Criteria for choosing a bed. Countries and manufacturers, design solutions, sizes, materials and colors, prices.
We are infrequently remembered how even recently lived: Monotonous dark rooms, close corridors, proof kitchens ... But today, for many of us, the quality of life is no less important than its number (and we are going to live long and never grow old) . Well, the easiest way to decorate your existence is to buy a good bed and finally learn to rest fully.
A task
Purchase a bed of decent quality, having money, in principle, is easy. But how to find the only one, about which dreamed of a long time ago? To always and aparted, helped relax and reacted correctly to each movement of your body?The task to buy a bed, and not, say, a whole headset people set themselves for various reasons. For example, if the old one has fallen, long-required replacement of the bed. Or if the traditional set of sleeping furniture lacks money. Finally, the room can be too small to accommodate both the chest, and a bedside tables, and a wardrobe. But often the reason lies not in external circumstances, but within us. We want to feel like designers and furnish the bedroom without the standard, in its own way.
The bulky wardrobe is not at all necessary, a more modern solution is to burn several meters of space by sliding doors and arrange a dressing room. Instead of conventional bedside tables, it is convenient to use the retractable shelves that are attached to the head of the head, or small attachment tables. But here is the bed, the item is poorly replaced by anything equal. You can, of course, sleep on the sofa, and on the claw, and in a hammock, and even on nails. But is it worth it, if there is a comfortable, beautiful, as if specifically for you made, bed?
Ways Solutions
It turns out that buy a standard bedroom kit is immeasurably simpler than one bed. In many furniture stores without a closet, chest and bedside tables, either models of unusual design are sold, or those specimens that themselves stand as a whole set. Extracting firms are offered by the bundle kits, but it is rather an exception than the rule.
There is a fairly simple and convenient, but not the fastest way out: send an order to the factory, make a prepayment (20-50%) and wait. If you decide to buy a bed of foreign production, then you will have to wait for a century-month-month two, if the domestic one week. You can choose a model by catalogs available in all salons, shops and firms selling furniture.
Manifold
In modern Russia, and especially in Moscow, you can purchase (to order or from a warehouse) beds or sleeping headsets produced in any corner of the planet. However, mainly buyers are offered Western European or domestic products. The car of the overseas furniture is quite small, as it is very road and often has an unusual appearance for us. Asia countries are represented mainly by Indonesia (wicker furniture from rattan) and Japan (beds-tatami in traditional Japanese style).Russian manufacturers usually attract buyers with a low cost of their products (although with good quality it increases markedly), foreign trademarks, excellent product quality, originality of design. A separate group is quite good-quality furniture made in our country on foreign technologies using imported components.
Among foreign heads in our market are Italian. Also in Russia there are many Spanish, German, Finnish, Swedish and Danish bedrooms. It is less likely to meet French, Belgian, Austrian, Swiss, Portuguese and English furniture. Traditionally enjoy the success kits for the bedrooms of the production of former social and Soviet republics: Romania, Slovenia, Poland, Belarusian IDR.
Questions linguistics
Furniture terminology in modern Russian has not yet been established, and different words are often used to designate the same subject or concept. This is due to the difficulties of transferring terms from foreign languages.
So, the back of the bed in the heads is called a head back, and a headboard shield, and just headboard, and even a headrest. The back in the legs appears in speech as footage, squinting, a foot back and a foot wall. What mattress is put on, alone is confidently called the frame, other lattice, a third-stranded bottom, and the fourth, simply base. Flexible wooden plates made of beech or birch, of which the above-mentioned frame consists of the above, are referred to as the rails, straps, crossbars, lats or lamellas.
Countries and manufacturers
Difficult and ungrateful-to-talk, in which corner of the world make the most beautiful, comfortable, reliable bedrooms. However, with a more detailed study of models made in different countries, you can identify some features and patterns.The undoubted leader in the production of furniture is Italy. Here are hundreds, if not thousands of factories engaged in particular, furniture for bedrooms. In originality and the diversity of constructive solutions with the Italians, it is difficult to compete. In addition, the most prestigious exhibition of furniture on which the trends of world fashion are determined, it is carried out annually in Milan.
Bedroom Country is supplied as well-known manufacturers of exclusive (Flou, Lago, Carpanelli, Cappellini, Silik, Asnaghi, Frighetto, Intermobili) and firms focused on the average price category (SMA, Europeo, San Giacomo, Favero, Alf, Venier, Mobili Am, Doimo, Florida, Tomasella, Tempor and others). Moreover, some enterprises specialize in the manufacture of furniture in some particular style, others produce both classic and "modern" headsets.
