Corner Wardrobe – Everything You Need to Know

Regardless of the area of ​​the apartment, when choosing furniture, people pursue the following goals - reliability, functionality and design, allowing you to additionally decorate the interior of the room. The optimal solution is to purchase corner furniture, which allows you to hide the visual flaws of the room, as well as solve many additional problems.

Advantages and disadvantages

The undeniable advantage of corner furniture is its ergonomics. The designs of corner models allow you to free up additional space in the room, which is especially important for small apartments. In addition, despite its small size, corner furniture is quite roomy.

Also, the positive qualities include convenience and practicality of use. For example, on the shelves of a corner wardrobe installed in the living room, you can place video and audio equipment, and a corner kitchen allows the hostess to create an ideal triangle of work space: refrigerator-stove-work surface. For children's rooms, manufacturers offer transformable furniture, which is used for its intended purpose during the day, and in the evening it can be transformed into a bed.

In addition, it should be noted that currently there are many design solutions, including exclusive ones, that will help give the room individuality and uniqueness.

Corner wardrobe - types of design forms, their types

Corner wardrobes appeared on the domestic market relatively recently, but quickly gained popularity among the population and firmly occupied their niche in the furniture segment of the market. According to the type of construction, wardrobes are built-in, cabinet and modular.

In the first case, sliding wardrobes are installed in existing niches and mounted on special holders, so such structures may not have side, top or bottom walls. They are more spacious than cabinet wardrobes.

The cabinet wardrobe has a frame and can be used as a separate piece of furniture or as a link between two rectangular wardrobes. The advantage of the design is its mobility, i.e. if necessary, the wardrobe can be moved or transported to another apartment.

Modular structures are multifunctional, but are expensive.

By type, corner cabinets are classified as follows.

• Five-walled – has maximum functionality, but is the most massive structure in its class. It is most optimal for spacious rooms with symmetrical corners. Externally, it looks very harmonious with additional modules and consoles.

  

• Triangular – it is best to install it in the hallway, since the design does not provide for many shelves. At the same time, the rail placed inside allows you to compactly hang a large amount of outerwear.

  

• Trapezoidal - a distinctive feature of the compartment is the presence of a side wall that forms an irregular trapezoid line. It has a larger capacity than a triangular corner wardrobe, and the installation of additional elements allows for more rational use of the interior space.

  

• L-shaped – the most popular type of sliding wardrobes, which helps to free up as much free space as possible. It is especially relevant for installation in small rooms.

  

• Radius – the design has a non-standard shape and is ideal for installation in a hall designed in the Empire or Art Deco style. A significant disadvantage is the high price due to the complexity of production.

  

• Diagonal – in most cases, the model is made to order, since its main application is irregularly shaped rooms.

  

Materials used

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

Natural wood is rarely used due to high labor costs and the length of the production process, which has a direct impact on the cost of such furniture. In order to make large-sized boards from solid wood, it is necessary to carefully select the wood. The material also requires special processing and preparation. The result is beautiful and representative furniture, but its cost, to put it mildly, does not always correspond to its performance properties.

Therefore, the most popular are cabinets made from cheaper materials – fiberboard or MDF.

Chipboard (chipboard) is a board made of pressed chips, manufactured by hot pressing. Phenol-formaldehyde resins act as a binder, so before buying it is important to inquire what class the material belongs to. Class E0 or E1 indicate a low formaldehyde content in the boards, safe for health.

Chipboards are made in different thicknesses, but this does not affect the functional properties. Here the final decision is up to the buyer. The main advantages include:

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

MDF boards (fine fraction) are made by dry pressing of fine sawdust under high temperature and pressure. Here the binding link is paraffin, so such boards are considered more environmentally friendly. MDF is the most popular material from which not only cabinets are made, but also other furniture, as well as interior doors.

The distinctive features of the material are:

• strength and durability;
• environmental friendliness;
• ease of processing;
• the possibility of shaped milling or the production of embossed plates (especially relevant in the production of furniture facades);
• pleasant to the touch surface and excellent decorative properties.

Choosing sliding wardrobe doors

A characteristic feature of corner wardrobes are sliding doors, the choice of which should be approached especially carefully. The appearance of the door should be selected based on the design features of the room. Thus, mirrored doors visually expand the space of the room, and matte painted glass or plastic emphasize the overall color scheme of the room design.

