Closets and Wardrobes
snow15145
kking0731 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 03:40:33 UTC 2008
Geoff:
Hm. A chest of drawers is a very common piece of furniture here.
Sometimes on short legs, sometimes down to floor level and most
often three levels of drawers, one level possibly having two
half-width drawers.
Snow:
I have one of those and it has skeleton key holes in each drawer. The
matching piece is taller with two half drawers on top and four
drawers underneath.
Geoff:
If you've got a dresser in your bedroom, we will probably have a
dressing table.
A dresser is an older piece of kitchen or dining-room furniture. the
lower half will probably have a couple of wide cupboards to store
bottles or glassware with a flat top for placing items on but backed
by open shelving on which plates etc. will be stacked in such a way
that they can be seen and may be the best crockery or even a family
dining service on display.
Snow:
Thirty plus years ago I lived in an older house (apartment for me)
that had a room, straight off the kitchen, with a built-in china
cupboard (at least that's what I took it as). There were three
dresser drawers on the bottom and what looked like a china cupboard
on top without the glass and doors but the same room and style (to
place your dishes [actual wooden slots to place the dishware]).
Geoff:
A Welsh dresser is just a particular style which is popular for folk
who
have decided to have a"period" style kitchen.
A bureau to us is a high desk with a drop-down leaf which acts as a
writing area and which, when closed, covers shelving with writing
paper,
pens, stamps und so weiter.
Snow:
I also have a bureau according to your description, which is over 100
years old, although I would call it an old fashioned writing desk.
The desk, I have, has four thin legs, the desktop is slanted but
lifts up (almost like an old fashioned kids school desk, but not as
deep) for supplies. It also has a very large skinny drawer
underneath. You could not, however, sit at this desk with a common
place chair because the desk would be too high.
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