White tables: choosing a design

If you've decided to buy a white desk for your home or office, but don't know where to start, then this article may help.

White furniture can fit into rooms with any setting. Modern furniture production allows you to bring to life any idea in shape, size, and a variety of materials and their shades will allow you to choose the ideal option.

White is associated with air, light, space. It is like a blank sheet of paper on which you can paint any picture. White has no shades, however, other strongly bleached colors are often considered to be its tones.

Here are just a few of them:

• Smoky white;
• Snow;
• Ivory;
• Cream (creme brulee);
• Lactic;
• Pearl.

Let's say about the features of coatings, which can be matte, glossy, lacquered, mirror, with enamel, with patina. Perhaps, it is worth giving a decryption to the latter type: this is the effect of an aged surface (with darkening, abrasions and cracks), which arose during natural use or artificially created.

When choosing a shade for your future white table, you need to take into account the color temperature: cold tones fit more harmoniously into modern high-tech interiors, futurism, minimalism. In such rooms, most of the furniture is made of stone, glass, metal, plastic. And warm and muted tones are ideal for classics, Provence, country.

When choosing a table material, first of all, you need to take into account what functional purpose it will perform in a given room. For example, stone and wood countertops are durable and durable, which is why they are often used in kitchen interiors.

If you like a table with a glass top, it is better to give preference to tempered glass. First, it has increased strength. Secondly, if tempered glass can still be broken, it will turn into many small fragments with safe edges. However, the safest is considered to be laminated glass, or triplex: collapsing upon impact, it does not disintegrate into fragments, but is held by the film, creating a cobweb on the table top.

The main plus of a metal table is its strength, solidity, durability. Modern technologies make it possible to make tables from metal, no less elegant and stylish than from wood or plastic. Metal countertops can be simply painted, polished or sandblasted, or all of the above decoration methods can be applied at once. Tables with wrought iron elements look stylish and expensive. Due to their strength, metal tables are more often used in production where there are aggressive mechanical, chemical influences (tables for carpentry and auto-mechanical work, in chemical laboratories, summer cottages), but their use is also possible in home interiors.

Chipboard and MDF tables can take any shape and size.The low cost of these materials, their easy availability in manufacturing and assembly allows them to fit into any interior.

Tables made of solid wood have a number of advantages over other materials: reliability, solidity, capitalism, but the main difference is the warmth of natural wood. The variety of wood processing gives a wide scope for creativity to interior designers: wood can be varnished, sanded to a smooth state, painted. But there is a significant drawback - the high cost of the material. In addition, wooden tables in white have a peculiarity: it is necessary to monitor and avoid spilling liquids with bright shades.

White plastics, due to their low cost and resistance to weather conditions, are often used in the manufacture of outdoor furniture. Such products can often be found in the setting of outdoor café terraces, summer cottages and balconies. Again, manufacturers love to make children's tables out of plastic. There are also designer white tables. As a rule, they are made in very unusual shapes, which looks more appropriate in industrial interiors.

Stone as a raw material, as well as wood and metal, is the most reliable and durable. When making white countertops from natural stone, marble is often used, and this material has a high absorbency. Also, white marble can crack from temperature changes and turn yellow when heated. However, the high cost and high weight limit the use of stone furniture in everyday life. But the look of these tables is great.

Wicker furniture is often used in the arrangement of suburban areas, country houses, verandas, street cafes. Advantages of rattan furniture: environmental friendliness, a variety of shapes, unpretentious care, strength, despite the external fragility, and low weight will make it easy to rearrange.

White looks great both in the most primitive form and in the most unusual. But do not forget about the general idea of ​​the interior and the purpose when choosing a shape for the table. Consider what configurations are:

• Angular. The main advantage of the corner table top is that it will be comfortable and not bulky in a limited space. The most common purposes of corner tables are computer and writing tables, TV stands, less often coffee and toilet tables.

• Oval. A distinctive feature of the oval table top is that it combines the advantages of a round and rectangular table. The lack of corners creates a comfortable, welcoming atmosphere and makes the space for children safer. And the elongated shape of the table (like a rectangular one) takes up less space, unlike a round one, while remaining more spacious. Most often, tables in living rooms and kitchens have an oval appearance.

• Round. Round tables are great because they are versatile. The round shape of the table is easy to choose for almost any interior and its variety: classic (gothic, classicism, baroque, empire, modern), modern (art deco, pop art, minimalism, kitsch, hi-tech), ethnic (African, Japanese, Provence ). The smoothed shape gives coziness and comfort to the room.

• Square. The specificity of the square countertop is in its strict and graphic forms.This property allows you to most successfully fit square models into the interiors of strict forms (for example, classic, hi-tech, Japanese style). In home interiors, dining tables most often have a square shape, then coffee tables, serving tables, and toilet tables. Catering establishments also like to use square table models.

• Rectangular. Tables with an elongated, long rectangular shape are indispensable in office spaces, conference rooms, meeting rooms, large dining rooms, decorated in the spirit of minimalism or classics.

In addition to the shape, white tables can also differ in their configuration. So, there are:

• Shelving table. A desk-rack can be made as a special rectangular shelf, attached perpendicular to the rack. Sometimes there are modifications where the tabletop has a triangular shape (for installing it in a corner). Such designs are very convenient for schoolchildren, students, workers with a file cabinet, or even for needlewomen, who have many different small parts and devices).

• Zigzag. In such an unusual shape, you can most often find coffee tables. They do not carry a large functional load, but they accentuate the interior very effectively.

• With a mirror. Models with a mirror are called dressing, dressing table, makeup table, trellis. Mainly used by women for makeup and hair. There are for home use and for various beauty salons and photo studios.

• Classic. Classical tables include tables with a solid tabletop on one or four legs. The form, as described earlier, can be any. Classic laconic forms are usually used in kitchens and dining rooms.

• Transformers: sliding / folding / book-table. Convertible countertops were invented to save space and are usually used in small spaces. Often, dining and kitchen tables are made in this design.

In interior solutions, white can act as an accent or as a general background for other bright details. For example, the combination of a white wooden table and brown chairs is typical for classic interiors. Another interesting option: the table top and seats of the chairs are made in a dark color, and the legs of the table and chairs are white, and vice versa.

White plastic table looks great in modern design solutions in combination with red, silver, black details. In children's rooms, a white table is also often made, and other details are selected in bright rainbow shades.

When choosing a white table, you need to consider the main factors:

• the functions that he will perform in this room (dining, kitchen, magazine, bedside, toilet, work);
• interior style;
• the size of the room;
• material (stone, wood, glass, plastic, MDF, chipboard);
• price.

A great choice for two in the kitchen is a small round or square table.

In a children's room, it is better to look after a table made of plastic with a stable support and a surface that is not susceptible to the arts of little geniuses.

A white coffee table of an unusual shape will perfectly fit into the bachelor's living room in high-tech style.

It is useful for women to take a closer look at the variety of models of dressing tables for the bedroom.

In the office, it is appropriate to use light rectangular or corner tables made of chipboard for employees, and choose laconic colors, without patterns and reflections.

When you have made your choice, remember to keep it clean and choose a detergent suitable for cleaning the countertop. Otherwise, the furniture and the interior as a whole will look untidy.

For information on how to make a white table with your own hands, see the next video.