Corner cabinet: types and specifications

Corner type cabinets are popular in various interior styles. Similar products are selected for different rooms and can perform many functions. Furniture stores offer a huge number of corner models, so it is important to familiarize yourself in advance with all the characteristics and selection rules of such cabinets.

Corner wardrobe has unique characteristics, among which are descriptions of both positive and negative qualities. The advantages of corner designs include:

• Spaciousness. Cabinets can have many sections that are convenient for storing a large number of things. Even in compact corner constructions, everything that is most necessary for a home or office fits perfectly.

• Such chiffonies have graceful and beautiful forms.. Their silhouette gives elegance to the entire interior of the room, hides flaws and masks the errors of planning.
• Convenient device and the shape of the corner cabinet allows you to create a complete wardrobe in the room. The product will be convenient not only for storing clothes, but also for creating a private dressing area.

• This type of wardrobe is used in various rooms.. It is installed in almost all types of premises - bedrooms, children's rooms, corridors, offices. Depending on the purpose of the room, a suitable product design is easily selected.
• Many options for decor. You can create exclusive models of corner cabinets for your own project or use the ideas of designers. For decoration uses a wide range of forms and materials.

Despite a lot of advantages, corner products have some drawbacks:

• Corner wardrobe is not suitable for all types of layout. He absolutely will not look in a narrow room or corridor. The most preferred form of the room is square or rectangular.
• Not all models of this type can create a variety of compartments.Small designs do not accommodate a lot of shelves for various things, mainly they are designed to accommodate outerwear or clothes on the hangers.

Among the corner wardrobe you can find a variety of models for every taste and wallet. There are the following types of classifications.

By the number of doors:

• Single door The cabinet is a five-wall product with one hinged door. It is used in small spaces and has a discreet design. A single-door wardrobe is often supplied with a mirror, which occupies the entire area of ​​the door.
• Bivalve the cabinet can also be pentagonal or trapezoidal. Double-wing wardrobe is not only with hinged, but also sliding doors. Often a two-door wardrobe forms an angle at the expense of the shelves of the open facade attached to it from the side.

• Tricuspid corner products have a concave shape. Two compartments are on the sides, and one - in the middle part. The middle compartment is used to store textiles and large items. The corner part of cabinets with three doors is often supplied with a mirror. Sometimes a three-door cupboard is L-shaped.

According to the design features, they distinguish the following types:

• Cabinet It is a one-piece construction that does not reach the ceiling level. The closed facade of the main part of the cabinet, the package of which includes compartments with a rod, complements the open shelves.

• Wardrobe or a wardrobe is very popular for storing clothes. It has a radial or five-wall form, it can include structures with two rods, special linen drawers and even special compartments for storing household appliances and shoes.

• Rack cabinet - A great place for books, small items and accessories. It is a symmetrical or L-shaped design, consisting of horizontal shelves. The open facade of the product allows you to originally design the interior.
• Wardrobe may be in the form of a strict L-shaped design or wardrobe. In the first type there are many sections for different clothes. In the wardrobe there can also be a diverse number of compartmentsbut in most cases they are small.

• Modular corner cabinet has many different components and variations of their combinations. In addition to the department for things, it can include bookshelves, dressers, bedside tables and even desks.

• Built-in wardrobe It is a diagonal or radial sliding door with a height from floor to ceiling, which are separated by a wardrobe part of the space in the corner of the room. Typically, this design is a double wardrobe.
• Folding cabinet used in the kitchen. This compartment is very functional - when you open the door does not take up much space, and the corner section of the headset itself is quite spacious for kitchen utensils. Most often, this design has a lower compartment headset.

According to location:

• Most corner products are located on the floor. Large cabinets stand on the floor with the whole surface or have elegant legs at the base. If we consider the kitchen floor model, then it is worth noting the presence in it of a rotating mechanism for storing and drying dishes.

• Wall cabinets are installed in the corner of the kitchen or bathroom.The hinged case can have the rotating mechanism by means of which it is convenient to get objects of kitchen utensils and ware. In the bathroom, a shallow wall cabinet is usually hung on the wall, because the room itself is oversized.

By configuration:

• Wardrobe "hill", popular for living rooms, has a difference in the height of its elements. Sometimes the left and right compartments have the same size and configuration, and sometimes in the corner cabinet includes versatile compartments that differ in height and shape.
• The asymmetrical type of products is convex-concave structures, which often require a large area for installation. Asymmetrical wardrobe is better to install in the room without the drawbacks of the layout.

