Overview of cabinets with a mirror for the entrance hall, selection rules
From the fact how correctly selected furniture in the entrance group, its comfort and beauty largely depends. This aspect is especially important in small rooms with poor lighting. Next, we will talk about how to choose the most practical, convenient and beautiful cabinet with a mirror in the hallway, tips from experienced professionals.
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Features
In recent years, mirrored surfaces have been used to decorate cabinets of various purposes and in the corridor of a country house or city apartment. This original way of decoration allows you to diversify the external aesthetics of a conventional cabinet, fill the room with coziness, comfort.
A feature of the mirror cabinet in the hallway is its increased functionality and practicality.
The mirror surface of the facades is responsible for a large number of additional functions:
- narrow space transformation - such an interior item is able to add volume to a room, fill it with light, and adjust the color scheme on the walls and ceiling. Especially if it is a white cabinet with a mirror;
- prevention of overloading a small corridor with a lot of furniture. You do not need to select a separate mirror separately in the entrance group of a small size, look for a place to install these pieces of furniture. It is enough to choose a cabinet with white doors or any other light shade, on which there is a mirror;
- providing the user with high comfort while wearing outerwear, performing makeup and so on. In the corridor, a person is finally getting ready to go outside, can correct his appearance, and correct his image with the help of a headdress, an accessory. It is extremely important that he can adequately evaluate his own appearance, which helps to make a mirror;
- The entrance hall of Kristina is characterized by high decorative functions, therefore it complements the spaces with its attractiveness.
Kinds
Choosing an option mirrored wardrobes in the hallway It is important to get acquainted with its most popular types. Then determine the current model will be much easier.
Narrow and wide
For narrow type corridors, narrow cabinets with mirrors are often selected, which do not take up much space, but provide reliable storage for various human things. If you think carefully about filling a narrow design, then, despite its compactness, it will be very practical and functional. For example, a narrow cabinet with doors for storing umbrellas and shoes is optimal. At the same time, the mirror surface of the door of such furniture visually expand the narrow space, add freedom to it, increase the degree of illumination of the room.
If the entrance group has a square shape, is quite spacious, then you can organize a wide cupboard here, which can accommodate a fairly large amount of things from a person’s personal wardrobe, as well as important devices that are nowhere to be stored in the apartment (ironing board, dumbbells, camping tent forest and so on). Such furniture will allow not to force other rooms in the house with excess furniture or objects that are relevant in everyday life.
To determine what size locker suits you in the corridor, be sure to take measurements. You will need to do this using a measuring tape.
Recessed
An excellent solution for a small entrance group with a niche is a built-in wardrobe with a mirror. A model with sandblasted drawings is selected most often today, because it allows you to rationally solve the issue of storing things in a small area, it looks unique, expensive.
The only drawback of the built-in furniture is the need to make it to order according to the individual parameters of the specific space where it will be mounted. And it takes some time. You can’t just buy a model with similar dimensions, you will have to wait some time for the manufacturer to create a cabinet that fits perfectly into a particular corridor.
Note that if there is a niche, you can save on the walls of the cabinet, the walls will play their role. It is enough to order compartment doors and storage systems for things and shoes, install everything in place and use the designs for your pleasure. A variety of door decor techniques will help to enhance the decorative properties of built-in furniture: sandblasting, decorative film, and so on.
Angular
Corner cabinets in the corridor look very advantageous if there is a free corner where such furniture can be placed. A similar model is shown in the interior in the photo. These are roomy products that allow you to rationally plan the space of the corner, organize the storage of outerwear, accessories, sports equipment, bags and other things that are relevant to a person.
If the space of the entrance group allows the corner cabinet, there may be absolutely no two side walls, the function of which will be the wall surfaces of the corner. If the corridor is not large enough and spacious, you can choose a cabinet in the shape of a pentagon.
In the design of the corner cabinet for the corridor, shelves of various heights, pull-out drawers, horizontal crossbars with hangers for jackets or coats can be provided. Even with the meager size of the corridor, the presence of a mirror on the doors of the structure allows you to prepare for going to work or for a walk in comfortable conditions.
