e. if necessary, the cabinet can be moved or shipped to another apartment.

Modular designs are multifunctional, but are characterized by high cost.

By type of corner cabinets are classified as follows.

• Pyatistenok - it offers maximum functionality but is the massive structure in its class. Optimally suited to the spacious rooms with symmetrical angles. Outwardly, it looks very harmoniously with additional modules and consoles.
  

  Five walls cabinet has two additional walls on the sides

• Triangular - would be best to install in the hallway, because the design does not provide a lot of shelves. However, housed inside a rail allowing large amounts of compact hang clothing.
  

  Triangular closet for small spaces

• Trapezoidal - distinguishing feature is the presence of a compartment side wall forming the irregular line trapezoid. It has a greater capacity than the triangular corner cabinet and the installation of additional elements allows for more efficient use of interior space.
  

  Trapezoidal cabinet is more capacity

• L-shaped - the most popular form of wardrobes, helps to maximize the release of free space. Particularly relevant for installation in small rooms.
  

  Multi-functional L-shaped cabinet

• Radius - the design is different non-standard form and is ideal for installation in the hall, designed in the Empire style or Art Deco. A significant drawback is the high price due to the complexity of manufacture.
  

  Radius corner cabinet in the interior of the living room

• Diagonal - in most cases, the model is made to order, as its main applications - premises of irregular shape.
  

  Diagonal cabinet has compact dimensions, its facade is located in the same plane

applied materials

One of the biggest challenges when choosing a corner cabinet is the choice of the material from which the furniture is made. Today, manufacturers use a variety of materials, but the consumer is, in most cases, looking for his house practical and inexpensive furniture.

Natural wood is rarely used because of high labor costs and the duration of the production process that has a direct impact on the cost of such furniture. In order to produce the array of solid panels of large size, it is necessary to carefully select the wood. Also, the material requires special handling and preparation. The result is a beautiful and representative furniture, but its value, to put it mildly, does not always match its performance characteristics.

Therefore, the most popular are cabinets made of cheaper materials - chipboard or MDF.

Particleboard (chipboard) is a plate of pressed shavings produced by hot pressing. The binder phenolformaldehyde resin protrude, so before purchase ask important class to which the material belongs. Class E0 or E1 indicate a low content of formaldehyde in the boards, safe for health.

Plates from particleboard manufactured of different thicknesses, but this has no effect on functional properties. Here, the final decision rests with the buyer. The main advantages are:

• practicality;
• strength;
• low cost;
• moisture resistance;
• aesthetics;
• resistance to mechanical stress, etc.

MDF plates (the fine fraction) are made by dry pressing small chips under heat and pressure. Here, a connecting link acts as paraffin, so these plates is considered to be more environmentally friendly. MDF is the most popular material from which produced not only closets, but also other furniture and interior doors.

The distinctive features of the material are as follows:

• strength and durability;
• environmental friendliness;
• ease in handling;
• possibility shaped milling or manufacturing embossed plates (especially useful in the production of furniture fronts);
• pleasant to the touch surface, and excellent decorative properties.

Choosing a cabinet door coupe

A characteristic feature of the corner wardrobes are sliding doors to the choice of which must be approached carefully. Appearance of the door should be selected based on the design features of the room. Thus, the mirror doors to visually expand the space of the room and painted matt glass or plastic emphasize the overall color scheme of the design space.

Corner wardrobe is equipped with a hanging rail or sliding system. In the first case, the doors are attached to the rail, screwed the top. When choosing a system of savings completely inappropriate, as when buying a cheap sliding mechanism, the guide may eventually sag.

The advantage of the suspension system is the possibility of mounting rollers to the door of any material. Also, the system provides silent movement are locking doors in extreme positions and a wide range of adjustment.

When a rail mechanism for opening the doors move along the bottom rail (monorail), which accounts for the bulk load. The cost of such a system is higher, but the price is justified by a higher degree of reliability. However, it must be remembered that the rails require periodic maintenance, otherwise the grooves can become clogged with dust and dirt, which will lead to incorrect operation of the door.

