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Knowing the Difference Between Armoires, Dressers & Chests of Drawers

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Laura Jones

Buying solid wood furniture for the bedroom is difficult enough with so many various alternatives available - especially if you shop online - without the process being complicated further by the fact that different names are used for seemingly comparable pieces. For example, if you're shopping for a chest of drawers, you might come across something that appears like a chest of drawers, contemporary welsh dresser for sale, but is actually called an armoire. Similarly, you may be seeking for a dresser and come upon a chest of drawers dubbed a dresser.


Is there a difference between these goods, or are they essentially the same? The similarities and differences between these three types of bedroom furniture will be discussed in the following post.


1. Dressers

Dressers is a colloquial term for dressing tables, and lowboys is a phrase used by American collectors to refer to the same style of furniture. A vanity, like a dressing table, is also a bureau. Painted Welsh Dressers are compact tables with multiple horizontal, parallel drawers stacked on top of each other with a mirror on top. The word "lowboy" is used to distinguish it from a chest of drawers, often known as a highboy or tallboy.

Cabriole legs were used in more elegant and sophisticated variations such as the Chippendale, early Georgian period, and Queen Anne. Cabriole appears to be a fancy word for curved legs. Many other furniture for storage like Painted boot room furniture specimens of this kind of dresser have sculpted scallop-shell designs beneath the main drawer.


2. Armoires

Moire is a French word that generally refers to any elaborate, free-standing, and tall closet. Armoires can be wide, thin, rectangular, or square in shape. Wardrobes are pieces of wooden furniture that are taller and larger than dressers and closets that are typically used for garment storage, such as Painted Pine Sideboard.

The first record of a wardrobe is a chest, and it wasn't until castles and regal palaces attained a certain degree of luxury and sophistication that space was made available for the apparel of the rich and powerful.


3. Cabinet with Drawers

The distinction between dressers and chests of drawers is that, as you might expect, chests of drawers only have drawers and no mirror on top. Dressers typically include a mirror in addition to drawers for lingerie and folded clothing. Chests of drawers, such as the painted tallboy/chest of drawers available from skilled pine furniture manufacturers Nest At Number 20, typically have three, four, or five drawers placed on top of each other in a highly regular manner.

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