There are a multitude of storage units, long, high, low, narrow, or wide, with open niches, doors, and drawers. Each one is studied according to its function, and its destination room and has its own little name. Faced with this varied vocabulary, it is sometimes difficult to navigate.
What is the difference between a chest of drawers and a weekly drawer, a bookcase and a shelf, a sideboard and a sideboard? Grenier Alpin offers you a glossary of this rustic storage furniture.
Storage furniture in the kitchen or dining room
The flour maker: an old flour storage unit, it is made up of stacked drawers that are juxtaposed with a main door whose niche was used to leaven the bread. Today, this medium-sized piece of furniture is also useful in an entryway to store keys, mail, and shoes.
The jam maker: this small low sideboard with a single door or leaf, sometimes decorated with a drawer, was intended to house pots of jam. Extra furniture due to its small dimensions, it can now be installed anywhere in the house.
The sideboard or sideboard: this low dining room unit includes 2 doors, drawers, or niches. It is traditionally used to store dishes, linens, and table services. Generally placed next to the dining table, it can also be used in the living room, or even replace the television cabinet. When it comes in a longer or higher variant, it takes different terms:
The enfilade: long sideboard with at least three storage elements in a row on the same level
The dresser: this 2-body piece of furniture includes a low sideboard on which a sideboard top is superimposed. This upper part is sometimes glazed, or made up of open niches, to bring lightness to the design while increasing storage capacity. If its use is identical to the low sideboard, it differs from the high sideboard built in a single body.
The chiffonier: a tall, narrow piece of furniture made up of numerous stacked drawers, in which women once stored rags, sewing accessories, and small objects. Very practical for storing underwear and small household linens, it found in a hallway or in a bathroom.
The weekly drawer: Identical to the chiffonier, the weekly drawer is distinguished by its 7 drawers, one for each day of the week. This practical piece of furniture for the bedroom can also be used in offices, allowing you to organize your weekly work. As such, it is a common industrial-style piece of furniture.
The chest of drawers: wide, low furniture with several drawers used to store small laundry
The wardrobe: this large piece of furniture, equipped with shelves and sometimes a hanging space, stores clothes behind its doors.
The bonnetière: rustic cabinet with a single door once intended for storing headdresses and bonnets.
The valet: hanger furniture designed to temporarily place the jacket, pants, or skirt near the bed. It can also have a shelf or a shelf to store other objects.
The shelf: made up of uprights that support several open shelves, it allows you to display trinkets. The wall shelf, for its part, attaches to the wall.
The bookcase: it consists of several storage shelves, a bottom and side walls to hold the books
The storage column or column unit: a tall and narrow piece of furniture made up of open niches or hidden behind a door
Entrance furniture
The coat hook: designer wall hook used to hang clothing
The coat rack: The wall-mounted coat rack is a support hung on the wall on which several hooks or hooks are attached, as opposed to the free-standing coat rack also called a parrot coat rack
Cloakroom furniture: vestibule furniture that brings together hooks, as well as one or more shelves on which shoes or hats can be placed.
The console: a high and narrow table intended to display decorative objects, with or without a drawer. If the console finds its place in the entrance, it can also be used as a desk in the living room or as a dressing table in the bedroom
Today the decorative styles are eclectic and so is the furniture. The modern world in search of practicality is no longer formalized. From then on the coat rack is found in the living room, the flour maker in the entrance and the jam maker in the bedroom. The main thing about this furniture is to be able to store and, if necessary, save space.
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