The Best Home Furnishings
Are Classics to Own
What are the best home furnishings to have?
The furniture in your home plays a pivotal role to its ambiance. So when you begin to invest in your furniture, the best home furnishings are those items that offer tremendous flexibility and years of pleasure.
Several furniture pieces comply with this need and cover a multitude of styles, in a variety of price points and can move from room to room and from house to house.
They are classics that really never go out of style and been derived from styles and designs of centuries ago with some or a few variations.
They don’t need to be top dollar either.
Ikea home furnishings
as an example, offers many well designed yet inexpensive home furnishings and for many different people.
Keep in mind, classic design has a longevity and the best home furnishings of every good design has a knock off, and can be easily mixed in with higher quality items you invested in, or the antiques that you have been handed down. The look you create will be the one of a kind and comfortable interiors you long for.
The best home furnishings are the hardest working and most versatile pieces of furniture and a few excellent examples are these:
The Parsons Table
A parson’s table is a sturdy table with clean lines and great proportions with square straight legs of a diameter that is equal to the thickness of the top with flush surfaces.
Its timeless charm fits anywhere and works with
contemporary home furnishings
and in just about any interior.
The parson table is a modern shape of flush surfaces and is so basic that it can be built of any material or finished in any application, still keeping its integrity. Which actually were the criteria when it was designed as a result of a school assignment project in France taught by a French designer Jean Michel Frank and dates to the 1930's.
The design is conducive and scaled for use as a coffee table, end table, dining or a sofa table.
A Platform Bench
The platform bench originally designed by George Nelson in 1946 is a long low wooden bench with a slat top.
It easily accents any room. Use it at the foot of a bed, as a coffee table, in a foyer or in a mud room entrance as a bench to sit on to take your shoes off, or as a magazine display for the home or office.
Console/Sofa Table
A console is an architectural term for a bracket of any kind that supports cornices or shelves.
The term console table came from this architectural term, and describes tables that are attached to the wall at the back with only two front legs. (brackets)
More so today, the the best home furnishings include a console table that is interchangeable with the term sofa table and refers to a table with four legs and is long and narrow, usually 30" in height or so.
It can be used at the back of the sofa, hence the name sofa table or against the wall.
The original version from the 18th century had drop leaf ends and drawers.
Whatever you want to call it is a versatile piece of furniture and works well in both small apartments and large homes as a graceful piece for the foyer.
It could have a shelf at the bottom for baskets or other storage or display and be with or without drawers that can house gloves or keys.
Hang a mirror or a stunning piece of art above or use as a media center under a flat screen TV that is mounted to the wall, and store DVD's in the drawers. In the dining room it can serve as an extra place for an impromptu buffet, or to store coasters or place mats.
Used in the living room it can be a surface for photos and task lighting, while under it you can place benches or ottomans for extra seating. In the bedroom it can serve as a desk.
The Ottoman
Another example of the best home furnishings to own is the ottoman.
The ottoman is a low upholstered seat without arms or a back and is approximately the same height as a chair seat.
Probably most often they function as a footstool or extra seating but can also be quite nice for use as a coffee table.
They can be upholstered in leather or in an endless choice of fabrics and embellished with trims of bullion and nailheads just name a few.
At the foot of the bed they offer a place for your extra blankets and pillows at night or a place to put on your stockings, or how about in your dressing area or the master bath? Nice!
A Chest of Drawers
The next best home furnishings you will find extremely versatile are chests of drawers.
A chest of drawers is a case fitted with drawers, and a favorite for storage of various styles and variations, like the highboy and chest on chest which is simply a chest on top of another chest or table like base.
A chest of drawers can be found anywhere from flea markets, unfinished furniture stores, antique shops or you can purchase one new.
They look great with
distressed furniture
and in any room that can use additional storage.
In the dining room they hold silverware, place mats, tablecloths, napkins and candles plus the top can serve as a buffet like the console.
A chest of drawers in the living room can serve as a console with decorative accessories on top.
Fill the drawers with things you need to store and keep hidden. It would be a good place for the kids’ board games, photo albums, blankets and throws. And like with the console you can place it under a wall mounted TV and store the DVD’s.
In the foyer, use a chest of drawers as your
entryway furniture
hanging a mirror above it and keep your keys, maps, and the dog lease in the drawers. The mud room can always use storage. Give each member of your family their own drawer.
The Sideboard/Credenza
A sideboard, originally used as a side board for use in the service of meals.
The sideboard has evolved into a decorative piece with drawers and doors and typically used in the dining room, but makes a great addition to any room.
Use it as a great alternative to the sofa table giving you plenty of storage for family room necessities of toys, books, art supplies, or in the home office for important papers and school supplies.
Some sideboards go to the floor like a buffet and others are up off the floor with drawers that are deep.
The best home furnishings are classics as we mentioned and many go by more than one name.
A sideboard of a different name is the credenza and is a cabinet with drawers that is either mounted to the wall or free standing.
More often the name credenza refers to a piece like this that is used in an office typically behind a desk to rest your printer/fax, etc. on and to store files and books underneath.
But it can work in any room as did the sideboard.
Add a tray with an assortment of glasses and spirits and a credenza becomes a bar.
Remove the legs and mount to the wall for a mid-century modern effect.
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