If you rephrase the statement of one of the founders of the Moscow Art Theater, K. S. Stanislavsky, that the theater begins with a hanger, we can say that the apartment begins with the hallway, from the place where we rent what we were on the street: shoes, outerwear, headgear , and immerse ourselves in the atmosphere of home comfort. The halls and varieties of bedside tables for shoes will be discussed in the article.
Hallways have a different area: from a narrow corridor 4 meters long and 1 meter wide to a large room, which will fit not only a shoe stand. In the hallway, you can install other furniture.
Choosing furniture in a small hallway
Arrangement of any kind of hallway, small or large, you need to start with the choice of practical and functional furniture. In the recommendations of modern designers on the design of the hallway, the obligatory attributes are a hanger and a cabinet for shoes in which it will be hidden. In this case, the apartment looks neat.
For a small entrance hall (four square meters), wall hangers with the number of hooks, which should be at least the number of living family members, are relevant. In such a hallway it will look great and does not take up much space on the nightstand in the hallway (photo above) in the layout with wall panels with hooks for clothes in the upper row. In the middle of the panel there are also hooks for children's clothes or for handbags and bags. This type of furniture, even when there is demi-season or winter clothing on the hooks, does not clutter the corridor, which is the hallway. Shoes are hidden in the shoe rack. In summer, such a set of furniture is not loaded at all with clothes.
Furniture for a spacious hallway
The entrance hall of medium size (12 m 2 ), like a small one, should fulfill its main function - storage of things. It is not worth furnishing it with cluttering space. The main thing in the selection of furniture should be comfortable use, compactness, furniture should be ergonomic. Modern furniture manufacturers offer different types of sets.
These include: a ready-made kit, modular and custom-made furniture according to the size of the customer. In a set of furniture, an obligatory attribute is a bedside table for shoes in the hallway. Usually it has a depth of 30-35 centimeters, with a height of 80 to 100 centimeters it will fit all the shoes of family members.
The medium-sized entrance hall will fit a wardrobe for outerwear, a shelf for hats, and a stand for umbrellas. Everything will depend on which set of furniture will be selected.
Varieties of cabinets for storing shoes
When purchasing cabinets for shoes, you need to pay attention to their varieties. Compact, closed models are used to store a large number of shoes. They are made of wood or chipboard. A closed pedestal gives a neat appearance to the hallway.
Often, halls use open cabinets for shoes. They are made of any material: wood, plastic, lightweight metal. An open cabinet has its pros and cons. The convenience is that the shoes are ventilated, but they are in full view and do not look very attractive, this is minus the open cupboards. In principle, this is a budget and the best option for country houses, which also have halls. Bedside tables with combined shelves are appropriate in any hallway. They have a closed part and open shelves.
Cassette design for shoes
In more detail, you should stop at the choice of bedside tables in the hallway, designed for shoes. Choosing it, you should focus not only on the area of the hallway, but also take into account the number of shoes that are in the household. The cupboard for shoes of standard sizes with horizontal shelves in small hallways looks bulky. The slim-style model will look perfect, the width of which is up to 20 centimeters, and it has a shelf tilt of 45 degrees.
Curbstones for shoes are produced in various designs. The most practical and common ones are cassette with several deep drawers. When opening such a box, it extends outward and has a horizontal or vertical shoe tab. Such a cabinet includes a significant amount of shoes. When purchasing it, you should pay attention to the rigidity of the back wall, as well as the mandatory attachment of the box to the wall with hinged loops.
Dresser for shoes
The design with hinged doors looks more like a chest of drawers. This option is for a large entrance hall. A bedside table of such a plan will not appear bulky in it. In addition, shoes in boxes that are not used can be compactly placed in such a model. The option with a drawer is suitable for a hallway in which there is no other furniture with drawers. In this box, which is usually located at the top of the cabinet, you can store all kinds of accessories: gloves, handbags, shoe creams, brushes, combs, notebooks, keys.
Separate conversation about bedside tables in the hallway with a seat. This acquisition option makes sense if the family has older people who are more comfortable with shoes and shoes while sitting.
Useful tips when choosing a piece of furniture
Before purchasing a bedside table in the hallway you need to measure the space where you are going to put it. Based on measurements, it will be easier to determine which bedside table is better to buy. It is also worth paying attention to the material from which it is made: wood, lightweight metal, particleboard or MDF. Any material has its advantages and disadvantages. Do not forget that it is the shoe table that is most often exposed to dust and moisture. They don’t put dirty shoes in the cabinet, but they’re not clean enough and sometimes wet still on its shelves.
All materials of which the furniture is made, especially wood, undergo a special treatment against delamination and deformation. But the shoe table made of wood loses its neat and attractive appearance if you do not take care of the shoes, and even the table. The life of the furniture depends on the conditions in which the furniture will be contained.
The shoe cabinet must be stable. And if it is narrow and high, then it must have an additional fastening to the wall so that it does not fall. If a bedside table with a folding seat is selected, you need to make sure that the mechanism works without defects, and that the seat is finished with high quality.