Review of wardrobes for children's rooms, how to make the right choice

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Furnishing a nursery is not complete without choosing a cabinet. Furniture here should not only be practical and safe. It is important that the little owner likes it. In this case, the cleaning process will be fun and not burdensome. Developing independence in a child while arranging personal belongings will be an additional advantage of purchasing expensive furniture.

Varieties

You must choose a wardrobe for the nursery after familiarizing yourself with all the models. There are many variations of furniture for children's use. To characterize each type, we can conditionally divide structures into several categories.

By purpose

Speaking about what function the furniture attribute will perform, we should highlight cabinets for storing clothes, linen, books, and toys. It is important to understand that the main thing is safety. Therefore, most manufacturers have abandoned protruding handles and extra locks. The direct purpose of furniture is to serve the child. This part of the interior of the children's room should encourage the baby to maintain order, which will help him be comfortable in the room.

When choosing, a lot depends on:

• wishes of parents and children;
• room dimensions;
• number of inhabitants;
• gender of the child.

A boy doesn't have to have a dressing room. A two-door wardrobe will be enough. In the wardrobe you can allocate space for storing toys and sports equipment. A children's two-door wardrobe is also suitable for a baby.

When decorating a nursery for a preschooler, parents are already planning a place for school supplies, so they can’t do without a bookcase. These can also be pencil cases intended for books and toys. Children's cabinets and shelving are available in a large number of versions.

By location

Parents are looking for a convenient arrangement of furniture in the nursery, because the child spends most of the time in this room. A complete, harmonious interior consists of many factors, but cabinets have a significant place here. It is advisable that children's furniture belong to the same style.

If you don’t want to clutter the room with furniture, you can really come up with more interesting options:

• The corner option will accommodate the things the child needs. Its peculiarity is its location along the corner. Visually, it saves space, as it is divided into two parts - on both sides of the corner;
• They also produce a built-in set. The peculiarity of built-in furniture is that it is not visible due to a niche or other room attached to the children’s room. You can use a dressing room for a girl or if the children's room is intended for two children at the same time. Built-in furniture is gaining popularity, especially among teenagers. Having such a dressing room, you don’t need pencil cases, there is plenty of space: clothes and everything that the child uses are stored in it. There are also disadvantages to built-in wardrobes - they cannot be moved to a new location;
• a modern idea of ​​saving space and creating a fashionable interior is to arrange cabinets around a door or bed;
• semi-built-in structures are almost no different from built-in ones, except that they are hidden due to the space of the room. A box is mounted around the cabinet to align its façade with the wall;
• case - they contain all parts: roof, sides and bottom. This is a standard option that provides convenient storage of children's things;
• modular systems - such a children's complex includes: storage space for clothes, toys, books, a work desk, a bed, and possibly a pencil case. The disadvantage is that the dimensions are too large - the perimeter of the room will be filled with furniture;
• linear designs - this pattern is considered a classic. It amazes with its size. There is room in it not only for things, but also for bed linen.

Children need wardrobes not only as attributes for home use. When a child goes to preschool, he has his own children's closet in the locker room. Teachers paste colorful pictures on lockers. A list of children with markings for parents is posted in the locker room. Locker room cabinets should be made of high-quality material. The filling of the cabinets is primitive; they are usually single and hinged. And in the middle there is a shelf for hats, hooks for outerwear and a change of underwear, and a shelf for shoes.

Locker rooms are connected in groups of 5-6 pieces for stability and safety. Changing rooms are often made in a classic style, because for children's institutions the main thing is the harmonious development of the child, so they use light colors, but green and blue colors are used to brighten up a faded room.

This is not the only place in the kindergarten where there are cabinets and shelves. A rack with drawers is also used to store pots. Each of them is labeled and used according to the list. There are as many pots in a group as there are children in it. The kindergarten has lists labeled with many of the items used by the children. This applies not only to pots, but also to bed linen and towels. The most important thing is that the furniture is practical and comfortable for children.

Built-in For kindergarten

Around the door

Angular

Semi-built Modular

Hull

By type of facade

By design, facades are:

• coupe;
• swing;
• harmonic.

Swing

Accordion Coupe
But before you start dealing with them, you must immediately exclude the option with glass and mirror, especially if the room is intended for a small child or two children. The sliding wardrobe, perhaps, has the most rational appearance for children, because the doors do not stick out and will never remain open. They are a great solution to the problem of lack of space since you don't need any space to open it.

