Is there a place for a sideboard in the living room, made in a modern interior style, and how to introduce such furniture into a room with high-tech elements? This article will focus on sideboards for the living room and their varieties.
Refurbished antique furniture continues to be popular. But only where the classic artsy style is appropriate, in the interior, where it will add pomposity, and will not block the entire space.
Today, designers have managed to transfer the features inherent in sideboards to pieces of furniture transformed to fit the style of the interior. So, sideboards are a variety of cabinets, chests of drawers, shelves and showcases, interpreted in a modern manner. Although in such products there is little left of the usual good old sideboards, try to understand and comprehend the idea.
The concept of "sideboard": what was it and what became of it?
A sideboard is a piece of furniture that every person living in the USSR was familiar with. A piece of furniture was intended for comfortable storage of table sets, kitchen utensils and was additionally equipped with a tabletop. In other words, a sideboard is a piece of furniture that helps in the process of table setting, the namewhich comes from the word "serving".
Gradually, the etymology of this designation was either forgotten or relegated to the background and everything began to be put here: food, medicine, books. So, the concept of “sideboard” expanded, and, speaking of furniture, a sideboard meant:
- chest of drawers in which dishes were stored;
- cabinets of various modifications for sets of tableware;
- display cases for dishes;
- wall slides for kitchen utensils.
What these pieces of furniture are, how they look and what characteristics they have remains to be seen.
Chest of drawers in the guest room
A sideboard is the same chest of drawers, only with a showcase. Behind the glass facade you can put a beautiful table service. A modern chest of drawers is closest to a sideboard in terms of functionality. It can just as conveniently store plates, bowls, soup sets or entire cutlery sets that can also be kept in boxes. A feature of the furniture is the ability to open the lid as a serving surface and conveniently get any necessary item.
It is convenient to put the dishes taken out of the shelf from above and here prepare them for serving the table. Table chests of drawers are a specific type of furniture and do not always fit into the interior composition. Although for a room made in a minimalist or classic style, this is what you need.
Interior solutions for chests of drawers for dishes
Popular stylisticdirections in the manufacture of chests of drawers - minimalism, avant-garde, classicism. They differ not only in style, but also in shape, dimensions, equipment. Structurally allocate items belonging to:
- angular;
- island;
- standard;
- wall-mounted;
- modular;
- wall panel furniture.
Manufacturers have enough imagination to improve new lines of modern sideboards, equipping them with technical gadgets and sophisticated finishes.
The place of the cupboard in the design of the guest room
Servant is a modern cupboard for dishes. The updated version has a slight resemblance to the grandmother's version of the living room or dining room furniture. Therefore, the name of cupboards for cups and plates, glasses and sets remains unchanged, despite the fact that we live in the 21st century.
Modern cupboard is a generic concept that applies to a number of pieces of furniture such as:
- servants;
- buffets;
- showcases.
This is just an ambiguous classification that often becomes the subject of controversy and confusion.
Location of sideboard in the room
A sideboard for dishes is a piece of furniture that occupies a special place in a room reserved for a dining room or for receiving guests. This is an interior decoration, and a compositional component, and an accent point in the interior. At the same time, it is important for everyone that the product is also functional. If the living room is combined with a kitchen or dining room, then this kind of closet is simplyirreplaceable thing, because:
- from the buffet you can get and easily place cutlery and plates on the table without dragging them from another room. By placing a chest of drawers opposite the dining table, the hostess gets the opportunity to quickly change the serving, keeping everything at hand;
- by placing such furniture on the border of the functional areas between the living room and the kitchen, it will be possible to achieve a zonal division of space without the use of special effects or repair tricks;
- it's easy to focus on an interesting piece of furniture, using it as a bright element in the interior.
As a result, it turned out that today a sideboard (photo above) means a modern functional design, which is designed to store kitchen utensils and other cutlery. Hence the wording of the concept of “sideboard”, which has not changed in meaning, but has been transformed externally. Now the cupboard is functional and roomy inside and attractive on the outside.
