To choose decent furniture for the living room or dining room is not such a simple task, since these are the most presentable places in any house. Here they receive guests and spend the main part of the time in communication with them. It is impossible to furnish a modern living room without exquisite upholstered furniture, and the most successful addition will be the cabinet for the living room and successfully selected accessories.
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The purpose of the cabinet-a-alarms
Fashion for cabinet furniture periodically offers different modifications of cabinets. The notorious furniture "walls" have long been morally outdated and have lost their relevance. In those days when the sideboats were no longer in fashion, domestic furniture factories produced popular walls. However, for all their versatility, the walls were popular, but very bulky products. At the same time, Italian catalogs continued to offer potential consumers other varieties of cabinet furniture, including windows glass cabinets.
Any cabinet is a convenient and multifunctional furniture where all kinds of things are stored that would like to hide away from prying eyes. On the other hand, any furniture should be a worthy decoration of the dwelling, including the living room, for example, a cabinet with beautiful dishes like a window.
Today, this type of furniture is called a “cabinet-video” or “cabinet with a window”, or even just a “glass window”. However, the glass cabinet resembles many medical equipment in the procedural hospital department, and the word "showcase" in most people is associated with the placement of goods from the store.
In fact, the opposite is true, it was the shopping and medicine of the windows from living rooms and salons of aristocrats, where guests were offered to the guests of art, collections of masterpieces, cold weapons, overseas outlandish gizmos or antiques. A couple of centuries ago, these items were neatly laid out on the shelves behind the glass door, and the guests with enthusiasm and tenderness admired them to the sounds of music, of course, in a living performance.
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Today, a general hobby for antique furniture returns to life such forgotten objects of the bygone era as a small two-seater sofa gap for dates. Graceful couchs look no less original, where it was customary after the meal, relying on a high pillow a little a bit. Written tables were replaced by the previous bureaus and secretaries, where the accounting department and signed important documents, and this furniture had secret niches and a kind of modern safe.
But the window was called a glass cabinet, despite the fact that they were of different types: a corner and hinged cabinet-a-alarm wardrobe, a small glass showcase the size of a coffee table, as well as a massive three-door or corner cabinet. They were put mainly in the living room, and combined cabinets like a buffet - in the dining room. By the way, a glass buffet is a simpler modification of a cabinet-a-alarm center, where the upper part is equipped with glass doors, the lower one is more closed, with wooden wings for various kitchen utensils.
In the old days, such furniture was quite expensive and status, it was not produced in series, it was made by order, taking into account the dimensions indicated by the client. The cabinet cabinet can be located between the windows of the living room or dining room, and the corner model stood somewhere in a small niche or in the free corner. Italian craftsmen revive all new sketches for life in lost antique samples of cabinet furniture with glass doors, a little modernized. What is the difference between a modern glass cabinet glass for the living room, and where for it to find the most worthy place for interior design?
All corps furniture is quite functional, whether it is a paying or bookcase, a sideboard or a cabinet, a buffet or a furniture wall for the living room, a penalty for a bathroom or kitchen. Some are quite popular at all times, for other fashion periodically passes and returns, but not all of them are able to become a worthy decoration for the living room. Therefore, they play not only a utilitarian role, but also aesthetic. This is the best place for beautiful utensils, antiques, silver table, watch collection or other worthy attention of things that are pleasant to streamline and put up for public viewing. Sometimes it makes sense to add diode backlight from the inside to draw attention to the beauty of the contents.
Many glass cabinets for the living room on the back wall have a mirror back, which favorably affects the space, the room looks more spacious. Glass doors pass enough light enough for it to shimmer in the faces of crystal dishes or colored glass, but the showcase should not be overloaded with dishes, otherwise it will really look “in store”. It is better to expose only the most beautiful, but so that every elegant little thing is clearly visible from all sides. The same applies to the collections of ancient things - such a pile looks like a hastily decorated museum exposition. It is equally important that all things look good in the interior, and also correspond to the general style, but the color of textiles, for example, can be selected so that it harmonizes with the main objects of the collection.
Fans of foreign trips and long-distance travel can buy a cabinet for the living room to exhibit souvenirs brought from different parts of the Earth in it. It is good when the entire interior design corresponds to this plan, for example, the room is decorated in a colonial style, Mediterranean or English. They don’t put anything on the showcase on top, but the globe can emphasize the “round -the -world” idea. The most expensive things still should not be put up for public display, they can be stored in a personal safe or in the bedroom, and a small hinged cabinet-vitrine is quite suitable for this. The same applies to family relics that may not be interesting to guests, but to remind of glorious family history in personal space.
In addition, the elegant new corner cabinet-vitrin made of expensive wood and high-quality sparkling glass is much better than a morally obsolete sideboard, which contains dishes collected by several generations. It is much better to expose the most beautiful glasses and glasses, service and flowerpots so that dust does not settle on them, and use only on a special occasion, the rest of the good can calmly migrate to the kitchen.
