Swing corner cabinets

Sideboard, slide, wardrobe, secretary, buffet, nightstand - there can be a lot of names for this item. However, the essence is the same - it is a place to store things. Despite the fact that the technology of making furniture is constantly changing and improving, new types of storage of items appear, hinged closets do not lose their relevance to this day.

The first types of cabinets with hinged doors began to be made around the 15th century. In form, they rather resembled horizontal boxes or chests and took up a lot of space. Later, one of the masters guessed to turn the chest vertically, and thus the first one-door wardrobe turned out. Since then, this piece of furniture has been constantly modified and improved. Changed fashion, era, tastes and materials of manufacture.

Today, furniture factories offer a variety of shapes and colors of cabinets. People began to create whole modular systems with many compartments and compartments for various items of clothing. In order to save space, angular designs were invented. They can be divided into several groups.

By the method of structure are distinguished:

• Embedded - This is when the cabinet does not have its own side walls, all the insides are attached to the wall of the room in which it is located. Most often it is wardrobes, which are located in the bedroom or in the hallway. This design is good because it saves space, but its disadvantage is that it is impossible to rearrange it, and when moving it will be extremely difficult to disassemble and take with you.

• Cabinet cabinets with hinged doors are more mobile, and their dimensions are limited solely by the size of the room in which they will be. Factory samples are made on a specific template. Their choice in modern stores is quite extensive, among them you can choose the right copy for any wallet.

The shape of the corner furniture can be:

• Triangular - This is the most simple to manufacture, the most common and most often the most budget-priced model. However, for small rooms, such cabinets are unlikely to be suitable because of their bulkiness.

• Trapezium Corner trapezoidal cabinets can be single or double door. They are also easy to rearrange to another corner and can be combined with existing furniture.

• Pentagonal. As a rule, these are rather deep and capacious blocks, often representing a separate room for a wardrobe or a closet.

• L-shaped. These are two separate or interconnected cabinets located at 90 degrees to each other. Such designs can also have an unlimited number of doors and occupy the entire peri-wall space from one corner to another.

• Radius. The doors of these cabinets have a rounded shape, hence their name. Furniture with such design looks very beautiful and elegant in the interior. However, to make such models is very difficult. From here their cost overestimated in comparison with other cases.

Depending on the purpose for which the corner cabinet is intended, its dimensions, design and place will be made:

1. For the hallway. Since outerwear is stored here, corner cabinets with hinged doors are often complemented with shelves for small items. These can be keys, gloves, receipts and other small things. And inside - a compartment for large things and shelves for shoes and hats.
2. For bedrooms. Such cabinets, as a rule, have two compartments: one with shelves for underwear and bed linen, and the other - full-size with hangers. Sometimes the closets in the bedroom have several modules for each family member.
3. For living rooms. Corner furniture in common rooms is not such a rarity, especially if the apartment is a studio. Next to this cabinet are often bookshelves and cabinets for equipment.
4. For kitchen. Kitchen corner cabinets can be both floor and wall mounted. Most often they are located near the sink. Like wardrobes, kitchen cabinets can have a different shape. In this case, the radial structures can be both with a convex and a door bent inward.

Stylistic design and materialfrom which the corner cupboard will be made depends on many factors: the room itself, where the cupboard will be placed, its size and purpose.

As for the material for this type of furniture, the most affordable models of cabinets are most often made of MDF or wood-based panels. At the same time, MDF is considered to be more environmentally friendly. More expensive furniture is made from solid solid wood. Most often used pine and beech. Oak is considered the favorite among tree species. As a rule, do not make furniture on the stream. It is used primarily for the manufacture of custom-made furniture.

Recently, plastic and glass have become widely used in furniture manufacturing. They can often be seen in the details of corner cabinets in the kitchen, as well as in interiors decorated in the style high tech. Often, these materials create an imitation of metal or wood textures.

One more novelty of the modern industry is acrylic glass. As a rule, from it do inserts for doors. It can be transparent, color or matte. Also on the glass at will you can apply any pattern. In combination with light-colored facades, glass doors will add airiness and lightness to the interior.

To closet served a long service, it is important to pay attention to the quality of accessories. This is especially true of the doors - because they are the most mobile part of the furniture and because of poor-quality parts most often fail.

Accessories for wardrobe cabinets can be divided into the following types: hinges, door handles and door closers. Loops come in several forms. Four-hinged very durable and able to withstand a large load. They are divided into invoices (butterfly), semi-laid and hidden:

1. Consignment hardware is mounted on top of the canvas and the cabinet sash. In order to install a butterfly loop, no special skills are required. They are installed on the door leaf, which covers the side of the niche where they are installed.
2. Semi-folding hinges are mounted where two doors close one of the sides of the cabinet. They are used mainly in the combined models of cabinets.
3. Hidden hinges consist of a metal case and a hinge hidden inside it, which connects directly to the door itself using a lever. When closed, this lever hides inside. For the production of high-quality hinges of a hidden type, a special metal alloy is used - tsak. Details from it have a beautiful gloss, and the alloy itself does not have a harmful effect on people.
4. A 45-degree hinge is most often used for corner cabinets with hinged doors. There are loops connecting parts at angles of 30 and 45 degrees

Hinges for glass door parts are divided into hinged and four-hinged:

• The hinge hinges consist of the hinge itself and the seals for the glass. They are made of plastic. The appearance of such fittings is not very aesthetic, and the service life is short-lived. At the same time its cost is quite democratic.
• Four-hinge hinges allow you to attach the cabinet door in different planes and at different angles.The only difficulty that can be encountered when choosing this mechanism is the complexity of its self-installation at home without special equipment for drilling holes in the glass.

Door handles for swing cabinets can be made from any material. Manufacturers never cease to amaze consumers with a variety of shapes and designs. For inexpensive cabinets of chipboard, as a rule, pick up handles made of plastic. For a more demanding taste, you can choose models more interesting - for example, imitation of an insert of valuable breeds of a tree or stones. Handles with cut glass inserts look very original.

Cabinets in modern style often have handles of simple geometric shape without excess. For a child's room, safety is important, so there are models with hidden handles. Kitchen cabinets are often made without handles at all - they open by simply pressing them.

Door closers on the method of installation are of several types. The most popular is the one that is installed at the top of the door. Its easiest to install. There are also lower closers, located in the floor zone, and hidden ones, which are mounted in the door leaf and are almost invisible during operation.

Oar corner cabinets can be called a classic of furniture, and the classics never go out of fashion.

An overview of the corner wardrobe can be viewed in the video below.