Say, Flou became famous in his time the bed Natalie, from all sides by a lumpy cloth. ASNAGHI Interiors is one of the few, producing gilded beds in the "palace" style - with dietary or high spiers in the corners. Roberti Rattan produces wicker ratagged models, and duepi-forged metal.
Spain is also long famous for its furniture makers. Sleeping headsets are manufactured here mainly in two classic and baroque styles. The traditional Spanish bed is characterized higher than that of Italian models, headboard, an abundance of carved jewelry, painting and other decorative elements. There are well-known manufacturers such as Danona, Riviera, Vicente Folgado, Dupen and others.
For German Bed Manufacturers and Bedrooms (Hulsta, Mohr, Behr, Mobileffe, Nolte, Staud - List, it is possible to continue) are characterized by not only the nature of this nation and a rational approach, but also a rich fantasy and freshness of design decisions.
The travelers of classic and modern styles are intertwined by the entire furniture design (our magazine wrote about it in the article "Scandinavian furniture design"). Among the Finnish manufacturers in our country they won recognition of Isku, Puustelli, Asko, Messin. IKEA works with both Swedish and Russian suppliers.
Romanian and Belarusian factories are presented in our market mostly traditional classic furniture, most of the manufacturers from Poland and Slovenia products in a modern style.
Constructive decisions
To choose a bed suitable for you, it is desirable to have some idea of the design of this utility subject.
The bed consists of a frame and a frame on which the mattress is put on. Many sellers offer several species of frames and mattresses to the same model. Often, firms working with foreign suppliers receive beds and frames from abroad, and the mattresses are purchased by Russian (true, made from imported materials). It is more convenient and cheaper.
The frame may be a design of two reference backs with side panels (kings) or four bearing Tsarg with mounted backs (two or only one, head). In the second case, the legs are mandatory.
In the early time, the beds equipped with a lifting mechanism and a built-in lounge box were specially distributed.
There is a great many variants of bed frames. The simplest of them is made of long boards or metal tubes, across which a dozen and a half wooden plates are fixed. The price of this design is about 300 rubles. (IKEA). If the bed is double, two single or one double frame will be required.
The more the plates in the lattice frame, the stronger it (and, accordingly, more expensive). It also matters and material from which these rails are made - birch or beech (the last more flexible and, therefore, serves longer). The best option is (up to 1 cm) multilayer rails (the number of layers can reach 10).
There is another moment. Elastic Multilayer Wooden Plates Create the so-called orthopedic effect. Easually flexing under the severity of different parts of our body, they help the spine to constantly remain straightforward. The greatest effect is achieved with a combination of two components - lattice and orthopedic mattress.
Some frames are equipped with devices for adjusting the stiffness of the bedroom and the transformation system to change the angle of lifting the head, central and foot parts (this is done using a mechanical lever or an electric drive). Such "cheap" frames are much more expensive than ordinary, but they allow the owner to feel very comfortable.
Kkrovati need to pick up its main attribute mattress. It can be purchased either along with Cro-Wash and the frame, or separately, with any "stuffing" and upholstery (in more detail about different types of mattresses we will tell you in one of the following log numbers).
Perhaps the most attractive element of the bed for designer fantasy is a back. It can be any: flat or curved, solid or openwork, as well as lattice, wicker, vertical or inclined; With jewelry in the form of turrets, threads, painting IT.D. You are free to prefer the headboard, solid or divided in the tissue, and the skin of the taste.
Well, now you are theoretically ready to independently assemble the bed of components. For those who want some of the manufacturers (for example, the Italian company Tisettanta) offer a choice of five types of backs of different shapes, three types of bases and three types of metal or wooden legs, wheels.
Dimensions
In the width of the bed are divided into one, double and one-time. Double doubles have a width of at least 160 cm (there are 180cm and 2m), single-to-1M (standards: 80 and 90cm), one-time - from 110 to 150 cm (for example, 120 and 140cm). High-growth people face with shame difficulties. The usual sleeve length is 190cm or at best 2m. Buy a bed of greater length is quite difficult, but it is quite real: in some furniture salons and firms working with foreign suppliers, or directly in the Russian factory-manufacturer.Asseta High people can buy a bed without a back in the legs and lengthen the bed with the help of a banquette.
