Glass elements of furniture make it less bulky, more airy and elegant. Quite often cabinets with glass doors are found in living rooms, kitchens, offices. In them, it is customary to store utensils, books, exhibit collectible specimens and all sorts of trinkets.
Varieties of cabinets with glass doors
In the case of a library, the most appropriate one is a bookcase with glass doors made of solid wood. Such solid furniture will emphasize the status and high position of the owner.
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In the living room, light cabinets-racks and cabinets-showcases with glass doors, including corner ones, are more acceptable. They look festive and perfectly demonstrate the best examples of dishes and other items that the hostess wants to parade.
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In the kitchens you can often find hinged cabinets with glass doors. They do not clutter up space, leaving a lot of light and space, which certainly will benefit in this room.
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In the bedroom there is also glass furniture. For example, a closet with glass doors. It is stunningly fits into modern interiors, being not just a huge storage for clothes and accessories, but also a decoration of the room, one of its main elements.
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Advantages and disadvantages of glass doors
Among the advantages of glass surfaces is the variety of possibilities for their decoration. They can be matte, with various patterns and inlays, with a relief surface, sandblasting patterns, with or without toning. All this makes it possible to select the doors of the cabinet in accordance with their tastes and style of the room.
In addition, as already mentioned, glass doors contribute to the visual expansion of the room, creating a sense of volume and a large amount of light in the room.
From the shortcomings of glass doors in the cabinets, one can call their instability to shocks by heavy and hard objects. However, today manufacturers are trying to use thick and tempered glass to exclude this factor.