For the economical and hardworking owner there is nothing more pleasant than to make useful things for home with your own hands. And if the construction of large-sized furniture like beds and cabinets requires special locksmith skills, make the shelf on the kitchen can be even fans. In this article you will learn everything about how to build a beautiful and functional kitchen regiment.
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General characteristics
The kitchen is the heart and soul of each house, because it is here that all family members are going to enjoy delicious food, talk and relax. Therefore, it is very important that a favorable relaxing atmosphere rear in the kitchen, and the deposit of comfort is always order. If everything lies in their places, you do not need to spend time and nerves in search - it is enough to stretch your hand. That is why each kitchen needs to arrange all sorts of shelves and cabinets.
The main requirement for any shelves is compliance with the overall interior design, and this is not only about the color, but also to the form and size of the structure.
The most common mistakes when choosing and installing kitchen shelves:
- The shelf is not suitable in texture or color to the main furniture. For example, if light pastel shades are dominated in the kitchen, the massive shelf with a metal edging will be clearly inappropriate, and vice versa.
- The dimensions and characteristics of the shelves must correspond to its functional purpose. So, if you need a drying shelf for dishes, then you should not use massive narrow boards, because the water will spoil the tree very quickly - it will swell and "bloom." In this case, stainless steel products are suitable with drain holes. Metal shelves in the kitchen will withstand the weight of the dishes, and the water will not be for them.
- Brackets and fasteners should be maximized as much as possible in color with shelf and wall. If you do not comply with this condition, the shelf will be knocked out of the overall interior and rushing into the eyes with a non-stain spot.
Select design
To the choice of the design of future shelves it is necessary to approach the most carefully as possible. Under the design it is necessary to understand not only the appearance (decor), but also functionality.
The following recommendations will help you pick up the shelves for kitchens performed in different styles:
- For the kitchen in the style of Hi-Tech, minimalism is suitable in everything - choose a neat shelves of strict forms, with a small thickness. It is permissible to use LED backlight. Optimal materials for building shelves: metal, glass, plastic.
- The kitchen in the Scandinavian style can decorate the shelves made of massive natural wood, light chipboard, pallets and bins for vegetables. The interior allows you to "get roaring" and pofantase, using the most unconventional materials, for example, logs or wood, winning sea.
- If your kitchen is made in country style, Provence or Classic, install light decorative shelves on thin metal legs. Elegant forging will give ease and charm. It will also be interesting to look artificially aged details with carvings.
- For kitchens in modern style, glass structures with metal inserts are suitable.
- Modern interior style Receive the use of shelves lattices or wine racks.
- The angular shelf in the kitchen will save space using the selected area to the maximum.
The easiest way to make a rectangular shelf from the tree go chips, so if you are not sure about your abilities, it is better to start with elementary structures. The main thing is to remember that the size and thickness of the shelf must correspond to the dimensions of things placed on them. So, for the storage of spices is quite narrow plastic shelves, and for croup and conservation it will take something much more powerful.
Place the shelves should be so that all family members can reach them, or vice versa - could not, if we are talking about young children.
If you want to use space along the whole wall, you can make hinged shelves in the kitchen in several rows.
Methods of fastening the shelves
Methods for fastening kitchen shelves depend on a variety of factors: materials from which they are made, load, design, etc. However, the defining criterion is still the material. Below we will tell you in detail how and from what you can build a shelf for the kitchen. Before separating the shelves by type, it should be noted that the construction structures are hinged, outdoor and retractable. And if with the first two all is less clear, then the retractable shelves in the kitchen should be considered in more detail.
Natural tree and chipboard
The most common appearance. Wooden shelves in the kitchen will be able to make even a teenager, which will certainly please his mother.
To make the shelf of wood, the following tools and materials will be needed:
- actually the material itself is a chipboard, boards or wooden boxes;
- perforator (drill a concrete wall to install fasteners);
- electrolovka (cutting a tree);
- screwdriver or screwdriver;
- hammer;
- sandpaper of various grainability (grinding the surface of the tree);
- circul (if there are rounded elements);
- pencil;
- ruler;
- brackets or assembled consoles for hanging shelves;
- wood medley (if you are toned);
- brush;
- alkyd varnish (better to take an alkyd varnish, because it is more resistant to moisture).
The shape of wooden shelves can be any, but it is better to make them traditionally rectangular or triangular if placed in the corner. Round or oval shelves are not suitable for each kitchen and are mostly suitable for spacious premises.
In order for the wooden coating to light up as long as possible, pay attention to its finishing and protection - use varnishes, ribbons for edging, do not expose wood with excessive moisturizing.
Useful advice: For a small kitchen, you should not make thick bulky shelves. It will not look good and cozy, but very cumbersome.
Plasterboard for shelves
Kitchen shelves made of drywall are suitable for storing dry and non-heavy items. They should be positioned as far as possible from the sink, plates, steamer or multicurok. Since the gypsum is very sensitive to moisture and is not able to withstand heavy loads, the shelves from drywall are better set closer to the windows and rather for decorative purposes.
To increase the strength of the plasterboard shelf, it is necessary to strengthen its metal profiles from the back. What can be put on such a shelf? Place on it small musical columns, figurines, vases with dry plants or spices.
Plasterboard shelves look very natural and gently, especially if we are talking about the interiors in the romantic style.
To work, you will need:
- plasterboard;
- metallic profile;
- mounting tape for overlapping joints;
- self-tapping screw "Hyprow-tree" or "Metal";
- fastening "corners";
- putty;
- materials for decor (paint, fabric, wallpaper, mosaic, etc.).
Decorative shelves
Quite often, decorative shelves in the kitchen are made in the same style to organize a small complex where you can store a beautiful collection dishes, original statuettes or solonks, purchased while traveling.
