Sliding wardrobe in a drawing room: types, the choice and options in an interior

Sliding wardrobe in our time has become an integral part of the furniture of almost any apartment - it takes up relatively little space, but it has a decent capacity. Outwardly, it also looks stylish and very worthy, and therefore it is often used for aesthetic decoration of the room. For the living room, this is one of the best furniture choices.

This type of cabinet got its name by analogy with the train compartment - here the door also does not open outward, but drives off to the side. This design is especially convenient and advantageous in a confined space - it does not matter if the doors are open or closed, they still do not limit the passage. Modern manufacturers have mastered the production of sliding wardrobes in a variety of designs and designs, so today there is no longer a problem with fitting such a set into a room of any style and color scheme.

The spacious interior of the cabinet allows you to hide a wide variety of things that are not supposed to be in sight - it can be clothes, small household appliances and much more. The integrity and presentability of the facade instead of scattering of varietal content allows you to give the design of the premises solidity and accuracy.

If you are still hesitating whether to buy a wardrobe for the living room, evaluate its advantages. Such a headset allows you to:

• rationally organize square meters of the living room so that it is both practical and beautiful;
• choose from a variety of design solutions that will fit into any interior;
• ensure the safety of open furniture - you or your children will never bump into an open door;
• to store a huge amount of property in one place and in an orderly condition;
• Do not be afraid of environmental harm to your household - such designs are usually made from environmentally friendly materials;
• save on assembly - if the product was brought to you unassembled, you can try to assemble it yourself, because for a skilled man it will not be difficult;
• solve the problem of furniture for many years to come - wardrobes are usually distinguished by solidity, because they have served their masters for decades.

Since the positive aspects of such furniture have been described, it is worth recognizing that it also has drawbacks, although they are slightly less. The obvious disadvantages include the following operating features:

• when talking about the durability of such a headset, usually only a frame is meant, but the sliding system will have to be repaired or even changed every few years, since it is far from eternal;
• in order not to repair and replace the sliding system too often, you will have to regularly care for the rails - for this they should be regularly cleaned or even lubricated;
• In the thickness of the headset, the sliding mechanism takes up a bit more space than ordinary doors, because a classic cabinet of a swing structure of the same size in practice usually turns out to be a little more spacious.

A variety of modern wardrobes suggests that such furniture is fundamentally different. How convenient and practical the purchase will seem to you depends on the correct choice of model.

First of all, the wardrobe is built-in or frame. The first option is optimal for niches and corners, although occasionally it is performed on the entire wall. The essence of the built-in cabinet is that it uses walls and a ceiling, and sometimes the floor, as its own frame. In other words, shelves and doors are mounted directly into the room’s opening, and you won’t be able to move such a headset - it is just a set of shelves without back and side walls.

The frame model is much more familiar - it is a separate, independent piece of furniture that can be freely moved around the apartment.

In most cases, the frame and facade of the product are made of the same material and differ only in shade, but mirror models are also in great demand. Instead of finishing, the facade of such a headset is decorated with a mirror, which not only allows you to evaluate your own appearance, but also visually expands the room, and also adds light to it.

Finally, not all cabinets have clearly defined angles - the needs of style and design may imply roundness and smoothness of lines. The so-called radius models are usually located in the corner and suggest a certain degree of concavity of the structure - thanks to it you can conveniently get to the headset depths, and the design of the room becomes softer.

Modern furniture factories make cabinets from anything - not only plastic, but even drywall can be used as a frame material. Options for decorating the facade even more - glass, mirrors and any other artistic delights are used as decorative materials.

Nevertheless, raw materials of wooden origin are still most often used as the main frame material.

MDF boards made from wood chips pressed under high pressure are in even greater demand. - they can be considered the best combination of price and quality. Such material is inferior to wood in everything, but can be very similar to it, and also serves for several decades, being quite durable and natural in origin. The situation is worse with chipboard, which is pressed and glued with potentially toxic adhesives - it is both dangerous and relatively short-lived, because the only argument of manufacturers still using such raw materials is its extremely low cost.

Separately, it should be said about the materials of the sliding mechanism. Aluminum guides are rightly considered the best solution in terms of durability, while steel, and even more so plastic, can not boast of such achievements.

Such a large object, like a wardrobe, will inevitably fall into the field of view of everyone who comes into the living room, therefore it is very important that it be beautiful and stylish. Fortunately, modern furniture manufacturers understand this very well and go towards consumers.

If you want to buy an expensive set made of natural wood, then most likely you should not look for some original color solutions - such furniture is usually not painted, once again demonstrating how expensive and luxurious it is. This makes a deep sense, because the natural wood tone itself looks decent, and it can fit into almost any style, except for a few ultramodern ones that are demonstratively refusing materials of natural origin.

If you want a cabinet of any other color, it is better to focus on light shades. Most of the domestic living rooms can not boast of impressive spaciousness, and a large sliding wardrobe narrows the space even more, because its white design can be very useful - this color visually increases the space. In addition, this is an achromatic tone that goes well with any other colors, which means that it allows you to perform a radical repair of a room without replacing furniture. For about the same reason, many consumers opt for mirror models.

