Modern parents take a responsible approach to the issue of organizing their child's education at school. In addition to choosing a uniform and other educational supplies, they are faced with the question of how to properly equip a work area at home for doing lessons.
Moms and dads, choosing a table (desk) and a chair, try to combine comfort, practicality and health-preserving factor in them. Currently, furniture factories produce a lot of such products, but special attention should be paid to the so-called growing tables - children's transforming desks for the home.
Features:
The transforming desk allows you to provide the most comfortable conditions for the child to complete the assigned lessons. A distinctive feature of such a table is the ability to adjust the tilt and height of the table top and seat (chair), if it is included in the set of this furniture. Such an important feature allows you to select the necessary parameters of the workplace for each child, depending on his height, in order to maintain the correct posture. This desk is suitable for preschoolers and adolescents, whose height is from 100 to 190 cm.
Children's transforming desks differ from ordinary furniture of the same purpose in that:
- Such a product is compact and mobile. If desired, the furniture can be easily rearranged, since its standard dimensions are 70 * 40 cm or 105 * 40 cm.
- The position of the tabletop of such a desk is adjustable from 51 to 78 cm, and the angle of inclination is adjusted relative to a specific child, but must be equal to 20-30 degrees. The height of the table and the footrest are also often adjustable.
- This furniture ensures the correct seating position of the child, which prevents impairment of the musculoskeletal system.
- By purchasing a transformable model of a child's workplace, there is no need to buy a new school desk for a rapidly growing student. This quality of the product allows you to significantly save your family budget.
- Thanks to a specially designed orthopedic design, the child feels comfortable sitting at the table in a comfortable and correct posture.
- The wide range of adjustments allows you to easily select parameters for non-standard sizes and uneven floors.
- This piece of furniture meets the requirements of high quality and is produced without sharp corners and protruding elements, so that injury can be avoided.
However, it should be remembered that an inclined tabletop is necessary for children from grades 1 to 4. Older children should practice at a desk with a flat surface.
Since children's transforming desks are a high-tech, durable and stylish attribute, the price for them in furniture stores is quite high. Also, the cost of such a product is affected by the material from which it is made. The most expensive option is natural wood furniture. An alternative solution would be to purchase a “growing” school desk made of MDF and plastic, which are much cheaper. However, the motivation for parents to buy such a table for the home should be the performance properties of this product, which will serve the child throughout the entire period of his schooling.
Models
Manufacturers of children's furniture offer a choice of several options for "growing" goods with tables or desks, which can resolve the issue of space and organization of educational activities for schoolchildren in small rooms and apartments.
- School desk-transformer complete with a chair or seat. This model of the product allows you to solve the problem of buying an orthopedic chair suitable for a design, comfortable and correct for posture to the transforming table. An additional attribute, like a desk, can be adjusted in height and backrest angle.
- Modular "growing" desk... This version of furniture for the home can be with all kinds of add-ons: shelves, drawers, book stands, attached pedestals, shelves. Having made a choice in favor of this model, you will receive an ergonomic, functional and practical product.
- Convertible bed with a table. This unusual bed can be easily and quickly transformed into a spacious table, at which you can study and perform any other necessary work. Thanks to the original mechanism and design, when transforming the table into the "bed" position and vice versa, there is no need to remove objects and things from the tabletop, since it moves only parallel to the floor. Such a workplace can easily accommodate two children. However, with such a table, the angle of inclination of the surface and the height cannot be adjusted.
- Convertible wardrobe with a table. A wardrobe that can be disassembled into a table is another possible way to solve the problem of a lack of space in a room. This furniture model has several design options:
- Table top, reclining like a sideboard. Above it, as a rule, there are various shelves and boxes in which you can place the material and accessories necessary for educational activities.
- Sliding wardrobe with a large number of shelves and a niche for a computer. A system unit and a monitor can be placed on the sliding doors of such a cabinet, and a keyboard and mouse can easily fit on a special additional pull-out shelf in the form of a small table.
Furniture factories are adjusting to the modern lifestyle and educational trends, which involve the completion of some homework by schoolchildren on a computer with the availability of accessories for it. Given this fact, manufacturers are developing the design and layout of roomy, but small-sized desks-transformers.
Choosing a chair for a set with a desk
Having decided to buy a transforming desk, you need to choose the right chair for it. Such an additional, but no less important piece of furniture should be comfortable, support the natural curvature of the spine and correspond to the peculiarities of its structure. It is advisable to give preference to a "growing" chair, that is, a transformer, since it has the following features:
- The presence of an anatomical and adjustable backrest, which corrects the child's position at the table.
- Adjustable product height and seat depth that allows you to place your feet at right angles to the floor or stand.
- Lack of armrests, which lead to uneven load on the back.
Popular manufacturers
"Demi" (Russia, Perm region)... Perhaps the most famous and demanded company among consumers for the production of children's desks and chairs, made of wood panels or solid wood and intended for school and home. All models of tables of this company are "growing", which means their long-term use, and can include various superstructures, roll-out shelves and bedside tables. The orthopedic design of such products serves to prevent posture curvature. Dami tabletops are adjustable in height and angle, and can also be decorated with unusual patterns.
We also bring to your attention a useful video about the transformation of "Demi" desks.
"Bureaucrat" (Russia, Moscow region and China, Taiwan). This furniture company produces desks for schoolchildren made of fiberboard or beech. They are comfortable, have many adjustments and are simple in design. All products can change height up to about 20 cm, and the tilt radius of the table top varies within 18 degrees.
Desks "Bureaucrat" include a stadiometer, a hook for a school bag or a backpack, a pull-out shelf for notebooks and office supplies. A wide range of colors and the possibility of purchasing a model with add-ons are also offered.
"Pinskdrev" (Belarus). This factory produces eco-friendly desks and computer desks for children using an array of trees such as beech, cherry, alder and wood-based panels. The desks of such a company are not adjustable in height, so it will be necessary to buy a chair that has this function. Some models of "Pinskdreva" include a large number of drawers and various compartments, may have a footrest and an amazing design.