• Convex products have sliding doors of semicircular shape.
• The radial variant allows not only convex, but also concave shape of doors. Sometimes both of these elements are found in the structure of curved cabinets.
• The straight construction has a clear angle of 90 degrees at the corner joint. Such cabinets give the interior rigor and conciseness.

The structure of corner cabinets may include a number of compartments, useful and convenient for storing frequently used things.Corner designs combine several pieces of furniture, saving space in the room. The most popular accessories include:

• Ergonomic combination of corner design with a desk. One of the sides of the corner chiffonier with an open facade enters the corner table, which will become a comfortable piece of furniture in the student’s room. The cabinet contains a compartment with shelves for storing books, sometimes the product is a more massive structure with drawers and sections for clothes. The table is enclosed in the corner of the product between its sides.

• A continuation of one of the sides of the corner wardrobe can be a chest of drawers, which is part of a modular system and completely coincides in style and color with the wardrobe. A large chest of drawers is selected in the bedroom. For the corridor, a combination of a cabinet with a more compact chest of drawers will do.
• For kitchen constructions, the design of the model with a sliding section is popular. The door mechanism opens in a standard way, while the shelves themselves move along an arcuate path. Often, these cabinets are equipped with a dryer for dishes.

• One of the parts of the corner cabinet is often a compartment with a rack for outerwear, sometimes it is divided into 2 parts.
• To make the model more compact, create special mechanisms for doors.A similar option is a corner cupboard with an "accordion" door. It folds up several times when opened and, in contrast to swing structures, does not take up much space in the open position.

An important feature of a corner wardrobe is the form in which it is embodied. Constructions of various types are created, but the most popular forms of products are the following:

• Semicircular corner cabinet is very compact. It fits perfectly into any corner of the room and does not look cumbersome. Often, such a product is presented in the form of an entire wardrobe with a dressing area. The model rarely contains many compartments, it consists of sections for storing basic things - outerwear, linen and textiles.
• L-shaped Chiffonier are products with a right concave angle, the sides of which have different lengths. Most often they are equipped with two sections with rods, while the compartments with shelves are located on the sides. L-shaped wardrobe is provided with side shelves with an open facade.

• Round corner cabinet has a radial design, its doors are located in a semicircle. Often in the upper part of the products are spotlights.Completion of such a model can be modest and combine a couple of compartments for clothes and hats, and can be quite spacious and even play the role of a mini wardrobe. Rounded designs look more overall than semicircular.
• Products may be trapezoidal.. Often, it is these models that are used as dressing rooms. Due to the extra angles, space inside the product is created Overall models can be endowed with a fairly large number of compartments that hold a lot of things. There is also such a cabinet as an asymmetrical trapezoid, it has a larger size.

• Triangular wardrobe looks very compact in the corner of the room. Cabinet models are small in size and are commonly used in office spaces and small hallways. Diagonal models, triangular in cross section, look particularly compact and are well suited for filling the space between doors and windows on adjacent walls.
• Five Wall products are often in the composition of modular designs. They are easy to combine with dressers, tables and tables. The side compartments of the models have an open facade and are supplied with shelves.

Like other models of wardrobe, corner designs include various designs and facades.

Closed types of facades are shelves or other compartments that are covered with doors. Open facades look like a row of shelves with free access to their contents.

A fashionable trend is the glass facade for the corner wardrobe. Glass is mostly frosted and can be made out in different colors. This technique is very unusual, because the outlines of the contents of the cabinet are peeking through the frosted glass. Sometimes inserts with glass are embedded in textures from other materials.

Often the facades of the cabinet are decorated with prints and drawings. Also, patterns are supplied with glass surfaces or other textures.

To choose the right corner chiffonier, one must first of all remember his assignments and the functions that he must perform in a particular room.

• For children should choose a closet, depending on the age of the child.The smallest in the design must include a box for toys. For students, you can equip a special area by combining a cupboard with a table and using the convenient shelves of the open facade to store school supplies. A wardrobe “slide” with a small dressing table and a mirror will suit the girl. For the teenage room do rack corner designs.

• For storage there are wardrobe designs and spacious wardrobes. In cabinets for such purposes must be present departments for shoes, for outerwear, underwear and accessories.

