Table-windowsill - rationality, convenience, ingenuity (24 photos)

For most people, windowsill is just a place for flowers. You can also grow onions on it. Well, sometimes you can put an iron or a stack of books on it. However, it is difficult for owners of a small-sized apartment, especially if she has small children in Khrushchev and her family, it is difficult to allocate a separate table for each family member for work or classes; the thought of how to make a table out of the windowsill comes often enough.

Window sill in the interior: good or not?

The answer to this question in many respects depends on how well it will be possible to combine the function that the window sill performs with the requirements in each particular case for the table being created. And also on how beautiful and convenient its implementation will be. The advantages and disadvantages of tables designed on the basis of window sills are discussed below.

Benefits

Its most important advantage is that wherever it is built, for example, in the bedroom, in the living room or in the children's room, it will always allow the most rational use of the space of this room.

Of course, a lot of living space in this way is unlikely to be saved, but for those who live in Khrushchev sometimes an extra square meter is a pleasant find. Such a table may turn out to be not only another element of the interior, but also a separate computer or desk for the teenager’s son, whom he had long dreamed about.

A window sill, like a table in a nursery, can also give your child the place where he will calmly, without disturbing others, sculpt, draw, construct. Such a workplace will also become interesting for him, as you can always combine your classes with no less interesting observations of passing cars, running cats and dogs, and flying crows and pigeons. The window sill in the nursery can also have drawers, which for children of any gender will be a very popular constructive addition:

• the girl will have the opportunity to streamline, finally, the storage of her “jewelry” and outfits for dolls;
• for the boy there will be garages for miniature cars and warehouses for toy weapons.

A table instead of a window sill for an apartment in Khrushchev will free up space for a bedside table for video or audio equipment. A window sill on a balcony or loggia is also easy to turn into a desktop. As a result, someone who likes to make, for example, from wood, will have his own separate workshop in which he will be able to saw and plan, without fear of disturbing others.

A desk-window sill for a student will provide him with good illumination, which means that it will not only help to preserve his vision, but also save energy spent on lighting.

As you can see, the window-sill table in the room has certain advantages, and they are significant.

disadvantages

Along with the advantages, such tables into which window sills can be transformed create some inconvenience.

So, for example, the excellent illumination of such a windowsill in the form of a table also has a “reverse” side: when the sun shines on the window, an excess of light may occur, and this is as undesirable a situation as its drawback, so you will have to install blinds on the window.

In most apartments, both of modern layouts and in Khrushchev, batteries are located directly under the window sills, which will contribute to more heating of the legs than at a regular table. This situation will cause pleasant sensations for some, but some may not like it. In addition, the circulation of heated air will deteriorate slightly, since the table top extends a considerable distance from the window, therefore, it will prevent the vertical rise of warm air coming from the battery.

In principle, this problem is not difficult to solve: in the countertop near the location of the battery you need to make holes (round or oblong) that will allow free passage of warm air through them, thereby restoring the usual circulation of air masses in the room. Today, in stores you can find inserts made of plastic or metal for such technological holes, which will give an aesthetic appearance to self-made “holes”.

The window sill passing into the table has a non-standard large width, so it is hardly possible to use long, previously hanging beautiful curtains. You will either have to shorten the curtains greatly, or install blinds or blinds. The latter option with blinds and roller blinds in this situation looks more attractive, since such a system of dimming is convenient to use, and you can close the window without disturbing the order on the table.

The design of the windowsill may be such that it requires the work of the artist to achieve the aesthetics of the created structure.

In principle, this is practically all the shortcomings that the windowsill tables have.

Such structures can be installed in any room, but depending on its purpose, it is selected:

• simpler or more complicated design;
• the material from which the table-sill is made;
• its color and decoration, combined with the general style of interior design of the room.

Next, we will consider one of the most common options for using tables created on the basis of window sills.

Window sill in the kitchen

Any interior of any room requires a reasonable layout. In a small kitchen in Khrushchev, this is all the more important. One of the winning solutions that are most often implemented in the kitchen is the combination of the countertop and window sill so that the dining table becomes part of the design of the window sill.

Often a window sill (especially with a considerable width) takes up a lot of space, the functional use of which is very limited: a place for plants, sometimes dishes, coffee grinders, etc. It is hardly rational to arrange a flower exhibition on the window and huddle on the remnants of the square. You can more competently approach the organization of the kitchen space.

A table-top window sill will be appropriate not only in a small kitchen in Khrushchev, but also in the elite interior of spacious apartments with huge kitchens can be quite a convenient kitchen table or a kind of bar counter. At the same time, the countertop can be not only made of wood, but also made of PVC, and even made of stone. Wooden tables, possessing natural warmth, are more pleasant to the touch, but plastic ones are easier to clean.

The folding-type window-sill instead of the window-sill in the ordinary kitchen will be especially convenient in Khrushchev, because in this case, when it is not used, a little more space is released. But the corner table, which is a continuation of the window sill and occupying the space from the window to the corner of the room and passing further along the other wall, is suitable only for modern kitchens, for which saving space is not very relevant.

If there is sufficient width for the window sills, a retractable plane can be built into them, which, when extended, is a continuation of this window sill, forming, together with the latter, a fairly fully functional dining table.

The basis of the modern trend of room arrangement is the most useful use of each square decimeter of living space, so the window sill today is increasingly not just a place for a home garden or flower bed, but a work area for a person with a laptop or a desk for a school student, or a dining table in the kitchen.