Selecting the furniture for the kitchen arrangement, a considerable part of the buyers draws attention to small kitchen corners. With compact sizes, they sometimes are able to accommodate not only the hosts of the house, but also their guests. What these are these sets of furniture, what are their advantages and disadvantages, as well as the nuances of their choice, will tell the material of this article.
Advantages and disadvantages
Under the kitchen corner means a kitchen furniture set, which provides for the presence of a dining group. The main element of such a set is the dining table, the secondary components can be different. Small kitchenware a lot of advantages:
- Their purchase is often more profitable in comparison with the acquisition of each element of furniture separately;
- Such products are designed with focus on saving space and the most rational use of it;
- This furniture is a fully equipped island of a particular purpose, which can be used in zoning space;
- In the interior, kitchen corners often look better than separately purchased furniture;
- These products are withstanding in a single style, the size, invoice, which is often not available in separately acquired furniture;
- Often this furniture is designed with a focus on functionality, and therefore it can be used for different needs;
- in comparison with the usual set of corners more convenient and more comfortable for users;
- Products are made of high-quality raw materials with high operational characteristics;
- models are characterized by a wide range of configuration, which allows you to choose your own option, taking into account the capabilities of the budget and taste preferences;
- Color solutions of sets are varied, in view of which they are easy to choose to a specific background design of the interior;
- Small corners for the kitchen along with their functionality set the desired status to the interior of a particular kitchen;
- In the rules of different manufacturers, you can find mini-kits that fit perfectly into small-sized kitchens.
With a number of positive characteristics, this furniture has several drawbacks:
- In small cities, it is difficult to choose these style sets of the existing kitchen headset;
- Not all dinner groups are suitable for non-standard layouts of kitchens in apartment buildings of our country;
- With an increase in the elements of the set, the area is increasing, necessary for the placement of the corners;
- Not always the compact sets offered for sale are distinguished by universality - some of the chairs or stools have to be separately purchased separately;
- If shops purchase them for the assembly on the cheap, the details of the set may differ with the winding or type of invoice;
- Most of the compact corner models are designed for no more than 5-6 users.
Views
Manufacturers of kitchenware today are able to surprise buyers with various configurations of models. Wherein All products on constructive features and filling can be divided into several groups. . Some of them do not have a table, which allows you to buy it separately. Others are notable for providing for an assembly of angle both in the left-sided and right-hand version. Options for mini and at all the model model can be transformed: the table can be eligible or sliding.
Traditional
These sets of furniture consist of a dining table and a kitchen bench. Its configuration may be the most diverse. For example, it can be a model with a form of a regular bench, an option with a back. At the same time, the models of the corners can be both classic straight (linear) and angular. Often the shop with the table is complemented by compact stools, sometimes its form is more like a compact and narrow sofa , the model of which can be straight and corner.
With shelves
This group includes models complemented by shelves for storing the necessary things. Models of this group today are not so popular as other analogs. However, with a deficiency of the place of the shelves, located from the sides or in front of the kitchen benches, significantly expand the functionality of the furniture ensemble and will increase the degree of comfort of households in the kitchen. In addition, mounted shelves can be included in the sets, which is good for kitchens, where there is no room to accommodate outdoor boxes.
With boxes
These sets are nothing but a table, a pair of stools and a kitchen bench, under the seat of which there are 1 or 2 relative to the spacious drawer. Their size is sufficient to accommodate kitchenware, which is often not used. In addition, often the hostess use these storage boxes of other things to visually reduce the number of smallers, which is usually filled with a small kitchen. As a rule, in order to gain access to the box, just just throw off the seat.
With bar counter
These kits differ from other varieties by the presence of an appropriate element that performs the bar function. From aesthetic point of view, such sets look very original. In addition, the bar counter significantly saves the place, which is relevant for kitchens with a minimum of useful area. These models like interior designers, they successfully fit into the design of the cuisines and are spectacular methods of zoning space.
