There are practically no limits to your imagination when arranging a room. You are entirely free to choose colors, materials, furniture, and its location. However, if you want to maximize the use of the room and feel comfortable in it for many years, you should follow a few simple rules when arranging it. One of the main rules is to use the free space in the room wisely. It is no longer fashionable to furnish a house with bulky furniture. Today, you can simultaneously use every centimeter of space to create a unique design. Using fitted bedroom furniture allows you to leave maximum free space. Today, laconism and spaciousness are in fashion. Every corner of the house can be arranged with the help of fitted furniture. It organically fits into any interior design.
When is built-in furniture necessary?
Free space that otherwise could not be used satisfactorily from a technical, practical, or aesthetic point of view due to its location in an apartment with standard furniture can, with suitable built-in elements, become a visually functional part of the apartment. Consider one’s wishes (storage space, table surface, seating furniture), bedroom furniture, kitchen equipment, etc.).
Built-in furniture is often a piece whose number of panels (for side panels, back wall, ceiling, floor, and doors) needs to be completed compared to a conventional piece of furniture. For example, a built-in hall closet is sometimes part of an apartment whose back wall is formed by a hallway structure. There is also built-in furniture, which includes a complete piece of furniture regardless of its placement. Sometimes, the built-in furniture forms a “complete piece of furniture.” Still, it is already known during manufacturing that large parts of the built-in furniture will remain invisible from the outside when the doors are closed. In such cases, a stable, environmentally friendly, and, at the same time, particularly inexpensive solution for the production of panels invisible from the outside is available.
How to choose the right built-in furniture for your home?
No mold must form between the built-in furniture and the environment. Therefore, ventilation reserves must be taken into account when measuring. If it is necessary to install a bar to close the gap, the ventilation space must be increased. Free space is also required for the structure itself. Specialists recommend at least 3 cm of free space at the top and at least 2 cm on the sides. A free space of at least 4.5 cm is recommended if a bar counter is planned.
What to look for when choosing a built-in closet:
- Room design. For example, suppose you have cream-colored walls and antique dark wood furniture. In that case, you can probably better accentuate the beauty of your antique furniture if a new meter-long built-in cabinet forms a color unity with the cream. A large built-in piece of furniture decor can also work in rooms with bright walls and modern furniture. Apart from the door solution (swing door or sliding door), the interior design should also be carefully planned for furniture pieces such as cabinets.
- It is determining the corners of a room. It is essential to realize whether or not the room has square corners. Sometimes, the corners of a room deviate so much from a right angle that it can only be noticed when a rectangular piece of furniture placed in the corner either doesn’t quite fit or is “crooked” somehow. This can lead to severe problems, especially with large amounts of furniture. From the corner on the wall, measure 40 cm and mark the endpoint. Do the same on the other wall, but measure 30 cm. Then measure the distance between the two marked points. If the space is 50 cm, the corner is rectangular – as long as it is designed as a typical corner of the room and not “fancy.”
Built-in closets are convenient because they fit nicely into your four walls, can withstand any movement, and can be part of a closet system. If the built-in wardrobe has sliding doors, this is doubly practical – when the doors are opened, they don’t take up any extra space, and the owner doesn’t risk bumping his elbow or head.
Built-in closets with sliding doors are suitable for almost any type of room, especially where access to broad window fronts, outlets, or general space is essential. Sliding doors make it easy to open and close the cabinet. Nothing is covered, and no one can accidentally bump into open doors.
Where can built-in cabinets be used?
The possibilities for using built-in cupboards are varied. “Dead space,” such as under the stairs, is often used to construct built-in closets. Custom cabinets are trendy for living rooms and bedrooms, where they must be exceptionally functional and meet visual requirements. Other possible uses for custom cabinets include:
- In the locker room,
- In the kitchen,
- Checkroom;
- For niches or as storage space.
Built-in closets are a representative and functional storage option for your hallway. Corridors are often very narrow, and space is scarce anyway. A sizeable built-in closet will further reduce the distance. This should be different! Built-in closets especially benefit from the existing niches in your apartment, which allow you to create plenty of storage space. This gives you optimal storage options for shoes, jackets, bags, and other utensils.
Sloped cabinets are always in high demand. It is not easy to create enough storage space under a slope. However, with a custom-made cabinet, you can quickly solve this problem. It doesn’t matter whether you need a hill at the back, left, or right of the cabinet. Carpenters, in particular, can adapt your built-in closet to a sloping angle so that you don’t lose precious space, and your new piece of furniture adapts perfectly to the room’s dimensions.
Built-in furniture is popular in modern apartment or house design layouts. It is possible to use every centimeter of free space rationally thanks to design solutions.
