The competent design of the kitchen implies not only the design of a pleasant appearance of the room, but also the optimal placement of the entire situation. A similar mission will perform wall cabinets for the kitchen.
Advantages and disadvantages
Hinged lockers are a convenient option, because perfect fit into the design of any room. The big demand of such furniture is justified by a number of advantages.
- This is universal and comfortable in the use of furniture. It is excellent combined with any internal decoration. Today there are a considerable variety of species, for the production of which uses various materials (MDF, chipboard, dvp, metal, plastic, glass) and structural parts (swing or sliding doors, shelves of all kinds of configurations, the presence of dryers, decorated illumination).
- Installation of wall lockers in the kitchen will give The ability to rationally place utensils and household appliances. As a rule, the furniture is installed under the ceiling. As a result, the workspace is unloaded, and the dining area increases, which is especially important for small cuisine.
- Furniture is endowed with small sizes and has traditional colors . Such characteristics are suitable for rooms trimmed in minimalist style. The presence of samples with different parameters and configuration allows installation of mounted lockers in what directed area of the room.
For the deployed and truthful characteristics of wall storage systems, it is necessary to have an idea of the disadvantages of this furniture:
- It is necessary to take into account the reliability of the wall, on which a wardrobe from a wooden array will hang, since the mass of the structure with filling can be too heavy for partitions made of plastic, drywall;
- limiting the mass of the cabinet content;
- associated with difficulty access for family members of a small growth.
Review of species
Currently there is a lot of wall structures:
- Kitchenware modules;
- corner structures;
- cabinets equipped with drying;
- Modules with open shelves.
Wall modules for kitchen accessories
In general, they are intended to keep the most diverse items starting with dishes and ending with spices and stocks of products. The shelves are located in the cavity. Stylish kitchen cabinets are equipped with glass doors.
Corner cabinets
They are also called end cabinets. They are flawlessly suitable for small-scale kitchens, where on the weight of gold every centimeter. Mounted similar designs in the corner of the room, through specialized suspensions. Lockers have a triangular configuration.
Designs with drying
In the cavity of these cabinets placed drying under the dishes. They hang the closet or next to the sink, or specifically above it. There are various fillers for similar lockers. A curious accessory in a number of samples are shelves for sponges and brushes.
Lockers with open shelves
It is provided for storage of seasonings, kitchen utensils, all kinds of decorative interior items. Doors in such modules are sliding, swinging, folding upwards. The most stylish and at the same time practical are the sliding doors or upstream. They guarantee adequate safety when moving and working in the kitchen.
You can pick up either to equip lockers with gas lift devices, and then the doors will become independently closed.
Horizontal cabinets
Recently, you can often see the kitchen with horizontal cabinets. Such samples look spectacularly, perfectly embedded in the newcomer interiors and give the room an unconstructive appearance. Walking doors save space. Another positive point is the convenience of storage of dishes and items of various purposes.
In the samples of vertical type, the upper shelves are often empty, and in the horizontal, the entire space inside is operated.
But horizontal accommodation has their own minuses. If modules are too high, you need to reach to get items in depth. This does not mean that you need to abandon the horizontal type cabinets, but it is advisable to consider the method of applying modifications of both shapes - horizontal and vertical.
Materials
Modern kitchen cabinets produce from different types of materials. They differ both in terms of cost and in their parameters. Let's talk about the most popular options.
- Cabinets from chipboard - Some of the most affordable. A variety of stylized solutions, extensive color gamut, available cost. Weigh the data lockers are not enough, in connection with this, they can be installed on the walls that are withstanding a small load.
Nevertheless, the quality is often not good - the material is rather short-lived and with ease of deformation.
- More progressive sample - Laminated chipboard (LDSP). Such cabinets are characterized by higher reliability and water resistance, they are not exposed to deformations due to leaks of temperatures and evaporation. Moreover, it looks more beautiful than its non-local prototypes. The cost is also quite accessible.
It is only necessary to seriously approach the choice of the manufacturer - if the lamination is made poorly, long, such a wardrobe will not last.
- Plywood Wall lockers are more expensive, but will serve you for a long time. When searching for a wardrobe from plywood, see what varnish and paint is painted surface. After all, specifically from them is dependent on their moisture resistance and life.
- Lockers From the fine fraction (MDF) You can not count to cheap, but in quality they overshadow all samples. MDF is often practiced as a base for acrylic, glass, plastic coating.
- Lockers From an array of wood Characterized by the highest quality, long service life and high price. They are perfectly embedded in the most exquisite interiors and for many years they keep their impeccable appearance.
- Sometimes in retail outlets can be seen Plastic or glass Wall cabinets in the kitchen. It should be consistent that they are made not entirely from these materials. The basis, as a rule, serves MDF, and plastics and glass go exclusively on the facades - otherwise the furniture would have come out too harping.