In addition, you should pay attention to the profiles, on which the movement of the door. They can be aluminum or steel. Despite the fact that the former are more expensive, they are less durable than the latter. Rollers running system also deserve special attention. They should be made of plastic or coated with Teflon, or metal. If the manufacturer offers the wheels of pure plastic, then it will be better to abandon the purchase, because statistics show that these videos will last no more than a year.

Designs 2018

In 2018 Angular closets please consumers even greater variety in terms of design. Of the trend are the following options.

• "Invisible" or "endangered" closets - monochrome colors corner cabinet and the wall will create the effect of "invisibility" of furniture, which will find its use in any room.
  

  "Invisible" or seamless wardrobe is practically no different from the wall

• Cabinets with glass inserts - gaining increasing popularity in the asymmetric design, which can be achieved by using special inserts.
  

  Closet with mirrored asymmetric inserts

• Under toned tree - a fashion trend that has spread and corner wardrobes. Today designers to display matte wood texture. If the financial situation does not allow to buy such furniture, and the desire to follow the trend is large enough, you can upgrade your old monochrome wardrobe with special stickers.
  

  Fashionable wardrobe under toned wood

• With a transparent tinted glass - are the mega-trend of the season. Such corner cabinets visually increase the space of the room, but they are not all and not always suitable, as not everyone will want to put things on display are stored.
  

  Fashionable modern wardrobe with a transparent tinted windows

• With matt and glossy opaque glass - a rather common design decision. Today, the trend in such colors as ultraviolet, black (and its shades), blue and dark reds.
  

  Wardrobe with matt and glossy opaque glass in the interior

• Mirror - will be a perfect complement to the interior and allow visually enlarge the space.
  

  Mirrored facade visually expands the space of the room

• Unusual model - here the result depends entirely on the imagination of the designer. Various experiments with prints and texture, change colors and use different ways to allow the backlight to give the furniture individuality. It looks particularly original corner cupboard with carving on wood. In a word - all that unusual and stylish, today's trend.
  

  Wardrobe with curved façade looks unusual and modern

Features internal filling

Before purchasing a corner cabinet is necessary to define its purpose of use. For example, a compartment filled hallway and bedroom will be very different.

Due to custom design, in the corner is a "dead" zone, which is quite difficult to fill. Will be optimal accommodation in the center of one or two rods with hangers. There are many solutions to fill corner cabinets.

• The left part of the - shelf, the average - two rods for clothes, arranged one above the other, the right - drawers. This content is more practical to use in the bedroom.
• The middle portion - rod with hangers for clothes, side parts - the shelves. If necessary, some of the shelves can be replaced with boxes. Such an option is more appropriate to use in the living room or hallway.
• The left part is divided into two compartments with shelves on the right side shelf is attached to the entire length of the bottom of the compartments are provided for parking boxes or cartons.

Corner cabinet in the living room - some nuances to consider when choosing

Choose the corner cupboard is not as easy as it seems at first glance. Before purchasing you need to consider a number of important factors to later be disappointed.

The main point to which you should pay attention to are:

• room configuration and its dimensions;
• ceiling height;
• own requirements for internal filling and roominess;
• compatible design corner cabinet with a total composition of interior room.

This is not an exhaustive list. Each is based on personal reasons and has the vision of the placement and operation of the angular furniture. When choosing a design, a good choice is the closet. Sliding doors to increase the usable space living room, allowing you to locate any piece of furniture (nightstand or a lamp) in the vicinity of the enclosure without access restrictions, which can not be said about the hinged cabinets doors.

Modular corner cabinet is perfect for the living room with a complex configuration, as it can be collected in a variety of variations. In addition, some manufacturers offer modular corner cabinets, the design of which allows you to transform into a classic.

In conclusion, it must be said that the choice of the angular furniture - not an easy process and approach it should be very carefully weighing all the "pros" and "cons", because the correct choice depends on comfort and harmony in the home for several years forward.

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