COMFORT… UNDER THE STAIRS | MODEL CONSTRUCTION

This area may be under the stairs not only in the country with an attic, but in the modern duplex apartments as living room and kitchen downstairs, and bedrooms upstairs. And usually this “Appendix” is seldom used as such, even a small space can be equipped diligently and thriftily, and, as evidenced by the Polish magazine “Throb himself”, is available for solo performances of pieces of furniture. The more that trade provides such a convenient and non-deficient materials, such as particleboard, furniture Board, wooden bars, wooden boards, slats, which can be treated with the usual household tools such as a hacksaw, drill, jigsaw, chisels, and screwdrivers and, of course, a hammer.

The easiest way to use podcasting space is shown in figure 1. This area with a sofa in the daytime and a bed at night. Collected of the appropriate size chipboard panels, the sofa has bottom drawers and bedside table (for example for bedding night stay: linen, blankets, pillows), and on the bed — soft foam mattresses in cloth covers and three are the same (or covers leatherette) cushion, playing the role of the back. On the sides of the sofa can be arranged in a locker, storage space with sliding door (left) and a box door (on the right) for household items or shoes.

Fig. 1. Area (A — variant):

1 — soft mattresses; 2 — dorsal cushion; 3 — lamp; 4 — drawers; 5 — a nightstand with hinged door 6 — door, closing the drawer; 7 — sliding door.

Instead of a sofa in this place you can gather multifunction of “bookcase” (Fig. 2) from the vertical support and horizontal load-bearing panels made of furniture Board to simplify without doors. Open access on the shelves to provide certain things that you can enjoy them and at the same time carries some decorative load to adjacent to this area of the room. Large vertical compartment on the left is equipped with the same purpose a mirror; it also has a shelf under the phone and padded stool, and the top — two built-in, closed triangle mezzanine lamp. That can be placed on a “shelf”, demonstrates the presented pattern.

Fig. 2. Multifunction of “bookcase”:

1 — compartment with mirror; 2 — lamps; 3 gallery; 4 — place for stool; 5 — shelves “shelves”; 6 — door, closing the drawer.

If palestyny area tight, it is expedient to equip the closed case. It can be sectional, as shown in figure 3. In blind compartments arranged shelves. Door sections — patterned, “lattice”, solid lining (A) or grooved rails (B).

Fig. 3. Palestyny Cabinet:

1 — door sections of the Cabinet; 2 — deaf compartments; And — the doors of the wagon; B — the door of the grooved boards.

Can be fitted under the stairs and a purely economic angle (Fig. 4). In addition to the already encountered in the previous versions the mezzanine and floor box for utilitarian objects, arranged in three separate closed compartment, behind doors which are a wardrobe with shelves and a narrow vertical section for clothes, a refrigerator (or, for example, washing machine), a narrow column with pots or utensils. Doors are for decorative purposes are also made bead type blinds of thin plates slouchy from top to bottom.

Fig. 4. Economic area:

1 — door Cabinet with shelves and vertical partition; 2 — door compartment of the refrigerator; 3 — refrigerator; 4 — column with utensils; 5 economic; 6 — mezzanine; — the upper rack vertical partition.

It could justify itself, and the device in Palestina space mnogomernogo stowage rack (Fig. 5) uniting in the General construction of all the components of the compartments from the floor box up to the mezzanine. The latter, owing to the small sizes can be set aside for small items for household purposes, and placed in cabinets or clearance things like brushes with long handles and cleaner, or, on the contrary, small: various bottles, vials and jars. Doors in this case will hung on piano hinges, the panels of the furniture Board or particle Board.

Fig. 5. Stowage area with closed sections.

In country version in the narrow place under leading to the first floor staircase could be accommodated kitchenette with electric cooker (Fig. 6). Modern heat-shielding sheets of pressed the small tube will protect the walls of the oven from the wooden walls, ensuring the required safety of the appliance. In the attic, enough space for pots and other kitchen utensils, and shelves covered by blinds type blinds will be located the utensils and containers with stocks of cereals, canned food, beverages. There exploded a niche for wicker baskets for storing vegetables.

Fig. 6. Kitchenette:

1 — electric oven and hob; 2 — shelf with movable blinds type blinds; 3 — mezzanine; 4 — roller blind compartment with a table and culinary shelves; 5 — wicker basket.

Finally, if the space under the stairs spacious enough, it is possible to equip even the study (Fig. 7), which is to establish or make a Desk with a computer, place your next bookshelf, to put the bedside table and hang up the phone. The privacy of this area will contribute to the success of educational or creative work.

Fig. 7. Work area:

1 — desktop; 2 — computer; 3 — shelf; 4 — telephone 5 — bedside table with door.

B. VLADIMIROV

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