Sliding wardrobes: pluses and minuses, types of designs

Advantages of wardrobes

• Save space. A standard cabinet with ordinary doors should have a place to open these doors - therefore, part of the area turns into an area that cannot be used. Doors that open as a compartment are devoid of this drawback, so one of the most important advantages of this design is to save space in the apartment.
• Large capacity. For storage in a closet, the entire volume allocated for it is used in all directions (depth, width, height).
• Universality. Sliding wardrobe will approach any interior, any design style. It can be installed in the hallway, bedroom, children's room or office.
• Multifunctionality. In wardrobes such as a compartment, you can store anything you want - from clothes and books to items of household appliances.
• Any internal content. You can organize the filling of the cabinet of your choice, only you determine how many shelves will be in it, how many baskets, how many racks for hangers, and in what places they will be located. You can provide compartments for household appliances, an ironing board, and even build a small workplace in such a cabinet.
• Suitable for narrow rooms. One of the advantages of sliding wardrobes is the ability to integrate them even in very narrow places in the apartment. Sliding doors will not “eat up” the space.
• Zoning. With the help of such a cabinet, you can divide a room or studio-type apartment into functional zones. At the same time, it is easy to create the illusion of isolation of the room - for example, one of the sliding doors can become a passage to another zone. At the same time, the area of ​​the room is saved - because instead of a wall in the room there will be a piece of furniture.
• Design for every taste. Unlike ready-made wardrobes, you can choose the design of a sliding wardrobe yourself, and bring it as close as possible to the interior style of your apartment. The obvious advantages of sliding wardrobes include the possibility of using materials of different colors and textures to design their facades. Thanks to this, they can fit into any environment.
• Mirror surfaces. They will help to make a narrow room wider, a short one - longer, give volume and increase illumination in those places where there is not enough light. In addition, you do not have to buy a separate “growth” mirror to be able to examine yourself in full growth.
• Reliability.The doors of the sliding wardrobe will never go loose and will not “fall off”, the care for them is very simple - check from time to time the condition of the wheels with which they move along the runners and timely clean the runners from dust and dirt.
• Saving on material. Built-in wardrobes have an undeniable advantage, because such a design does not have walls, ceiling and floor, and this means not only an increase in its area, but also savings in material.

• Wide price range. When considering the pros and cons of closets, one cannot ignore the issue of the cost of the product. Sliding wardrobes cost no more than usual, but at the same time they have a lot of advantages over them.

Sliding wardrobes of case design

A sliding wardrobe with a housing differs from the classic cabinet design by a door opening mechanism. It, just like a regular one, has a ceiling, floor, back and side walls.

Pros. The main advantage of cabinet furniture is that it can easily be moved to any place that may be needed in case of repair or interior changes. Such a cabinet can even be transported to another apartment without disassembling, although this can lead to a weakening of the structure, it is not a particular problem to disassemble it and assemble it in a new place. The advantages of cabinet cabinets are basically the same as the built-in option.

Minuses. Among the minuses can be noted a significantly smaller volume with the same occupied space and a higher consumption of materials for manufacturing, which entails an increase in price. In addition to the volume of the walls, ceiling and floor, which will have to be subtracted from the total volume, the cabinet will also “steal” a few centimeters by which it moves away from the wall.

Built-in wardrobes

Built-in cabinets occupy the place that they have been allocated, as a whole, and use it as efficiently as possible. The cabinet itself occupies only the area needed to install the sliding door mechanism.

Pros. The advantages of this design include the full use of the allotted space. In addition, the cabinet can be built into the most “uncomfortable” place of the apartment, and have any size. Such cabinets can be designed in any style, and, accordingly, make it an integral part of any interior. They look aesthetically pleasing and do not violate the overall harmony.

Minuses. Perhaps the advantages of sliding wardrobes, which are built in place, more than outweigh the only drawback: they cannot be moved or moved to another room. To simply remove an unnecessary cupboard, you will have to do a facelift in the room, since the wall, ceiling and floor in this place will have an unattractive appearance.

Types of wardrobes

Sliding wardrobes can have various form, and each of them also has its advantages and disadvantages.

Direct

Facades running in a straight line - an interior classic that is appropriate in any style. This is the simplest and most universal design, with only one drawback - it is difficult to give it an original look. Such a cabinet looks traditional, and is most suitable for classic interior styles.

Corner

The main advantages of corner closets are their ability to fit into a small space where it is difficult to put another piece of furniture, as well as the efficient use of this space. They have one drawback - a complex form that requires additional costs in the manufacture, which slightly increases the price, especially for case options.

Radius

This type of sliding wardrobes has appeared recently, but has already been loved by consumers. They differ in an unusual form, which introduces an element of originality and novelty into the interior.

In terms of functionality, they are practically no different from other types of storage systems of this type, and have only one minus: a higher price compared to them. The price is higher due to the fact that the system for opening doors, as well as the doors themselves, have a complex shape, which has to be made each time according to an individual order.