Pick up decent furniture for living room or dining room - not such a simple task, because it is the most presentable places in any house. Here we receive guests and are carried out in communicating with them the bulk of the time. It is impossible to furnish with a taste of a modern living room without an exquisite upholstered furniture, and the most successful supplement will be a wardrobe for living room and well-selected accessories.
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Fashion on cabinet furniture periodically offers different modifications of cabinets. The notorious furniture "walls" has long been morally outdated and have lost their relevance. In those times, when the servants were already not in fashion, domestic furniture factories produced popular walls. However, with all its versatility, the walls were popular, but very cumbersome products. At the same time, Italian catalogs continued to offer potential consumers with other varieties of cabinet furniture, including glass cabinets showcases.
Any wardrobe is a convenient and multifunctional furniture where all sorts of things are stored, which I would like to hide away from prying eyes. On the other hand, any furniture should be a decent decoration of the dwelling, including a living room, such as a wardrobe with a beautiful windows type.
Today, this kind of furniture is called the "cabinet-showcase" or "wardrobe with a showcase", and even just the "glass showcase". However, a glass cabinet resembles medical equipment in the procedural hospital office, and the word "showcase" in most people are associated with the placement of goods from the store.
In fact, all the opposite, it is to trade and medicine, the shop windows came from living rooms and salons of aristocrats, where the attention of guests were offered objects of art, a collection of masterpieces, cold weapons, overseas walkers or antiques. A couple of centuries ago, these items were neatly decomposed on the shelves behind the glass door, and guests with delight and asylum admired them under the sounds of music, of course, in a lively performance.
Wardrobe showcase, photo examples:
Today, the cooking hobby of antique furniture returns to life such forgotten items of the left era as a small double sofa canape for dates. Elegant couches look original, where it was taken after the meal, leaning on a high pillow a little nice. Written tables were supplanted by the Bureau's fashionable previously, where they led the accounting and signed important documents, and this furniture had secret niches and a similar similarity of modern safes.
But the showcase was called a glass cabinet, despite the fact that they were different types: an angular and mounted cabinet-showcase, a small glass showcase with a coffee table, as well as a massive three-door or angle-showcase. They were put on, mostly in the living room, and the combined cabinets on the type of buffet - in the dining room. By the way, the glass buffet is a simpler modification of the cabinet-showcase, where the upper part is equipped with glass doors, the bottom is more closed, with wooden sash for various kitchen utensils.
In the past, such furniture was quite expensive and status, it was not released by the series, they were made on request, taking into account the dimensions specified by the client. The cabinet showcase mounted could be located between the windows of the living room or dining room, and the angular model stood somewhere in a small niche or in the free corner. Italian masters revive all the new sketches of the lost antique samples of cabinet furniture with glass doors, a little visiting them. What is the difference between the modern cabinet-showcase glass for the living room, and where is it for her to find the most worthy place for interior design?
All cabinet furniture is quite functional, whether it is a wardrobe or bookcase, a servant or a wardrobe, a buffet or a furniture wall for a living room, a bathroom penalty or kitchen. Some are quite popular at all times, the other fashion periodically passes and returns, but not all of them are capable of becoming a decent decoration for the living room. Therefore, they perform not only a utilitarian role, but also aesthetic. This is the best place for beautiful dishes, antiques, table silver, collections of clocks or other worthy of attention of things that are pleased to streamline and set for universal viewing. Sometimes it makes sense to add a diode backlight from the inside to attract attention to the beauty of the content.
Many glass window cabinets for the living room on the posterior wall have a mirror back, which is beneficial to the space, the room visually looks more spacious. Glass doors skip sufficiently light so that it is overflowing in the edges of crystal dishes or stained glass, but the showcase should not be overloaded with dishes, otherwise it will really look at the storey. It is better to put out the most beautiful, but so that every elegant thing is clearly visible from all sides. The same applies to the collection of antiques - a jumble of hastily looks like a modern museum exhibition. It is no less important that all things look good in the interior, and also corresponded to the general style, however, the color of textiles, for example, can be chosen so that it has harmonized with the main objects of the collection.
Lovers of foreign trips and long-range travel can buy a wardrobe for the living room to set out souvenirs brought from different parts of the Earth. Well, when the entire interior design corresponds to this design, for example, a colonial-style room, Mediterranean or English. Next to the showcase do not put anything, but the globe can emphasize the "round-the-world" idea. The most expensive things are still not worth putting on an universal review, they can be stored in the personal safe or in the bedroom, and for this quite suitable for a small hinged cabinet. The same applies to family relics that may not be interesting to guests, but remind of glorious family history in the personal space.
In addition, an elegant new corner cabinet-showcase from expensive wood and high-quality sparkling glass - much better than a morally obsolete servant in which the dishes collected by several generations are stored. It is much better to set the most beautiful wine glasses and glasses, sets and vases so that dust does not settle on them, and to use only on a special occasion, the rest of the good can calmly migrate into the kitchen.
