The Wide Range Of Usage And Designs In Chests Of Drawers

By Author: Sunil Punjabi
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Of all the pieces of furniture in a home, a chest of drawers is arguably the most versatile. It serves the utility in every room and fits in without being at all out of place, whether it be the bedroom, living room, kitchen or bathroom.

By way of design too, the chest of drawers lends itself to any style, contemporary, traditional, rustic or baroque, while maintaining its character and utility. Usually made of wood, you can find them in oak, pine, walnut or any wood that suits the decor of the room you would like to place it in. In the bathroom, for instance, you might prefer to have a painted unit for better protection against the humidity of the room, whereas in the drawing room it could be an ornate, decorative, highly polished piece of furniture fitted out with shiny metal handles.

Your chest of drawers could have anything from 3 drawers to 33 drawers or more, depending on the amount of storage required, as well as the items you need to store and they do not all have to be symmetrical either. You could have a 6+2 configuration, which offers two longer drawers at the first level and three ...
... each on the next, or an overlapping arrangement with an odd and even number of drawers on each different level.

The length of the drawers would depend on what you wish your chest of drawers to contain. Bed linen, blankets and duvets for example, would require longer drawers, fitted out with handles at two ends, while in the kitchen you would prefer narrower drawers for easy access to your implements. It is by far the most convenient method of storing and retrieving items, whether they are required for daily use, weekly or very occasionally. The drawers can be filled to capacity and yet nothing comes toppling out on opening them, and they form a natural divider between unlike items by their very character. No wonder they are such a popular piece of furniture.

By way of dimension, you could have your chest of drawers tall, dark and slim, maybe just 18 inches wide and place it beside a bookshelf of equal height in the living room, or have it shorter, perhaps 30 inches high, constructed of fine grained, highly polished white oak where the top serves as a counter to display your treasured knickknacks while the drawers house a variety of less decorative household stuff. In the bathroom, you could have a longish but squat arrangement to store towels and toiletries, and place a cushion atop it so it doubles as a bench seat. A much smaller one would be a handy bedside table.

You could continue to find versatile options with a chest of drawers. If it is constructed at desk height, around 30 inches off the floor, you could install a pullout keyboard tray below the top surface and combine its use it as a computer table for example thus saving on an additional piece of furniture.

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