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Accordion cabinets are chosen by practical and thrifty people. They occupy less space, their price, compared to conventional coupes, is lower, and folding doors give greater access to internal space closet

But there are those who also value practicality in furniture, but do not recognize such cabinets because they consider them unreliable, fragile, “cardboard.”

In the article, we will look at how door mechanisms work, which fittings are more durable, which accordion cabinets are in trend today, and talk about their pros and cons.

A wardrobe with folding fronts looks very stylish and unusual

How does the accordion mechanism work?

The accordion cabinet has a special door opening mechanism. Remember the screen - it has a similar system.

The structure is connected to each other by deployed metal loops and is fixed on the body in special guide rails that hold the doors in place and set the direction of movement when opening or closing. The door leaves move along rails, folding into an accordion.

Scheme sliding doors according to the accordion principle

Doors with a height of more than two meters are equipped with rails at the bottom to avoid distortions in the structure.

Simple door has its own radius for free work mechanism. This obliges residents not to use the space near the closet, but to place some interior items, “taking into account” the door.

Accordion Folding Door Mechanism for Wardrobe

In this regard, accordion doors do not interfere with the owners - you can install a cabinet or a vase with flowers near such a model.

Interesting fact: In Europe, folding doors are called not “accordion”, but “accordion”. In Russia, accordion doors were first installed on built-in cabinets: these storage areas were called pantries or “mother-in-law’s room.”

Types of mechanisms: Hettich, Blum, Boyard

For cabinets with folding doors, due to complex design, there are more fittings parts: these are rails, roller mechanisms, seals, hinges, handles, clamps and clamps.

The kit costs about 1,500 rubles. Watch the video installation instructions.

In the market of accessories for kitchen furniture The Austrian brand Blum has long established itself. The company, in particular, makes fastenings for kitchen cabinets, which are closed using the accordion system.

The CLIP-TOP hinge for folding doors is sold complete with the selected strike plate (plugs for the Bloom hinge are not included). The mount provides a folding angle of 60°.

Expert opinion

Alexander Didenko

Furniture assembler at Mabaks

Blum hinges can be installed and removed without using tools.

The cost of Bloom hinges for folding doors is about 300–500 rubles.

Principle of operation folding mechanism for furniture doors

The first two companies produce high-quality, but also expensive accessories. Of course, furniture with Blum or Hettich fittings will last longer, but there are also more affordable analogues of the parts.

It produces locking hinges for corner folding doors and bay cabinets with a four-hinged all-metal Slide-on system and an opening angle of 135°. The price of such a loop is about 50 rubles.

Installation diagram of the folding mechanism

Types of handles for folding doors

Most often, folding doors do not use standard handles, so accordion designs cost less. In other cases, special handles or adapters 45x22 are used. Also, some manufacturers install classic handles if they do not interfere with the opening of the door.

Special handle, with reverse fastening and adapter 45×22

Independent

The most acceptable types of handles for furniture with folding doors are mortise handles without a latch or lock. Their design is not initially suitable for installation locking mechanism.

They are ergonomic and comfortable. Such handles do not protrude, and your child will definitely not get caught on it.

Mortise with latch

They consist of a rounded handle that must be turned to operate the latch. The second part is in the form of a slider that can be moved manually to the desired position.

Handle-lock

The design of this handle is distinguished by the presence of a keyhole and a cylinder. In this case, the door can be locked with a key.

Types of facades

The facades of accordion cabinets differ in the type of manufacture. They are solid and framed.

Solid ones consist of a canvas made of one material: wood, chipboard, MDF, glass or mirror.

Straight long wardrobe with 8 folding plain doors

The most popular material for “accordions” is chipboard.

The Austrian company EGGER is the leader in the market for the production of this material. The company has a wide range of colors with wood patterns - you can, for example, find an Egger façade in the color of light pine, maple, dark brown oak or graphite.

Frame ones consist directly of a frame and a panel. The frame is usually made of aluminum or MDF. Inserts can be made of any material. Models with blinds are especially popular.

Accordion cabinet in the hallway with soft chairs, facades with mirrors and bamboo

The outside of the façade is finished with fabric, leather, bamboo, plastic, rattan or coated with special glossy paint.

The difference between “accordion” and “book” doors

Accordion doors differ from book doors in the number of doors fastened together. The greater the number of canvases, the smaller the width individual elements. Standard sizes sections are 10-15 cm, which are connected using a hinged profile or end hinges. The entire façade hangs on the top rail and moves along it on rollers. The outermost panel is attached to the side wall.

A folding door consists of only 2 parts connected by hinges, runs on two guides (top and bottom), can be made of heavy materials (wood, glass, mirrors, etc.) and is more reliable.