Dimensions
From different modules you can collect the appropriate structure of the headset. Of course, any manufacturer makes sets of furniture with their own sizes and configurations. But there are certain standards, which almost all manufacturers of furniture are partly adhered.
The width of the modules, as well as the depth, can be different, but the value is 80 cm as standard and there can be no more than 90 centimeters. Otherwise, violations will begin in the work of the design. The shelves of such a length will be saved, and the wardrobe will begin to look after a while unprepacently.
Often, the sizes are caught under the general module, in order to the headset on a hundred percent covered the wall. Howbeit, The main share of firms produces the design of several standard parameters.
- The height of the lockers oscillates in typical values: 36, 72 and 96 cm. Modules are classified for small lockers, the height of which is 36 cm.
- Width: from 40 cm to 120 cm, commensurate with the width of the modules produced by the enterprise.
- The typical depth of cabinets is equivalent to 30 and 60 cm, there is enough for the content of utensils and technology, and such modules are embedded even into a compact kitchen. However, many companies produce cabinets of greater depth, but less than no longer appropriate, they will most likely become a decoration than a workshop.
The one who has the opportunity to lay out the kitchen set, as for a small car, make an order for an individual style. The dimensions of all parts of the masters are calculated, repulse from the size of the kitchen and the requirements of the customer. There, any wall closet to the kitchen will become almost the creation of art.
Dimensions of wall corner modules
Wall end lockers basically have such parameters:
- The side walls of the wall end drawer, which are parallel to the wall of the kitchen, should be 60 cm;
- The side walls of the wall endbox, bordering the adjacent modules, should be 31.5 cm;
- The front part can be covered with a door or a 38 cm wide facade;
- The rear part is approximately equal to 16.5 cm.
Having information about the approximate standard parameters of the kitchen headset boxes, you can easily and simply construct a comfortable kitchen for all positions.
Design options
Pendant cabinets for the kitchen can vary and outdoor design. Although it is more correct if they are made according to the design of other furniture items. Depending on the number and configuration of the doors, wall cabinets can be systematized into several options.
- With swallowing doors. Just samples of this performance can be mainly seen in modern kitchens. They attract attention to the easiability of implementation and practicality. Even when such doors fail, they are very easy to fix.
Follow them is quite easy - all sorts of contamination are removed without much effort through detergents and water.
- With sliding doors. Such samples of wall cabinets will first be able to assess the owners of small kitchens. To dissolve the doors, you will not need to apply significant physical efforts. Moreover, they are absolutely safe.
- With twisted doors. The main advantage of such modifications is to easily use. Anyone can open them with one hand.
This furniture will be to the place in the kitchen, where the hostess is often not able to apply both hands when it needs to turn around the wardrobe.
- With folding doors. Wall cabinets of this model in production are not in all manufacturers. This is some extent an exclusive version that can be applied on such kitchens, where there is an abundance of rounded forms, sovereign ornaments and bright drawings.
- You can abandon the door at all - In the kitchens decorated in a modern style, preferences are given to specifically open cabinets. Plus open structures - your utensil can play the role of the main decorative element.
Absolutely no need to be impenetrable. If you have a magnificent service, why hide it for a plastic (wooden) door? Install glass doors - they will add space indoors. The use of backlight will be another advantage when applying glass doors. If the kitchen is just with one window, then glass doors will add lighting.
Competently placed backlight will provide an opportunity to form a comfort and peace of mind. When choosing wall cabinets, it is necessary to take into account the color of the kitchen headset, which will affect not only on your arrangement of the Spirit, but also on appetite. Warm paints (orange, yellow, red) raise appetite, cool (ultramarine), on the contrary, they are saturated.
Important - For the design of a small kitchen, you need to choose furniture (cabinets) of light shades - lemon, creamy, light pink. In this way, it is possible to add lighting in the kitchen and a little visually to increase it.
How to choose?
Gathering in a furniture salon behind a wall cabinet, you must clarify some questions in advance.
- Size of the cabinet. It depends on the area where you think to hang it out, and the size of the room.
- Carefully inspect all the surfaces for the presence of chips, cracks.
- Doors must be firmly attached, calmly and easily open.
- Do not forget about the depths of the cabinet. It is different. You need to choose from calculating the size of the utensils that you will keep there.
- Voaging, think about what height you can come with cabinets. Although you can hang and different. Low can be adapted under the shelves.
- Choosing wall cabinets aparted with a headuit, compare them with the design of the room.
- Check the doors on the fixation of fixation, in order not there were hopes, distortions, and they were freely revealed.
If you buy a wall closet, then you are centered with its high so that you can use it comfortably.
On how to install hinged cabinets for the kitchen, see the next video.