Choosing a dresser in the kitchen

The kitchen is one of the most important rooms in the dwelling. Its arrangement should be comfortable and user-friendly. In addition, its functionality is important, which primarily depends on the purchase of the right kitchen furniture. Often, when creating the interior of this room, buyers use not only a headset, but also a kitchen chest of drawers. Let's look at how relevant this element of the arrangement is in the context of the kitchen, and also find out the main nuances of the choice that allow you to fit the chest of drawers into the interior as harmoniously as possible.

A dresser in the kitchen serves as a storage for any items. For example, such furniture is purchased for storage:

• kitchen utensils;
• bulk products;
• small household appliances;
• jars for spices;
• service or crystal;
• towels, dishwashing detergents;
• household chemicals for cleaning the room.

Depending on the variety, this piece of furniture can also be used for cooking, using the work surface of its countertop. Furniture of this type is functional and allows you to hide a lot of small items and kitchen utensils out of sight. At the same time, the working surfaces are unloaded, the convenience of the hostess increases, and the effect of order is created.

Today chests of drawers for the kitchen are made from various raw materials. On sale you can find products made of plastic, MDF, chipboard, wood, metal, laminated boards LMDF, laminated chipboard. In addition, the models can be combined, consisting of two or even three different materials. In this case, transparent and tinted glass is often used as inserts. It is used for the manufacture of furniture shelves and facades.

Wood is considered a premium type of material. It is used to create expensive furniture, treated with special impregnations that increase the resistance of furniture to fire and moisture. MDF and chipboard are budget options for kitchen dressers. Their service life is much shorter, they are not as reliable as their wood counterparts. Such products attract buyers with their affordable price.

Single metal options are rare on the market. More often it is supplemented with wooden shelves. Metal needs care no less than wood; such cabinets can be painted. As for fittings, metal is often used to make chest handles, any kind of shelves for shelves, towel holders, wheel fasteners.

Plastic models of chests of drawers for kitchens are small in size and in a variety of colors. Despite the fact that modern plastic is able to imitate the texture of various materials, mostly light objects are placed in such furniture. Plastic is afraid of significant stress and mechanical damage, and over time it burns out.

The modern market for furniture products for the arrangement of the kitchen is packed with offers for every taste and budget. At the same time, models of dressers may differ not only in materials of manufacture, but also in shapes, sizes, type of installation and color. In addition, they differ in functionality and storage design.

For example, modifications are stationary and mobile. The first options are installed in a row with a kitchen set or along one of the walls, as required by the design idea.In this case, the models can be classic or built into the existing niche. Based on the type of model, they may or may not have legs. As a rule, the legs are equipped with floor-type options. Products fixed to the wall do not have them.

As for the mobile type options, these are small dressers on wheels. As a rule, they have no more than three tiers and are designed to help the hostess when preparing food. They can also be located in the center of the kitchen, if only it was convenient for the hostess. Depending on the layout, such products may have a permanent place where they are returned after work. The dimensions of such modifications are small.

By the type of construction, the chests of drawers can be classified into two categories:

• linear;
• corner.

In stores, linear options are more common due to the greater customer demand. Corner counterparts are convenient for their ability to maximize space savings. They can be suspended or floor-standing.

Front systems of dressers are:

• open;
• closed;
• combined.

Open varieties are inconvenient because everything is in plain sight. Dust quickly settles on their shelves, which has to be removed not only from the shelves, but also from the items stored on them.

Closed-type counterparts are more practical, they protect stored items from dirt, moisture vapor and dust. This is ensured by means of boxes or blind doors.

Combined modifications provide for the presence of open shelves along with drawers. As for the doors, they can be:

• whole;
• prefabricated;
• framework.

Storage systems for kitchen dressers can be very different. For example, it can be display cabinets, models with hinged doors or analogs with drawers. As a rule, one or more cutlery drawers are included in a traditional storage system. For them, the upper compartments of furniture are allocated, which may differ in height and width.

This allows even forks and spoons to be kept separate. High-quality models are almost always equipped with trays for drying dishes. Other models have sections for storing knives, shovels, kitchen scissors. In addition, the chest of drawers provides a place for pans, pots, dishes.

The compartments can be shelves and baffles. Often, modifications are equipped with narrow shelves for storing spices. In addition, the furniture has grids for bottles, holders for lids, shelves for fruits or vegetables.

Going to the store for a dresser for the kitchen, you need to take into account many factors. For example, the material and color of the purchased chest of drawers must match the shade and material of the existing furniture. If the headset or table is made of wood, it is advisable to look for a wooden chest of drawers. It is important to pay attention to the width of the furniture: if you plan to install it in a row with the headset, the width should be identical, although this is not critical.

As a rule, the parameters of wide models are 1 meter on average. The height ranges from 70 to 80 cm, the depth reaches 35 cm. In other varieties, the width can reach two meters. Narrow counterparts are good for small kitchens. In depth, they can be within 40 cm, in width - up to 60 cm.

Regardless of whether it is planned to install a chest of drawers in the kitchen or in the kitchen-living room, it should harmoniously fit into the concept of the existing style. For example, it can be reflected in color, fittings, finishes, decor, shapes and lines. For example, for Provence, the best solution would be a white dresser made of painted wood. For classics, options in warm light colors with gilded trim and stucco are welcome.

If a product is needed for arranging a modern kitchen, it should be elegant, but it is imperative that the synthetic component of the material used stands out. The color can be beige, silver, peach. Eco style needs naturalness: the best solution would be a lacquered wooden chest of drawers.

To make the chest of drawers comfortable, you need to take into account the type of opening of the facade system. It can be retractable, hinged, folding and sliding. Which option is more convenient, everyone must decide on their own, taking into account the availability of space for opening the facades. If you need a model with a worktop, you should pay attention to the material of its manufacture.

The table top can be made of natural or artificial stone, wood and MDF. Natural stone is too heavy, such a countertop will have to be rubbed with wax, it is difficult to care for it. The artificial analog is lighter, but it will also have to be polished. Wood looks expensive, but to extend its life, you will have to protect such a surface with reinforced glass.

The models also differ in the legs. These can be stops located at an angle to the body. And also the product can have classic-type supports and legs that are adjustable in height. The latter options are worth buying in the case of a curved floor. In addition, there are chests of drawers on sale with a basement system, which is an alternative to the legs. It is convenient in that it masks the screws of the adjustable feet.

When choosing a product, you need to take into account the design of the kitchen set or other furniture. For example, it is important to pay attention to the symmetry of the boxes, the volume of warm or cold color spots. Somewhere hand carving is important, in other cases it is necessary to take into account the nuances of artistic painting, the presence of ceramic tiles. In other cases, the softness of the silhouette is relevant, perhaps naturalness, a minimum of processing.

It is important to imagine how the chest of drawers will look in the interior of the kitchen. Perhaps, its tabletop will be decorated with some kind of vase, figurine, living flower, pots of unusual shape. If the furniture will be installed in the dining area, you can rely on the nuances of the dining furniture (table and chairs). In this case, the nuances of choice are the material of manufacture, shape, color, size.

You can see an overview of the Provence style kitchen chest of drawers below.