Overview of the modular furniture market and wardrobes: materials used, marginal dimensions, manufacturers.
Time flies, children grow, new things appear, and gradually in the once spacious apartment becomes close and uncomfortable. This article on how with the help of modern furniture you can make an apartment more spacious and comfortable.
Any dwelling over time is becoming a ship shells, things. For them you have to look for a suitable place. Gradually, in a once spacious apartment, the source of joy, pride or even complacency of its inhabitants, the traits of grace and gloss disappear, and it becomes uncomfortable. New items that appear in the interior often destroy the usual harmony. So, dear floor lamping, donated to a silver wedding, looks like a very cool businessman in the old "humpback" "Zaporozhsev", and the computer installed on a good, dual-meter writing desk - as a cosmonaut on the cart.
Fix the created position, that is, make the home spacious and cozy, in two ways. Either buy another apartment that in the current times is not for everyone to pocket, or find the "domestic reserves" of an increase in area. And although the second option, at first glance, it seems obvious nonsense, it is not quite true, because such a reserve really is and lies in a more rational use of volume (precisely volume, and not area). The usual cabinet furniture occupies from 40 to 60% of the apartment area and due to the design features does not contribute to the full development of space. For example, the dreams of the 70s are a three-rolled Polish wardrobe, made of wood, trimmed with a veneer of the Karelian birch of a hand with a height of 175 cm, 180 cm wide, a depth of 60 cm takes more than 1 m2 of the floor, and something else is needed to open the door. In addition, he "loves" to stand in relevant as the conductor of the symphony orchestra, it can not be placed in the corner, to the wall where the door is located in the room. He either does not allow to open this door freely or the passage prevents its doors. In addition, the space between the ceiling and the wardrobe remains almost undeveloped. Now we will summarize a disappointing result. Our "hero" requires more than 2 m2 of the floor area (if the cabinet doors are open) and with a ceiling height of 270 cm takes about 5.5 m3, of which less than 2 m3 are used in direct intended purpose.
"ENLARGE" The area of the apartment is possible due to the more rational filling of its space with modern furniture. This refers to modular, built-in furniture and wardrobes. These names with different semantic values and in various combinations are often present in numerous advertisements and prospects.
The design of modular furniture is based on the idea of a children's designer, for example "Lego." The main feature is that at the request of the customer for the selected place in the apartment from the module set (it may be a wall or bookcase, a module for a TV or music center, a box for toys, a children's table, etc.) Completed the headset of the required destination , for example, for the dining room, office, children's room, etc.
The built-in furniture does not have a housing, its stiffness is ensured by connecting the bearing elements (rear and side walls, upper and lower plates) and attach them to walls, ceiling and floor. To save the place of the door, such a design usually sliding, as in the jewelry car (from here its second name-rack coupe), although they are made by folding or ordinary swinging.
On firms, you can order a corpuscle wardrobe or a bookcase with sliding doors, but they have no relation to the wardrobe, this is an ordinary cabinet furniture with unusual doors.
Now let's try to figure out why modular and built-in furniture allows us to organize the placement of things.
Let's start with modular furniture. We talked about the possibility of laying sets above. Modules of different heights, widths and depths are placed almost anywhere (in particular, in the corners, shallow niches), where the cabinet furniture is not similar to "fits".
A characteristic representative of modular furniture is the model of the American company Mr.Doors. The system contains 29 elements (panels, shelves, boxes, doors, etc.), from which 12 different ones are assembled and sizes of modules, including angular and transient docking sections of different depths. After listening to the wishes of households, guidance instructions of the mother-in-law and mobilizing their aesthetic and intellectual potential, you can proceed to the creation of unique masterpieces from these modules.
The wardrobes are made according to individual orders, and therefore their shape and dimensions exactly correspond to the place where they will be installed. Sliding wardrobes are located in the openings, arches, under the ceiling overlaps, in the attic rooms (with a beveled ceiling), etc. The built-in furniture allows you to hide the defects of the apartment layout and make it useful any of her surges.
To purchase built-in or modular furniture, you should call home the representative of the selected company. It will make the necessary measurements and sketch of furniture, taking into account all the wishes, then the company will calculate the cost of the order and make up the contract. At the set time you will be brought by the manufactured parts and collect furniture. On the assembly takes one or a maximum of two days if the order is large.
The idea of modularity is true in a more modest scale, uses the German firm WELLE. It offers the program "Vision 2", containing three options for wardrobes of different sizes for clothing, folding bed, chest of drawers, bedside tables, shelves, etc. From these items, a variety of options for a bedroom headset are gaining. Cabinets are equipped with folding doors, shelves, drawers and hangers for clothes.Furniture factory "Sava" (Zelenograd) produces modules from which kits for the hallway ("Natalie"), children's ("Sasha") and for the Tinajer room ("Julia"). Each set contains more than forty different modules (cabinets for clothes and linen, speakers, corner cabinets, beds, dressers, writing and computer tables, shelves, racks, etc.), as well as the ottomans, chairs, visors with illumination, etc. The factory offers a choice of several layout options for furniture or allows the customer to make the original kit.
