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How do I know if a chest of drawers is for a reasonable price?

Furniture Ferret: You can check whether an item you like is overpriced or underpriced by comparing it to the median price. For the chests of drawers in this section the median is 474 British pounds, that is, 50% of them is priced above this, and 50% below. Most of the chests of drawers that match your search cost between 380 British pounds and £2,595. Only 10% of products cost more or less than the two values. £926.18 is the average price of chests of drawers in this category.

What is the best way to measure the space to fit a chest of drawers in?

Furniture Ferret: Measure the width and the depth of the space where you'd like to put a chest of drawers. The most accurate way is to use a measuring tape. Hold the beginning down at the edge of the area, and let it run to the other edge. If the distance is larger than what you can stretch to, ask someone else to help, or split what you need to measure into multiple parts. You can do this by either holding the tape down partway through and continuing running it while letting the first end go, or by marking how far you have measured on the floor or wall, and reposition the tape to complete the measurement. If you would not like to make a mark on your floor, you can position a pointy object like a pen there. Make sure to avoid dead places where the piece of furniture won't go like skirting boards. Also don't forget to measure the height of the space wherever the ceiling is uneven.

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How to choose the best colour for a chest of drawers?

If you can choose from different colours for a chest of drawers that fits your space, it is helpful to know what the effects of the different colours are likely to be. The two things to consider for everything colour is balance and associations. Balance means that the colours should be coordinated in some way, so that the space looks like a unit, and not just a random collection of elements. This can be achieved by using a colour wheel, and choosing colours that are either quite close to each other (as colours that are only different in lightness or intensity always go together, but slight variations in the actual hue can also work), or relatively far, like on opposite sides of the wheel (complementary colours like blue and yellow) or on different thirds (for example, red-green-blue). Associations with and emotions connected to colours are also important, and there is no shortage of guides for these from those by 19th-century Impressionist painters to modern interior design guides. In all likelihood these associations are cultural and learnt, which means that they can be quite different in different cultures or for different people. Blue is often associated with productivity, but also calmness, stability and even sadness. Green is undoubtedly the colour of nature, and is considered to be associated with safety, luck and envy (though in other cultures this latter is yellow). White can be associated with peacefulness, innocence, cleanliness and emptiness, and, for example, mourning in India. Red is regarded as the colour of friendship, willpower, leadership, desire and anger, which is a very wide range of feelings. But it is clear that in nature, it means danger or importance, so you probably need to put it next to a neutral colour to allow the brain to rest. These emotions point in so many different directions that these guides all seem to boil down to just this: pause and see what the colour means for you.

How do I search on Furniture Ferret?

Searching for chests of drawers on Furniture Ferret is easy. Tap on the search button in the header, then enter any keywords you would like to search for, like "desk", "bathroom cabinet" or "rustic stool". Use the sliders to enter the minimum and maximum for the width, height and depth (length) and the price you are looking for. Press "Go!" to see the results. Easy!

From the history of furniture: Chests and cupboards Part 3

The old inventories filed with wills are mines of in formation regarding the belongings of our ancestors. I have read scores of them, and there is always a pathetic side to these musty old yellow papers, the Owners usually had so few possessions. Leather breeches "half wore out," appears many times; "old quilts "; feather-beds, "not new," is another item, and in the earlier documents things are sometimes described as " damnified."

Colonel Epes's inventory, dated October 1, 1678, which show him to have been a man of wealth and importance. Among them are these chests: "one old middle-sized chest, with lock and key; one small old chest, with lock and key; two other old chests without keys, and one without hinges."

Sarah Oort, a rich and many-times-married widow, had at the time of her third marriage many elegant goods. Among them were three "chests of drawers," as chests with drawers began to be called. This was at New Amsterdam in 1691.

"One fine chest of drawers, of maple (1703), is an item in another inventory, probably made of native wood by one of our own cabinet-makers.

By 1724 walnut, cherry, maple, poplar, hickory, pine, and ash were all being used, and in the larger centres comfort was by no means lacking. The pioneer, how ever, still clung to his " Kist," since he could use it both by day and night, and hide within it his few valuables.

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