Transforming beds

A large number of inhabitants of small apartments I would like to squeeze a lot of necessary things into a limited number of meters. Furniture amenable to transformation, almost the only way out. A transforming bed is capable of solving the problem of a comfortable overnight stay for a large family and late guests, which at the same time will be practical and harmoniously fit into the interior.

Advantages and disadvantages of transforming beds

The model, which can be transformed at its discretion, has the following advantages:

• More free space appears. The space freed from the bed is used for other purposes.
• Significantly saves time in the process of folding and folding.
• The functionality of the objects increases: the bed turns into a wardrobe, a chest of drawers, a comfortable sofa.
• The properties of the mattress allow the use of furniture for daily sleep.
• Thanks to a reliable mechanism, the presence of a comfortable handle, the bed can be easily folded and retracted.
• Provides space for storage.
• The design of the room does not suffer. Aesthetic multifunctional transformer will fit into any interior.

Existing deficiencies are also worth mentioning:

• The main significant disadvantage of this furniture is its price. It is directly proportional to the degree of safety that the structure can provide. The average family will have to spend money, but the certainty that no one will suffer during the manipulations is more important.
• The possibility of planning a room is narrowed where it is impossible to place a wall-mounted transformer anywhere. It is fixed only on the main wall, capable of withstanding the appropriate load.
• Whenever you want to sit comfortably on the bed, it must be laid out, and then re-assembled. It takes not so much time, but carries some discomfort. The similar problem disappears if the berth has an opportunity to be transformed to a sofa.

Serious flaws, such as: mechanism breakdowns, rapid wear, upholstery defects, creaking during operation, are characteristic only of low-quality models.

Recommendations for use

Old small-sized apartments, housing of a new format, which entered the Internet and on television under the name of a smart apartment, requires maximum rationality in the approach to planning. A modern studio apartment, located on an area of ​​up to 20 sq.m., has full-fledged functional areas, where not only the color is correctly chosen. The symbiosis of a living room with a kitchen and a bedroom is the best way to implement a transforming multifunctional furniture.

The case bed is often decorated with a print, a mirror. In small apartments and studios set wardrobe, chest of drawers. There are many options for children's rooms: from cots with changing tables, equipped with comfortable drawers, to bunk beds for schoolchildren.

If you need to work in the office at night, compact transformers-poufs or benches are placed there. A busy manager can sleep right in his workplace by simply turning the desk over, under whose lid a soft mattress and pillow are hidden during the daytime.

A folding bed or located in the closet will ensure the mobility of the interior of the bedroom of adults. Roll-out model for children is convenient, saves usable space. A cool solution for a teenager's room is a transforming bed, which becomes a convenient workplace for preparing for school, for a young seamstress - a table for cutting.

Classification of transformation mechanisms

Bed models are equipped with mechanisms, there are several types of them:

1. Spring. At night, the model becomes a bed, and in the daytime it becomes, for example, a desk. For a large part of consumers who do not have decent physical strength, the spring mechanism is a useless thing. The young and strong father of the family will dissolve in the evening and in the morning, laying out a sleeping place. But older people or women are unlikely to enjoy such exercises.
2. Retractable. The market is replete with offers, among which you can find complex and simpler devices. Ease of transformation does not guarantee long-term operation.
3. Folding. Usually attached to the wall. The solution for a small apartment, but only if there is a reliable main wall. Another disadvantage of such a furniture mechanism is that one may be injured when raising and lowering the bed. The design easily becomes part of the furniture set: walls in the living room, an element of a bookcase in a child’s room or a library in the office.
4. Gas lift. They are equipped with a larger number of modern models. Furniture is transformed gently, the bed is fixed in any position. The process is silent, safe. A fly in the ointment is the price of beds with such a mechanism. In addition, you should always pay attention to what material the model is made of, make a purchase only from reputable manufacturers.

Variety of models

Regardless of the design of the bed, they can all be divided into two types:

• horizontal;
• vertical.

In the first case, the lifting mechanism is located on the long side. The second option is equipped with a special device with which the bed rises vertically to the wall.

Type of bed is chosen, taking into account the characteristics of the room, the functions that will be assigned to it.

When choosing the size of a berth, the age, height, weight of one or those who will sleep on it are taken into account. A child of preschool age has a minimum width of 60 cm. The standard child model is up to 80 cm wide. The teenage bed can already be one and a half, from 90 to 165 cm in width. People with an average physique of any age can compactly sit on a product with dimensions of 160x200. A wide double bed with a width of 140-180x200, having a strong base and a reliable lifting mechanism, is suitable for a person of any size.

Wardrobe bed

In the manufacture of wardrobe beds, modern automotive technologies are used. Most of them are equipped with lift-shock absorbers. The deformation of the bed is not provided. The front part of the closet is a door that folds back easily, giving access to the built-in bed. The design easily becomes part of a furniture set or cabinet furniture.

The bottom of the bed is a facade at the time when it is hidden in the closet. To expand the space of the room, it is decorated with a mirror. A large cabinet can accommodate more than one section. Then it becomes multifunctional: a bed folds up in one of the sections, while the others have sleeping accessories or a wardrobe.

Plus, this kind of furniture - the lack of seams in the mattress, why its orthopedic characteristics benefit. Room cleaning is greatly facilitated, folding bed frees passage. High-quality discharge mechanisms are not cheap, but the comfort is worth it.