However, the most effective in terms of rational use of the size of the room is so-called built-in furniture or wardrobes. Constructively and functionally wardrobes of different firms do not have significant differences. Side walls, inner partitions, shelves are made from laminated chipboard usually German or Finnish production. Panel, glass, mirror or combined (of two or three materials) Sliding or folding doors are equipped with a roller system that provide them (doors) lightweight, smooth and silent movement on special guide tracks. The rigidity of sufficiently thin sliding doors is provided by frames or sidewalls from a metal profile.
Two varieties of sliding movement systems are used in the wardrobe. In the systems of the first type, the door by means of the roller rollers fixed in its lower part over the guides having the appropriate shape and the cabinet-screwed to the floor or the bottom panel. The track protrudes over the floor just 1-1.5 cm and absolutely does not prevent the cabinet. For the door does not fall out, the rollers are mounted on top of it, which are included in a special guide, fixed above the door. This method of movement is most accustomed to humans.
In second type systems, the door hangs on the carrier rollers and can move along the guides, screwed to the ceiling of the room or the top panel of the cabinet. At the bottom of the door there is provided for various types of devices that do not give it to swing on the top rollers. The latter usually equipped with bearings and soft plastic tires or rubber so that the door easily opened and rubbed silently.
Inside the cabinet, at the request of the customer, shelves, drawers, special sections for storing various things, equipped with comfortable hangers, mesh metal modules and baskets designed to storing linen are installed. It is enough to push or remove the module or basket from the closet and find the desired thing. At the top of the cabinet, it is possible to highlight place, for example, for suitcases, and in the lowest, for shoes, vacuum cleaner.
The wardrobes of most firms have sliding systems of the first type, simple and cheap. However, they have a significant disadvantage: a small garbage accumulating in the groove and randomly (and sometimes it's not by chance that there are small children in the apartment) in the apartment there are minor items (coins, buttons, keys, beads, etc.) lead to the encoding of doors. In this regard, reliable sliding doors with a groove on the roller, which includes a horizontal protrusion of the lower track.In sliding doors with only lower guides, there is another unpleasant feature, its firms, of course, do not advertise. If at the bottom of the door heavily hit (and it sometimes happens when the premises are cleaning, during dancing and entertainment, when dragging heavy things, etc.), then it can fall.
The above disadvantages are completely absent in systems with an upper carrier guide. There are such systems for $ 50-100 more than similar systems without it.
One of the leaders in the Russian furniture market is the American firm Mr.Doors, the wardrobes of which are made of Laminated chipboard panels or fiberboard. In such structures, sliding doors are mirror, panel, glass, as well as combined. They are easily and silently moving along the lower guides, equipped with a shock absorber-shock absorber, protecting the inner space of the cabinet compartment from the penetration of dust, and the stoppers (or locks) of the doors. Used in the manufacture of the doors of the mirror from the inside are covered with a special film that does not allow flying around the broken mirror to sharp and dangerous fragments. Glass doors in order to ensure safety are made of shockproof glass (triplex). The maximum height of the doors is 275 cm, however, with the help of a mezzanine with sliding or drop-down doors, the cabinet can be made even higher.
Another, no less popular English firm Mr.Doors in consumers. However, there are features in technology.
Most firms on the markings made on the spot make the details of the cabinet in their own production, and in the House of the Customer, they collect a wardrobe without additional processing of parts. Stanley comes somewhat differently. From the brought billets, each detail on the "territory" of the customer carefully customize to install the wardrobe in the place allotted for it, despite the existing wall defects, angles, etc. right in front of the amazed inhabitants of the soil apartment of brought blanks for 3-5 hours turns In a beautiful and convenient wardrobe, with no one who does not have the same and there will be no other customers tastes and wishes other. As for garbage and dust, inevitable in the processing of parts, the prudent firm provided its working special vacuum cleaners.
And one more pleasant feature of Stanley's prices are the lowest compared to other solid firms. Therefore, the offers to make cabinets at lower prices should be treated very carefully. Since under the brands of the "promoted" firms, the "Chustry Guys" will slip at all, as often happens with sneakers, jeans and other things with Made In USA labels made in Odessa or Malakhovka.
In the cabinets of other firms, the same design ideas are used, but implemented in some cases with original techniques.
