All the subtleties of choosing tables and chairs

It is impossible to imagine an apartment or a house without tables and chairs in the interior. These pieces of furniture are in every room. Modern furniture is able to bring not only practical benefits, but also complement the design, decorate the interior of the room.

First of all, tables and chairs can be divided according to their practical use in everyday life:

• Furniture for the kitchen and dining room. Tables and chairs, designed mostly for eating in the appropriate areas of an apartment or house. This does not mean at all that such furniture should not be beautiful and stylish. Although you should remember about convenience and practicality. Often tables are purchased for dining rooms, complete with chairs. In this case, all pieces of furniture will be in the same style. However, combinations of styles are also possible. For example, a combination of a wooden table and elegant chairs on a metal frame.

• Leisure furniture. Tables and chairs for the living room, hall, bedroom should be comfortable and emphasize the style of the room in which they are located. Upholstered chairs are suitable for these spaces. Tables can be of different styles and sizes, depending on the decor of the room. Often in such rooms, small decorative coffee tables are used, or tables on graceful forged legs. Tabletops made of clear or colored glass, or colored glass mosaic are very popular.

• Children's furniture. Furniture items for a children's room should be of the appropriate size. The child should be comfortable using them. Austere and elegant style is also inappropriate here. In addition, children's furniture should be lightweight and safe. It is better to give preference to light PVC tables and chairs. Such furniture is durable enough, does not require special care.

• Garden and country furniture. Modern wicker chairs and tables are most suitable for arranging the plot next to the house. It is better to give preference to artificial materials. Outdoor furniture is exposed to sun, moisture and temperature changes. Natural materials are poorly preserved in such conditions, they quickly lose their strength and beauty in appearance.

Products from a wide variety of materials are presented on the modern furniture market. For the manufacture of tables and chairs, the following are most often used:

Interior items and natural wood furniture never go out of fashion. This material is environmentally friendly, which is important for those who appreciate everything natural. Due to the variety of wood species and different processing technologies, wood furniture items have a huge variety of styles, colors and shapes. And the pliability of this material from wood makes it possible to embody the most bizarre ideas.

The most inexpensive options are pine tables and chairs. This is a fairly strong and lightweight wood. Thanks to the processing of the material, painting and varnishing, pine furniture looks stylish and beautiful.

The more expensive and popular options are oak and beech. Beech and oak tables are usually solid and bulky. They are placed in large dining rooms or halls.The wood is predominantly dark in color.

Most tables and chairs made from artificial materials are cheaper than those made from natural wood. Modern production technologies are able to give artificial materials greater strength and make their appearance quite beautiful and stylish. Artificial furniture often imitates natural wood in appearance.

The most common material for artificial tables and chairs is plastic. PVC furniture is made in various styles and has a wide range of applications. Often times, plastic tables and chairs are used in dining rooms and kitchens. As children's furniture. PVC furniture is a good option for arranging a garden area or gazebo. Stylized PVC tables and chairs can be a decoration of the living room design.

Metal furniture is also quite popular. It can be forged, elegant heavy furniture. Or lightweight chairs and tables on a metal frame. The combination of metal legs and a glass tabletop looks original and stylish. Forged furniture is suitable for rooms decorated in a simple classic style.

Artificial rattan (technoratan) is similar in properties to polyvinyl chloride. This is an elastic artificial material from which ribbons, rods or profiles of various thicknesses, lengths, shapes and colors are made. The rods are tightly intertwined and stacked into a piece of furniture. Artificial rattan is used for making tables, armchairs, chairs, stools and other types of small furniture.

Due to its resistance to external factors and strength, such furniture is often used in the garden or in the gazebo. Unlike metal or wood, Technorattan products are very lightweight. The use of various weaving technologies allows you to create elegant and interesting style options. Such furniture is also suitable for a dining room, stylish armchairs can equip a living room or bedroom. A light table and stool are well suited for a child's room.

Furniture items can be made by hand. One of the simplest and most affordable options is to make garden furniture from ordinary wooden pallets or, as they are also called, pallets. A solid pallet surface can serve as a good base for a countertop.

Pallets are sold new or after use. In any case, this is a very inexpensive and accessible material. Having picked up a pallet of the right size, or having adjusted the size of the future countertop, sawing off the excess parts, you can start making a table or a small bench for a garden plot.

First of all, the surface of the pallet must be sanded well, covered with paint or varnish. Further, depending on your wishes and imagination, legs are attached to the tabletop pallet. However, it can be rollers, then our product will turn into a small stylized coffee table.

Legs for a homemade table can also be made independently, for example, carved out of wood. You can purchase ready-made metal or plastic legs in the desired size. If you have old broken furniture, chairs or tables, you can remove the legs or casters from them.

Having shown imagination, you can make a garden chair or a small bench for a gazebo from pallets. In this case, the pallets themselves can serve as the basis for the design.

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An important role in choosing a model of furniture is played by its size. This affects not only the appearance, but also the comfort and usability of the table or chair. Furniture of an inappropriate size does not fulfill its function and becomes a useless and inconvenient interior detail.

By answering these questions, you can decide what height, length and width will be right for each piece of furniture.

For example, you need to choose a table for the kitchen. The first thing that draws attention to is the dimensions of the room itself. The table should not take up too much space, block up the passage and interfere with free movement around the kitchen.

The second important point is how many people will have lunch at the same time at this table. Eating should be comfortable, for each person at the table there should be 60 centimeters of free space. Otherwise, the meal will turn into a continuous elbowing and overturning of your own and someone else's dishes.