Tip: Remember, the smaller the wood in the wardrobe and more glass, the easier and more elegant there will look at the exhibitors. Even if there are wooden shelves there, they can be replaced with glass. Choose models with mirrors on the back wall and soft inner backlight.
Placement of display cases in the living room, dining room and other rooms
To determine where it is better to put a wardrobe, you need to consider all the options, depending on the overall planning of the house or apartment. No less important is that it is planned to place: for storage or universal review.
- Showcase in a teenager room is appropriate if the child is already adult enough and carefully drawn with glass. It placed the shell collections 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 their own hands in the aircraft model, which visits the teenager. The school students can store their sculptures or other children's "masterpieces" there.
- In the children's room, the cabinet-showcase is suitable for storing girls of handmade dolls, acquired by mom and grandmother. Handmade products can be stored, for example, knife-related napkins or woven decorations, silk flowers or other "hand maid".
- The cabinet showcase can decorate a dining room where it is convenient to store beautiful dishes, silver tables, painted plates or a collection of Chinese porcelain.
- A showcase can also stand in a spacious hallway, where the skillful female hats and collection handbags are stored, as well as umbrellas, gloves and cervices, beautifully laid on the shelves.
- The classic English Cabinet will also decorate a massive three-door showcase, in which you can combine the collection of vintage folios, bronze candlesticks, vintage clock, portraits of the great-grandfather in the frame on the stands and other useful and beautiful things.
- The main purpose of the cabinet-showcase is still storing dishes and collectible 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 showcase is better to choose compact and the most transparent.
- A decent office decoration can also be an expensive Italian showcase for different souvenirs, corporate photo albums, antiques catalogs, rare books and other useful things. It will specially emphasize the status of its owner and will tell not only about the tastes and preferences of the boss, but also about the level of life and position in society.
Views showcases for living room
Wardrobe showcase - price, configuration, height, number of doors, the presence of a mirror back can vary significantly. In addition, often such furniture has adjacent functions.
For example:
- showcase library (for books);
- showcase-rack (for business paper);
- servant-showcase (for dishes);
- buffet-showcase (for kitchen utensils with closed bottom);
- showcase-hill (with a rounded riding or in the form of a polyhedron);
- showcase pedestal (low glass cabinet under statuette).
Showcase pedestal can be a height of no more than half a meter and inside have a glass shelf. It can accommodate a collection of small objects, such as hours, vases or statuettes, and on top to install the main instance. Such a small showcase can be made and under the order, for example, a triangular or 6- or 8-grade form.
It should be known that glass cabinets can have a different number of doors:
- single one;
- duplex;
- three-rolled;
- combined - glass top, bottom wooden sash, like buffets.
Features of choosing a shop window
A glass cabinet showcase is the same interesting subject for the embodiment of designer ideas, like any other furniture. For their manufacturers, the wizard uses expensive wood and high-quality tempered glass - without the slightest hint of deformation or irregularities. In most models recognizable features of certain stylistics - modern, renaissance, baroque, ampir, classic, so there are very picturesque models decorated with carvings. When choosing a wardrobe, it is important to consider certain points:
- in a small living room, the more glass windows, the smaller it takes visually;
- on the north side of the house or in the far wall elongated room, it is better to put a wardrobe showcase made of light wood with glass shelves;
- the quality of fittings should be at the proper level, it should not save here;
- in the models of the showcases where the internal illumination is provided, consider the location of the socket - it is better to stand close to it so that the wire is not noticeable;
- the stylistics of the showcase must correspond to the overall design of the room and the total color scheme;
- showcase for storage of expensive dishes must be more elegant than for other purposes;
- elite alcohol is stored in special shop windows;
- modern shop windows make in any style, from High Tech to Gothic;
- wardrobe showcase in different-style interiors.
The attractive look of the showcase is capable of radically transforming any living room, especially when it matches the overall style.
- For an interior in the style of avant-garde, a fully glass cabinet will go well, which will add transparency and sensation of weightlessness. They are put in a well-lit place and fill not completely.
- Plastic - relatively inexpensive material, and showcases are also made from it. Such furniture is suitable for the dining room in the style of expressionism or techno.
- The most expensive option is a display case from natural wood, which is suitable for the classic interior and an English-style cabinet.
- Some models are very harmonious fit into the modern interior, for example, in the style of Fusion.
- The expensive cabinet with carved curls is very organic in the style of Rococo or Renaissance.
Tip: The glass showcase must be safe, so for its facade and shelves use a special tempered glass of sufficient thickness to withstand a considerable load. However, it should be followed by the behavior of children who may try to experience a closet for strength. It is best not to put it where little children often frolic.
