Kitchen furniture for middle class: What to choose? Products of domestic manufacturers and importers, planning solutions, standard modules, prices.
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Furniture for kitchenToday we want to talk about the kitchen furniture of the middle pricing category. The upper limit of the cost will be set at $ 1000 (1Pog. M), because more often the production of not mass demand is most often for sale. The bottom boundary will consider to count $ 200, because only low-quality goods offer for smaller money. What can be purchased in our market at this price? What materials should the furniture should be made to not be unreasoning after the operation? What devices are invented to facilitate the work of the hostess? We will try to answer these and some other questions.
Manufacturers
Kitchen furniture for medium-class consumers is produced on a variety of factories around the world. Unas in the country can be purchased products from Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, Sweden and other European countries. However, in recent times, more and more buyers choose domestic cuisines, the best samples of which are fully compliant with world standards. Products of some enterprises of Russia and the CIS (for example, a combine of kitchen furniture "County cuisine" from Voronezh and the factory of classical and modern furniture "InterShil" from Zhitomir, Ukraine) has an international certificate of Quality ISO9001. Domestic manufacturers are purchased equipment and many components abroad (star in Italy and Germany) and their own build kitchens. So enterprises reduce the cost of production (compared with imported). At the same time, in the last year-two, there is a tendency to the gradual transition of our factories on domestic components, because their quality, in favor of the market requirements, is constantly improving. Avot high-class equipment for the production of furniture The Russian industry is still awakening.What manufacturers created a solid reputation? Who can you trust now? Answer these questions is difficult, but in principle it is possible. Synoscian factories are increasingly or less understandable: many of them have tremendous experience and make the kitchen for dozen years. Therefore, those manufacturers that endured tough competition in the market and continue to work, are clearly worthy of confidence and respect. We are most popular with our kitchens made in Italy. Products of sets of many factories of this country are sold: Doimo, Aran, Spagnol, Tomassi, Lube, Oikos, Atma, Ginova, Astra, Valentini, etc. Vitaliyan kitchen headsets of buyers attracts primarily the original, constantly updated design. German kitchen furniture to the average price category can only be attributed with the stretch of this product quite high. However, manufacturers from Germany (Nolte, Alno and some others) have robust position in Russia and cannot be taken into account when reviewing the market. Scandinavian design is familiar to us by IKEA products from Sweden and Novartoy (Alacarte trademark) from Finland. A special place is occupied by the kitchens from the Czech Republic, which in European quality are inherent in Russian prices (Koryna and Hanak factories).
On domestic producers, it is obviously harder about domestic producers than about foreign. The criteria for assessing our enterprises, apparently, should differ from the criteria by which the Western factories are evaluated. The Soviet experience of production in the offset does not go, because then in our country they acted their own, and not the market laws. Therefore, young Russian enterprises, many of whom they work for only a year or two, often produce more competitive products than "veterans". However, the old furniture plants are gradually starting to upgrade. ELT, EDEL, FARAON-S (Russia-Germany), "Atlas-Lux", "Allegrdrev", "Eurocomfort", "Kitchen Zetta" (Russia-Italy), PRS (Russia-Italy), "Classic-furniture", Legna Klassik, "EKOMEBEL", "Decraft" (Russia-Czech Republic) - Russian producers of high-quality furniture a lot!
Kitchen layout
The choice of planning solution depends on the area and the form of the available room. Furniture layout options in the kitchen are several: linear, angular (or g-shaped), parallel, P-shaped, free (or extixed), as well as island and peninsular. Most often buyers are the owners of typical apartments with small and medium-sized kitchens, prefer a linear or angular configuration of the headset. Linear layout is good in any kitchens, with the exception of those that resemble a long and narrow corridor. In this case, the work of the hostess will not be too effective, because she will have to overcome the marathon distances per day.
The angular configuration of the elements headset, according to many sellers of furniture, now enjoys the greatest demand in our country. Such a layout choose those whose kitchen in the form at least remotely resembles a square. Stacks of view ease of use The angular placement of the modules, apparently, should be recognized optimal.
In parallel, along two opposite walls and the P-shaped furniture location is suitable only for very large kitchens (from 15m2), which in our country are not too much. What to talk about free layout, which provides for equipping all elements by rollers! To make it possible to move items in the kitchen in an arbitrary order, such a room should have a spacious room area (minimum 20m2).
"Islands" and "Peninsula" are usually present as an addition to one of the already mentioned layouts. The islands (that is the detached items in the kitchen headset) can be made dining or cutting tables or even plates. Vrolley of the peninsula most often performs a bar rack or a small table. They are also used to separate the room on the functional zones, for example, for sowing the kitchen and dining room.