With built-in sleeping place
Compact corners with a sleeping place are different from other varieties in that they provide for a transformation system that allows you to turn the kitchen bench, similar to a sofa, in an unintentable bed. The mechanism of the transformation of the bench can be different as the type of benches themselves. These sets are expensive, it looks respectable, however, and places in the kitchen occupy more different analogues. The inconvenience of transformable models is the need to pushing the table.
Erkery
For small kitchens with an erker, trading stamps offer kits that differ from the other shape of the individual or several elements of the corner. The main difference of such furniture is that it repeats the shape of the ercket protrusion, which is necessary so that it can be put on the erker close. If it is a table, then it can be triangular if the kitchen bench, then modular.
Such corners are more expensive than classic options, often they are made to order according to individual measurements of the existing erker.
By Table Table
The table in small corners is distinguished by the form. In the traditional version, it can be rectangular with sharp or rounded edges. In addition to such models, trading stamps include in sets of tables of oval and triangular form. In addition, you can find small-sized type furniture with a round dining table. The compact has different sets, as well as manufacturing material.
Materials
In the production of small-sized kitchen corners, various raw materials are used, ranging from the best grades and finishing MDF and even plastic. Tree is considered the best type of raw materials - Of all the analogues, it is the most durable and practical, despite the fact that in the process of long-term operation is gradually exposed to moisture. However, this material is not only more environmentally friendly - it is distinguished by high aesthetic characteristics.
The chipboard is a budget option, is a pressed product of wood processing. This material is significantly inferior to it in aesthetics, furniture from it is designed for only a few years of operation. Depending on the high-quality assembly, the service life can be more than 5 years. However, often water and frequent cleaning leads to dug edges from the side faces of the table.
Metal in corners are used as a frame and table support, stools and chairs. Metal elements in the interior of the kitchens look stylish and effectively, on the background of metal, wood is highlighted.
Glass in small corners is used for the manufacture of tabletops. Plastic, regardless of its color and density, is considered not the best material. It is fragile and quickly spoils even from insignificant mechanical damage.
Design
Designer kitchenware solutions can be the most diverse. They may differ in shape, color solutions, upholstery coloring and the presence of additional decorative and practical elements. For example, there are models with shops that can be seized special litters for greater comfort of sitting. Someone puts some small pillows under the back. When buying, you can bet on the upholstery color. Sometimes it is whether it is capable of setting the desired mood and indicates the corner belonging to a certain stylistic design solution. Models may have a monophonic upholstery. Often they are made in contrasting solutions, which allows you to choose your option with color headset or wallpaper, apron, print on the curtains, paintings or a shade of a flower pot.
Print in the finish of the corners can be located not only on the upholstery of the seats - There are options in which it is on the backs. In addition, the design of modifications can be expressed in forms: some options are given to the desire for the classics, others tend to ergonomics. Models can be high and compact, as well as low, supplemented with styles, more similar to rigid puffs.
Belonging to this or that stylistic solution can be expressed in the subject of the pattern, the type of material used and upholstery, the color of products. Form, texture, emphasis on the resources of a particular style help choose the buyer a faithful version of the corner for your kitchen. The backs of the shops can be straight and arcuate (arched type). The seats of chairs can be made in the form of a soft square, a circle and a rounded triangle.
Criterias of choice
Basic characteristics To which pay attention to when buying are:
- sizes of the entire corner (important for rooms with a minimum of useful area);
- Orientation of the corner (not all models can change the corner element to the right left);
- seat upholstery or bench (in priority leather or leather);
- The material from which the frame is made (the stronger, the longer operation);
- filler of the seat upholstery in stools or bench (in priority polyurethane foam);
- Corner color (must be combined with existing furniture);
- Design (must match the stylistics of a particular interior).
In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the type of furniture: the corner can be typical hard and soft. Products with a soft sofa are more comfortable for users. With visual inspection, you must pay attention to this moment as the height of the back. If there is a sufficient space, the design of the corner can provide for the design with a barbell on which mounted pillows are attached.