The corner sliding wardrobe is equipped with a suspended or rail sliding system. In the first case, the doors are attached to a guide screwed to the top. When choosing such a system, saving is completely inappropriate, since when buying a cheap sliding mechanism, the guide may bend over time.

The advantage of the suspension system is the ability to attach rollers to doors made of any material. Also, the system ensures silent movement, provides for fixing doors in extreme positions and a wide range of adjustment.

With a rail opening mechanism, the doors move along the lower guide (monorail), which bears the main load. The cost of such a system is higher, but the price is justified by a higher degree of reliability. However, it is necessary to remember 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, it is worth paying attention to the profiles along which the door moves. They can be aluminum or steel. Despite the fact that the former are more expensive, they are less durable than the latter. The rollers of the undercarriage system also deserve special attention. They should be made of either plastic with a Teflon coating or metal. If the manufacturer offers wheels made of pure plastic, it would be better to refuse the purchase, since statistics show that such rollers will last no more than a year.

Design solutions 2018

In 2018, corner wardrobes will delight consumers with even greater diversity in terms of design. The following are among the most trendy options.

• “Invisible” or “disappearing” wardrobes – a monochrome color scheme of the corner wardrobe and the wall will create the effect of “invisibility” of the furniture, which will find its application in any room.

  

• Wardrobes with mirror inserts – asymmetry in design is becoming increasingly popular, which can be achieved using special inserts.

  

• Under the tinted wood – a fashionable trend, which has spread to corner wardrobes. Today, designers are fond of matte wooden textures. If the financial situation does not allow to buy such furniture, and the desire to follow the trend is strong enough, you can update the old monochrome wardrobe with the help of special stickers.

  

• With transparent tinted glass – are a mega-trend of the season. Such corner cabinets visually increase the space of the room, however, they will not suit everyone and not everywhere, since not everyone wants to put the stored things on display.

  

• With matte and glossy opaque glass – a fairly common design solution. Today, such colors as ultraviolet, black (and its shades), blue and dark red tones are in trend.

  

• Mirrored ones will be a great addition to the interior and will visually increase the space.

  

• Unusual models – here the result depends solely on the designer’s imagination. Various experiments with prints and textures, changing colors and using different lighting methods will give the furniture individuality. A corner cabinet with wood carving looks especially original. In a word – everything that is unusual and stylish is trendy today.

  

Features of the internal filling

Before buying a corner wardrobe, you need to decide on the purpose of its use. For example, the contents of a compartment for a hallway and for a bedroom will be very different.

Due to the non-standard design, there is a "dead" zone in the corner, which is quite difficult to fill. The optimal solution would be to place one or two rods with hangers in the center. There are many solutions for filling corner cabinets.

• The left part is shelves, the middle part is two clothes rails, located one above the other, the right part is drawers. It is more practical to use such filling in the bedroom.
• The middle part is a rod with hangers for clothes, the side parts are shelves. If necessary, some shelves can be replaced with drawers. This option is more appropriate to use in the living room or hallway.
• The left part is divided into two sections with shelves, on the right side the shelves are attached along the entire length, and at the bottom there are sections for large boxes or cartons.

Corner wardrobe for the living room - what nuances should be taken into account when choosing

Choosing a corner cabinet is not as easy as it seems at first glance. Before purchasing, it is necessary to take into account a number of important factors so as not to be disappointed later.

Key points to consider include:

• the configuration of the room and its dimensions;
• ceiling height;
• own requirements for capacity and internal filling;
• compatibility of the corner wardrobe design with the overall interior composition of the room.

This is far from a complete list. Everyone proceeds from personal considerations and has their own vision of the placement and use of corner furniture. When choosing a design, a good option is a sliding wardrobe. Sliding doors increase the useful space of the living room, allowing you to place some piece of furniture (a nightstand or lamp) in close proximity to the wardrobe without restricting access, which cannot be said about wardrobes with hinged doors.

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

In conclusion, it must be said that choosing corner furniture is not an easy process and you need to approach it very carefully, weighing all the pros and cons, because the right choice determines the comfort and harmony in the house for several years to come.

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