Is there a place for a sideboard in a living room made in a modern style of the interior, and how to introduce such furniture into a room with hi-tech elements? This article will focus on sideboards for the living room and their varieties.
Restored antique furniture does not lose popularity. But only where the classic artsy style is appropriate, in the interior, where it will give pomp, and will not overlap the whole space.
Today, designers managed to transfer the inherent features of the sideboards to furniture items transformed to the style of the interior. So, sideboards are a variety of cabinets, chests of drawers, shelves and display cases, interpreted in a modern manner. Although there is little left of the good old sideboards in such products, try to understand and comprehend the idea.
The notion of “sideboard”: what was it and what became of it?
A sideboard is a piece of furniture with which every person living in the USSR was familiar. A piece of furniture was intended for comfortable storage of table sets, kitchen utensils and was additionally equipped with a countertop. In other words, a sideboard is a piece of furniture that helps in the process of table setting, the name of which comes from the word “serving”.
Gradually, the etymology of this designation was either forgotten or pushed into the background and began to add anything to it: food, medicine, books. So, the concept of “sideboard” has expanded, and, speaking of furniture, a sideboard meant:
- dressers in which to store dishes;
- cabinets of various modifications for tableware sets;
- showcases for dishes;
- wall slides for kitchen utensils.
What are these pieces of furniture, how they look and what characteristics they have, remains to be seen further.
Chest of drawers in the guest room
A sideboard is the same dresser, only with a showcase. Behind the glass facade you can put a beautiful table set. A modern chest of drawers is closest to the sideboard in terms of functionality. You can also conveniently put plates, bowls, soup sets or whole tableware sets in it, which you can keep in boxes. A feature of furniture is the ability to open the lid as a serving surface and conveniently get any necessary item.
From above it’s convenient to place dishes taken out of the shelf and prepare them here for table setting. Table dressers 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 dressers under the dishes
Popular stylistic trends in the manufacture of chests of drawers are minimalism, avant-garde, classicism. They differ not only in style, but also in shape, size, and configuration. Structurally, objects belonging to:
- angular;
- island;
- standard;
- wall;
- modular;
- wall mounted furniture.
Manufacturers have enough imagination to improve the new lines of modern sideboards, equipping them with technical lotions and sophisticated finishes.
Place the cupboard in the design of the guest room
A sideboard is a modern cupboard. The updated version has little resemblance to the grandmother's version of furniture for the living room or dining room. Therefore, the name of cupboards for cups and plates, glasses and services, remains unchanged, despite the fact that we live in the 21st century.
A modern cabinet for utensils is a general concept that applies to a number of furniture items, such as:
- sideboards;
- buffets;
- shop windows.
This is just an ambiguous classification, which often becomes the subject of controversy and confusion.
The location of the 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 interior decoration, and compositional component, and the point of emphasis 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 the kitchen or dining room, then this kind of wardrobe is simply an indispensable thing, since:
- from the buffet you can get and easily place cutlery and plates on the table, without dragging them from another room. Having placed the dresser 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 separation of the space without the use of special effects or tricks of repair;
- on an interesting piece of furniture just to focus attention, using it as a bright element in the interior.
As a result, it turned out that today under the sideboard (photo above) they mean a modern functional design, which is designed to store kitchen utensils and other cutlery. Hence the wording of the concept of “sideboard”, which did not change in meaning, but was transformed externally. Now the cupboard is functional and roomy inside and attractive in appearance.