Pros and cons of cabinets with accordion doors

Like any furniture, accordion cabinets have both advantages and disadvantages.

pros

• Easy to install - even a woman can assemble it with her own hands using the assembly instructions.
• Save space - a folding door takes up less space.
• Access to the entire closet - folding doors allow you to quickly find and remove any item from the closet.
• Price - compared to wardrobes, they are much cheaper.
• Practicality - the design does not damage flooring.
• Convenience - the working sashes are interchangeable. If one breaks, you can easily replace it with a new one without dismantling the entire structure.
• The ability to fantasize with design - a variety of materials allows you to decorate the closet to suit any interior.

Minuses

• Low wear resistance (service life - up to 8 years).
• The more doors it has, the shorter its service life.
• You should handle the doors carefully to avoid breaking them.

How to choose a cabinet model

Accordion cabinets are most often installed in hallways, less often in bedrooms. Furniture with folding doors is also placed in the kitchen or on the balcony.

Placing a cabinet with accordion doors on the balcony

It is better to put a straight wardrobe in the bedroom and decorate it to match the interior of the room.

A corner cabinet is suitable for a hallway - an example of compactness and functionality.

Also suitable for a hallway or bedroom is a model with mirror inserts.

Accordion wardrobe with full-length mirror

IN kitchen sets Usually folding doors are installed on upper cabinets (including furniture for the balcony and bathroom). When choosing, pay attention to the quality of the fittings.

Rules before purchasing

Regardless of where you install the cabinet, when purchasing it, follow simple rules:

• Listen to the sound of doors opening/closing. If they work silently, this is a sure sign that the furniture will last longer.
• The best system would be a mechanism with two guides. It's much more stable.
• If there is a mirror on the facade, it will visually double the space. Remember this if you choose a cabinet in small room.
• Before purchasing, measure the dimensions of the room. It will be easier for a consultant in the store to understand you and advise you on the appropriate configuration.

Popular models of cabinets with accordion doors

1. Accordion cabinets are installed in the hallway, bedroom and even kitchen. For a hallway, a model with a mirror will be successful, for a bedroom - with light decorated doors.
2. The main thing in the design of the cabinet is the guides and fittings: handles and fastening mechanisms. Pay attention to the quality of materials.
3. Fittings should only be metal. The panel frames are also made of metal.
4. The material of the furniture itself matters: the panels are made of chipboard, MDF or high-strength plastic. There are also wooden doors, but they are heavier and can break.
5. The facade can be decorated with anything - from fabric to bamboo and glass.
6. To make the storage system last longer, use the folding doors carefully, and explain to children not to roll on the doors.

Wardrobe accordion - optimal model for narrow corridors and cramped spaces. Where there is not enough space to open a regular swing door, and a sliding door cannot be installed due to the small width of the cabinet, an accordion-folding door is simply a lifesaver.

Accordion cabinets do not require much space to open the doors. The door may consist of two or more sections. When installing fittings from a reliable manufacturer, the door opens smoothly and effortlessly. Folding doors can be designed in the same way as regular doors. They use inserts made of exotic materials, mirrors, and photo printing. IN closed An accordion door is no different from a regular door.

The internal filling does not depend in any way on the type of sashes. Inside such a wardrobe you can place regular and end rods, shelves and drawers, baskets and special storage devices.

Advantages of accordion cabinets:

• take up minimal space;
• can be installed even in narrow corridor;
• there are no restrictions on internal equipment;
• attractive appearance;
• easy opening.

Accordion cabinets for your home

We offer to make custom-made accordion cabinets according to your dimensions. Here you can choose any shade or texture facade materials. We use only high-quality fittings from European manufacturers and guarantee impeccable performance.

Recently, the accordion cabinet has become a popular type of furniture in city apartments. The special door mechanism allows you to significantly save space in the room, and its aesthetic appearance attracts attention. To choose correctly suitable model for the home, it is worth understanding the main characteristics of the product.

The main feature of this product is the door mechanism. In appearance it resembles the well-known musical instrument, for which it received such a name. The operation of the device is similar to the principle of blinds: with a movement of the hand, they are folded into a stack, fitting compactly on one side.

• Let's take a closer look at the operating principle of accordion doors:
• Which way the door will fold depends on the wishes of the customer. When planning your closet you should pay attention to this;
• The guide rail is made of steel or aluminum. It protrudes beyond the boundaries of the body, so it is visible. Manufacturers often offer to decorate the guide to match the style of the furniture - frame it in wooden film;
• You should not buy a cabinet where the rail rides along a guide using a ball mechanism - this option will quickly fail. Friction of bearings and rail reduces the operating time of the mechanism;
• products that require an accordion door more than 2 meters in height are mounted on 2 guides at once - lower and upper. In this case, the cabinet can be decorated glass facades or stained glass. Strengthening is required to support the structure. In this case, each leaf is connected to the other half with reinforcing hinges and is additionally fixed to the rail.

