Chest Of Drawers & Dressers

About

Your chest of drawers gets opened and closed a few thousand times a year, usually before you are properly awake. That daily work is what separates a piece that lasts from one that starts to stick after two summers. Early Settler has been furnishing New Zealand bedrooms for four decades, so we have a fair idea of what holds up. Our chest of drawers and dressers run from three drawers up to nine, in timber, painted finishes and hand-set bone inlay. Whatever the finish, a chest of drawers is a freestanding unit of stacked drawers, usually waist height or taller, made to hold folded clothes. Bedroom drawers give you storage space you can take in at a glance, which is harder with hanging space. What is the difference between drawers and dressers? In New Zealand, "dresser" and "chest of drawers" mean the same piece, and people use both words interchangeably. A tallboy , or tallboy dresser, is the tall narrow version, with drawers stacked higher rather than spread wide. A lowboy is the opposite, wider and lower, which turns the top into usable surface. A dressing table is something else again, a lower table with shallow drawers, a mirror and a stool, made for sitting at. What size drawer unit should I choose? Practical storage comes down to two things, the floor space you can give up and the number of drawers you need. A 3 drawer chest suits a small room or a spot beside the bed. Our 6-drawer dressers hold enough for two people, and the range runs up to nine. Leave 60cm to 75cm clear in front so a drawer opens fully and you can stand at it. Every Early Settler product page carries full dimensions and carton dimensions, so you can check if the carton clears your doorway before you order. The build behind the finish A wooden chest of drawers can be solid timber, engineered wood, or both. Our design studio decides which goes where, based on what each part has to do. Look past the finish and our range comes down to these materials: Solid wood – Solid timber is milled from the