A corner in the kitchen with a bed, drawers and shelves for storing various things, a mini-bar and so on is the best option in solving the design interior of a kitchen room. This type of furniture is often a necessity for large families living in cramped conditions, where there is simply nowhere to take an extra bed.
Sofas for the kitchen with a berth, their features
Such a kitchen corner in furniture stores is a little cheaper than a full-fledged room sofa, but you should not rush to put simple cheap furniture in the kitchen, it is better to look at the features of the product provided to us. After all, our proverb “measure seven times - cut once” is the best recommendation in this case. You can rush and save some amount, but then be very disappointed in your decision and regret that you were greedy.
The advantages of a sleeping kitchenette are as follows:
- Compact dimensions. Most people have a small kitchen, it is almost impossible to put a soft sofa, but a soft corner will be just right.
- Comfortable design. A kitchen sofa with a berth is not made with high backs and large armrests. Most often, even the back is not in it, it is replacedremovable cushions that are installed on a solid frame made of leather or fabric. There are no armrests at all - they are not needed by the kitchen sleeping area.
- Kitchen sofas are installed on the floor not with all their weight, but on legs, which allows the hostess to calmly wash the floor under the furniture.
Folding corner in the kitchen with a bed
All types of kitchen soft corners use the same decomposition mechanics, which is called "Dolphin". Such a transformation mechanism is popular and convenient in daily use for small spaces.
Corner unfolding technology
There is a retractable platform at the bottom of the sofa, pulled out with a special handle. This part of the corner in the disassembled position is securely fixed, forming a comfortable sleeping place. The transformation technique is simple and easy, even a child can easily unfold the furniture.
The sofa bed in the kitchen cannot be cheap either because it is made of solid wood materials, mainly softwood. This gives it strength and reliability and protects against displacement of moving parts of furniture. The remaining parts of the sofa can be constructed from chipboard or other material.
Additional containers
The kitchen sofa has special niches for storing bed linen. In the side of the furniture there is a spaciousa compartment for things and various accessories, which in its volume is much larger than similar compartments for book sofas. This niche is accessed from the side of the structure. The side part rises and is fixed at an angle of 1200. If the corners in the kitchen with a berth, the photos of which are presented in the article, are not used as a bed, they are an excellent place to store a variety of kitchen utensils and other household items.
Kitchen sofa upholstery
When choosing a soft corner in the kitchen as bedroom furniture, you should pay attention to its upholstery. For example, velor upholstery, although it looks beautiful, and it’s nice to sleep on it, but it quickly wears out and becomes unusable. For kitchen upholstered furniture, manufacturers use a different, more practical sheathing, which is represented by the following materials:
1. Leatherette.
When monitoring the furniture market, a soft corner in the kitchen with a berth is most often covered with eco-leather. It consists of cotton fabric, on top of which a polyurethane film is applied. Such a sofa cover is considered the most acceptable, since eco-leather stretches, but does not tear, it does not absorb moisture, but freely passes it through itself. Well-made leatherette is pleasant and warm to the touch. The high-quality upholstery made of this material is just as good as real leather.
2. Flock.
You can often find on sale a corner in the kitchen with a berth, made of flock. This material is known for its simultaneoussoftness and rigidity, which allows to increase the service life of the outer upholstery of the sofa several times compared to a leather substitute. A variety of patterns can be applied to the flock. Therefore, a corner made of this material is purchased by people who do not like strict tones and monotony.
3. Chenille
Chenille material is no less popular. In its original appearance, it surpasses all of the above materials. Its difference lies in the unusual coloring and various patterns that give the bedroom furniture a stylish and expensive look.
Recommendations from experts
Most experts advise to leave various exotic options for the external design of upholstered furniture for bedrooms and living rooms. It is better to purchase sofas for a kitchen with a berth from a plain material that allows you to carry out wet cleaning on it. This is especially true for small-sized rooms, where something can be accidentally spilled or scattered on a corner. If the furniture upholstery is made on a fabric basis, then any speck or drop of fat can spoil not only the appearance of the sofa and the mood of the owners, but also bring significant financial costs to restore the upholstery.
Also, experts note that the kitchen sofa with a berth is not the main object of the dining room. It should carry an additional color load and emphasize the background of the kitchen wall, appliances, wall decoration and so on.
You can decorate a plain corner with soft removable pillows and covers,which can be washed separately or dry-cleaned.
Buy or order?
Thanks to a wide selection of various modern upholstered furniture, it is quite easy and simple to choose a great corner in the kitchen with a berth. However, if you have extra finances, then the best option would be to order a kitchen sofa according to your parameters and requirements. After all, the owners do not have the right to make mistakes. You can’t guess with the dimensions of the furniture, what then to do? For example, in "Khrushchev" the size of the kitchen is almost the same as the bathroom or corridor. Therefore, the parameters and dimensions of the corner must be calculated to the nearest centimeter.
The rest of the details of the sleeping sofa can be adjusted at the request of the customer. So, the depth of the seat can be from 40 to 70 cm, and the width of the unfolded structure is 90–130 cm. Also, the height of the furniture racks can be individually adjusted. To order, manufacturers can produce sofa cushions of different types: a droplet, a square or a rectangle covering the back of the sofa.
At the same time, we should not forget that the kitchen sofa can be installed not only in the home dining room, but also in corridors, living rooms and other niches.
Conclusion
A corner in the kitchen with a sleeping place is not just a luxury, but also a very useful acquisition, especially if the living space is small and the family is large. Also, such furniture is suitable when placing guests for the night.
Naturally, the kitchena sofa with a sleeping place is an expensive thing (within 15-20 thousand rubles and more). But why constantly throw away money on low-quality corners that are impractical and quickly fail? It is better to remember the beautiful saying: "We are not rich enough to buy cheap things." After all, the described kitchen furniture has three advantages at once: a convenient and comfortable seat for the whole family, a platform for sleeping and an excellent storage capacity for various utensils and other necessary household items. In addition, upholstered furniture gives a stylish and rich look to an ordinary kitchen, which cannot but please the hostess.
Thus, by purchasing a kitchen sleeping area, we get three-in-one furniture. In addition, if the size of the kitchen allows, you can ask the manufacturers to add various bookshelves and compartments for small items to the sofa.
