When people enter a house, the first thing they see is always the hallway. There it is customary to take off your shoes and put your shoes in a separate place intended for them. Therefore, it is worth choosing the right place to store them. Such an interior item as a cabinet for shoes will help in this, and its choice should be carried out taking into account some important points.
What distinguishes modern cabinets for shoes
Often, models of such furniture have open sections, where you can put shoes for drying. As a rule, there is also a countertop, which is the top of the furniture. Today it is designed as a soft seat, while the convenience of this solution is very obvious, because when you leave the apartment, you will have the opportunity to sit down for a while to change shoes, you will not need to try to stand on one leg.
If there are elderly people in the house, then such a piece of furniture is very suitable for them. It will also be useful for ladies for whom it is important to sit down, and pregnant women. Nowadays, fashion trend lovers find a lot of inconvenience when changing shoes, this also applies to high-heeled shoes. In order not to jump in heels, it is worth buying just this type of cabinet with a chair.
In addition, in stores you can often find cabinets with shelves, whatnots, which allows you to make such a piece of furniture very roomy, reliable and practical to use. The depth of the model depends on the manufacturer and specific goals, this parameter can be determined by the buyer himself. The size of the furniture also depends on the design, it is worth choosing it, given the footage of the hallway.
What is better to choose for your hallway
Individual pieces of furniture will do, or you can buy a furniture set or a modular set with different sections so that it can be combined with different options or it can be used separately. As a rule, modular furniture design will be the best solution for medium and small hallways, where you need to organize space in a very rational way.
Make the necessary measurements of the room, designate the arrangement. The size of the room will affect the choice of a specific modular model:
- if the room is small, then use several sections: a hanger with shelves and a mirror, or purchase a compact wardrobe with a cabinet for shoes;
- in a narrow room it is worth choosing furniture without protruding parts;
- in large hallways you can put a suite with a spacious wardrobe, hanger, shoe cabinet and mirror;
- usually for the production of such furniture, chipboard and MDF are used.
Before buying chipboard products, it is worth determining their environmental friendliness. It is better to purchase furniture from chipboard E0.5 class (Euro standard). In our country, it is allowed to manufacture furniture from E1 class chipboard. Each hallway has a closet for outerwear. It can have a hinged design or built-in (wardrobe). The latter option is roomy and saves space. For a hallway with a small footage, you can choose a corner cabinet with a sliding or hinged door.
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