Swing wardrobes are always considered modern. They are comfortable and practical. There are no intricate designs to open the swing wardrobe. But they are already becoming a thing of the past, so those who are trying to keep up with the times will prefer more recent ideas. Although it is good for kids. If the owner of the room is a little girl, you can decorate the wardrobe in the form of a house. It will serve her not only as a place to store the child’s things, but also for children’s games. It would be nice to make a closet with a door change function so that you can easily replace them in the future. It is enough to change the houses to a more serious image. Double door wardrobes are perfect for this.

The accordion facade is a modern solution to difficulties with space in the room. This is a stylish and interesting offer from furniture showrooms. It is considered a more youthful than a children's option, but nevertheless children like it. The most popular are wardrobes with mirrored doors, but they are not very durable when it comes to a room for two children.

The mirror facade can be:

• with sandblasting;
• with stained glass;
• with large full-length mirrors;
• with decoupage stickers.

Decoupage Mirror Stained Glass

Sandblasting design
Fingerprints are too obvious on the mirror, and if the child is too small, he will constantly touch it with small children's hands. The most suitable would be a wardrobe for a nursery with a blank door, but with a pattern on it. These can be cartoon characters or abstractions. For children, this solution will be ideal. It is better to use green color in furniture design; it has a calming effect on the human nervous system. There may just be small green streaks, but the main tones are whiter.

A built-in dressing room involves wooden doors, hinged or sliding, depending on the availability of space. The built-in wardrobe is made with a facade that repeats the pattern of the entrance door to the room, which will make it a secret place for undressing. This will be a separate storage room where everything you need is stored: shoes, linen, clothes. Although there should not be a shoe compartment there, because the classic model of a built-in wardrobe does not provide it. It is usually made with swing doors.

Coupe

Most often, such models are combined with built-in ones, but there are also stationary ones. Their advantage is that they save space. The door does not open outwards, but to the side.

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When choosing a wardrobe for a child's room, make sure that the furniture fittings are not made of plastic. Most often this applies to door wheels and guides. Such fittings quickly become unusable and can create a traumatic situation when the sash flies out of the grooves.

You can’t hang anything on the door of such a closet, a child won’t be able to “hang” on them, they don’t have the usual handles that can be touched. Such a cabinet is less susceptible to dust and is easier to wipe.

Due to the design of the doors, it is less demanding on free space, as a result of which it can be located closely with other furniture.

Requirements for manufacturing materials

As said earlier, there are certain frameworks for creating furniture for a children's room. Firstly, it is advisable to make wardrobes and pencil cases from solid wood, but now this is rare when it comes to wardrobes for children. Such furniture is too heavy and expensive, so not everyone can afford to make it from solid wood. Nowadays, children's cabinets made of chipboard are held in high esteem; they are relatively inexpensive, and they are easier to rearrange. It is quite difficult for children to open the doors of double-leaf wardrobes made of solid wood. Although you can still learn how to open a swing closet.

Secondly, there should be no specific odors of paint and varnish products in the cabinet. A prerequisite for purchasing a wardrobe for children is to have a quality certificate. In this sense, it is better to get a cabinet made of solid wood.

Children do not control their movements and often cover the furniture with paints, hands, and food. For this reason, you should not choose a light-colored wardrobe, as this color will constantly get dirty.

Safety of furniture in the nursery

In addition to environmentally friendly furniture, you should also think about the safety of other elements. Sooner or later, the child will want to know how the sliding shelf works and why the wardrobe closes the way it does. When purchasing furniture for a nursery, you need to carefully check whether all the fasteners are in place, whether there are any protruding nails, and whether the surface is smooth. A separate problem is the sharp corners of the furniture. They should be avoided altogether, and rounded corners have come to replace them in modern furniture. Recently, it has become popular to install fuses in furniture for children. Its mechanism is quite simple, but it will protect a small child from unwanted openings of the cabinet.

Shape and color

It is required to achieve maximum ergonomics when purchasing children's furniture; it should be as functional, practical, safe and accessible as possible for children. Although they love bright and colorful things, you shouldn't decorate everything in the room with variegated colors. The best option is considered to be light green colors, because they are suitable for any coating. Green color has a calming effect on a person. Green is also suitable if the wardrobe is intended for a nursery for two children.

The white theme looks good, but it is not as practical. If the nursery is for a small child, the white facade will quickly become dirty. You can use small red elements or inserts for contrast, but nothing more. It is extremely rare to use red to decorate a child’s wardrobe. Today it has become fashionable to print a photo of a child or a picture from a favorite cartoon on the front of a closet.