The next parameter is the height of the table, a matter, of course, purely individual. Factory-made furniture has a standard height. According to GOST, it is 75 centimeters. This height is derived from the average height of adult men and women. Naturally, this standard does not apply to coffee and decorative tables.

However, if several people use a table in your dining room or living room, it is unlikely that everyone will be able to please. Even members of the same family are far from the same height, what can we say about guests and their children.

In this case, it will be more convenient to choose chairs of different heights, or have small seating cushions for children to use. Placing such a pillow on the seat of a chair or armchair, the child will become taller and it will be more comfortable for him to sit at a table that is still high for him.

For very young family members, you can purchase special high-legged baby chairs.

The color scheme of tables and chairs is infinitely varied. This results primarily from the variety of materials. Modern manufacturers have mastered well and are constantly improving the processing and coloring technologies of products, so that pieces of furniture do not suffer from the paucity of the palette.

• Green, soothing tones are suitable for the bedroom. Classic white will look just as good.
• The use of white in the living room will visually lighten objects, and the perception of the room will become more airy. A glass transparent table in the center of the room will look good.

• Black looks heavy but very stylish. This is ideal for austere Gothic style or classic.
• For the dining room and kitchen, it is better not to choose overly bright and exciting colors. Restrained light tones, shades of beige will fit well here.

Of course, prominent pieces of furniture such as tables and chairs should accentuate and complement the style of the entire room. Inappropriate colors or shapes spoil the visual impression of the room, nullify all efforts to design it.

• Wooden furniture in natural shades is a "classic of the genre". Such tables and chairs fit perfectly into almost any interior, and the material itself never goes out of fashion.
• For rooms in the Gothic style, metal tables and chairs with graceful wrought iron legs are suitable. Preference should be given to dark tones.Also, large oval or rectangular tables with thick oak or hornbeam legs fit into this style.

• For rooms in the Art Nouveau style, furniture of non-standard and free forms is suitable. Elegant or, on the contrary, rough chairs with thick legs or a solid base. The table can be made in the form of any silhouette, or simply have non-standard intricate outlines.

• Art Deco is characterized by unusual and bold combinations of colors, materials and styles. The same piece of furniture can be made with an intricate mix of details. A table or chair can be composed of classic and bold modernist elements. Several seemingly incompatible materials are often combined in one subject. In this direction, there is complete freedom of ideas and bold decisions.

The furniture can be decorated with various decorative elements.

Chairs can have Viennese carved armrests. The surfaces of a table or chair can be lacquered, which gives them a classic and austere look. Chair upholstery can imitate natural animal skins such as zebra, leopard, tiger.

The design of the tables and chairs gives you a lot of freedom for imagination. In recent years, antique stylish kits have begun to come back into fashion. They are distinguished by graceful, usually carved decorative elements, restrained natural colors.

A more free and daring design has Art Nouveau furniture.

The choice of a specific model of furniture items depends on individual wishes and financial capabilities. At the moment, the market offers a wide selection of furniture for each price category. These are both elite classic models and models made of light artificial materials.

In addition to the cost, it is worth remembering the features of the operation of the selected furniture. For use in the garden or in rooms with high humidity and temperature changes, it is better to choose furniture made of artificial and more durable materials.

Wooden furniture needs maintenance and periodic processing. She is most vulnerable to external factors.

If there are small children in the home, you should avoid choosing tables with sharp corners and hard traumatic surfaces. For the children's room itself, light PVC tables and chairs will be most suitable.

For the kitchen, you should choose a table made of durable material. Dining table operation involves frequent contact with hot objects, water and sharp cutlery. The most suitable options for the kitchen and dining room are tables with a metal top or with a tempered, durable glass top.

For the hall or living room, the appearance of furniture items plays a special role. Here, the most appropriate sets of a table with chairs in the same style. If you often have guests, oval or round models will be suitable for accommodating several people.

Each material has its own positive and negative properties:

• Wooden furniture is often too heavy, wood is susceptible to corrosion, does not tolerate contact with moisture, requires special care and periodic treatment with protective compounds.

• Metal furniture is also heavy, with the exception of models with lightweight profiles. Metal surfaces require rust protection.

• Furniture made of PVC and technorattan has practically no pronounced drawbacks. Tables and chairs made of these materials have a wide price range, most of the models are affordable even for low-income buyers. Furniture made of PVC and artificial rattan is lightweight, strong enough, tolerates external factors well, has many options for shapes, colors, styles and decoration.

The most positive reviews are received by Belarusian furniture and products made in Malaysia. Italian manufacturing firms (Adrenalina, Baxter, Valderamobili) are also popular in the Russian and European markets.

• A classic and beautiful option for the kitchen is a square table and four chairs with backs, made in the same style.
• An armchair and a table will fit into the living room in a practical and stylish way. The table can be with a mirror or glass top.

• A set of wooden chairs and a classic oval table is perfect for decorating a hall.
• It will be more comfortable in a small kitchen if you place a small semicircular table with metal legs and several elegant stools there.
• An oval large table with a glass top and wrought iron legs on a wooden base will decorate the living room in the Gothic style.

• When choosing tables and chairs for an apartment and a house, one should be guided by the interior of the premises, the availability of free space and the operating conditions of the furniture.
• Even if you have chosen a large table, you should not place too many chairs next to it. The distance between those sitting at the dining or living table should be at least 20 centimeters.
• For rooms with a small area, you should not choose bulky furniture. This will reduce the free space and visually overload the room.
• For use in the garden or in an outdoor gazebo, it is better to choose furniture made of artificial materials.
• In the living room or dining room, it is better to put sets of table and chairs. This will help create a consistent style of interior decoration.