Dining room furniture purchase

8-20-13 7:06am Thurs.(1) 141-86  

At the furniture store we bought three items totaling $700us: a hutch dresser, a vanity cabinet with hinged top revealing a ‘secret’ area, and a specialized chestnut, one-of-a-kind cat food (!) waste paper (?) cabinet all for the dining area, all solid wood.

      “A breakfront is a large cabinet or bookcase whose center section projects beyond the flanking end sections. A hutch is a set of shelves or cabinets placed on top of a lower unit with a counter and either drawers or cabinets. Hutches are often seen in the form of desks, dining room or kitchen furniture. It is frequently referred to by furniture aficionados as a hutch dresser. Meanwhile china cabinets feature two glass doors. Many china cabinets also feature glass sides encased in wood. This serves the purpose of fully displaying fine china or figurines. China cabinets often feature locks on the doors, as well. Hutches typically feature smaller display areas. While hutches often feature glass doors, the doors are much smaller than those found on china cabinets. Hutches are made from wood and can be painted or designed to fit the style of a house.” So say the experts

We bought a ‘hutch dresser’ yesterday because Taiwan, with its earthquakes, is not a good place for a china cabinet or breakfront to display upright china. We will lay the china and silverware down flat in its closets. On the hutch itself, we may put the strawberry teapot and some other stable dinner related items. I hope it doesn’t come with a glass table protector. Though it protects the furniture, the glass we have on the desk, coffee table and end table detract from the beauty of the wood.