Modern furniture-transformer in the interior of a small apartment, useful advice

Comfortable use of any modern housing involves a set of its specific set of furniture. But when you install it in an apartment, especially a small one, you immediately feel a lack of free space. The larger the dimensions of the furniture, the less seems the room in which it is installed and the greater inconvenience experienced by people living in the apartment. Since the issue with the situation of small apartments is quite acute, the furniture-transformer is of special interest among consumers and enjoys high demand.

Furniture transformer for small apartments - an excellent variant of the transformation of space

The first representatives of transformers in our country appeared in the Soviet times, they were super-fashionable sofas and armchairs-beds and tables-books. Today, the range of transformable furniture has become richer and more interesting, combining completely different items, for example, a child's bed and work space, a bunk bed for kids with a compact sofa or a large dining table with a miniature magazine analogue.

With the advent of a large number of apartments with a small area, the ability of furniture to change its purpose, and most importantly, its dimensions, has become a very relevant trend of the market, which has an impact on the largest furniture manufacturers in the world. Of particular interest to buyers today is the design, multifunctional, exclusive furniture.

Transformer table and its advantages

The very idea of ​​turning tables is far from new, and earlier there were variants when working furniture, a table-transformer, easily turned into an easel or a drawing board. In the conditions of a small apartment, it is very convenient to have a small table, which can be increased in size by 2-2.5 times by the time visitors arrive. Also interesting are coffee tables, which, if necessary, are transformed into tables for playing billiards, chess or roulette.

Folding tables are distinguished by a wide variety of transformation mechanisms that allow to significantly increase the useful working surface of kitchen tables, or by combining a coffee and dinner table to preserve the useful space of a small living room.

Children's furniture transformer grows up with the baby

Parents know how important in the children's room is the functional furniture that, depending on the age of the child, can be transformed according to the needs of his age. Acquired at the birth of a baby swaddling table with time can be turned into an excellent place for games with a comfortable chair, then - in the school desk for preparing homework homework, the same desk if necessary can be transformed into a cute computer desk. Among the main advantages of such furniture, it should be noted its extreme compactness - it will not interfere with children's games.

A practical option ideally suited for a nursery is a horizontal folding bed that can be attached to other furniture. The mechanism for lifting in such models is attached to the long side, relatively small loads allow for the use of more simple and cheap, less powerful mechanisms for fixing.

To control a modern lifting model with an electric drive, it is enough just to press a button - the electronic mechanism will lift or lower the bed to the desired height. Use of such a bed allows you to refuse cleaning from the floor all the things you need for use during the day, for the safety of bedding they should simply be fixed on the mattress.

Bed-transformer helps to release a useful place in a small bedroom

Since a person spends most of his time in the bedroom, he should be comfortable and comfortable here. But your bedroom has a small area and the classical shape of the bed will occupy the main part of the square. We suggest a way out of this situation - buy a bed-transformer. But before starting the repair, you must lay this position in the future project. Thus, the inevitability of making repairs in the bedroom must include the installation of furniture-transformer.

All models of transformer beds can be divided into three types:

• traditionally used for the last decades, sofa beds,
• more complex horizontal and vertical folding beds-cabinets,
• beds - tables and chests of drawers.

Optimum use of the existing space of small apartments allows the swivel-folding models. The development of furniture specialists has made it possible to hide the bed very successfully in other useful pieces of furniture. For example, a vertical folding bed with a pneumatic or spring mechanism is brought to a vertical position and installed in a box that is part of the furniture set.

The options for decorating the bottom part can be different: mirrors, shelves or drawers. If the springs and steel cables were used in the earlier models for lifting, today they are equipped with gas lift systems. The size of the folding beds can vary from double to single.

Very original looks a bed, which hides in a specially constructed for this podium. The place for sleep moves inside the podium on special rollers.

On sale, you can also find other varieties of transfomer beds quite successfully connecting a bed and a table, a wardrobe, a bed and a sofa. Leading in this market are products from Italian manufacturers, equipped with very practical and reliable mechanisms of transformation.

Transformer sofas

Talking about the place for sleep, you can not forget about this kind of furniture like sofas-transformers. Presented in today's market, the models are surprised by a large number of significantly different versions of the transformation. The most common today is the eurobook, which is distinguished by a modern, well-developed mechanism on springs. Of the latest innovations, it should be noted sofas click-clack, the mechanism of which allows you to install the backrest in three different positions.

The unfolding sofas - the French "clamshells" and "accordions", with all the positive moments have a significant drawback - the life of their mechanism with daily use is only 2-3 years. More reliable mechanisms are modern models: dolphins, flushes, eurosomes, cougars, telescopes, litas. The most comfortable for today are considered recliners with a fully automated process of transformation.

In a separate group, you can identify modular systems that resemble a tetris game. The assembly of blocks having a rectangular or square shape allows you to get a bed with a table, an armchair or a sofa. Individual modules can be stored among the shelves and shelves on the wall. Furniture puzzles perfectly fit into the interior of any style.

It should be noted that soft furniture-transformer, except for the sofa-book, for a permanent bed is not suitable, it can be used for overnight guests or for periodic rest.

Cabinet-transformer

Fashion for furniture capable of transforming at the request of the owner did not ignore the cabinets. Most often, cabinets are combined with beds, the principle of their transformation can be different. The most popular cabinets, which provide the ability to transform the internal space by moving, adding or removing shelves, depending on the items that need to be stored inside the cabinet. Among the original developments, you should pay attention to the cabinets that can change their dimensions, if necessary, some models are folded "in itself", others - expand in breadth and allow you to place in them even more things.

Make furniture-transformer yourself is quite possible. Of course, this will require:

• to develop a project or find on the Internet a suitable, in an already ready-made form,
• perform the necessary calculations,
• purchase tools and materials.

Homemade furniture will cost less, but the work to create it will require the artist to take care, exact implementation of all the recommendations of specialists, accuracy. Materials and mechanisms for creating transforming furniture should be purchased high-quality, otherwise homemade furniture will be short-lived.

Some useful tips for choosing

1. Planning the purchase of furniture in a small apartment should first calculate the purchase of transforming furniture - most likely it will be more economical and will save the maximum amount of useful space.
2. To challenge the compactness and functionality of transforming furniture does not make sense, but when choosing it, it should be borne in mind that more complex mechanisms sooner or later will require more complex repairs.
3. At purchase it is necessary to study a skeleton of a product and to take an interest in a margin of its durability, also it is desirable to be convinced of full serviceability of all springs and mechanisms.
4. It is better to make a purchase live, while asking the sales consultant to demonstrate all the possibilities of the chosen model.
5. If buying a home with a larger area in the near future is not planned, it is better to purchase smart furniture-transformer of high quality - it will last a lot longer.
6. Purchasing furniture items with low cost, it should be understood that they can be made of low-quality materials, and the mechanisms used in their installation may not be reliable enough. The best materials for manufacturing are natural wood or MDF.
7. Installation of purchased cabinets-beds is possible only for qualitatively leveled walls, and only the capital or brick.
8. When choosing a bed, you should pay attention to the shape of its base or legs - the support board should be wide, and the shape of the legs - L-shaped.

Even nowadays many families prefer traditional furniture, the acquisition of transforming models of beds, sofas and closets can be considered a step to the comfort of a new level.