Sofa bed

This type of transformer is ideal for a bedroom, living room or studio. The folding mechanism has options: a dolphin, an accordion or a euro accordion, it can be folded with a book or eurobook, it can be a rollout or a folding bed. This option will also save the maximum usable area. The bed will not need to be made; pillows and mattresses are easily hidden, because fixed with special straps. The bed can be single or double, fold vertically or horizontally.

When a double bed is definitely not built into the apartment interior, such a sofa is the very thing.

Chair bed

Models were in demand at all times, relevant today. With their help, space is saved, they do not interfere with other pieces of furniture. Modern options are reliable, rollout versions are simple to use. The rolling out forms have small rollers, which facilitates manipulations with the chair. The box for storing bed linen is most often absent.

Sliding construction on a metal frame seems to be more reliable, although any can withstand the small weight of one person. How convenient this or that model will be, you can judge, having familiarized yourself with the scheme, which describes in detail how to disassemble or assemble, if necessary, a sleeping place.

Bed dresser

The folding mechanism is similar to that used in wardrobe beds, only rotated horizontally, the surface adjoins the wall with a longer side part. As a rule, beds-dressers happen one and a half - and single, have secret places for storage. Household appliances or decorative items are placed on the table top. You can equip with an extra bed any of the rooms in the house, be it a living room or even a balcony. Packaging complement mezzanine, bedside tables or desk. The recline process will not take away much time or effort, since the products are equipped with a convenient mechanism.

Bed table

The optimal solution for the parent office or teenager, the student will be a bed-table, which, with its convenience, does not take so much space. During the day, the presence of a bed will not embarrass the visiting friends, and the items on the table top need not be removed every time before going to bed. The second design option involves the location of the tabletop directly under the bed. With the assembly cope any of the households.

Roll out beds

The bed takes a lot of space in the room. With a small bedroom size, a convertible roll-out option would be an ideal alternative to regular beds. The retractable second bed looks good in the nursery and adult bedroom, provides a full second bed, does not select a valuable area.

The most practical option - a design with a podium, equipped with steps. The classic model, as a rule, is equipped with rollers, which guarantees convenience when moving. An extra bed above the knees or too low will be easily operated by boys or girls, but is hardly suitable for older people.

Children's models

For the smallest, there are several options for sliding growth beds, the enclosure of which has round, safe shapes, is removed over time. The bed itself increases in length, the bed is transformed into a pair of high chairs or a sofa due to the modular sections. Changing table of some models as the child grows up is modified into a rack for toys, books, a bedside table for flowers, a TV.

For younger students, the transforming bed can be very simple, folding like an accordion. In a room for two children, beds are optimal, moving one under the other, located on different tiers.

Older students are more interested in models that resemble adult office, folding sofas. It will help the loft bed, which will provide a sweet sleep under the ceiling, a place to store toys, a dressing room, will allow you to freely place in the room a table for classes. Such furniture is selected for any interior is relatively inexpensive, IKEA network offers a large selection.

Manufacturing materials

In addition to the type of folding mechanism of the bed, its external qualities, the buyer should be interested in the type of material from which it is made. By means of the most affordable will be the construction of chipboard, MDF boards. But it must be remembered that the glue that is used in the manufacture of furniture products from them, can provoke an allergic reaction.

Eco-friendly wooden options from solid beech, pine, oak, other species, although in price, but they are distinguished by high strength, the ability to serve for a long time.

The undisputed market leader is the bed cabinets, tables, portable stools and armchairs in which the frame is made of iron. Products do not need additional care, pests are not terrible, compared with models made of other materials, they are more reliable and safe. The only negative is their heavy weight.

Another popular material is plastic. He is not afraid of moisture, well resists mechanical wear.

The combined frame is more aesthetic and durable, but requires improved mechanics, which without problems will keep a serious weight of wood and metal.

The main criteria for selecting the appropriate model

The market of transformers is represented by overall combined wardrobes, which are equipped with beds and dressing rooms. Small narrow canisters, modest corner models, do not take up much space in a tiny room. When choosing a folding bed should be guided by the following criteria:

1. First, they are determined with the type of construction, they think over into what piece of furniture the modular bed should turn into.
2. The required number of beds. It affects the size and type of folding mechanism.
3. Is the functionality important? There will be shelves and drawers at the model only with a sham, or inside you can actually hide a certain amount of clothes, and place books and trinkets outside.
4. Particular attention - folding mechanism. The transformation process should not require extra effort even from a fragile girl. Everything should unfold and rotate like clockwork. Safety of operation depends on this point.
5. Which mattress to choose is a private matter, but for good posture, the experts strongly recommend hard filler.
6. The optimal shape of the legs for heavy construction - g-shaped or made in the form of a wide board.
7. Fashionable ecological coconut fillers are not the best choice for a transformer, they will create an excessive weight load. Do not deform, do not burden the mechanism of orthopedic latex mattresses.

Conclusion

Not always the ideal model exists on sale. Some will require serious investments, manufacturing on special order. The main feature of transformers is the ability to satisfy any requirements. At the request of the customer, the size of the design will best fit the intended interior, fit into a beige, blue or black and white range of other furniture in a spacious country house or a modest city apartment. A crib, a wardrobe bed can be purchased ready-made. For some, it will be especially attractive to order a model of an individual look, and then assemble it with your own hands.