Floor cabinet, features and purpose, the nuances of choice

The choice of furniture for the home is always difficult, because you have to take into account a huge number of factors. The breadth of choice of modern models of cabinets for residential premises for various purposes is also somewhat confusing. In the domestic furniture market, a floor cabinet is especially popular with customers and all thanks to its undeniable advantages.

Kinds

The species diversity of such furniture is striking. Manufacturers are trying to apply a variety of materials with different operational parameters, highly functional, beautiful durable fittings, many facade decoration technologies to create floor cabinets of different sizes, colors, shapes. Thus, anyone can choose a closet for themselves. And to make the choice as simple as possible, we will describe the types of floor structures that are most popular on the domestic furniture market today.

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Floor cabinets are incredibly popular among buyers. They are purchased for different purpose premises in urban apartments and country houses:

a kitchen cabinet is notable for the fact that a sink is often mounted on its lid or covered with a countertop of a kitchen unit. Furniture of this plan has a small height - 80-85 cm;
for clothes - in such a floor cabinet it is very convenient to place personal items, shoes, accessories, bedding. In order for the piece of furniture to be as functional as possible, its filling should be clearly thought out. Then the room will always look neat and beautiful, and all things will fit inside the closet;
bookstores - furniture of this kind has the sole purpose of storing a family library in it. Books, magazines should be stored carefully, protected from dust, excessive sunlight, high humidity. All these requirements are able to fulfill a high-quality bookcase floor cabinet. Inside the piece of furniture there are shelves, one or two drawers for documentation. Actual book models for libraries, study rooms, living rooms and bedrooms;
sideboards - furniture of this kind is somewhat outdated. In previous years it was fashionable to install sideboards in the hall with beautiful dishes, dinner sets, glasses, vases. Today, sideboards are less popular, but if necessary, many furniture stores will offer customers inexpensive beautiful sideboards for the living room or fireplace room.

Analyze for which room and for what purpose the furniture is selected. This will allow you to select the option you want according to purpose.

Book

Kitchen

Sideboard

For clothes

According to the material of manufacture

For the manufacture of floor cabinets, various materials are used:

solid wood - wooden furniture is considered the most durable, solid, expensive in external aesthetics. It has served for more than a dozen years, without losing external qualities and operational parameters. Wood is an environmentally friendly material with a pleasant natural aroma, many shades, an original pattern. But floor-standing type wooden cabinets are quite expensive, which stops many buyers from choosing just such models;
MDF - the furniture industry offers customers a rather interesting option as an alternative to a solid mass of wood. This material is interesting in that its cost is an order of magnitude lower than that of natural wood, and the external data is almost identical to it. In addition, MDF is resistant to impact, strong, durable. But buyers say it is a wide range of shades of this material, its similarity to a natural wooden surface, marble, plastic and other materials. Therefore, the cabinet type MDF can have the most diverse design;
Particleboard is an excellent option for those who want to choose an inexpensive, but practical cabinet with an average life. Particleboard looks attractive, resistant to wear, but does not tolerate contact with water or sunlight for a long time. Contact with water will swell the material, and with the sun, it will burn out. Chipboard floor construction should not be selected for washing in the kitchen, to the cottage. But for the nursery, the corridor, the living room, such furniture will be most welcome;
plastic - often plastic models of such furniture do not differ in high esthetics, but are practical in operation. They should be selected for a summer cottage or summer kitchen, where it is important to organize the storage of various equipment, appliances for the kitchen, bathroom or garden. If necessary, the plastic product can be placed even in the open air, as this material is not afraid of the effects of rainfall. But with prolonged exposure to ultraviolet light, cabinets can lose color.

Wood

Plastic

Chipboard

MDF

In shape

As for the form, the models may differ in this characteristic:

linear - the simplest models that are installed along a free wall in a niche. The standard form allows you to fill this design with a wide variety of storage systems. Linear models are practical, durable, easy to use. For large living room spaces, a linear model with swinging facades will be an excellent choice. And for a small bedroom, it is better to choose a linear closet;
angular - constructions of this type have the shape of a triangle; they make it possible to use the space of the free angle in the room with benefit. The facade of the corner cabinet can be single, double, swing, sliding. Variations in the decor of such furniture today are many. For these reasons, so often you can find corner floor structures in residential premises. Such a low cabinet for a small kitchen is perfect if a sink for dishes is mounted in its upper lid;
trapezoidal - floor-standing cabinets in the shape of a trapezoid fit perfectly into the space of the free corner, but, in comparison with corner models, are more practical, roomy, comfortable. It will not work to put such a model in a room too small, and in a spacious bedroom such furniture will reveal all its advantages to the maximum;
radius - the design of the floor cabinet of the radius type is designed in such a way that its doors are made in a curved shape. Curved profiles are attached to the bottom and top of the product from the inside, into which radius facades are inserted. Moving along the profiles in different directions, the door opens the contents of shelves and drawers. Given the fact that radius cabinets are quite expensive and require more installation space than linear options, they are often chosen in expensive living room and bedroom interiors. In a small kitchen, a product of this type will not be relevant.

Radius

Trapezoid

Angular

Straight

By type of door

Floor-mounted cabinets can differ not only in size, color, shape, but also in the type of facade. We will describe the most successful options, the demand for which is high among the domestic buyer.

Type of door	Features
Swing	Attached to the side wall through hinges. Most inexpensive models also have a handle with which you can pull the door toward you and open it. More modern and more expensive products are now equipped with special mechanisms that allow you to open the swing door with a little click on it. Since hinged doors require additional space when opening, they are more relevant for large rooms.
Sliding	Move apart, stopping behind each other. This saves valuable space in a small room.
Radius	They are a kind of coupe, but in this case they have a curved shape (convex or concave). As a result, the design looks very original, stylish, but also expensive. It is better to select such facades for spacious rooms where it is necessary to slightly adjust the shape of the space using the curvature of the cabinet doors.

Swing

Coupe

By filling

Depending on where the floor cabinet will be installed, the internal content of the product changes:

inside the kitchen cabinet there are often shelves, drawers of different heights. Sometimes you can find a special system for fixing bottles, compartments for storing spices, cereals in banks;
models for clothes are equipped with a variety of storage systems: shelves for shoes in boxes, hangers for storing shoes without boxes, pants, a bar with shoulders for outerwear, dresses, shelves, a mezzanine, drawers. All this allows you to put clothes, shoes, accessories and even bedding inside a compact cabinet;
book structures hide shelves for books inside; a narrow drawer is suitable for storing important documents;
sideboards often have glass or wooden shelves where it is convenient to place dishes of different sizes.

Facade decoration

Variations in the design of doors for a floor cabinet, regardless of their type, are very wide today. You can apply photo printing and sandblasting, imitate the surface of a variety of materials on a blank door, use a mirror, matte surface in the manufacture of the facade. Also interesting are the facades made using several different materials: glass and wood, glass and aluminum frame and the like.

Glass facades are decorated with a variety of films, which allows you to give them the effect of dullness, translucency, apply an interesting print.

A more sophisticated manufacturing technology of a radius-type sliding system increases the cost of furniture by several times compared to the conventional coupe. But the external aesthetics of such interior items is striking in originality, luxury, and subtle style.

Selection tips

If you are interested in floor cabinets, it is worth asking what factors you need to take into account when choosing such furniture. This will reduce the risk of getting low-quality furniture at a high cost.

A cabinet installed directly on the floor surface must be made of quality materials. This fact will make a reliable guarantee of a long service life, practicality, and preservation of the original beauty of the model. Saving on fittings is also not acceptable, because this is the basis of the functionality of furniture. Unreliable guides will soon break, the handles will fade or crack, the loops will rust. It will not work for a long time to use furniture with such defects; you will have to buy new furniture or spend money on repairing an old cabinet.

It is important to choose the right sizes for the future cabinet so that it fits well into the room, harmonizes with other pieces of furniture and household appliances in it. Take measurements of the space where the model is planned to install furniture, in width, height, depth. An excessively large product will be functional and roomy, but a small room with such an object of interior will visually seem even more narrow and uncomfortable. A large room with a mini-sized floor cabinet will not look cozy, and its design will lose its conciseness and completeness.