Tip: Remember, the smaller the wood in the cabinet-vitrine and more glass, the easier and elegant the displayed specimens will look there. Even if wooden shelves are provided there, they can be replaced with glass. Choose models with mirrors on the back wall and soft internal backlight.
Placement of a window in the living room, dining room and other rooms
To determine where it is better to put a cabinet, you need to consider all options, depending on the overall layout of the house or apartment. It is equally important that it is planned to place it: for storage or public display.
- The window in the teenager’s room is appropriate if the child is already adult and carefully treats glass. It contains collections of shells brought from the seas or a collection of large -scale car models, collected for many years. No less interesting will be the exposition of large -scale copies of aircraft of different times made by yourself in an aircraft model mug that is visited by a teenager. The school pupil can store his sculptures or other children's "masterpieces" there.
- In the children's room, the cabinet-a-alarm wardrobe is suitable for storing girls with handmade dolls, purchased by mom and grandmother. Handmade products can be stored here, for example, with your own hands, napkins or jewelry woven from beads, silk flowers or other “hand-maye” from beads.
- A cabinet can decorate the dining room, where it is convenient to store beautiful dishes, silver table, painted plates or a collection of Chinese porcelain.
- In a spacious hallway, a showcase can also be stored, where skillfully made women's hats and collectible handbags, as well as umbrellas, gloves and neck scarves, beautifully laid on the shelves are stored.
- The classic English cabinet will also decorate the massive three -door window, in which you can combine the collection of old folios, bronze candlesticks, old watches, portraits of great -grandfathers in the frame on stands and other useful and beautiful things.
- The main purpose of the cabinet-channel is still storage of dishes and collection things in the living room. The location of the cabinet in this room depends on its dimensions and shape, and if the room is small, then the window is better to choose compact and as transparent as possible.
- An expensive Italian showcase for different souvenirs, corporate photo albums, antiques, rare books and other useful things can also become a worthy decoration of the office. She will in a special way emphasize the status of its owner and tell not only the tastes and preferences of the boss, but also about the standard of living and position in society.
Types of windows for living room
Wardrobe-price, configuration, height, number of doors, the presence of a mirror ass can vary significantly. In addition, often such furniture has adjacent functions.
For example:
- bibliotek showcase (for books);
- stellage showcase (for business papers);
- servte Vitrina (for dishes);
- buffet-vitrine (for kitchen utensils with a closed bottom);
- shopping room (with a rounded top or in the form of a polyhedron);
- pedestal showcase (low glass cabinet for a figurine).
The Pedestall showcase can be no more than half a meter and inside have a glass shelf. In it you can place a collection of small items, for example, watches, vases or figurines, and install the main copy on top. Such a small showcase can be made on order, for example, triangular or 6- or 8-sided.
You should know that glass cabinets can have a different number of doors:
- single -winged;
- double -leaf;
- tricuspid;
- combined - glass on top, from below wooden wings, like buffets.
Features of choosing a showcase
The glass cabinet showcase is the same interesting item for the implementation of design ideas as any other furniture. For their manufacture, masters use expensive wood and high -quality tempered glass - without the slightest hint of deformation or unevenness. In most models, the features of certain stylistics are recognizable - modern, renaissance, baroque, empire, classic, therefore there are very picturesque models decorated with carvings. When choosing a cabinet, it is important to consider certain points:
- in a small living room, the more glass the window, the less space it occupies visually;
- on the north side of the house or on the far wall of the elongated room, it is better to put a cabinet-vitrine of light wood with glass shelves;
- the quality of accessories should be at the proper level, you should not save;
- in the models of the showcase, where the internal backlight is provided, consider the location of the outlet - it is better to stand close to it so that the wire is not noticeable;
- the style of the window should correspond to the general design of the room and the total color scheme;
- shine for storing expensive dishes should be more elegant than for other purposes;
- elite alcohol is stored in special windows;
- modern windows are made in any style, from high-tech to Gothic;
- wardrobe in interiors of different style.
The attractive appearance of the window is able to radically transform any living room, especially when it corresponds to the general style.
- For an interior in the style, the avant -garde will go well with a completely glass cabinet, which will add transparency and feeling of weightlessness. They are placed in a well -lit place and not completely filled.
- Plastic is relatively inexpensive material, and the windows are also made of it. Such furniture is suitable for the dining room in the style of expressionism or technology.
- The most expensive option is a window of natural wood, which is suitable for the classic interior and cabinet in the English style.
- Some models fit very harmoniously into the modern interior, for example, in the style of fusion.
- An expensive cabinet-a-alarm wardrobe with carved curls is very organic in the Rococo or Renaissance style.
Tip: a glass showcase should be safe, therefore, for its facade and shelves, special tempered glass is used to withstand a considerable load. However, you should follow the behavior of children who may try to test the strength cabinet. It is best not to put it where small children often frolic.