If in a small kitchen, I want to put exactly a similar version of the corner, It is important to select a product with small and not too voluminous pillows. . At the same time, in order to estimate the degree of convenience when placed over the corner, it is preferably to buy "fitting". It is necessary for the reason that the furniture is often visually comfortable, but it turns out to be extremely uncomfortable during operation.
In addition, it is worth noticeing to furniture attentive - perhaps, in the future it will be able to choose or sew removable covers.
Going to the store, the buyer already expects which furniture will take. However, there are cases when what is on sale does not meet the desire and opportunities. In this case, you can order a specific option with the previously performed measurements or repel from what is in the store. In this case, the preliminary measurement will allow you to choose the corner in order to leave the required distance to pass the kitchen (60-70 cm or 90 cm).
If there is very little space in the kitchen, from a set with a sofa to refuse, replacing it with a kitchen bench. Chairs here will also take too much space, and therefore the benches with the table will be quite enough to accommodate and save space. In the extreme case, you can enable a pair of soft upholstery stools.
When buying, pay attention to the practicality of the upholstery. Ideally, it should be a material that does not let moisture, not absorbing outsiders, easy to care. Maintains the type of filler: Porolon, which is used in cheap corners, is very quickly in disrepair, polyurethane foam keeps the form and is characterized by environmental friendliness. As for the material of the manufacture, the wood processing products often contain a high concentration of formaldehydes. In extreme cases, it is worth choosing DPS class E1.
If the buyer's budget is not limited, it is worth purchasing a corner with a frame of wood (for example, birch or pine). When you buy a folding type angle, you must pay attention to the fact that the transformation needs an additional space. Therefore, the table and stools must be relatively mobile. In addition, in such kitchens there is no need for models with armrests and pillows.
Inspecting the corner, it is necessary to check the quality of the accessories and the reliability of the mounts. Nowhere should not hang anything, and if this is celebrated, but the seller assures that the furniture is simply not strengthened, it is not necessary to fully trust it. Often, the material from which the corner is made is not the best quality, and therefore when it is assembling in separate places, screws are scrolled. You will not be able to twist these compounds, in view of which the furniture will hang out, which is considered a marriage.
Attention should be paid to the quality of the performance of the upholstery seams. There is no adhesive and footprint from the needle on good furniture. It is necessary to look at the thread: respecting their reputation trademarks perform seams using durable and thick threads to prevent mechanical damage and random breakdown.
Accommodation options
The accommodation of the kitchen corner depends on the pattern of a particular kitchen and complexity of its layout. If it has partitions, you can use them, thereby using the use of zoning space. In narrow rooms, the layout must be linear, in view of which it is undesirable to put the corner opposite the working area. However, at the same time, it is possible to accommodate it to the wall opposite the front door, if there is no window in this place or the bench does not reach it.
Narrow rooms should not be visually pulling even more. Therefore, install furniture is needed by a long part to a short wall. As for the place, it is undesirable to put a dining group in close proximity to the stove or work desk, which will use for cooking. It is impractical and will lead to the fact that wipe the table and the seats will have more often.
Corner can be placed near the balcony door, but in such a way that, when opening and closing, nothing bothered access to furniture. In such cases, the typical has no chairs or stools, it is limited to a kitchen bench and a concise table with rounded edges. If there is a niche in the room, and the layout may be an angular and P-shaped, the corner can be placed in it. When the room is wide, and the wall with the front door is long, the compact corner for two persons can be placed on the side of the door, moved the bench or the modular bench close to the wall.
Choosing a place to locate a kitchen corner, you must consider: Furniture should not break the terminal triangle rule. There should be equal distances between the refrigerator, the stove and sink. At the same time, the corner should not stand between them, as well as shorten the gaps for moving around the kitchen.
In other words, the place under the corner should not fit into the territory of the working triangle.
If a place remains between the headcard and the wall with the window, it is this part of the room that can be left under the corner. In this place, it is necessary to place a set of furniture with a laconic bench of g-or P-shaped type equipped with internal boxes. It is better for her table to have one reliable and stable support, rather than 4 legs. At the same time, one side of the table may be bevelled, which is good to avoid injury when moving in a small kitchen.
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