Armoire Furniture

Armoires

Whether you live in a grand mansion or a shoebox apartment, everybody needs storage space. Both versatile and attractive, armoires offer the best storage possible for any home.

Traditionally, an armoire was simply a cabinet used for storing arms. These days, however, the term has come to be used to describe several types of cabinet, each designed for a specific purpose. A TV armoire, for instance, is a cabinet designed to hold your television. While not in use the TV can be concealed within the armoire so that it appears to the casual observer as a simple cabinet. The same goes for a computer armoire (also known as an armoire desk or home office armoire). These cabinets simply allow you to conceal from view items that you would rather not have on display.

In becoming the furniture equivalent of a jack-of-all-trades, the armoire has evolved to fit all sorts of requirements. As well as being adapted for modern-day use with televisions and computers they have also evolved to cater to our modern, rather more cramped surroundings. Since many homes, especially those in crowded towns and cities, struggle for space the armoire has developed to fit into any nook or cranny - no more so than the corner armoire. While antique armoires are often over 6 feet wide, corner armoires are designed to take up as little space as possible, fitting snugly into a corner to free up valuable floor space.

When space is not an issue, however, there can be little as attractive as a full-sized antique armoire. The French have been producing beautiful examples of walnut, cherry and oak armoires since the 18th century, complete with ornate carvings and embellishments. Lighter contemporary styles - such as pine armoires - are available to suit a more modern décor, and are just as attractive. Providing plentiful storage space as well as outstanding style, antique armoires are an example of the ideal balance between form and function.

Finally we come to the jewelry armoire, the delicate relation of the antique armoire. Designed simply to hold jewelry, these armoires are designed to look as beautiful as the jewelry itself. Complete with several small drawers, a vanity mirror and necklace cabinets, the jewelry armoire is the kind of furniture that can someday become a family heirloom, to be passed to the next generation along with the jewelry it holds.

Whatever your requirements there is sure to be an armoire that can offer a solution to your storage problems that is both extremely useful and easy on the eye.