There is also an option such as a two-level closet, this is when there is storage space below and a bed above it. This element is basically part of a whole set intended for a children's room. Photos of the most prominent representatives can be easily found in any furniture store.

The closet must have rounded corners, and it is better to do without them as much as possible. Pencil cases should also be purchased as safely as possible. It is better to install childproof locks on cabinets so that they are not injured by the objects contained therein or even by the shelves themselves. The shape of cabinets can be so varied that sometimes you can’t even believe that a cabinet for a children’s room is being discussed.

The following forms are distinguished:

• straight - without any turns or angular turns;
• triangular - it is usually used instead of racks for storing large boxes and boxes;
• trapezoidal - as a rule, this is the solution in a situation where there is no room for the full volume of the wardrobe due to the door leaves;
• radius - a type of facade with rounded front doors, considered luxury furniture. But for children it is more suitable than ever, because it has practically no corners;
• five-walled - accommodates two additional side parts;
• diagonal - a pencil case for a children's room in one place. It is placed diagonally and has no sharp corners, so it is very welcome in children's rooms.

A piece of furniture for storing clothes in a nursery can also be built-in. As an option, a free-standing classic double leaf. This version is likely to be a rack with drawers, especially for storing toys. Double-door wardrobes are not for families with several children; they are not spacious. Two-door wardrobes are suitable for a nursery for two children; it is advisable to make each half a separate place for storing things. Children want to have a private space for secrets, so you can install locks on each door. The theme of the color scheme should be light.

L-shaped Straight

Radial

Trapezoidal

Stationary cabinet

It can be on legs or standing directly on the floor. If the cabinet has legs, then keep in mind that various things, pet toys can roll under it, and dust will also accumulate there over time. To prevent this, it is better to choose the option without them.

Such a cabinet, if repairs are due, can be easily moved, which cannot be said about the built-in version. It is convenient to store some things or decorative elements at the top of the closet. The doors can be decorated in the form of magnets or posters.

Filling

Very important in a children's closet is filling. The item must be of high quality and durable. A double-leaf piece of furniture is a worthy option. The wardrobe should contain:

• a pipe for storing things on hangers;
• shelves;
• linen box.

If the cabinet will be located near the window, you need to add a side extension for flower pots. Classic wardrobes do not contain shoe shelves. It is important to think through and evaluate the filling of the closet: the order in the children's closet depends on its practicality. The dressing room is valued for its contents. There is a place for everything: from linen to potties, sports equipment, toys.

The entire space of the built-in headset is divided into zones:

• wardrobe;
• shoe department;
• for bed linen;
• basket for toys;
• several racks to store sports equipment.

Rooms with built-in wardrobes are in demand. If the content of the presented options is not suitable in the store, it is possible to make it to order. A cabinet with shelves must be adjusted to the child’s height, because it is difficult for a baby to use a cabinet that is not suitable for him in size.

To ensure that the storage space is always bright, there are special lights that turn on when the door is opened. The shelves in the dressing room are also illuminated. Doors of double-leaf wardrobes require locks. They will help stop the doors in the desired position.

How to arrange clothes

To make it convenient for your child to use the closet, remember a few simple recommendations:

• The hanger bar is placed at a convenient height. The child should feel like a full-fledged owner, take off and hang clothes independently.

If the child is small, place the bars at the bottom

• Shelves can take up space from top to bottom . But things that are used every day should be placed at a level convenient for the child. The rest is laid out higher.
• Drawers are located either on the middle level or at the bottom . It is important here that the extension system works smoothly and does not warp. Above we showed how to properly organize space. Some models have ready-made compartments for small items, which is very convenient.

Small cells allow you to maintain perfect order when storing small items

Selection rules

Buying the right cabinets and pencil cases for a nursery is not easy. It is necessary to take into account the following parameters:

• safety - firstly, the absence of sharp corners, and secondly, locks and handles should not stick out. It is advisable not to use mirror surfaces;
• functionality - you need to look for a closet for the nursery that is ideally filled and accommodates the maximum of necessary areas;
• design - it is important that the child likes the design. If a girl is delighted with doll houses, let them be on the front of the closet. There is a large palette of shades: green, red, white, the main thing here is not to overdo it. Sticking to the classics, you should choose a lighter shade as the main one. An additional color will be: green, blue or red shades. It is better for parents of children to avoid white. Green color is considered more preferable. You can get by with a photo of a car or robot on the door.

It must be remembered that the child will use the piece of furniture, so it is better not to take a cabinet with a mirror. The wardrobe door must be durable and easy to clean. The same thing with the built-in furniture department.