When choosing a planning, it is necessary to take into account the interjection of the vertices of the so-called work triangle: plates, washes and refrigerators. Think how it is better to place these elements so that work in the kitchen becomes comfortable and rational. The video mold between them, occupied by the working surfaces, should be small (not more than 0.5 m).
The foregoing may be of interest to those who decided to plan their kitchen. "Self-designer himself" - however, and not? Some firms (for example, IKEA) actively promote this sales system. IKEA kitchen pop-foal catalog You will find chopsticks - checkered leaflets at a scale of 1:20 and furniture items templates that you can freely move along the plan of the room.
On the other hand, if you decide to purchase the kitchen not in the self-service store, why not take advantage of the help of a qualified designer or experienced sales manager. To whom not to them, all the subtleties of the choice and the combination of different elements of the headset should be known. Again, these services are free ... Ask you to draw (manually or on a computer) several possible options for the estimated kitchen. Then it will be easier for you to make a choice.
Elements of kitchen heads
The one who has gathered to buy furniture for the kitchen, there are two ways. The first and most common- choose individual modules and make up the kit in accordance with the size and form of the room. The second way is to purchase the finished set of standard configuration. This way usually use if you buy furniture with a discount. Discount is most often provided to exhibition samples or slightly outdated models.The kitchen furniture, as a rule, includes lower cabinets (couches), hinged shelves and high cabinets (columns). Their sizes may vary very significantly. The most narrow modules have a width of 15 cm, the largest to 120cm, the step is 5-15 cm. Each manufacturer offers its set of standard sizes. For example, in the Federica collection, the ELT factory has modules (upper and lower) width 15, 30, 45, 60 and 90cm. The height of the hinged shelves is also different (for example, 41, 71 and 101cm), and you can choose the one that matches your growth more. In addition, many manufacturers offer services for the manufacture of non-standard elements and forms. But for such a "individual approach", of course, it will be necessary to pay.
The lower (floor) modules usually have at the base of the base, tightly covering the space between the floor and the cabinet. However, recently kitchen furniture has become popular in open high legs, often metallic. This facilitates the process of cleaning the room, because the floor under the cabinet is easy to wipe. Bottom cabinets are traditionally completed with swing doors and drawers. More modern options are open shelves, retractable, folding or folding doors.
A separate group consists of kitchen cabinets intended for embedded household appliances. If you buy furniture and equipment in one place, you will not have any problems: the seller managers are well known to which cabinets can be "entered" this or that equipment. If the kitchen is purchased in one company, and the technique is in another, it is necessary to comply with strict compliance of the dimensions, for which it is best to seek help from a specialist. Consider the internal size of the cabinet must be slightly more than washing, dishwasher or refrigerator.
The design of the upper elements of the headset can resemble the design of the lower, and may be specific. Let's say the mounted modules are sometimes equipped with the so-called "blinds", they are "accordion", - the doors from the transverse rails, when opening up up (remember the semicircular wooden cribs of the Soviet sample). The upper lockers, in contrast to the lower, are often glazed - a transparent or matte glass is used. Convenient, although silencers, cabinets equipped with a pneumatic or hydraulic mechanism of smooth lifting-lowering the door-so-called gas lift (therefore, the principle open trunkings in foreign cars).
Accessories and "Stuffing"
Large and small devices designed to accommodate kitchen utensils and products are, of course, not furniture items. But without a variety of tanks, holders and baskets in the economy, too, do not do. Therefore, the kitchen accessories are often sold precisely in furniture stores and shops.
The most convenient and necessary device, probably, should be recognized as a railing (of the barbell or the mounting rail, as they say in IKEA). This is a metal tube, sometimes a plank, which is mounted on the wall in space between the lower and the upper cabinets. Reheling is good because it allows you to free the place in the working surfaces and inside the cabinets: drying for dishes, stands for small items and cutlery are attached to it on special brackets, and buckets, mugs and half just hang on the hooks. It is also important that the presence of the railing eliminates the owners of the kitchen from the need to make extra holes in the wall under the individual shelves.
Many no longer imagine what they would do without local lighting in the kitchen. All sorts of built-in light bulbs can be located anywhere, for example, on a visor under the ceiling or directly above the working surfaces.
And if you want to constantly maintain the order in kitchen cabinets, for them you need to purchase "stuffing". Retractable storeroom sections, containers, corner spinning elements ("carousels"), baskets, boxes dividers on cells, all sorts of trays will help you easily and quickly find the right thing. However, do not forget that the cost of "filling" is commensurate with the price of the furniture itself.
