Designing furniture: where to start? Furniture design

The design of furniture is not just a visualization of the picture of the future situation, it is a complex design development, from the precise elaboration of which all the functional of the interior depends. The design project of furniture, created by the hands of a professional, will be based on the client's preferences, his lifestyle. The designer has several tasks: to organize the space competently, to choose the materials combining in texture, style and color, to think over all the communications, taking into account all the wishes of the customer.

What is a design project for furniture?

Author's design of furniture distinguishes an individual approach and originality. Detailed study will allow you to plan in advance the smallest details of the interior, work out lighting issues, take into account the location of sockets and switches, ventilation holes.

A 3D visualization specialist can create a general plan for a future room or kitchen. More often for this purpose in interiors use program PRO100. Designing furniture with it allows you to quickly create a project template and view it in all planes separately and in the future. You can model the project in your own way, but you need to understand that often newcomers in the field of design allow a number of errors, so it is better to trust the professional in this matter.

At the stage of the order, in addition to visualization, the package of documents included in the project will contain: a drawing (scheme of assembly) of future furniture, indicating the dimensions of all cabinet products included in the kit; Measurement plan for the room; Specification of products, including the name of all materials, color solutions and accessories.

What's the first thing to do: a repair or a project?

After the decision to make repairs in the room or in the kitchen, many people start looking for pictures on the Internet with projects to find the "same" design of their dream furniture. After repeated attempts to determine the model, color and other characteristics of future furniture, some begin immediately to repair.

What is the error here? Such a reckless decision in the process of developing a project can lead to problems, which will have to be solved either by compromise, by agreeing to unplanned furniture sizes, or through repairing the repair. So often it happens when they start designing cabinet furniture in the kitchen, without planning the layout of sockets and plumbing. Often you have to remake the finished suspended ceiling, because in fact it turns out that the location of the hood leads to a distortion of the entire project, or it is simply inconvenient because of the proximity to the hob of other elements of household appliances.

Even if you clearly understand where everything will be located, without the project, the definition of outlets "by eye" often turns out to be erroneous, as a result, you have to transfer the electrical points.

When designing a project, rooms often forget about sockets, and then they have to close them with furniture. In addition, lighting is frequently used in furniture today, and this is a competent decision, but it is not always possible to translate plans with ready-made repairs. Therefore, the correct repair in the apartment must begin with the development of the project.

The main stages of design: determine the style of the room

It often happens that the design of the room during the repair is selected in one style, and when choosing a headset, when designing furniture, like samples of a completely different plan. Therefore, it is very important first to decide what style solution will be furniture, and already under it to choose materials for walls, floors, and think through the design of the ceiling.

Modern furniture materials are simply full of variety of textures, styles and shades. Furniture in the classical style requires appropriate solutions in the design of the room.

The modern style of the loft also does not fit into standard repairs, special materials for finishing will be needed here.

Popular today and patchwork, where the most relevant to use the appropriate style of tile.

The newest materials: Spanish high gloss Alvic, Italian Cleaf, wood-like plastics, wooden facades - they are able to create a special interior.

The main stages of design: the layout of furniture

Often, customers come with a picture from the Internet and ask the designer to design similar furniture for their size. Here it is worthwhile to understand that there are no two identical projects, and especially this applies to modern furniture trends. In any case, given the size of the room, you will have to change something.

Therefore, the design of furniture in the next stage after determining the style will consist in the arrangement of the hull elements. Here the most important task for the designer will be the development of functional zones.

In the bedroom the main thing is the bed. In the children's room - working and play areas. In the guest room the most important thing is the competent design of upholstered furniture, which should be given special attention. And in the kitchen ... Everything is important in the kitchen! From the working triangle to the opening angle of each door (which we'll talk about below).

The main stages of design: the location of communications

Only after the visualization of future furniture has been created, the outset of outlets, switches, ventilations and other outputs for communications begins. Of course, we are talking about cases where the design of furniture takes place in the right sequence.

To avoid all possible gaskets of wires and cables along the walls, the use of extension cords, you must immediately plan all the lighting and connection of all devices, considering and such as a mobile phone. In a modern technological society, there are not many outlets. Ideally, if each device or group of instruments has its own. Elements of lighting should also be planned at the design stage.

