Racks, their purpose and varieties

Shelving is very comfortable, and therefore extremely common home furniture. They do not occupy excess space in the room, they are spacious, you can place a lot of a variety of objects on them. In addition, shelving can be a wonderful internal partition for large rooms. And shelving can be a wonderful and stylish addition to the design of the room.

More information about the types of shelving

If you look in the catalog, you can find a very impressive variety of all sorts of racks. However, all this diversity is usually divided into three main types:

On whatnots;
On a roller coaster;
On the display rack.

Shelves - these are racks on which it is customary to place books, all sorts of cute little things, toys and crafts. On the slides - dishes, equipment, small items of clothing (gloves, hats, etc.). On a display rack, you can perfectly place a TV or home theater, antiques, the same books or magazines. In general, there are many options here, and it all depends on the desire and imagination of the owners, as well as how much this or that thing will fit into the overall design of the room.

Division of racks according to their functions

Despite the fact that shelving - furniture is quite democratic (that is, designed for a wide variety of purposes and objects), however, they are usually divided into functions - in other words, how they are designed. In this sense, shelving can be:

Single or double sided;
Stationary (motionless) and mobile (that is, those that can be moved from one place to another);
Open and closed;
Integral and modular (i.e., consisting of several parts);
With back wall and without wall.

In fact, this is a complete overview of the racks for their functional design. It is clear that you need to choose one or another rack taking into account which room and for what purposes it will be used and how this or that type will fit into the overall interior.

Materials for the production of shelving

Currently, shelving is made from a wide variety of materials:

From wood;
From chipboard;
From laminated plywood;
Made of plastic;
From drywall;
From metal;
Made of shockproof glass.

However, a shelf is such furniture that can be made both from homogeneous materials, and simultaneously from several. Combined shelves made of several materials have always been popular: a metal shelving with wooden shelves, a shelving of wood with plastic shelves, a shelving of metal and glass, a shelving of plywood and wood - in a word, there can be many options.

Shelving for different rooms

Again, it is very important to combine the material from which the rack is made, and the room in which such a rack will be placed.If, for example, the rack is designed for a bedroom, living room or nursery, then the rack is not made of metal, but of wood, since metal gives a feeling of cold, and wood, on the contrary, makes the room warm and cozy. In addition to the rooms in the house, where coziness plays a primary role, in every house there are rooms where the owners do not visit as often, and guests do not visit there at all. These are all kinds of utility rooms: pantries, workshops, cellars, loggias, balconies, garages. Compared to the main rooms, it is primarily not comfort, but practicality that matters. In such rooms, shelving made of a material that is not subject to temperature extremes and is not afraid of excessive humidity may be more useful. For example, shelving made of metal or plastic. In addition, the size of the rooms must be taken into account. A large-sized rack will look out of place in a small bedroom, as well as a small slide in a huge living room. A bookcase fits perfectly into the nursery, on which you can put books, toys, children's crafts, and which can also divide the room into two halves - the one where the child learns lessons and plays and the one where he rests. It is also very important to combine the colors of the shelves with the overall color scheme of the room in which the shelving will be placed. Recently, manufacturers began to produce racks with non-standard colors and shapes. This is done so that the room with their help could be turned into an ancient castle, into a cave, into the cabin of a pirate ship or even into the cabin of an intergalactic space ship. Mobile shelves equipped with wheels can perfectly change the design of the room. A very interesting solution in this sense is shelving with hidden lighting. It creates an original design in the room. Currently, shelving is perhaps the most common and multifunctional type of furniture.