To prevent the frame of the product from quickly breaking down, modern manufacturers are trying to make it lighter. They use lightweight materials to ensure the door moves smoothly and quickly along the track. When designing a custom cabinet, try not to make doors more than 170 cm high. This will require additional fasteners to enhance the strength of the structure.

Advantages and disadvantages

Each cabinet door operating system has its pros and cons. The undoubted advantage of a wardrobe with folding doors is its significant space savings. An area that could be “dead” if present swing mechanism, becomes accessible and spacious.

Let us highlight the main advantages of accordion cabinets:

• ease of installation - anyone can fix the opening mechanism; available tools are enough for this;
• low price - compared to compartment doors, this design will be financially cheaper;
• decorative - the facades of such cabinets look elegant and original in any interior;
• versatility - you can use an accordion door in any closet - wardrobe, library, kitchen;
• variety of materials - the door leaf is available in soft and hard forms;
• access to things: it is not necessary to fully unlock the door to get an overview inside the closet.

With a large list of advantages, the design is not without its disadvantages. These include wear resistance and low stability. Although the design has been improved, there are still some shortcomings. With constant use and unreliable fastening, the mechanism often fails.

Owners of these pieces of furniture note the low density of closing doors, which ensures air circulation inside the cabinet.

Manufacturing materials

Furniture manufacturers use traditional raw materials to make accordion cabinets. For the manufacture of the body, laminated chipboard is used - laminated boards made of pressed wood. They come in a variety of colors, so users have a huge choice.

High-quality steel or aluminum parts are used for fittings. To ensure that the doors fold well, special mechanisms with rails and wheels are used. It is recommended to periodically treat the door mechanism to improve the quality of operation.

Let's consider the main types of manufacturing materials:

• plastic - products made from this raw material are not flammable and do not emit toxic substances. They're covered special film, performing decorative functions. For example, for a children's room you can choose a product with colored facades, and for the kitchen plastic that matches the color of the walls is suitable. Cabinets with PVC fronts can be installed in rooms with high humidity;
• glass - an accordion cabinet with glass doors is a fragile product at first glance. However, manufacturers strengthen the material and use strained glass. All-glass facades are rarely produced, as they place a large load on the body structure. Glass is used in fragments - for decoration. It can be matte, sandblasted or stained glass;
• metal - the most practical accordions are considered to be metal products. They are optimally installed in the kitchen, where there is a change in temperature and humidity. The metal accordion cabinet is available in various color design and will fit into most interiors.

Light products will add spaciousness to the room, while dark ones, when skillfully combined, will create a strict but original style.

Selection rules

So that the new thing pleases with its spaciousness and appearance, it is worth paying attention to the suggested tips. They will help you cope with the choice and avoid mistakes:

• noiselessness - before purchasing, check the cabinet to ensure its quiet operation. Try opening and closing the door. In models where no extraneous sounds are heard, special seals are installed to ensure smooth operation;
• guides - it is advisable that the cabinet be equipped with two rails at once for moving the doors. If only one guide is installed, over time the door will become loose and fail;
• ease of operation - if the product is purchased for a children's room, it is worth paying attention to the smoothness of movement. A child is unlikely to be able to open a heavy, large door on his own;
• color design - the accordion cabinet should fit perfectly into the existing interior. Choose a product that matches the design style of the room or takes into account dilution with contrast;
• dimensions - decide in advance on the dimensions of the furniture: if the product is intended for storing things, it should have a large height. If you plan to store books and magazines, a height of 170 cm will be sufficient;
• internal filling - do not forget about internal organization space in the closet. To accommodate outerwear You will need rods and shelves for everyday things. The presence of drawers is also necessary - they are convenient for storing linen.

The accordion cabinet can be built-in or stationary. In order to rationally use the space of the room, it is better to draw a diagram of the future furniture in advance and go to the salon with a piece of paper.

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Built-in wardrobes – very economical and practical option use of living space, especially if they are carried out in existing niches or uneven contours of the walls of a living room, corridor or other room. In practice, there is no alternative to them when arranging cabinets on balconies or loggias, since marking them in the frontal plane is so narrow room almost impossible or extremely inconvenient.

At the same time, on the balcony, accordion door designs for built-in wardrobes or furniture blinds are most often used.

Types of doors for built-in wardrobes

In built-in wardrobes in niches and on balconies, almost all known door designs can be used, with the exception of door leaves rotating around an axis.

These are systems such as:

• Swing.
• Sliding - coupe.
• Sliding - pencil case.
• Sliding - accordion.
• Sliding – roller blinds (blinds).

Depending on the style, design and room in which the built-in wardrobe is located, the choice of one or another option is dictated not only by the appearance, but also by the functionality of certain door designs.

The most common type of door in the recent past for all types of cabinets, including built-ins. This popularity was explained very simply - by the simplicity of the design and the low cost of the furniture fittings used to hang such door leaves.