What is the cost of the route meter?
This conditional value allowing customers to imagine the price level of one or another collection of furniture. The cost of the route meter manufacturers and sellers operate mainly in their promotional materials. Urida in a salon or shop, which sells kitchens, you will see the usual price lists, which show the numbers of the articles and prices for specific furniture items.Cost 1Pog. M is calculated quite simple. A standard set consisting of upper and lower cabinets is taken, its price is calculated and is divided by its length.
Why is the real price of kitchen furniture, as a rule, above the one that is indicated in advertising? WeT and consists of a small "trick". The set price directly depends on the complexity of the external outlines and the internal device of individual elements included in the set. Therefore, the simplest cabinet with the shelf in the middle is cheaper than a similar subject of the same size, but with several drawers. Arounded elements are always more expensive than ordinary, "straight". And further. The cost of additional equipment is not included in the price headset.
Materials and technologies
In the production of kitchens, like any other cabinet furniture, uses a wide variety of materials in all sorts of combinations. However, the conditions of operation of the lockers and shelves in the kitchen are very different from the usual: there are constantly differences in temperature and humidity, so the furniture risks quickly to come into disrepair. That is why it is so important to choose the correct materials from which your headsets should be made. The most attention should be paid to the facades (that is, doors, front, or frontal, cabinet panels). It is these details of the design that form an external appearance of the kitchen as a whole. It is now more active than other parts of the structure, are subjected to mechanical loads. The door of the cabinets are made of wood massif, MDF, chipboard, glass and metal. It is often common for the so-called frame facades consisting of frame and fililene inserts. In this case, the frame is made from wood array, and insert - from another material (for example, chipboard).
Fronts made of metal (steel or aluminum) - the most durable, almost eternal. But they are roads and require accurate circulation (drops and splashes are especially noticeable on a shiny surface). Wooden facades are good, but, contrary to popular opinion, not too durable. No array, even very high quality, is not insured against cracking and storage in the kitchen. So, from the point of view of practicality, it is best to recognize panels from MDF (filled with PVC film or painted). This material obtained by pressing the smallest wood dust has a very high density and a homogeneous structure, due to which it is almost not deformed over time. Wood-chipboard can be used to make facades only in combination with wear-resistant facing (laminate or melamine).
Cases of kitchen cabinets are almost always carried out from the laminated chipboard, which is attractive to its low cost. Using this material, manufacturers reduce the cost of furniture, otherwise its selling price will hardly be less than $ 1000-1200 (1Pog. M). An example is the cuisine of the Italian factory Pedini, fully made from MDF plates.
Countertops (working surfaces of outdoor tables and cabinets) are made from natural and artificial stone, wood array or laminated plates. Artificial stone (not to mention natural) quite expensive, but extremely durable and durable.
Prices
The cost of any cabinet furniture, including kitchen, depends on the quality of materials used in its production and components. In addition, the models of famous designers and design bureaus are significantly more expensive than serial products designed for mass demand.
The most expensive cuisines in the middle price category are the facades of which are made of high-quality natural materials. A row of wood hardwood array: oak, walnut, cherries, cherries, acacia, ash, chestnut, willow, alder, linden, birch, etc. (if there are not only doors, but also the cabinet cases, such furniture belongs to The highest price category. Its value is calculated by thousands of dollars for the temporon meter.)
So, the cost of kitchens with facades from the wood array is usually $ 500-800, more often than $ 600-700. Such are the models of domestic factories "Atlas-Suite", "European Comfort", "Kitchen Zetta", Italian Aran, Spagnol, ATMA, Czech Hanak and Koryna. If, in the manufacture of furniture, any special technologies were applied (carving, embossing, flexion of wood) or this is a new design development, the cost of products will be about $ 1000 (1Pog): ELT, NOVART, OIKOS, "INTERSTIL '". The cheapest kitchen furniture of the average price category is fully made of chipboard and lined with laminate, melamine or plastic. Deciding to buy a headset for $ 250-350, pay attention to how the edges and joints of the cabinets are embedded. The entire surface of the chipboard should be covered with a protective layer, then you will save yourself from the emission of toxic formaldehydes. Manufacturers: Aran, "Classic-Furniture", "Zetta Kitchen", etc.
The best ratio of "price-quality" shows models with facades from MDF plates (domestic manufacturers of EDEL, "Atlas-Lux", Faraon-S, "Allegrdrev", "Classic-furniture", "Decraft", etc.). The cost of such "optimal" cuisines- $ 270-500 (1Pog).
The editors thanks the company "ELT", "Salon of Italian furniture", "InterStil" and "Darina" for help in preparing the material