Useful advice: small decorative shelves can be fixed using ready-made fasteners, creating spectacular contrasting combinations with color or texture. For example, colored consoles for the shelf of the pastel blue shade or black brackets for the shelf of coarse wood.
Shelves - Bottles
This is a separate "elite breed" of shelves, which will come in in the kitchen of true connoisseurs of the noble drink. Bottles are designed specifically for wine storage under proper conditions. Each sommelier is known that wine requires a careful and respectful relationship, otherwise it will quickly lose its taste.
The unique properties of the bouquet are saved only when the bottle is properly stored - in a strictly horizontal position. What happens to wine that just stands in a closet or refrigerator? Through the plug slowly, but the oxygen is properly penetrated, destructive for swimming. It enters the reaction with wine bacteria and changes the taste of the beverage.
The bottles allow you to store bottles in an inverted tilt position, completely overlapping access to oxygen. In addition, what to say, such shelves look very exquisite.
Of course, the shelves are enough for one kitchen for 3-5 bottles, otherwise it will turn into a wine cellar.
Retractable shelves
Gradually, we approached the most interesting and most popular kind of kitchen shelves. Retractable shelves today are becoming everything in demand every day. Minimalism in fashion is for more than 3 years, and this trend continues to hold, diluted with only new trends like eco-style. The retractable mechanism allows you to save a maximum of free space, save the owners from unnecessary gestures and use each useful centimeter of the square.
There are several types of retractable shelves: shelves themselves, covers for storage covers, baskets for products, bottles, breadnings, etc.
The advantages of retractable shelves are obvious, especially when it comes to small kitchens. So, from the most ordinary close "Khrushchev" you can easily make a functional and pleasant cuisine using this technology. In addition to the retractable shelves, retractable tables, seats, beds, etc. also enjoy popular. Minimalism in combination with ergonomics is the perfect solution for the modern hostess.
For a small kitchen, the optimal option is the retractable shelves-baskets. They can store vegetables, cereals, bread or other products that need regular ventilation.
Corner shelf in the kitchen with their own hands
Any furniture can be made with your own hands, and if you show a drop of fantasy, then ordinary items can become exclusive interior decorations. This rule concerns the kitchen shelves. The instruction described below will help you make an original and comfortable angular shelf for dishes, pickles or bulk products.
The material for the manufacture of the design was the trimming of the LDSP, which remained after the construction of the kitchen headset. Such trimming can be bought in any furniture workshop for a low price. With the construction of such a shelf, anyone who knows how to keep the drill in their hands, and a maximum of 7 hours will go to work.
What instruments will need:
- electric jigsaw;
- screwdriver or screwdriver;
- grinding or sandpaper;
- iron;
- tree drills of various diameters;
- 4 mm hexagon;
- knife cutter (can be a regular durable stationery knife);
- pencil;
- corolnic;
- compass;
- roulette.
Furnitura (can be purchased in any construction or furniture store):
- confirmate - 16 pcs;
- the edge ribbon, suitable for tone to LDSP - 10 m (better than 12 m);
- hinged loop - 4 pcs;
- screw - 8 pcs;
- plug - 16 pcs.
Creating a sketch
Before you begin to build anything, you need to create a sketch on paper or, as in our case, on the computer.
Detailing the future product:
- Two shelves with a radius of 19x90 cm.
- Two shelves are more with a radius of 19x110 cm.
- Two racks 60x26.5 cm.
- Two racks 44x26.5 cm.
Manufacturing shelves
Pick the sketch of your kitchen sketch, prepare the necessary materials and proceed to the construction of the shelf.
Progress:
- First of all, you should cut the sidewalls. Make a markup on the sheets of LDSP, starting with a smooth section of 3-10 cm. If there are clamps, you can cross two sheets and cut two identical sidewalls in one fell swoop.
- There is no top protrusion on the inner rack, and its size is slightly less external. Please note that even if you use a new saw in the jigsaw, chipsets may form around the edges. It is possible to fix it with grinding or manual grinding.
- Puck the part of the thermolynt. To do this, attach the ribbon to the side cut, cover the cotton rag and heat the iron. Go to the tape gluing to the LDSP. Processing internal bends, apply the iron only with a nose. The tape is always a little wider than the end, so the uncrosted part should be trimmed by a stationery knife.
- When the surplus is trimmed, process the corners of small sandpaper to remove the contrast adhesive strip. As a result, you will have two neat racks.
- Now you can collect the design. As a crossbar, use rectangular segments of the same LDSP, equal in length. Carefully choose the width so that the shelf does not perform for the vertical rack.
- So that the regiment looked original, cut the inner rack in two places. The length of the slot must match the width of the shelf.
- Crerate the bottom and upper stand confirmation using the kitchen or corner clamp.
- 8 mm from the edge of the drill suitable for confirmation, make a hole, deepening the second stage of the cutter no more than 2 mm.
- When the hole is ready, secure the details of the confirmation. Tighten until the stop so that the joint between the details completely disappeared. The main indicator is a light crackle when tightening.
- Attach the inner vertical rack at any suitable distance from the outside.
- Install the upper shelf by attaching it first to the outer stand.
- Drill it and fix it with confirm. During drilling, keep the drill clearly perpendicular to the shelf so that there is no convexity after twisting the confirmation.
- In the same way, attach the shelf to the inner rack.
- It remains only to stick decorative plugs to hide the places of fasteners and hang the shelf on her rightful place. In this case, it is not necessary to use any additional fasteners on the corner, since the chipboard is rather durable and bend it is almost impossible (in any case, the weights of the cans and dishes are not enough for it).
Creative ideas
Finally, we offer you a material for inspiration - a photo of the selection of interesting options for kitchen shelves, which can be easily made with their own hands:
Original shelf in the kitchen (photo) from the ordinary pallet:
