Features of three-door sliding wardrobes, an overview of models
The home improvement system necessarily includes furniture designed to store things. Most often, in bedrooms, hallways, a three-door wardrobe is installed, as it is spacious and functional. The facade of furniture is made out, starting from the stylistic decision of the room. The variety of textures, methods of finishing the furniture surface, make them the subject of decor, transforming the room.
Features
The universality of the cabinet data is that it can be fit into any space. Most often they are installed in the bedrooms, hallways. Use for living rooms, especially one-room and small-sized apartments. Furniture can serve as a dividing element in a room when it needs to be divided into zones. Sometimes used as a false wall with a hidden door.
The three-door coupe has significantly squeezed similar models of the cabinet with swing doors, as this kind of furniture is more ergonomic, the sliding system does not block the free space.
In fact, the cabinet is a box with internal filling. The frame structure on the front of aluminum is used for fastening the door leaves. Here, on the guide rails, three doors are inserted, which are made of different materials. Each of the sections is fixed in a special handle profile.
There are two main systems of the sliding system:
- top support - the guide bar is installed on top of the box. The door sections are hung on it, which move along it on the built-in casters. The advantage of this system is that in this case the furniture box is completely blocked, which is better from an aesthetic point of view. The main disadvantage is the low stability of the doors;
- most furniture makers prefer the lower support system, considering it more reliable and stable. Such doors are inserted into the guides inside the box, along which they can slide in different directions.
The cabinet can be built directly to the wall or in a niche that is in the room, or made of drywall.Modern furniture technologies make it possible to produce a three-wing cabinet of oval, semicircular design, with concave and curved doors.
Summarizing, the following main advantages can be noted:
- functionality;
- universality;
- practicality;
- variety of forms, materials, design methods.
Thanks to these properties, furniture has gained popularity.
Kinds
The three-door sliding door wardrobe is serially produced by many manufacturers, and the model range is constantly expanding. Individually made furniture, if you need certain custom sizes. Or the customer wants to make an exclusive model that fits perfectly into the interior design. Accordingly, such furniture is of great value.
By way of location, such furniture can be:
- cabinet;
- built-in;
- semi-built-in;
- modular.
Also, designs may vary depending on their location.
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Sliding wardrobes are a part of many sets for bedrooms. Manufacturers can offer several sizes of this type of furniture. With all the variety of models, for the most part, these are rectangular designs. As an addition to them, they can be equipped with corner elements. Filling usually consists of three types of sections, with many options:
- compartments with a bar for a coat hanger;
- shelves for linen;
- drawers that are used to store small accessories.
A cabinet with three doors is built-in, non-standard shapes are made to order. At the same time, the flight of fantasy is not limited, in terms of the materials used, the appearance of the facade sections, decors. Sizes and contents are varied. In size, they can correspond to small dressing rooms. Interesting options with photos of similar furniture are laid out below.
Hallways
Installing a three-door cabinet in the hallway is a practical and convenient solution, even for small rooms. Sometimes in small apartments there is no free wall to mount a rectangular structure, but you can use the corner. Then radiused furniture is most appropriate.
The purpose of the 3-door structure is different; it is designed to store seasonal outerwear, shoes, hats. Therefore, the package includes:
- branch with a bar;
- shelves for shoes;
- upper shelves.
In cabinets high to the ceiling, an additional mezzanine compartment can be installed for storing non-seasonal items.
Living room
Small apartments often have a wardrobe with three doors in the living room. Such designs are combined. The middle inner section is used for home equipment (music center with speakers, TV), side compartments for storing clothes. Thanks to the use of mirrors, doors made of composite materials, lighting, it naturally fits into the interior of the room.
In houses and apartments with sufficient area, 3-door structures for home appliances are separately mounted. Then the internal content depends on the size of the stored things.
Materials used for manufacturing
In the vast majority of cases, the box and the internal filling are made of chipboard (particle board). This is a practical, inexpensive wood chip material coated with a layer of plastic. The front of the cabinet is in sight, it is for this reason that they focus on it, they emphasize in terms of decor.
Basic materials for the facade:
- MDF plate (fine fraction) of wood. That is, the wood shavings are split to a dusty state, vacuum pressed at high temperatures. Under their influence, wood resins are released, which glue the plate. MDF is covered with films of different colors and textures, including those imitating natural wood or painted. On the surface do various volumetric drawings, patterns. The advantage of the material in its affordable price, a wide palette of colors. The plate does not need edging, it is strong enough;
- mirror facades - they are suitable when you need to create the illusion of an expanded space, visually reformat it. Sandblasted coupe is popular, engraving using sand and water under high pressure;
- glass facades of different types: colored, frosted. Glass facades with photo printing look spectacular. For example, the image of a panorama, perspective deepens the space. For glass and mirror facades, it is necessary to additionally put aluminum stiffeners, so the material is quite heavy;
- for modern styling, composite materials are often used now (combined polymers).
A three-wing sliding wardrobe with sliding doors is made of wood less often, more often by an individual order. Wooden shields can lead, they are quite heavy. If necessary, it is the texture of natural wood, then as an alternative use MDF panels coated with natural veneer.
In addition to the listed types of door decors, such techniques as fusing are used. This is a mosaic in the form of a specific pattern of melted colored glass. Painting with acrylic paints, which, hardening, allow you to aesthetically transform the facade.
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In order for the furniture to have a complete look, for rectangular structures, use the lateral ends of a beveled or oval shape. Often make open segments. Closed elements with curved glass doors add extra elegance to the cabinets.
The shape of cabinets with three doors can be:
- linear
- angular;
- radius.
StraightRadiusAngularRadius furniture, can be in the form of a regular semicircle, an elongated oval.
3-door cabinets of a combined wave-like shape, where concave and convex surfaces can alternate, a rather complicated design, but very interesting. She gives the interior of the room originality, originality.
The interior of the furniture, its dimensions depend on factors such as the estimated installation area and purpose. When it is necessary to place a larger number of things, a box is made up to a depth of 80 cm. A standard for bedrooms, living rooms is considered to be a depth of 600 mm, for hallways 450-600 mm. Custom-made wardrobe is made to order.
There are separate restrictions on the width of the doors of direct cabinets. They can vary in width from 500 mm to 1100 mm. There are designs with a door width of 1300 mm, but this is already a critical value. Sashes from 600 mm to 1000 mm are considered optimal from the point of view of functionality.
Wide compartment doors can deform the sliding system with their weight, therefore, for models with leaf widths over 80 cm, reliable rails must be used. The best are German manufacturers. The height of the cabinet is not limited; at the request, sections of the desired height are made, up to the ceiling. The profile of the handle where the web is inserted is cut to the required size.
Three-door wardrobes are the best option for practicality, from the point of view of ergonomics of space. The variety of shapes, textures, materials make them an element of the furniture ensemble that decorates the room. A large assortment, reasonable prices, a wide range of products allow you to choose a cabinet that will best match the style of the house.