Antique Furniture Chests of Drawers or Doors
One type of furniture chest I hadn’t heard of is the “door” chest. At one point, I mistakenly thought a door chest had something to do with doors to the rooms in my house. From the limited initial evidence, I believed a door chest is similar to a lingerie chest in appearance and height, but only wider. Because the door chest I was looking at was tall and wide like I door, I thought a “door” chest is one that you place near a door, or hides a secret door, or who knows what. Silly me. Now that I’ve gathered more evidence, the answer was more obvious than I thought. Here are some pros and cons of furniture chests called “door” chests versus furniture chests of drawers.
Turns out a door chest can be any shape or size as long as it has at least one of its compartments accessed through a door (as opposed to a drawer). That leads us to the next question: Why do people like doors in their furniture chests? Why would they choose one chest over the other when they are basically identical, except one of them has a door (or doors) and the other does not? My guess would be that it’s simply a matter of personal preference in the appearance of the chest. Doors give a different overall look. But could there be a practical reason as well? Having a door in the furniture chest means you could open one thing and at once see all your belongings on several shelves. With a chest of drawers, however, you would have to open two, three, or four drawers to search through the same amount of belongings. Thus, there is an advantage (albeit small) of time savings.
Is there a downside to having a chest with doors? The only thing I can think of is that with most furniture chests of drawers, you can remove the drawers entirely from the chest. So if you need to transport the chest, whether to another room or to another city (due to a move, etc.), you can make the chest much lighter by removing all of the drawers. The drawers then serve as boxes for the contents of the chest. You can easily leave the contents in the drawers, transfer them, and then insert the drawers at your destination. (I’ve done this with more than one of my moves.)
However, with a chest with one or more doors you can’t easily remove the doors. Of course, you may not be a person that moves a lot for it to matter, or even if you do move, it may not be a big deal to make the chest lighter. Keep these factors in mind when considering the kind of antique furniture chests of drawers you may have an interest in.
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