I did a survey in the studio :
Q: What are the functions of your sideboard?
More than 60% of people answered yes: storage!
It can be seen that even a group of us who are soaked in the life and home circle underestimate the sideboard, and ordinary families can imagine!
So, let's talk about this todayThe cabinet that is seriously underestimated by Chinese families - the sideboard, see what are its possibilities? How can it be better utilized?
This is the most obvious function of the sideboard, everyone understands, but many people don't understand what is: how to make good use of it?
As a result, in many families, the sideboard is still empty, but the dining table is still cluttered.
The biggest reason for excluding the habits of family members is that the storage of the sideboard is not convenient enough.
Like in the picture above, in my house, I regret not making drawers for the sideboard, but making the door with swing doors, resulting in every time I take an item, I either have to climb high, or squat on the ground to rummage.
So, I will always advise families who have not yet made a sideboard:
Sideboard, be sure to make more drawers.
If you are afraid that there are large items that you can't put away, you must at least make a row of drawers like in the picture above, which is specially used to store those small items that will cause the dining table to be messy, and the drawers will be much more convenient than the cabinet.
In addition, it can also be placed above the open compartment, where it is easy to access, to make a lift door, and store commonly used objects, which is also very convenient.
What should I do if I have already made a swing door at home?
It can be transformed with drawer track + storage tray!
As shown in the figure, it is a drawer that is transformed by using a drawer track + storage tray.
The first layer of tea bags, the second layer of cups and tools, the third layer of large cups and teapots a little higher, the fourth layer of temporary, tea leaves, sundries, etc.
Just in time, another function of the sideboard we are going to talk about below - water bar!
The simplest version is to put an instant hot water dispenser in the open compartment and add your own water.
If you think it's troublesome to add your own water, you can get a tea bar machine and store the bottled mineral water in the cabinet under the open compartment of the sideboard.
If you still feel that bottled mineral water, it is troublesome to change the water.
Then install a ** water purifier at home, and then lead a pipe to the sideboard, and then install a pipeline machine.
In order to prevent the pipeline machine wire water pipe from being exposed and not good-looking, you can install an installed socket at the location of the pipeline machine in advance, and pre-embed a 4 pipe, which can be led to the cabinet.
The schematic diagram is as above, and the pipeline machine can be hung directly behind it, which can achieve the effect of not exposing the line at all.
Of course, it is better if there is ** water purification in the community, and even the water purifier is saved at home, and there is no need to change the consumables.
The water bar is ready, okay, the rest of the tea bar, coffee bar, and bar are simple, just put the corresponding things directly.
But the open compartment of the sideboard is not only limited to these drinking devices, but also for cooking.
Such as rice cookers, bread makers, juicers, ......These small kitchen appliances without oil smoke can be placed here.
Then, the sideboard has one more function, a small kitchen electric area.
These things are actually suitable for putting here, the rice cooker is convenient to put here, and the juicer, bread maker, etc. are placed here, so you can make breakfast without going to the kitchen.
It is only necessary to install a track socket here to solve the power supply problem of small household appliances in the open grid when decorating.
If you don't install it in the early stage, if you want to change it later, you can also change the track socket to the ordinary socket.
If you are afraid that there will be water, it will damage the cabinet, so you can pave the open lattice and the back with stone, and the top cabinet can also be made of metal cabinets and glass cabinets.
In the early days, those who did not make stone, metal cabinets and glass cabinets can also be separated from water by opening lattice pads and films.
Finally, add a cat's eye sensor lamp injected into the soul, and the practicality, function, and effect are all there.
In addition to small household appliances, if the kitchen does not have enough space, and the restaurant has, you can also rest assured that you can put the big appliance - the refrigerator into the sideboard.
At this time, you may face a problem, the thickness of the refrigerator and the sideboard are different, the refrigerator has to be 60cm thick even if you buy it flat, while the sideboard is generally 35cm thick.
What to do? The least recommended thing is to do these step-by-step styles, which are abrupt and not good-looking;
Slightly better is to do this diamond chamfering scheme;
But the most recommended thing is to make the base cabinet 60 with the thickness of the refrigerator, and the wall cabinet to the thickness of the sideboard.
In this way, the storage space of the base cabinet has also increased, and the countertop has also increased, and the open compartment will not be too deep and inconvenient to take items.
Some people may think that this appearance is also average, and it will also look abrupt, and it is not even as good as the diamond corner cabinet.
Don't worry, there is one last step - change the color of the wall cabinet, this is an aesthetic law, and the effect will be improved a lot.
This is basically the limit of the appearance of ordinary refrigerators in the sideboard, if you are not satisfied, then go to the fully embedded refrigerator.
You can hide the refrigerator directly in the cabinet, but the cost is slightly higher.
Of course, in order to be easy to use and look good, the open grid should be shrunk or shrunk, and the color should be jumped.
At this point, in fact, the function of the sideboard itself has been talked about 9.
The remaining 10% will involve another big design concept - Western kitchen.
On the basis of the above functions, you only need to add two more things to have all the elements of a western kitchen.
One is a steam oven and the other is a faucet.
In order to be more like a western kitchen, an additional island dining table is added, which is a standard western kitchen.
Of course, the faucet doesn't have to be on the sideboard, if the island is big enough, it can be set on the island, which is more reasonable.
I think it's more appropriate to have a built-in induction cooker on the sideboard than to make a sink faucet on the sideboard.
At this point, it is a super-configured western kitchen.
Western kitchen, this thing belongs to the improvement attribute of the very strong thing, yes, will feel a lot more convenient, can accomplish a lot of things here.
making complementary food for children; Watching the children while washing, preparing, and chopping vegetables; Rolling dough and making dumplings ......It can be used in life scenes.
Of course, the premise is that the restaurant at home must be large enough to be a Western kitchen. If it is extremely small and the seat can't be placed, then the sideboard may be the design of the card seat.
The most common practice is the following, and the default solution that most custom designers give you, is a row of cabinets under the bench.
It can be used, but it is not comfortable enough, and the cabinet under it is not convenient to use.
It is more reasonable to use the following figure to suspend the row of cabinets below as a drawer.
In this way, storage is more accessible, it is more comfortable to sit, and the human foot can move freely.
Of course, if you want to be more comfortable, there is no shortage of storage space, and you can even consider removing the row of cabinets at the bottom.
Finally, the sideboard that I don't recommend the most, and the function that can be achieved - the display cabinet.
The reason I don't recommend it is that the average home really doesn't have much to show, and the glass is hard to wipe.
But in order to write the contents of the sideboard completely, this point must be present.
Finally, you may find that these are the practices of custom cabinets that I said above, and whether the sideboard at home can only be made as a custom cabinet in order to be perfect.
No, the situation of each family is different, not necessarily all functions have to be wanted, such as Western kitchen, not all families want, not all families can afford it, then at this time, in fact, like the picture above, the design of the finished sideboard is more complete, it is also a good choice.