The living room in a house is usually a common room wherehousehold members spend their free time together, receive guests, celebrate holidays. So this room can be called special, which means it should be decorated in a special way. The design of the living room should be carefully thought out, and the room itself should meet all functional requirements and reflect the aesthetic preferences of the owners. When it comes to furniture for the living room, an image of a standard set involuntarily comes to mind: a wall unit, a sofa, armchairs, a coffee or dining table. Yes, of course, this set justifies itself, as it fully meets our concepts of the convenience and coziness of the living room. However, even a room with such a typical set of furniture can be made individual by modular furniture for the living room, without which it is simply impossible to imagine a modern apartment. What does it owe such popularity to, and how does it differ from previous examples of cabinet furniture? Is it worth choosing this kind of furniture for the main room of the house, and if so, then why? Let's find out.
What is modular furniture?
In everyday life we accumulate a huge number of things,which are not needed on a daily basis. And constantly in-demand things require storage space. It is for these purposes that we have come up with cabinet furniture, which is simply created to make it convenient to store things even in a small space. Numerous cabinets and cupboards, chests and dressers, shelves and whatnot have firmly taken their place in our homes. And more recently, they have been replaced by monolithic living room sets, which are associated with the stereotype of the furnishings of the main room of the house. But a person is a restless creature who constantly strives to make his life not only comfortable, but also beautiful. In addition, although we all follow fashion, we want to maintain individuality (both our own and our home). Modular furniture was invented precisely to destroy the stereotype of living room furnishings. It is akin to a children's construction set, in which something new can be created every time from the same parts. Therefore, modular furniture allows you to combine elements in different ways and, as a result, make the interior original and unique. Each element of modular furniture (module) is a finished product that can easily perform the functions of an independent piece of furniture. At the same time, modules can be combined with each other in different ways, allowing you to create an interior in accordance with the features of the room and the tastes of the owner.
From the history of modular furniture
As you know, at the very beginning, furnitureproduction was not even production. It was labor-intensive, painstaking work, requiring high skill, and sometimes even a certain talent of the craftsmen. The production of furniture products was not mass-produced (let alone flow-through), and therefore each piece of furniture was unique. Today, such furniture is considered antique not so much because of the high cost of natural materials, but because of the individuality and special style of the craftsman. It is clear that time does not stand still, everything changes: needs, possibilities and technologies. The time came when the need for furniture increased so much that there was a need for its mass production. This was also facilitated by the development of industry: furniture workshops were replaced by furniture factories and plants, and furniture production became flow-through. They began to produce serial wardrobes, chests of drawers, shelves, and after them ready-made furniture walls, hallways and kitchen sets. The main advantage of such furniture was its availability: an acceptable price with quite tolerable quality. The main disadvantage is uniformity and standardization. Remember the story of the heroes of the film "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!": apartments furnished with identical furniture completely lost all individuality. The same furniture wall could be seen not only in your own home, but also in many neighbors, relatives and acquaintances. In addition, the standard sizes of such furniture did not always allow it to be organically placed in the apartment, and the functionality of serial production of living room sets suffered. In addition, the rigid configuration of this furniture left no chance for interior design. Therefore, many furniture manufacturers began to switch to furniture consisting of separate modules, thanks to which today we have the opportunity to create a living room set to our taste and in accordance with our needs.
Advantages of modular furniture
Modular furniture for the living room has suchfeature, such as the absence of a rigid configuration. Perhaps, this feature can be called the main advantage of modular furniture. Judge for yourself: an ordinary living room set (wall) will age, go out of fashion, but will remain unchanged - in the form that the designer (or, as they say now, the designer) of the furniture conceived. The maximum that can be done with it is to update the facade or swap the cabinets. Modular furniture provides a chance not only to create the desired interior design, but, if necessary, to change it and even modernize it. All items of such a set are strictly adjusted to each other. And therefore, no matter what order the elements are arranged, they will always look like a single whole. At the same time, the efficiency of using the living room space is significantly increased. Another undeniable advantage of modular furniture is an unlimited number of elements. When purchasing such a set, the buyer decides for himself how many and what kind of cabinets, shelves and bedside tables will be included in it. The finished modular system, at your request, will be equipped with additional elements or duplicate existing items. By the way, in such modular systems you can not only vary the configuration, but even change the color of the facades and panels. The unification of modular systems is also one of the advantages of such furniture. Due to this quality, modular furniture will cost much less than custom-made furniture. In addition, unified modular systems can fit into any space, which means they are not afraid of changing the interior. For example, if the modular furniture for the living room is corner, then it is convenient not only to place it in one specific part of the room, but also to adjust the space of the living room. Moreover, when changing the design, such a transformer system will allow you to do without buying new furniture.
Distinctive features
What are the differences between modular furniture and conventional ones?and still popular wall units, which it replaced? Actually, a wall unit is a set of cabinets placed close to each other and located along the wall. The cabinets have different purposes and different widths, but the same height and depth. Modular furniture can consist of elements of different heights and different depths. In addition, any set of modular furniture can be expanded, that is, new modules can be added to it. In addition to this, the niche for the TV in such a set can be changed both in depth and in height and width. Also, unlike walls, modular furniture sets are not equipped with wardrobes (but can be supplemented with them if the buyer wishes). In general, model furniture allows you to save significantly by replacing or purchasing the necessary elements. And given all its advantages and distinctive features, such furniture can be considered not just a modern alternative to a boring and outdated wall unit, but also a tool for transforming the interior. Experiment and look for your own options for organizing living space. And modular furniture systems for the living room will become one of your best assistants in this difficult, but such an exciting task.
