If you are already the happy owner of an apartment in a new building, it's high time to think about the furniture. You will be surprised, but it is much better to coordinate all the important details of the arrangement before the repair work starts, because some items of furniture, such as kitchen furniture or built-in constructions should be designed in advance, because they can affect the placement of communications in your apartment or house.
Regardless of whether you are working on the house design alone or with the help of the interior designer, you should refer to reliable furniture manufacturers and consult a specialist. These professionals will help you to take into account not only the appearance (according to which an apartment project design is mostly evaluated), but the technical nuances and peculiarities of the room as well. This, in turn, will give you an opportunity to get really ergonomic, functional, aesthetic and durable furniture.
Niches furnishing: functionality comes first
Developing companies and architects pay more and more attention on ergonomic planning of the apartment space. Therefore, in modern buildings are mostly offered flats with the additional space for walk-in cabinets and wardrobes - compartments. As a rule, niches of various sizes and configurations are located in the hallway, bedroom, balcony or attic. They are very useful for organizing the clothing and footwear storage (various wardrobes, or walk-in cabinets), and for household items, sports equipment and household items storage (closets). Presence of niches helps to save money on the cabinets and to choose more carefully the sliding doors system for closing of the built-in furniture. Sliding system quality is the main factor that determines the sliding doors durability. The main aspects you should take into account while choosing the sliding system are: rollers quality, door frame rigidity (profiles and rails) and, of course, the reliability of the manufacturer. More information on this topic you can find in our article (see the link below).
Organization of internal niche space includes the division into sections with an optimal number of shelves, drawers, poles and clothes hangers. Number and location of such accessories should be chosen depending on the needs of the family members, their habits, height, and taking into account the purpose of the built – in construction. Unconventional apartment planning or non-standard architecture can always be hidden, if you correctly pick the colours, furniture and lighting. Thanks to the successful design solution each "complicated" room can be transformed into the convenient and comfortable apartment.
A new look at the storage systems
At present, there are many supporters of open wardrobe constructions as opposed to traditional cabinets. Minimalism style followers believe, that excessive things kill our space and prevent from moving forward and from keeping harmony in all the spheres of our life. Therefore they prefer to keep things in open shelving constructions. Neat placement of clothes on hangers provides a good overview of all the things and helps to choose the right thing quickly.
Of course, not all the people like this open format of things handling. So what to do if you prefer the interior in Scandinavian or minimalist style, but you are not ready for such drastic steps?
An alternative may be a standard wardrobe – compartment or walk-in wardrobe with the thin doors frame and with the façade of white, black and grey colours, or of soft shades of wood. Among the other favourites is glass: conventional, matt and coloured. This material is especially useful for different kinds of partitions: interior partitions and those intended for space zoning. About all the details of space organization with the help of partitions we are going to tell you in our articles and publications.