The Firm "Ini" (Russia) supplies cabinets, produced on the Australian Allfam technology, which provides for the use of metal sidewalls for sliding doors and a metal frame for a cabinet. At the door on the lower supporting rollers, ceramic sliding bearings and plastic tires are installed. Wardrobes made of laminated panels and from panels trimmed with veneer venerable wood. The term of the latter is about three weeks.
The prices of the cabinet compartment depend on their size used materials and the ordered "filling", therefore, the price specified by firms 1 p / m with a wardrobe, which is limited from $ 250 to $ 600, is very conditional. Real price can only be found after the order is calculated.
The wardrobes of the MobilForm system (Germany) offered by the company do not have restrictions in depth and width, and the height of the sliding doors reaches 3.5 m, which is ensured by using a rigid aluminum profile. Such cabinets with doors from transparent and matte glass, anodized aluminum and panels with imitation of valuable wood species are very convenient for creating beautiful interior partitions.Roler DX (France) specializes in the production of built-in and cabinet furniture with sliding, folding and swing doors for the hallways, domestic libraries and cabinets. Sliding doors system with lower guides has a special hook (antisoskalisor), eliminating the loss of doors from the blow. The price of furniture (relatively cheap, dear elite, luxury) depends on the quality of the materials and fittings used, the type of finishing.
With the help of a wardrobe, you can make a small redevelopment of the apartment, using them as a partition that serves to store things, place the collection and decorative baubles. It is possible to separate a part of the room and arrange a dressing room or accommodate the simulator, a children's sports corner there, a small workshop, in a matter of seconds closing the sliding door.
Mirrored doors in the cabinets are covered with a special reinforcing film. Even if you happen to break the mirror door, it will not split into small fragments, but only cracks.
The Russian-Italian company "ECOLUKS" is one of the few, using a panel and plates, covered with veneer of valuable wood in the manufacture of built-in and enhanced furniture. The same veneer on which a layer of durable polyurethane varnish is applied, a aluminum profile is separated, which serves for the framing of the doors. A large selection of tree breeds and veneer tinting makes it possible to choose the desired texture and color of the finishes, for example, in the tone of the parquet. Sliding doors are equipped with a mechanism with an upper carrier system. The term of the manufacture of cabinets is about 30 days.Almost all firms manufacturers of cabinets are guaranteed to their products, ranging from modest 3-5 years before fantastic 25 years. And finally, about the most important, about beauty that will save the world, and people will improve the mood. Large range of colors and types of finishing panels, edging, mirrors, glasses, modern forms of parts, a harmonious combination of built-in and modular furniture, etc., etc., all this ensures a huge variety of interior options of an apartment or country house and causes the customer Some confusion when he is asked to make a specific choice. The most reliable solution in such a situation is to trust professionals. Designers - truly extraordinary people, not only creating unique and magnificent interiors, but also know how beautiful about them about them that they involuntarily begin to admire the designers, furniture themselves, and of course the interior.
Some characteristics of the cabinets of Russian and foreign firms
| Firm, Country | Maximum door height, m | Number of colors finish | Number of species | Application deadline, DN | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panel | Glass, mirrored | Panels | Octovka | Glasses | Mirrors | ||
| Mr.Doors, USA | 2.7 | 2.7 | eighteen | nineteen | five | 2. | 4-5 |
| NEves, France | 2.6 | 2.6 | 6. | 6. | 2. | 2. | 10-14 |
| Stanley, England | 2.64 | 2.64 | fifteen | 12 | 2. | 2. | 3-5 |
| "Ini", Russia | 3.6 | 3,2 | nine | nine | four | five | 5-7 * |
| Felix, Russia | 3.0. | 2.7 | 22. | 12 | four | 2. | 1-3. |
| Roler DX, Russia | 2.6 | 2.6 | eight | eight | 3. | 3. | 5-7 |
| Kardinal, Germany | 2.7 | 2.7 | twenty | twenty | 2. | 3. | 3-5 |
| Komandor, Canada | 2.8. | 2.8. | 12 | 12 | one | 3. | 3. |
| "Ekolux", Russia-Italy | 3.5 | 3.5 | ** | ** | nine | 3. | thirty |
| "Skonti", Russia | 2.6 | 2.6 | fifteen | fifteen | one | four | 3-5 |
| SIMPLEX, Russia | 2.75 | 2.75 | 10 | 10 | one | 3. | 3-7 |
| "Himalayas", Russia | 2.8. | 2.8. | sixteen | eight | 2. | 3. | 5-7 |
| "Slidesfold", Russia | 3,3. | 3,3. | 6. | eleven | 10 | 2. | 3-5 |
| Deko Invest, Italy | 3.5 | 3.5 | thirty | thirty | five | 3. | 45 *** |
* The term for the manufacture of cabinets, trimmed with veneer, three weeks.
** Five types of veneer of valuable wood and nine types of Morilok.
*** Cabinets are separated by a veneer, produced in Italy.