Pencil cases must be selected based on the above parameters. It is better to buy built-in elements for teenagers, because a child will not appreciate the dimensions of such a wardrobe, and a built-in wardrobe is more difficult to use independently.

Classics are always in fashion, but modern innovations add zest to the interior. Photos of modern interior designs can be found in catalogs. And progress did not stop at cabinets with a mirror on the facade: there are a lot of interesting and fresh ideas.

An important aspect will be the location of the furniture. The window should be freed from even a small section of the cabinet. Now there are ideas to install cabinets between the windows, but then you won’t be able to get to the window.

When it comes to racks and shelves, the main rule remains – safety. The fastenings for the rack must be heavy-duty. When you have a lock in your closet, it is best to keep a spare key. Having carefully studied the issue, you can make a good purchase that will delight you with quality and functionality.

Let's look at a suitable option

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Wardrobe with built-in wall

As a rule, the cabinet in such models is smaller than in full-size ones. The wall can be either to the left or to the right, or above it. When choosing a wall cabinet for a nursery, think about what can be located where, since most often there may be more open shelves than closed ones. Everything doesn't always have to be in plain sight.

The design allows you to remove toys, books, and possible rewards. Such a closet is more functional from a household point of view, but there may not be enough space for clothes.

Styles

Children's wardrobes are often decorated in a modern style, reminiscent of minimalism - no unnecessary details, clear geometric shapes. The furniture is distinguished only by drawings with cartoon characters or animals on the facades.

However, you can choose other types of design, especially if the child has already left preschool age and grown up:

• Provence is well suited for a girl's room. Delicate colors, elegant and unobtrusive decor in the form of plants and flowers, simple lines - these are the distinctive features of a cabinet in a similar style;
• a marine theme can be used in a boy’s room, while furniture in dark blue, brown, gray tones or with white and blue stripes, as well as with anchors in the decor, will fit perfectly into the decor;

Manufacturers

Children's furniture is produced by different companies, domestic and foreign. Here are some popular manufacturers:

• Ikea is a well-known company that makes sets and individual products in a modern style, and also produces transformable wardrobes and loft beds;
• The German company Haba produces reliable and durable furniture, spacious cabinets with many compartments for a wide variety of things.
• The St. Petersburg factories “Classic” and “Orion” are quite famous in the northern capital and beyond.
• The Shatura furniture factory is another Russian manufacturer that produces inexpensive furniture.

With bed

On the top tier there is a loft bed, on the bottom there is a wardrobe. The ladder is usually located on the side and can be removable. A convenient option if there is not much space in the room, but you plan not to limit yourself to buying a cabinet.

There are designs in which there is a bed at the bottom and a wardrobe at the top. In the latter case, the bed can even be folded out, saving even more space.

With a table

The table is part of the cabinet and is built into its structure. When choosing a children's table with a cabinet, pay attention to the convenience of each individual part.

Combined models should be convenient both for studying and for storing some things, otherwise there is no need for furniture that looks good, but in fact does not fulfill the requirements set for it.

The design may seem unnecessarily bulky and impede possible rearrangement. And it’s worth thinking about what benefits you want to get from such a solution. So that everything is at hand? To save on the cost of a product?

Age characteristics

With the right approach, it is possible to arrange an area for boys of any age.

Interior of a room for preschoolers

This interior is mainly distinguished by the presence of a play and sleeping area with two beds. If there is a shortage of space, roll-out beds will be appropriate. It is not advisable to install two-story models, as the child may fall or be injured.

The nursery for preschool boys is equipped with individual cabinets for toys or books. The floor is covered with a non-slip coating, most often carpet. Since children are especially active at this age, it is advisable to install horizontal bars and a wall bars.

The photo shows a children's interior for preschool boys with sleeping places in the form of cars.

Photo of a bedroom for teenage boys and schoolchildren

In this room, in addition to the games area and sleeping area, there is a work area. For a family with schoolchildren, a transforming bed, two-story models or structures that extend from under the podium are suitable.

You can zone the boys' room using two sofas placed in different parts of the room or a sliding partition, which allows you to create a private space and can be easily removed if necessary. For a teenager's bedroom, the optimal style solution would be loft, hi-tech or minimalism, characterized by a particularly ascetic atmosphere.

The photo shows the design of a teenage room for boys.

For boys of all ages

The children's room of brothers of different ages is divided into two zones using a shelving structure or various partitions. To store an adult boy's things, it is better to use higher cabinets and shelves so that the younger one does not have access to them.

For children the same age, without a significant age difference, it is important to properly organize an area where boys will play and spend time together.