Materials and colors
In the production of beds, very different materials are used: wood in the form of an array or veneer, vine and lianas for weaving, wood-chip and wood-fibrous plates, MDF, metal, glass, plastic, and fabrics and leather (for upholstery), polymer coatings , varnishes, paints and finishing films.
Empty countries furniture manufacturers prefer their wood rocks. So, for Italy and Spain, the nuts and cherries are traditional (sometimes a sweet cherry) with rather dark wood. Chermannia most often use beech, alder and maple; In Denmark and Switzerland, mainly beech; In the North European countries, including Russia, Posina, Birch, less often a spruce (their wood is distinguished by a light tone). Among the domestic furniture is valued, made from Karelian pine or birch - these rocks are considered the most durable. Sometimes in one product combines several types of wood. This is especially characteristic of Romanian products. BLACKORSSIY FURNITURE Made from oak, dense and solid material.
All wood, intended for the production of furniture, should be well succumbed (the highest quality is considered to be humidity not more than 6-8%).
Vine, liana, reed and straws are used to make wicker elements (usually backs and side panels bed). These natural materials are perfectly combined with metal and wood, from which frames are performed.
Beds and sleeping sets from various furniture plates are extremely common: MDF, chipboard, fiberboard and some others. Ecological purity should usually prefer MDF and DVP preference. However, recently in Europe began to produce products from a chipboard, practically not emitting harmful to human health formaldehydes (the hygienic class EO). When buying products from DSP, pay special attention to the quality of the coating: it should be even and not to have cracks and chips.
Metal beds are known from time immemorial. Today, forged structures with intricate patterns again entered the fashion and occupied their place not only in rural homes, but also in urban apartments. The metal is painted in different colors (from white to brown), giving it an unusual, modern view.
Bed backs can be performed from high-strength glass having a thickness up to 15mm. But more often from it the shelves fixed by the headboard.
A relatively new direction in the design of bed-combination in one model of various materials. For example, natural wood with metal or glass.
A little about styles and directions
Trading firms are familiar to all furniture (and, of course, beds) to the classics and modern. The word "classic" designate both the actual classic and neoclassical styles and baroque, ampir, gothic, eclectic, bidermeyer, English and romance styles IT.D. Modern is called everything that is not a classic. Under this definition, the current postmodern direction is falling, avant-garde, and still techno, high-tech, minimalism, etc. Some styles in the design of furniture cannot be attributed to any of these two groups- for example, country (rustic) and oriental. By the way, the seller in the store may be sincerely surprised, having learned that the modern is called the style that dominated the interior at the beginning of the twentieth century. According to trading firms, currently the demand for the classics and modern is approximately the same.Prices
In Moscow, and throughout the country, the bed can be purchased as very small and for crazy money. Low prices offer domestic manufacturers. So, one of the cheapest beds we found in the IKEA store (Balitt model). It is made in Russia from an array of coniferous wood without decoration. The owner will have to paint it yourself or cover with varnish. This model is less than 2 thousand rubles. (without frame and mattress).
The most expensive beds in the so-called "palace" style are made in Europe (primarily in Italy and Spain). These masterpieces of furniture art are made of valuable wood species, decorated with gilding, manual carvings, unique painting and inlaid by ivory or pearl. The cost of such samples can reach $ 20,000-30000.
The average price range is presented very wide. For $ 150-300, you can buy a high-quality bed of domestic production from the massif of pines (from the company TMT, the furniture factory "Rus", DorokhovskayaMF). At a price of $ 250-500, beds are offered in a classic or modern style of laminated plates from Miassmeabel CJSC (made on imported equipment on European standards), as well as wooden or metal models from IKEA. With the amount of $ 500-600, you can choose a foreign-made bed (for example, Italian or Spanish) from a chipboard with a coating of laminate or melamine. For models decorated with natural veneer, the lower price limit is $ 700. Age for $ 800-1000 you can become the owner of a bed of wood array (products from the German company Staud or Romanian ELBAC). The same amount will cost the Finnish wrought bed from Messin Oy. New Italian firms manufactured using modern technologies or decorated with numerous decorative details are more than $ 1500 (when equipped with veneer). Finally, prices for products created by well-known firms with the participation of famous designers may differ from those mentioned several times. In addition, the value of the bed is a non-permanent value. Many sellers reduce the prices of "old" (that is last year's) models, if new.
In terms I want to remember the truth proven time: if you want the bed to serve a long time, not one ten years, - buy a model made of natural wood.