Kitchen Hardware, are you sure you chose the right one? Hinge VS drawer! Who is the king?

Have you ever found that every time you go into the kitchen to cook and find something, you can't do it, and you get tired when you think about it? Ever wondered if the hardware was chosen wrong?

Let's first take a look at whether the floor cabinet hardware is wrong, there are mainly two camps, hinges and drawers.

Let's start with the common ground:
In terms of the storage capacity of the floor cabinet, the scheme of using hinged door panels and the scheme of using drawers are actually similar.

Yes, so much in common!

 

Next is the different points of knocking on the blackboard to draw the main points:
Difference 1:
Field of view (That's right!) Buying a house and buying a car should talk about vision, and buying hardware is the same!

If the hinged door panel solution is used, people can not see what is placed in the cabinet when they are standing, at least they need to bend down or step back to fully see the items placed inside, and if it is the lowest thing, they also need to kneel down on one knee to see.

If you choose a drawer, when the drawer is fully open, the view from top to bottom gives you an unobstructed view of your contents

 

Difference 2: User experience
If you choose a hinged door panel solution, if the outermost thing is not the item you want, you also need to take down the front row items first to see the back items, and then put the front row items back in place, which is very time-consuming and labor-intensive (as shown below).

If you use the drawer solution, the situation is completely different, just bend down to touch everything.

With such an analysis, everyone will definitely think that the fully loaded drawer is not enough?

In fact, this problem is not so simple, because there is another difference, that is, the difference in price. Let's take a look at how much worse?

 

 

Price difference:
Because the kitchen has a variety of functional areas, we compare here with one of the best comparison areas, is the storage cabinet, in order to facilitate comparison, two kinds of hardware I chose the same brand, the well-known hardware fighter Austrian Blum hardware, the price is selected from Blum a cat flagship store.

A standard storage cabinet If you choose the hinge to open the door, you generally only need two hinges (including accessories such as the base). According to the price of the flagship store, the price of a single extreme accessory of Blum's highest-end integrated damping hinge is 55 yuan, so the price for a standard storage cabinet hardware is 110 yuan.

If you choose a metal drawer, the common combination on the market is 2 high drawers, or 2 high drawers + 1 low drawer, according to the price of the flagship store, the price of a 450mm deep metal high drawer is 576 yuan a piece, and the low drawer is 401 yuan, so if you match 2 high drawers, the price is 1152 yuan, if you have one more low drawer, the price is 1553 yuan. Therefore, we can conclude that if we choose a metal drawer, the price range is between 1152 yuan ~ 1553 yuan.

Now seeing that the price of two hardware achieves a similar scheme with a 10-fold difference, is the hinge suddenly very fragrant?

We also need to think again.

 

If a set of cabinets is ordered and installed, it is very difficult to upgrade, and a set of cabinets generally takes 8 to 10 years to renovate or replace.

Therefore, although the early investment in hardware is a little more (although it is 10 times worse, but the number is still acceptable), but in exchange for nearly 10 years of comfortable experience, especially at home often have the elderly or caring people often operate the cabinet, these comfort is particularly important for them, is the embodiment of care.

Finally, the current high house prices, first-tier cities one square or even as high as 100,000+ per square of housing prices, the use of hinged door panel scheme, the innermost thing utilization rate is very low, even until the expiration will find him, in other words, only the area in front is used, disguised waste of space utilization.

But with drawers, there is no problem.

Of course, in the end, whether to choose a hinge or a drawer is still up to you to weigh and decide.