Sofa is one of the most important furniture items in the house. It is necessary when adopting guests, daily rest or even for sleep. Built-in liners make it even more convenient and versatile.
Features, Advantages and Disadvantages
The straight sofa has a simple geometric shape, which makes it convenient for accommodation in the apartment. With him, it will not have to think for a long time to make the furniture unusual for example, for example, angular.
Such furniture is easily standing along the walls and in the middle of the room, dividing it into zones.
Most modern sofas are equipped with a linen box. They meet not only with folding, but also not transforming models.
The main advantage of such sofas is ergonomics. The folding sofa performs three functions at once, being a seat for the day and a sleeping place, it can also be stored underwear or other things. The ability to decompose and collect a sofa – the way to save space, especially if it does not differ in the large size.
The box, equipped in the sofa – in itself the advantage that can act as an independent element in furniture. It is a useful addition to the design of not even unfolding sofas. Storage in it Bed linen allows you to highlight a place in the closet for other things.
Most often sofas possess interesting or elegant classic design. Thanks to this, they often become the main emphasis in the interior.
The disadvantage can be called the need to disassemble the sofa, even if it does not have strength, after a difficult day. Also, with the placement of furniture in the apartment it is worth considering that in unfolded form a similar bed place is more space than in the assembled.
There should be no other furniture before him, for example, a coffee table, otherwise it will have to shift it every evening.
Finally, on some sofas there are too deep depressions – the places of folding, which is not suitable for people with sensitive sleep and the helpful comfort.
Types and transformation mechanisms
Regardless of the view, each sofa is a modern furniture with a bedroom or living room. Transformation mechanisms differ from each other by folding:
- Eurobook. The seat must be pulled forward, and the back is put on an empty place;
- Accordion. Is a single design that needs to straighten to get a sleeping place;
- Dolphin. One of his part is slightly stretched forward. From under the seating, you can pull the pallet in which the rising platform is placed;
- Click-klyak. Parts of the sofa must be folded, after which it is easily folded into a single design;
- Retractable. From under the seating stretches the pallet with platform.
The mechanism depends on how and where exactly the laundry box will be located. Most often access to it appears only when the sofa is decomposed. But more convenient are models with a pallet or drawers, which can be a single design or separated by several compartments.
Netransformable sofas, such as kitchen, without bedroom, and models of type “Dolphin”, boxes are under seats. That is, it must be raised, after which it is to fold things into the opened space.
Another option – box in armrests. In this case, the vertical and narrow compartments, but are quite capable of accommodating bed linen, blanket or pillows.
Upholstery material
The foreigner and duration of the sofa service depends on the material. Among the common options:
- Shenille. Wear-resistant and easy to clean;
- Rogozhka. Durable material, followed by simple care;
- Velours. Exposed to washing;
- Flock. Durable, easy to care, for a long time retains primordial colors;
- Tapestry. Most often, this upholstery is decorated with various drawings;
- Jacquard. Durable, wear-resistant, decorated with prints;
- Booklet. Material with its own tangible texture;
- Leather. Used both natural and artificial.
How to choose?
The choice should depend on what the sofa is bought and in which room will stand. For example, the kitchen requires a model that will be resistant to absorb odors, to fat. Leather has such qualities.
Plus the upholstery of the sofa in the nursery will be the ease of her cleaning.
The sofa in the living room should be quite attractive and elegant, because it will be to see visitors to the apartment.
Bedroom sofa need to be comfortable for sleep.
From the required functional will depend on the fundamental moment – transformation. In the bedroom and, often, living room, sleeping space is just necessary – for the owners of the apartment or their guests. A comfortable sofa can be in an unplaced form to be suitable for sleep, for example, in children’s. In the kitchen, he is at all suitable for seating, which means it is not necessarily.
Need to take into account in advance what exactly will be stored in boxes. For pillows and blankets need overall models. But if we are talking only about underwear, then the compartments can be small, and, it means, the sofa is small.
Beautiful ideas in the interior
Design in fully white tones creates a feeling of purity, lightness and airiness. The sofa is not laid out. In his pallet, three separate boxes.
Minimalistic white and gray design with bright accents in the form of paintings. Dolphin Sofa. As a box, there is a non-transforming part under the seat.