Radius
For fans of non-standard interiors in the usual corridor of an apartment in Khrushchev, designers create radius cabinets. This is a full-fledged closet, the doors of which are convex in shape, sliding apart in a side around the circumference. A similar feature makes the products more spacious, interesting in appearance, comfortable in the corridor. And for the decoration of products of radius type, you can apply many technologies: photo printing, sandblasting and so on.
Note that such structures do not have sharp corners, if inscribed in the corner of the corridor. Therefore, they are completely safe for young children. But it is worth remembering that radius models often cost slightly more than conventional standard-type designs. The original closet with a mirror in the hallway, as shown in the photo below, is very roomy and practical.
Location
When choosing a cabinet with a mirror for the corridor, it is important to understand exactly how to better position it. Unsuccessful placement can significantly reduce the functionality of a piece of furniture, make it unattractive, nondescript.
There are simple rules for the location of the mirror cabinet, which will help to harmoniously fit it into the premises of the entrance group:
- a narrow, long corridor requires the installation of a cabinet with a mirror near the shortest wall. Sometimes with this arrangement, the front door is directly opposite the product, but you should not be afraid of such a configuration of furniture. It is a mistake to believe that such a zoning of a corridor can somehow frighten off material well-being or happiness from home. Omit prejudices to get the most functional corridor;
- if the entrance group is square, the cabinet with mirror-type doors should be placed along the wall along its entire length. If the room has a niche, then it is worth choosing a sliding wardrobe with a mirror for it;
- for an entrance hall with a large number of doors, the narrow, tall model at the entrance is optimal. This arrangement will not interfere and provide the user with high comfort.
Facade material
Modern manufacturers of furniture products offer the consumer a wide variety of options for facades for cabinets in the corridor. The following describes the most popular of them today in the domestic market.
| Material | Facade Feature |
| Natural wood | Facades made of natural wood after processing look advantageous in the corridor of any style. They are reliable, strong, durable. |
| Plastic | Plastic is used for the manufacture of facades in cheap furniture, and to give the plastic facade a more interesting aesthetics, it can be glued with film or decorated with photo printing. |
| MDF | MDF is used to create partitions and compartment doors. It is worth noting that attention is paid only to material with a thickness not exceeding 30 mm. |
| Glass | Glass allows you to fantasize when creating furniture, as it has high decorative properties. Its surface can be transparent, slightly darkened, completely dull. It can be decorated with a pattern with sandblast, mosaic, film, stained glass, photo printing and so on. |
Filling
The filling of such products can be very diverse. When choosing it, it is important to build on the opinions of the owners of the house, their needs and material capabilities. This can be an attachment for storing bags, nets for trousers, a horizontal bar with hangers for dresses, shirts, outerwear, standard shelves, niches for accessories, pull-out drawers for linen.
The greater the height of the shelf, the more ambitious things should be stored on it. For example, a shelf with a height of 60 cm is suitable for pastel or outerwear, and a shelf with a height of 30 cm is suitable for t-shirts and shirts. It is good to divide the interior of the cabinet into several zones if it is used by a woman and a man. Then finding the right thing will take less time.
Dimensions
To determine what size locker suits you in the corridor, be sure to take measurements. You will need to do this using a measuring tape, carefully writing all the parameters on paper. Taking measurements in a furniture store, feel free to select the most beautiful, practical, functional, in your opinion, model.You can choose standard options, the height of which varies between 180-230 cm, width - 60-210 cm, depth - 60-85. These are relative parameters, since if necessary you can order this option mirrored cabinets in the hallway, which most successfully fits into a particular corridor.
If the desired size or shape was not found in the furniture store, you can always order the manufacture of a cabinet according to individual parameters. This will cost a little more, but it will definitely make the entrance group as comfortable as possible. Also, before purchasing, we advise you to see photos of possible options.
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