Cabinets: what style to choose?

Choosing any piece of furniture, including a wardrobe, buyers are guided by the style in which the room is decorated. There is a huge variety of areas, each of which has its own forms and materials. It can be difficult not to get lost in all the variety of models of wardrobe, so before you buy you need to familiarize yourself with the main features of popular styles.

There are a huge number of styles. Among some of them you can find similarities, but there is no absolutely identical interior direction. Each of them has unique characteristics.

• Modern - style, which is based on strictly delineated forms.

• Country Direction - plain wooden structures without pronounced prints and decor. An element of this style may be the surface of the surface, so that it imitated the influence of time.

• Japanese design assumes overall built-in wardrobes, but sometimes the cabinet ones are allowed. Their compartment doors are covered with panels, which depict Japanese national symbols - in most cases, they are sakura and hieroglyphs. Rarely similar products are made in flashy tones.

• Baroque different pompous. Cabinets are a solid structure, standing on small legs. The surface of products is often decorated with carvings and gilding, often the technique of carving is so thin that the design is similar to a work of art.

• High tech cabinets include mostly rectangular lines of various sizes. They are made in the form of built-in or hull structures of large sizes. Often, among these models you can find two-color and glossy products.

• Provence - romantic and delicate French style, in which mostly light cabinets of various sizes are made. Paneled structures are not equipped with a large number of prints, they, for all their size, are airy and do not look cumbersome.

• American design - it is simplicity and elegance, embodied in wooden products. Cabinet doors are often provided with vertical or horizontal ornamentation in the form of parallel strips. Sometimes the glass compartments are included in the sash, giving the cabinet an additional rigor.

• Classical type of cabinets combines signs of Rococo, Provence, Baroque, Art Deco styles. He is not replete with prints and elaborate finishes, but may contain some elements that emphasize wealth and solidity.

• Victorian style can be considered a kind of classical direction. It is characterized by the predominance of noble brown tones, solid headsets up to the ceiling. You can often see bookcases made in a similar concept.

• Modern style allows more liberty in the design, in contrast to the classical. In it you can see rich colors, a mixture of several textures, an abundance of synthetic and decorative materials. Modern cabinets can perform various functions and have both large and miniature dimensions.

• Minimalism - one of the modern styles that does not tolerate the complexity of forms. The square and rectangular structures of large sizes are made in the same color. They have a glossy surface and the range of their shades can vary from the most neutral to screaming and accentuating attention.

• Oriental design implies the presence of designs of dark wood, richly decorated with carvings or ornaments. The size of the products is not very large.

• Chalet with its deliberately coarse and uncouth details involves the installation of cabinets made of wood, the texture of which imitates wide knocked boards. They are often in harmony in texture and color with the walls of the room, which explains the background role of the chiffonier.

• Eclecticism - pretty loose style. For him it is typical to place bright accents. Most cabinets, which are part of the headset, have an open facade.It is the contents of the shelves often plays an accent role in the interior. Different materials are used as materials.

• Chebbi chic - an unusual direction in which gentle and romantic colors and prints prevail. Cabinets are most often small structures in light colors. The doors are often decorated with bows, tassels, floral print and carving.

• Mediterranean style by design products similar to the American, but allows much more colors in the design of wardrobe. Unlike American classic shades of natural wood, in the Mediterranean direction you can often find yellow, blue and turquoise tones.

• Colonial style may occur in the design of cabinets for books and headsets. In addition to brown, bronze and reddish tones are used. Often you can meet the strict silhouettes of products with open facades or with glass doors.

• Chinese concept - These are small double-wing wardrobes, which are often made in red or black shades. They are supplied with many drawings. Sometimes there is a whole plot in the images, which remarkably conveys the national Chinese flavor.

• French style You can safely associate with the white color of wooden wardrobe, rectangular glass inserts and cross-shaped pattern on the glass and mirrors. As in the style of Provence, there is lightness and romance.

• Italian design Chiffoniers are monolithic wooden structures that have a clear rectangular shape. Cabinets have four or more doors.

• Steampunk is an extremely unusual style. The concept is based on rough metal textures and wood. These materials are recreated in embossed cabinets of small sizes. Products are equipped with many compartments, some of which imitate the design of luggage.

The main materials for creating cabinets are wood and plastic. For wooden models can be used such raw materials as:

• solid birch;
• oak massif;
• wenge;
• maple;
• alder;
• Pine;
• cherry.

Often, chiffoniers are created from materials that include shredded wood:

• MDF;
• Hardboard;
• Chipboard.

Plastic is less whimsical than wood products, and is often used indoors,where temperature extremes exist or high levels of humidity are observed.

When choosing a color you need to rely on the requirements of style and on the features of the material. The tree is rarely of a white tint. In most cases, it has different tones of light - ivory, milk oak, beech Bavaria, or dark - wenge, chestnut, mahogany.

Other materials are embodied in more rich colors. Often, even acidic shades are used, but they usually play an accent role on a particular part of the cabinet. Sometimes several colors are combined according to the principle of proximity or contrast.

Many buyers face the question of competent selection of a new cabinet for the existing furniture in the interior.

Before buying, you should consider the following factors:

• Appointment room. It determines the size of the product. A small cupboard can be suitable for the kitchen, while more large models are needed for the bedroom. In some rooms it will be more appropriate to look like a dresser than a large wardrobe.
• The presence of a headset. This item is quite complicated, because the closet should be selected as close as possible to the room. It is necessary that all the furniture was in the same style and the impression was created that the headset is a single whole.

• Room size - Another important aspect for the dimensions of the chiffonier and the choice of the type of product. Sometimes you can afford to buy a built-in wardrobe in the hallway, but in most cases it is installed only in the bedroom, whose area is larger.

When choosing a wardrobe under the interior style, remember that it is important to take into account other signs of the product before purchasing.

You will learn more about how to choose a cabinet in the following video.