In the kitchen it is important to understand what kind of plumbing will be used, namely: will the dishwasher be installed (it is better to install it right away, because today more than 90% of the developed population of the earth use this good of civilization), is it planned to install a filter on the water where the microwave will be connected, and Also all built-in appliances and small household appliances. Here it should be immediately said that the use of sockets on an apron near the gas stove is a poor option in terms of their frequent contamination.

The main stages of design: the interior space of furniture

The appearance of furniture, of course, is important, especially from an aesthetic point of view. But it is worth paying attention to the internal arrangement.

In the bottom zone of any furniture, whether it's cabinets or a kitchen set, it is most convenient to arrange drawers. They can be made internal (behind the main facades) or outdoor - it all depends on personal choice. It is more convenient for faster access to content to do with external facades, but from the point of view of aesthetics, customers are often asked to hide boxes.

In the closets is to think over the top space. Here the best option - retractable mesh shelves or pantograph for hangers. It is important in the cabinets to think and depth, because you can hang clothes in the longitudinal row only at a width of 60 cm.

In the kitchen set are recognized as more convenient lifts in the upper cabinets and drawers in the lower. Using high cargos, carousels in corner cabinets, canisters with built-in appliances will greatly simplify the owner's activities in the kitchen.

In beds and sofas it is best to provide niches for linen in order to be able to hide additional sets of bedding, blankets and bedspreads so that later you do not have to look for a place in the closet for them.

The main stages of design: the calculation of the necessary materials

After the style of the future furniture is chosen, the internal space is defined , it is necessary to be defined with materials. As a rule, this is the first question that interests the customer, but in fact furniture in the same style can be made from materials of different price category.

So, in order to save budget plastics can be replaced by facades from even cheaper chipboard. Instead of natural wood, you can use veneer, MDF frame or the newest Italian patented Cleaf, which imitates natural materials to the maximum. In addition to high-gloss Spanish "Alvik" facades, you can choose the identical Turkish plate material AGT. The glass can be replaced with acrylic facades.

Frameworks are the reliability of the whole structure, so the creation of furniture from reliable materials will guarantee its durability. The recognized leaders and reliable suppliers of laminate for furniture are "Egger", "Kronopol" (and its concerns).

The main stages of design: the choice of accessories

The item of expenses for furniture is the second by the share of funds in the price of the entire furniture set after the facades. The use of reliable opening and extension elements will allow furniture to serve for a long time and make life comfortable.

Conveyor hinges are recommended to be used for facades of MDF with any face covering, since this material is relatively heavy, and a constant knock on the frames can lead to loosening of the body element, distortion of the loops and rapid wear of furniture.

The way to open drawers is also set by design design. Making furniture with extension systems will be preferable to using simple guides, since the former are able to withstand greater weight.

And although this is mainly true for kitchen furniture, according to the latest trends, in the living rooms are often envisaged wide drawers for which it is more reasonable to put the extension system, and not the guides.

Features of designing kitchen furniture

The main thing that you should pay attention to when creating a kitchen project is the competent location of the working area. Sink, hob, extractor hood, refrigerator, dishwasher, built-in appliances - kitchen furniture design should provide for their most comfortable location. In this case, it is necessary to keep a comfortable working surface and leave enough space for storing household utensils.

In fact, taking into account all this is not an easy task, but for a professional designer this problem is solved, since the answer to many questions is experienced.

Creating a sketch of the future cuisine, it is better to follow this plan:

• Mark the location of doors, windows, partitions and niches, if any;
• Make a list of household appliances that need to be built in or provide a place of accommodation (refrigerator, sink, dishwasher, hob, built-in or free-standing microwave oven, oven, freezer, washing machine and other appliances);
• To correctly place everything, it is worthwhile to consider the various layouts of the kitchen: straight, angular, island, U-shaped.
• Work through all the items described for all cabinet furniture.
• Consider the lighting, because one lamp in the center at any angle creates a shadow on the work surface from the silhouette of the person, which creates inconvenience, so it is better to provide at the design stage a suspended structure made of gypsum board or stretch ceiling with spotlights, or ribbon LED lighting.