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Design features of the cabinet around the window
When a narrow elongated room has a window at its end, it can be reduced in a visual way by building a system of cabinets at the window and freeing up space from other dimensional items for storage.
![Cabinets around the window](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkafy-vokrug-okna-590x443.jpg)
In typical apartments, the window is usually located approximately in the center of the wall, and more often short.
![shelves around the window](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/polki-vokrug-okna-590x367.jpg)
Next you need to equip the closet shelves, drawers, bar, hooks or any other items of clothing.
Content
Project implementation
A rigid structure is mounted in the walls on the sides of the window opening, which requires a thorough fixing of the back side to the walls so that it cannot tip over.
![cabinets around the window](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkafy-vokrug-okna-1-590x443.jpg)
The angles on either side of the window are often empty or only partially used.
![A window in the design of bookshelves](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Okno-v-oformlenii-iz-knizhnyh-polok-590x406.jpg)
Does not interfere and internal lighting.
When building a cabinet around a window, you can limit the installation of two shelves, but it is better to use the U-shaped version, when the same shelves are connected by an upper shelf. It is possible to attach a curtain rail or tire to it, or use curtains with a window fastener:
- roll;
- roman;
- jalousie.
![Table and wardrobe around the window](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Stol-i-shkaf-vokrug-okna-590x518.jpg)
If the apartment is small, every scrap of space is valuable.
![Wardrobe around the window in the nursery](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkaf-vokrug-okna-v-detskoj.jpg)
The larger the room, the deeper can be the dressing room near the window.
If the textile decoration of the window is not provided, then the upper plane can be decorated with spotlights or pendants, creating the illusion of a light curtain in the evenings.
![built-in closets on the sides of the window](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/vstroennye-shkafy-po-bokam-ot-okna-590x394.jpg)
Here centimeters are idle for nothing, although it is possible to use them to the fullest.
![Built-in wardrobes to order](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Vstroennye-shkafy-na-zakaz.jpg)
And in the space between them there will be a sofa, a desk or a dressing table.
It is better to calculate the height of the cabinet up to the ceiling so that it harmoniously fits into the space, being an extension of the walls of the room.
![location of cabinets in the room](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/raspolozhenie-shkafov-v-komnate.jpg)
What should be placed on the sides of the window, so that this area is not empty, but beneficial?
![The closet around the window in the room plays the role of a dressing room and cabinet.](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkaf-vokrug-okna-v-komnate-ispolnjaet-rol-garderobnoj-i-kabineta.jpg)
In this "zakutka" you can organize a reading corner, putting a chair there and hanging bookshelves.
Style direction dictates the appearance
The design of the cabinet around the window can organically "fit" into the interior of any style. If the main motive of the room is a classic, then it is appropriate to decorate the upper part with cornices, fillets, and the front racks with decorative slats.
![Wardrobe around the window in the nursery](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkaf-vokrug-okna-v-detskoj-svoimi-590x441.jpg)
It may not even be wardrobes, but rather mini-dressing rooms.
![Wardrobe around the window in white flowers](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkaf-vokrug-okna-v-belom-cvety-590x471.jpg)
In the nursery, an alcove near the window can be turned into a playhouse.
The Chinoiserie style dictates a special color scheme and inlay of the doors, and the Provence will require light colors and louvered doors, layouts on glass surfaces with mandatory lighting inside, or cambric curtains behind the glass. Modern Scandinavian style or minimalism will make it easier for craftsmen to make, since they imply open strict shelving without excessive decor.
![cabinet design around the window in the nursery](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/dizajn-shkafa-vokrug-okna-v-detskoj-590x423.jpg)
Such solutions are relevant for bedrooms - both adults and children.
![Plan with cabinets around the window](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Plan-so-shkafami-vokrug-okna-590x443.jpg)
Such arrangement of the near-window space is very common in the West.
Types of covering surfaces used in the design of the cabinet framing the window:
- complete lack of doors;
- deaf doors;
- combined doors;
- glass inserts on the facades;
- textile or rattan weaving in a frame;
- openwork door with a through thread.
![Handmade furniture](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mebel-ruchnoj-raboty-590x451.jpg)
To build structures of this kind, you need to build walls of plasterboard.
![Cabinet in a niche by the window](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkaf-v-nishe-u-okna-590x431.jpg)
Bookshelves fill areas on the sides of the window in the bedrooms, nurseries, living rooms, offices.
The latest versions of the doors themselves will be the main decoration of the room, without requiring other decorative elements.
![Cabinets around the window - cool ideas.](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkafy-vokrug-okna-klassnye-idei-590x394.jpg)
Cabinets can be high to the ceiling, which is the best option.
![Wardrobe around the window saves space.](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkaf-vokrug-okna-jekonomit-mesto-590x590.jpg)
Most often it is built-in structures that are constructed at the stage of finishing or repairing the room.
![idea - cabinets around the window](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ideja-shkafy-vokrug-okna-590x443.jpg)
These cabinets are used not only for books, but also for exhibiting decorative items, souvenirs, photographs, and in children's rooms - toys.
Depending on the purpose of the room, the filling of the cabinet can be as diverse as the items that are stored in it.
![rack around the window in the nursery for girls](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/stellazh-vokrug-okna-v-detskoj-dlja-devochki-590x393.jpg)
In this case, they look like part of the architecture.
![wardrobes do ceiling](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/shkafy-delat-pod-potolok.jpg)
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Between cabinets usually have a bench with a soft mattress.
Important features
When designing a cabinet project around a window, the following steps should be taken.
- Correctly calculate the depth of the shelves depending on their purpose. Books will need a maximum of 30 cm, and a wardrobe in the bedroom - 60 cm.
- Consider the width of each wing - whether the racks reach the window opening, make the niche deep or recede from it, creating the illusion of perspective.
- To determine the height of the shelves and compartments so that books, toys, and things could fit on them freely. The distance between the surfaces can be different, it is not necessary to make the structure symmetrical.
- Place the door mechanisms so that they open from the wall, and the angle is greater than 90 degrees.
- Provide roll-out drawers, extendable brackets, if the compartments are used as wardrobe closets.
![Wardrobe around the window in the bedroom](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkaf-vokrug-okna-v-spalne-590x518.jpg)
It is necessary to determine the type of door: it can be swinging, folding (accordion), sliding.
![Wardrobe around the window saves space.](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkaf-vokrug-okna-jekonomit-mesto-1-590x393.jpg)
Conveniently: I took the book and immediately sat down to read near the window.
A cabinet around a window is an opportunity to create a private reading corner inside it or to mount a desk. The only drawback - the lack of mobility, it can not be moved, will have to remove the entire structure.
![Cabinets around the window](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Shkafy-vokrug-okna-2-590x443.jpg)
However, it will be appropriate and cloth curtain instead of the door.
![desktop by the window](https://designtop.decorexpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/rabochij-stol-u-okna.jpg)
However, it can be not built-in, but ordinary furniture, ordered clearly by the size of the windows.
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