A special place of the kitchen in modern apartments predetermines its functionality, durability and ergonomic design. Elements of furniture for this area should be light and durable, interchangeable if necessary. Only modular kitchens meet these requirements in the modern market.
Materials of modern modular kitchens
The main element of the whole construction is cabinets made of especially strong materials. Choosing the right basis for furniture will save costs and create a unique style. The more extensive your knowledge of this or that material used in the manufacture of the kitchen, the easier it is to make a choice. The most popular are: an array of wood, MDF-plates, polished chipboard sheets, plastic.
Modular kitchens from solid wood
The most durable cabinets make of a wooden file. The raw material is wood of low degree of density (spruce, chestnut, linden and poplar) and hardwood (elm, beech, ash). Modular kitchens made of pine are found on sale less often: in contrast to the fact that it is considered a soft breed, the furniture turns out beautiful and serves a long time. If you combine different wood in one cabinet, the supporting shelves can be made from coniferous wood.
Pine can replace a natural array of oak, cherry or maple - they have an aesthetic structure and sufficient elasticity. These types of wood are easily cleaned of domestic pollution, with the passage of time, they rarely appear stains from improper operation. Polished array looks much more attractive in a combination of modular kitchen, but it is noticeable scratches and other defects.
Modular Kitchens MDF
MDF-plates from wood fiber, paraffin treated. They differ in this level of softness of wood pressing, which allows you to process raw materials in any way, which gives a lot of imagination to any designer. Modular cabinets for kitchen from MDF can be made the basic details of an interior, experimenting with coverings from a laminate and vinyl.
For the kitchen, a plate of fiber pre-impregnated with a solution of fungus and mold is recommended. Then, the moisture present during cooking on the stove will not affect the appearance of the cabinets and the work surface. MDF furniture does not hit at all on a pocket: its cost is 2-3 times lower than that of classical wood. Due to the fact that the slabs pass through several stages of processing during the creation, they are resistant to kitchen shelves.
Modular kitchen from chipboard
The popularity of chipboard boards has long been a thing of the past, as they are unstable and quickly lose marketability. Such problems do not happen, if in the modulation of cabinets participates LDAP-plates, coated with polymer-films to gloss. First, the chipboard was used exclusively for the office environment. In the kitchen, they began to be used after the refractory slab of wood and shavings was created. While DSP releases a large amount of formaldehyde into the air, glossy kitchens with a modular surface are completely harmless from an environmental point of view.
Cabinets of composite materials are absolutely waterproof, their film coating does not decompose on contact with acids, detergents and powders. In them, you can fix the necessary number of shelves, not worrying about the safety of furniture: pressed chips are good for holding screws and screws. You do not have to worry about the choice among the limited color range of wood: the kitchen you choose can be covered with a film of any color.
Modular kitchens from plastic
In the brightness of the color solutions of the chipboard, an alternative can only be plastic. When choosing it, it should be understood that the doors and shelves will not be made of plastic only: it is a coating on a sheet of particle board or MDF board. Depending on the selection of films for the facade, distinguish: modular kitchens with photo printing, matte and combined. Trends are considered prints with ethnic and plant patterns. Any of them does not burn out under the rays of sunlight, it is washed with a sponge with means for cleaning utensils or plates. Modular kitchens with corner cupboards can be decorated with a mix of several ornaments.
Stylish modular kitchens
Modular kitchen in a modern apartment is almost always combined with the dining room and working area. Its advantages over any standard furniture kit is precisely that a completely different in size and design parts of the system can be assembled in a composition convenient for work, rest and food. Combine different interior items should be based on the fact that the modular kitchens consist of independent furniture sections. Picking cabinets and shelves in one style, do not forget about their main purpose - functionality and roominess.
Modular classic kitchen
Wooden furniture - a win-win for inexperienced designers. It fits into any situation: for the kitchen cabinets do not have to redesign the design of living rooms. Modular kitchens-classics are executed in two color scales: dark and light. Furniture of the first type will visually reduce the space of an overly spacious dining room, and the second will expand the available square meters at your disposal.
Modular cuisine Provence
The tree serves as a material for furniture in the Provencal style that came from France. This is the design of the so-called "village" kitchen, suitable for apartments and country houses. Provence is a unique combination of pastel tones (from milk to mint), simplicity of materials, shapes and fabrics in a single design. Please note that purchasing modular kitchens in this style will have to be spent additionally on other decor elements: curtains with plain embroidery, flower pots with sprouts of greens and vintage accessories.
If you like to break stereotypes, you will like the modular kitchen wenge, unusual for the French style of golden-chestnut coloring, but this is no less fashionable. The material from this tropical wood costs not cheaply, therefore the kitchen module only partially consists of it, being combined with the bleached oak, an alder and a nut. If you plan to combine wenge with plastic, be guided by pistachio, plum and coral color palette.
Modular kitchen loft
Loft - the choice of a resident of a large city. Whatever room in the apartment you decide not to furnish, it should meet the moods of brutal industrial chic. Modules will be fixed and installed on the background of brickwork, shiny large diameter pipes, partitions. Loft like people who are pursuing the goal of creating a creative environment with minimal costs.
This design variant assumes a spacious room with large windows and high ceilings. For owners of apartments with a small dining area, dreaming of a full loft, you need an option such as modular mini kitchens. If before they were considered only office, then in recent years they have been installed in apartment-studios due to their exquisite appearance. They are similar to functional cabinets, in which there was a place of dishes, a stove, a microwave oven and a dishwasher.
Modular kitchen of high-tech
The loft can be more popular than high-tech. In the kitchen it is realized in several ways. The simplest way to combine matte wood and metal shine is in the cupboards with elegant steel handles. Futurism requires defiant colors, experimental dishes and an ergonomic working surface. Geometric hi-tech is a white modular kitchen with strict black details.
The main disadvantage of any modular kitchen is the limited possible options for assembly and the relatively high cost of cabinets and tables made of natural wood. Ready-made furniture combinations are difficult to combine with a design idea, as they are standardized. But to replace one of the elements of the kitchen system without disrupting the overall style will not be difficult.