Good cabinet capacity is an abstract concept, but you must choose a headset that really turns out to be convenient and practical. The complete set of furniture inside is not standard, so you should understand what things you will store and in what quantity, and only then choose furniture.

A good wardrobe can include a wardrobe with hangers in its design, including for outerwear, as well as separate shelves on the sides and wider drawers below. Someone does not need one of these components at all, but for someone it plays a decisive role, and should not just be present, but be sufficiently spacious.

It is important to correctly calculate not only the number of shelves, but also the full volume of the cabinet, in order to understand whether it is able to accommodate all your things. It should also be noted that large wardrobes of supposedly the same size actually accommodate a different number of things, depending on their type - So, the built-in headset does not include walls in its own volume, therefore it is quite logical to turn out to be a little more spacious. The division of space by numerous partitions inevitably reduces the volume, and the more of them, the essentially less practical the purchase becomes.

If you are going to hang outerwear here on hangers, it is important to make sure that each individual piece fits there in width. If the frame is too narrow, it turns out that you bought this particular model in vain, because it will not be possible to store even one coat in it without remembering it.

Modern cabinets are good in that they fit into any interior and can meet the requirements of any design direction.

If your room is decorated in the classic idea of ​​comfort, you should pay attention to the cabinets, designed in strict rectangular shapes. However, this is the only thing that is strictly and “boring”, because in general the classic suggests a maximum of outrageousness and high cost. As a material, it is worth using only expensive wood, which should be decorated with carvings, various purely aesthetic details, and ideally also with gilding, even if artificial. If you know how to choose a model with unique beautiful handles, get closer to your plan even closer than expected.

Provence, one of the most common examples of rural style, also gravitates to wood, since it is a natural material, but allows its coloring in light pastel colors. In this case, too, do not give up the old craving for everything exclusive and original, but here you should not pretend that your closet is a museum work of art.

Art Nouveau is the same classic, only with somewhat rounded lines, already without sharp corners. That's where the use of radiused cabinets can be found - they still need to be beautiful and even somewhat artistic, but you can finally experiment with the shape the way you like.

Hi-tech - one of the most popular varieties of minimalism, and this direction, in general, does not imply the use of at least any jewelry. According to minimalists, beauty is in utmost simplicity, therefore all furniture details must have strict practical application, and deviating from this principle is unacceptable. In addition, it is worthwhile to focus on modern materials, such as plastic, metal and glass, in terms of the choice of materials, but natural wood, whether it is the original or artful imitation, is inappropriate here.

First of all, a wardrobe is a practical piece of furniture, not a simple decoration, because it must comply with your request for storage of various things. This is such a solid piece of furniture that buying it usually means giving up any other cabinets or even more other cabinets - everything should fit in a closet. The only exception to the rule can be made for a two-room apartment if people live in it independently, and everyone wants to keep their own wardrobe closer to themselves. Therefore, the headset must contain all or almost all of your belongings.

At the same time, the requirement for aesthetic appeal has not been canceled either.

Choose your furniture in such a way that it harmoniously fits with the decoration and other furniture - if it wasn’t in tone, at least it would be an interesting accent on the background of everything else.

In pursuit of beauty and aesthetics, do not forget to accurately measure the free space that you are ready to allocate under the closet. The absence of swing doors makes its dimensions stable, but you should always add a few centimeters to the dimensions, which can be removed with the same baseboard.

The fact that the closet does not have swing doors that can clutter the passage does not mean that it can be placed anywhere. Even fire safety requirements suggest that it is correct to leave a passage at least 120 cm wide, and this means that in elongated and narrow living rooms it is better to give the headset to the entire narrow wall - so it will not bother anyone and partially correct the shape of the room.

In "Khrushchev" it is very important to place built-in wardrobes in niches, since the layout involves a recess in the wall, which still does not work to occupy anything else. The assembled headset turns out to be flush with the rest of the wall, but it’s quite easy to get to it, and it does not protrude at all towards the center of the living room, leaving free space there.

If your living room is very small, and you can’t distinguish a single wall under the cupboard, pay attention to the corner radius models. This design turns out to be very compact and fits even in surprisingly cramped spaces, and the absence of any angles in it only reinforces the illusion that the room is not so small. When purchasing such a cabinet, pay particular attention to mirror models - they will help solve the problem of limited space even more efficiently.

The living room would seem to the guests much closer if it were not for the sober idea of ​​the owners to put a mirrored wardrobe here. Even from a not very successful perspective, it is clear that the room is small, because the headset occupies a good part of it, but a full-fledged facade from the mirror creates the illusion that the room extends further. In addition, the mirror “catches” sunlight from the window, because the living room is better lit than it could be.

The glossy black design is a typical example of the design of the future, although this wardrobe is a component of the wall in classic wood shades. At the same time, the headset is very well entered into the interior - it echoes the sofa, and the carpet on the floor, and with the design of a niche for the TV, and with the TV itself.

A curious example is the wall cabinet. The material points to the classical roots of the design, but the glass inserts are not absolutely harmonious in terms of shape, which seems like a clear departure from the canons. The shape and appearance of the inserts overlap with a typical Japanese interior, due to which an original mixture of several styles is obtained.

An overview of the closet in the living room in the video below.