White tables: choose design

If you decide to buy a white table home or office, but do not know where to start, this article can help.

White furniture can fit into the premises with any decor. Modern furniture production allows you to realize any idea in shape, size, and a variety of materials and their shades will allow you to choose the perfect option.

White is associated with air, light, space. It is like a blank sheet of paper on which you can write any picture. White has no shades, but often other whitewashed colors are considered to be its tones.

Here are some of them:

• Smoky white;
• Snow;
• Ivory;
• Cream (creme brulee);
• Lactic;
• Pearl.

Let's say about the features of the coatings, which can be matte, glossy, varnished, mirrored, with enamel, with a patina.Perhaps it is worth giving a decoding of the latter: it is the effect of an aged surface (with darkening, scuffs and cracks), which arose during natural exploitation or artificially created.

When choosing a shade for your future white table, you need to take into account the temperature of the color: cold colors harmoniously fit into modern interiors in high-tech style, futurism, minimalism. In such rooms, most of the furniture is made of stone, glass, metal, plastic. A warm and muted tones are ideal for classics, Provence, country.

Choosing the material of the table, first of all you need to consider what functionality it will perform in a given room. For example, stone and wooden countertops are durable and durable, so they are often used in the interior of the kitchen.

If you liked the table with a glass top, it is better to give preference to tempered glass. First, it has enhanced strength.Secondly, if the tempered glass can still be broken, then it will turn into a multitude of small fragments with safe edges. However, laminated glass, or triplex, is considered the safest: when destroyed upon impact, it does not break up into fragments, but is retained by the film, creating a web on the tabletop.

The main plus of a metal table is its strength, solidity, durability. Modern technologies allow to make tables of metal no less elegant and stylish than of wood or plastic. Metal countertops can be simply painted, polished or sandblasted, or all the above-mentioned decorating methods can be applied at once. Stylish and expensive look tables with wrought iron elements. Due to their strength, metal tables are more often used in production where there are aggressive mechanical and chemical effects (tables for joinery and auto mechanics, in chemical laboratories, summer cottages), but their use is also possible in home interiors.

Tables of chipboard and MDF can take any form and size. The low cost of these materials, the ease of accessibility in the manufacture and assembly allows them to fit into any interior.

Tables made of solid wood have several advantages over other materials: reliability, reliability, capital, but the main difference is the warmth of natural wood. A variety of wood processing gives a wide scope for creativity to interior designers: wood can be varnished, polished to a smooth state, painted. But there is a significant drawback - the high cost of material. In addition, wooden tables in white color have a peculiarity: it is necessary to monitor and not to allow spillage of liquids with bright colors.

White plastic due to its low cost and weather resistance is often used in the manufacture of outdoorfurniture. Such products can often be found in the setting of street terraces cafes, summer cottages and balconies. Again, children's tables manufacturers like to make plastic. There are also designer white tables. As a rule, they are made in very unusual forms that looks more appropriate in industrial interiors.

Stone as a raw material, as well as wood and metal, is the most reliable and durable. In the manufacture of white countertops made of natural stone, marble is often used, and this material has a high absorbability. Also, white marble can crack from temperature changes and turn yellow when heated. However, the high cost and high weight limit the use of stone furniture in everyday life. But the look of such tables is great.

Wicker furniture is often used in the arrangement of country plots, country houses, verandas, street cafes. The advantages of rattan furniture: environmental friendliness, a variety of forms, unpretentious care, durability, despite the external fragility, and low weight makes it easy to make a permutation.

White color looks great in the most primitive form, and in the most unusual.But do not forget about the general idea of ​​the interior and purpose, choosing a form for the table. Consider what configurations are:

• Angular. The main advantage of the corner tabletop is that it will be comfortable and not bulky in a limited space. The most common appointments of corner tables are computer and writing, TV cabinets, less often coffee and toilet.

• Oval. A distinctive feature of the oval table top is that it combines the advantages of a round and rectangular table. Lack of corners creates a comfortable, welcoming atmosphere and makes room for children safer. And the elongated shape of the table (as well as the rectangular one) takes up less space, unlike the round one, while remaining more spacious. Most often, the oval look has tables in living rooms and kitchens.

• Round. Round tables are good because they are universal. The round shape of the table is easy to pick up for almost any interior and its varieties: classical (Gothic, Classicism, Baroque, Empire, Modern), Modern (Art Deco, Pop Art, Minimalism, Kitsch, High-Tech), Ethnic (African, Japanese, Provence) ).The smoothed shape gives coziness and comfort to the room.

• Square. The specificity of a square tabletop consists of strict and graphic forms. This property allows most successfully to enter square models into the interiors of strict forms (for example, classic, hi-tech, Japanese style). In home interiors, the square form most often have dining tables, then coffee, serving, toilet. Catering companies also like to use square table models.

• Rectangular. Tables with an elongated, long rectangular shape are indispensable in office rooms, conference rooms, meeting rooms, large dining rooms decorated in the spirit of minimalism or classics.

In addition to the form, the white tables may differ in their configuration. So, there are:

• Table rack The writing desk shelf can be made as a special rectangular shelf attached perpendicular to the shelf.Sometimes there are modifications where the table top has a triangular shape (to install it in the corner). This kind of design is very convenient for schoolchildren, students, workers with a card file or even for needlewomen who have many different small parts and accessories).

• Zigzag. In such an unusual form, coffee tables can most often be found. They do not carry a large functional load, but very effectively emphasize the interior.

• With a mirror. Models with a mirror called toiletry, dressing table, makeup table, trellis. Mostly used by women for applying makeup and hair. Happen for home use and for various beauty salons and photo studios.

• Classic. To the classic we assign the tables with a solid tabletop on one or four legs. The form, as described earlier, can be any. Classic laconic forms are usually used in kitchens and dining rooms.

• Transformers: sliding / folding / table-book. Transforming countertops are invented to save space and, as a rule, are used in small rooms. Often in this design make dining and kitchen tables.

In interior solutions, white can act as an accent or as a general background for other bright details. For example, the combination of a white wooden table and brown chairs is typical of classic interiors. Another interesting option: the table top and the seats are chairs in a dark color, and the legs of the table and chairs are white and vice versa.

White plastic table looks great in modern design solutions in combination with red, silver, black details. In the children's rooms they also often make a white table, and other details select bright rainbow shades.

Choosing a white table, you need to take into account the main factors:

• the functions that he will perform in this room (dining, kitchen, coffee, bedside, toilet, work);
• interior style;
• room dimensions;
• material (stone, wood, glass, plastic, MDF, chipboard);
• the cost.

A great choice for two in the kitchen is a small round or square table.

In the nursery it is better to look at a table made of plastic with a stable support and a surface that is not receptive to the arts of young geniuses.

A coffee white table of unusual shape fits perfectly into the living room of a bachelor in high-tech style.

It is useful for women to look at the variety of models of dressing tables for the bedroom.

In the office, it is appropriate to use bright rectangular or corner tables made of chipboard for employees, and the colors should be concise, without patterns and reflections.

When the choice is made, do not forget to take care of its cleanliness and pick up a detergent suitable for cleaning the countertop. Otherwise, the furniture and the interior in general will look untidy.

How to make a white table with your own hands, see the next video.