When we look at furniture, we think about how to cleverly plan the placement in layout design, to optimise utilisation of the space and to achieve lots of storage! A good design scheme of the design and placement of furniture would depend on thorough research on how to functionally achieve the best results in regards to storage and at the same time make it aesthetically pleasing. Looking at the history of furniture design styles can actually give an Interior Designer lots of ideas on how best to present it to the client!
But have you wondered how the fitted furniture style evolved through ages?

Period Style
Having read the text in ‘Elements of Style’ book about Early Georgian Fitted Furniture, I did some research and came across some beautiful images on the web. This is an image of niches at a Georgian House Design Scheme.
(Photo on the left) – The blue niches adds a decorative style and elegance to the room.

Tall Pine Georgian Style Corner Niche (Photo on the right). This may look like a corner cupboard put against the corner wall, but as one opens the panel doors at the bottom, it shows that it fitted against the wall as there is no back panel. (Photo below on the right)Interesting!

Modern Touch

Then I came across this fitted laminated furniture with a wooden niche acting as shelves on a wardrobe. (Photo on the left)

Period Style
(Left) Daniel Marot design – Bookcases became a fixed item of furniture (built in library in Baroque Period)(Reference - Elements of Style) with wonderful hand carvings.
Modern Touch
(Below Left and Below Right) - A classic mix of period style and modern built in furniture for a library)


(Below) Modern bookcase with adequate lighting. A good Lighting Scheme of a wall bookcase can make the whole structure a feature wall in the room.

Modern Innovative Designs for Built In Furniture

(Left and Below) Clever use of space where furniture's are used as room dividers. It still allows a lot of light to flow inside a room by acting as an open divider.

Fitted furniture used as a room divider as well as a door (Below), this divides a room in two different zones


(Left) Bed becomes a part of a fitted furniture to utilise a space differently and make it functionally more appealing.
A Designer's less favourite -

Open Fitted Closets where you can see what is inside, brings in the stress of always keeping it tidy (Photo on left). The second picture below had a curtain to close the closet?!

Wardrobe combined with Desk Design by Design Scheme for a 15 year old
Preferred Look - Contemporary
Outside Decorative Element - can be glass, aluminium, other metals or plastic
Brief
The unit must be designed to contain the following items: a limited quantity of clothing: jackets, shirts, trousers, sweaters and shoes
a small computer desk, space for a laptop computer, two small speakers, a compact combined printer/scanner/copier and a small drawer for the storage of discs
textbooks, maximum size A4
storage for outgrown toys and games.
The Design Snapshot

Closed Shelf above Cupboard – to store outgrown toys and games
Rails inside cupboard for sweaters, jackets, shirts
Two pull down compartments under cupboard – one to keep trousers and one to keep shoes
Top Shelf above desk – for A4 textbooks
Second shelf above desk – for compact printer/scanner/copier on the right and more space for books on the left
CD shelf rack under second shelf
Two small shelf rack under CD shelf on either side for small speakers
Laptop space and writing space on desk
Sliding table below desk which can be pulled out – for extra table space.
Two push latch compartments on either side under the desk for stationery.

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