• A straight or corner cabinet for storing documents and papers should be compact and at the same time spacious. Modern offices welcome the availability of additional compartments for archives and folders.
• Beautiful and unusual cabinets often come to the furniture market from Italy. Italian corner products are more expensive, but they will fit much better into many interior styles.

For each type of corner products there are standard parameters:

• Wardrobes have large dimensions, their height reaches 2 m 40 cm, the depth and width are 1 m 10 cm.
• A small and small kitchen cabinet can have a length of 60 to 63 cm. The facade is usually not very large - from 29 to 38 cm. For a low modular design with two facades, the minimum dimensions are 60 x 27 x 26.5 cm.
• Triangular structures can have sides up to 150 cm, but sometimes mini-models are found, the depth of which is only 40 cm.

• In a trapezoidal cabinet, usually narrow side walls are about 30-40 cm, but such constructions are often quite high.
• Not very high may be the height of the radial product. Sometimes it reaches only 1 m 80 cm.
• Long structures sometimes reach 2.5 m in height, the length of their compartments is on average 1 m 60 cm and 2 m 10 cm. Sometimes the structure is extended with the help of an open facade.

Among the palette for decorating corner wardrobe, you can find the following colors:

• Popular tree shades: wenge, milk oak, beech, walnut, cherry. To achieve a vintage effect, bleached material is sometimes used.
• Synthetic materials are embodied in a richer range of colors.Black is combined with many tones, blue is used to create an accent on the doors, a light cabinet can be decorated with inserts of lilac color. There are acid tones and even gradient technology.

There are a number of basic materials, of which corner structures are most often created:

• Presentable and expensive models are made of solid wood. The raw material is oak, alder, beech. Cheaper are models of pine.
• Popular are materials that include wood component - MDF and particleboard. They are more budget, but offer no less a variety of models.

• Some shelves of cabinets are made of plasterboard. The cladding products are made from clapboard or PVC film.
• Rattan is sometimes used to decorate doors of cabinets; such models are interesting and unusual.
• Furniture hinges of corner structures are made of metal.

Not all designs have a standard look. Some have special details that perform important functions.

• To prevent the doors and drawers of the filing cabinet from opening, it is advisable to hang a lock for the filing cabinet.It can be made of plastic and put on handles or metal with a special key.
• If you decide to put the cabinet along a curved wall or at the junction of walls with an uneven surface, choose the built-in structures and decorate them from the inside so that the bar is located on the section of irregularity, arrange the shelves better along flat surfaces.
• To completely eliminate the irregularities, you can draw on the wall, which will be inside the cabinet, an optical drawing. It will finally smooth the surface visually. Or pokleit wallpaper with the same effect.
• The size of the compartments can be changed if you disassemble the horizontal shelves and thereby increase the departments.

In each direction of the interior corner wardrobe should have specific features.

• In the classic style used cabinets made of natural wood of noble shades. They are decorated with carvings, gilding. Classic favors models with small legs.
• Provence-style wood products with a modest design and pastel tones may have small floral prints on the facades.

• Corner country wardrobe is a semi-antique item made of dark or light wood.
• For modern styles of modern, minimalism, high-tech models of plastic or artificial materials with light are popular. For registration, both low-key and bright colors, patterns and even photo printing are used.

Corner wardrobe is located in different rooms, and for each of them are selected designs of appropriate shapes and sizes.

• In a one-room apartment or in a small room single-door wardrobes are used. They intend for storage of outerwear and headdresses.
• In offices You can find diagonal designs with horizontal shelves that are used to store documents and office supplies. Such cabinets are usually located near the door or window.

• In the bedroom the wardrobe is often located because it is in this room that it is customary to store most of the clothes.
• To the hall modular designs with special shelves for books and a compartment for the TV are chosen. The corner part is either a pentagonal or a concave diagonal structure. Cabinets in the living room have more shelves with an open facade than similar products in other rooms.

In the bedroom, wardrobes with two or more doors are often installed. It can be L-shaped or radial structures. Very often, wardrobes with mirrored doors are installed in the room, among the overall products there can be convex-concave models that look very original.

Corner cabinet partition has a rectangular or pentagonal shape. The location of such products is determined by the zonal division of the room. Usually such a layout is used in spacious rooms.

Corner wardrobe - an important detail of any home. If you take into account all the features when choosing a model, each room of your home will acquire a beautiful and elegant look.

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