Modern transforming furniture in the interior of a small apartment, useful tips
How to place a lot of useful and functional, as well as simply vital, as well as very beautiful and original furniture in a small apartment? At the same time, how can you leave enough free space so that the furniture does not cause stress and injuries? If these questions haunt you, then our article is for you! After all, it will discuss what transformer furniture is and how it can save from cramped living in a small apartment and improve the quality of life of all family members.
Content
- Transformer furniture: what is it?
- Transforming furniture: functions
- Transforming furniture: types video
- Transforming furniture: how to choose the right video
- DIY transforming furniture video
What is transformer furniture: what is it?
Furniture transformer one of the greatest inventions of mankind!
No one can say with complete certainty who and when became the pioneer of this wonderful furniture: beautiful, compact and 100% functional. But one thing can be asserted with certainty: the engine for creating all kinds of models and modifications, whether it be children's furniture-transformer, upholstered furniture-transformer or cabinet furniture-transformer, became not laziness, as is commonly believed in most useful inventions of mankind, but the severe need to fit in a small space a maximum of functional and useful furniture.
In fact, the simplest and most affordable version of the furniture-transformer, well known to anyone since Soviet times, is a sofa bed, an armchair-bed and a table-book. These transformers are still the main characters of any city apartment.
But, with the development of technical capabilities, both the execution of mechanisms and the materials used to create transforming furniture, in urban apartments with their small rooms, such furniture began to appear more often: transforming beds, modular systems, transforming sofas with various possibilities of use each module individually and their combinations, depending on the needs at any given moment, or comfortable and multifunctional furniture, a transforming table is a compact version of an office at home. Not surprisingly, smart furniture-transformers began to call such furniture.
Transforming furniture: functions
The fact that transforming furniture is primarily saving space, as well as functionality and comfort, is understandable, but if more specifically, what are the features and functions of the transformer furniture?
And they are, we list all:
- space saving: the built-in versions of the transforming furniture, folding and gathering, can completely free up space for other things and actions, and options, such as furniture-convertible sofas, built-in folding ironing boards, appliances, assembled take up significantly less space in the room.
- organization of different functional spaces: the availability of such transformer furniture options as a sofa bed, an armchair bed, a transformer table and various modular transformer systems allow you to organize the space of the room in different ways. So, while you sleep, you can create a full-fledged bedroom; a sofa or chair turns into a berth, quickly and easily. And, just as quickly and easily, they can be assembled by returning the living room to its appearance and functionality. A simple ottoman-table can turn into numerous stools and a small coffee table, which is very useful for a small company.
- Organization of additional hidden storage systems: many versions of furniture-transformer are equipped with additional options for storing things: we all remember that in any sofa you can hide many useful and necessary things, as well as provide cabinets of various kinds with transforming hangers, moving shelves.
- decoration and decor of the room spaceModern furniture-transformer is not only simple sofas and tables, it is whole works of art, bright accents in the design of any apartment and room.
Transforming furniture: types
By functionality:
- multifunctional, used to organize multifunctional space. Such transformers can be used both in assembled, but in disassembled, modified form.
- performing only one main function: Yes, it saves space, but such furniture is used for its main purpose (most often it is a bed), and then, using certain mechanisms, it is completely hidden from view, freeing up the room’s space, turning, for example, into a false facade or cabinet wall , ceiling or floor! Sometimes, such furniture that performs only one function can become, in assembled form, an original art object. - This, by the way, is something that many people like.
By the type of transformation mechanism used:
- retractable: built-in beds for nurseries, shelves and tables mainly for the kitchen or mobile, mobile office.
- folding: most often these are sofas, armchairs, beds familiar to us, as well as tables and chairs.
- rising, newfangled and functional built-in beds, saving space as much as possible.
- modular: Ideal for a modern small living room or room for a teenager. The functions and appearance of such furniture can be set independently and at any time. Most often, such furniture is transformer sofas.
By the type of finishing materials used:
- cabinet: living room furniture, children's furniture, kitchen and so-called office furniture for the home: work desks, cabinets, etc.
- soft: sofas, armchairs, modular systems for all occasions and for any room.
Transforming furniture: how to choose the right
What you should pay attention to, what questions for yourself to answer when choosing furniture-transformer for small-sized apartments?
- Why do you need transformer furniture? If this is a vital necessity in the conditions of your small-sized apartment, then, of course, you need transforming furniture.
- How often will transformer furniture be used?
If often, then you should take care of choosing the right one: a simple, easy, reliable mechanism for transforming such furniture. This, of course, can affect the cost as the transformation mechanism itself, if you do it yourself, but on the finished version, if you buy or order it in the store.
Built-in furniture should be in place: any furniture has different dimensions, it is not possible to accommodate a transformer bed 2 m long when unfolded in a room 1.8 wide. Transformer furniture, of course, adds free meters in the room, but, unfortunately, does not increase it, in fact. Therefore, we build in transformer furniture of suitable sizes so that it functions correctly, and we enjoyed it.
DIY transforming furniture
Of course, not everyone can make real transforming furniture: a bed, an armchair or a sofa with their own hands. But, to make a transforming table or a transforming chair, if not for your apartment, then for a summer residence - it is quite possible!