With the simplest design - two or three hinges, or one solid “piano” hinge, swing doors have not lost their relevance to this day. They are familiar, convenient, and allow you to immediately gain access to the entire cabinet space or to a separate segment of it.

Swing door leaves are usually made of chipboard or solid wood and can be supported on the outside different kinds decorations, be fully or partially covered with mirrors. From the inside of the doors swing design Additional holders for ties, small personal items, trays for jewelry and other furniture accessories can be freely placed, making the use of the built-in wardrobe more convenient.

The main disadvantage of swing doors is the large “dead” space that is formed when opening the doors of such a built-in wardrobe. This is especially true if the built-in wardrobe is located in a narrow passage room (corridor) or in a small room (balcony, loggia, toilet, bathroom).

Sliding doors

A version of doors for a built-in wardrobe that has become almost a “textbook” is sliding doors.

They represent 1-2-3 or more panels of the same or different widths, which move parallel to each other in the frontal plane of the built-in cabinet along guides.

The main advantage of this design is the ability to use such doors in the narrowest places with high traffic (corridors) without blocking the space or creating interference for other residents when using the closet.

There are several variations of sliding door designs. The most common design is in which the doors move along two guides located at the top. In this case, the lower edge of the panels is fixed from swinging either by protruding rollers or by a lower guide along which a roller installed at the lower end of the door slides.

The disadvantages of such a system for opening built-in cabinets are the inability to simultaneously gain access to the entire contents of the cabinet (with sliding doors) or the need to install a false wall into which the opening doors of the built-in cabinet are pushed. And this is only possible when carrying out a thorough renovation of the premises.

The second inconvenience of sliding doors is the limitation on the width of the cabinet. It is practically not applicable when the cabinet width is less than 1 meter, since the design of the sliding doors will free up only 40-45 cm for the user, which is extremely inconvenient.

This design of doors is absolutely unacceptable for built-in wardrobes on a balcony or loggia, as these structures usually have a width of 1000 mm, and built-in wardrobes are usually mounted at the end of the balcony.

Another option is sliding door- pencil case. This design allows for sliding door leaf into a niche located on the side of the cabinet (there may be two niches on both sides of the cabinet).

While allowing simultaneous access to the entire interior of the cabinet, the system requires significant space on the sides of the built-in cabinet into which the door(s) could slide.

Sliding - accordion

The least popular type of doors for built-in wardrobes. Nevertheless, accordion doors can be successfully used as an alternative to sliding doors, since they have all their advantages in terms of compactness, are devoid of “dead” zones and can be successfully mounted on a balcony.

The low popularity of accordion doors can be explained by their low reliability due to the presence large quantity articulating movable joints and the unreliability of the material from which they are made - usually plastic, much less often - glass plates.

The slats of accordion doors do not fit tightly to the floor or the bottom edge of the cabinet, so brush seals must be installed on them.

Doors made from furniture roller shutters (blinds)

Quite rare doors in built-in wardrobes. This is explained by the rather dull monotonous structure horizontal blinds, which, essentially, are what such doors are. And low functionality - neither on the front nor on inside such doors cannot be marked with any accessories (mirrors, shelves, hangings). It is inconvenient to use when you have to lean towards the floor to open and close it.

But for a balcony or loggia, such a door-blind for a built-in wardrobe is almost perfect option. Usually, I use cabinets on balconies and loggias either for storing winter supplies, or for all sorts of rarely used things and objects. Therefore, the use of the closet is quite rare. Such a door does not take up any space - the blinds do not take up space. It can be made to any width and, when opened, provides simultaneous access to the entire contents of the built-in wardrobe.

The material for making doors and blinds can be wood, metal, or plastic.

Installation of doors for built-in wardrobes

Almost any type of door for built-in wardrobes can be made by hand, with the exception of roller shutter doors (blinds).

For this there is wide choose PVC products and furniture panels of various textures, weights and sizes, a wide selection of fittings and accessories for any door design.

The most difficult part in terms of installation is the installation of sliding doors. It is necessary to understand the mechanism of the guide installation system, the suspension system, the installation of anti-sway stops or the bottom guide.

But the most important thing is to measure the size of the door leaf very correctly, both vertically and horizontally.

Vertically, it must take into account the height of the canopy structure (guide + rollers + fastening system), and horizontally, it must take into account the overlap of the panels by 40-50 mm so that there are no gaps between the panels.

Let's sum it up

These or those doors used in built-in wardrobes imply functionality. The main requirement for them is ease of use and maximum access to the contents of the cabinet. If space in front of the cabinet allows, the undisputed leader is swing door. If the space is narrow, preference is given to compartment doors, but for balconies and loggias optimal options are doors - accordion and doors - roller shutters (blinds).