Dining Room Furniture Is More Than Just A Table And Chairs

By Author: Sunil Punjabi
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The table and chairs is like the front singer in a pop band, everyone thinks of it when its name is mentioned, and the rest of the group are usually forgotten about or ignored. dining room furniture shouldn't be thought of as just a table and chairs in the centre of a room. There are a whole host of other types of dining room furniture which go into making a dining area a room in which you would want to sit down and have a meal in, but simply go unnoticed on a daily basis, especially if the room is only used for special occasions. So here are the top three items of dining room furniture which you neither sit on, nor eat from:

The sideboard is more commonly used as the dumping ground of many a discarded scrap of paper, for one main reason; they have drawers! Plus cupboards of miscellaneous sizes where you can store receipts, paid bills (we hope) and the yellow pages. But that is not exactly the intended use of this type of dining room furniture. The drawers you so lovingly stash your takeaway menus in was originally intended for cutlery and those cupboards were for your crockery.

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... cabinets are not as popular or seen as, as the most fashionable item of dining room furniture these days, but are still very widely in use. They come in all shapes and sizes, from floor to ceiling height ones, to simple cupboards to more whimsical and fun ones in the shape of a globe. These are generally made of wood but are also made of other materials like acrylic for a more modern and minimalist twist on an old concept. These usually have lots of cupboards in which to hold your liquor in. Some styles will have glass fronts and others will have solid ones, but it depends on how much you want to show off how much and what you drink to the relatives when they come for dinner. Some of the older styles have lined drawers with which you can put your corkscrew, foil remover and ice in (though obviously not together!).

Lastly in the list are display units; an item of dining room furniture which offers no real function other than to house items such as figurines, photo frames and the like. They are usually wooden or metal framed, and all have glass fronts, otherwise they wouldn't be any good for displaying your items in! The glass front can be either be plain, bevelled or diamond lead patterned. The appearance of display units, however, is very varied. Some have solid wood cupboards and drawers on the bottom half and glass on the top. Many people of an older generation would store and display their best china in the glass fronted part of the cupboard, and keep their everyday crockery in the cupboards underneath. The drawers on these types of units were normally used to store cutlery, table cloths and other dining paraphernalia.

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