Devonshire New Solid Oak 4ft 6in Dresser Base
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Product code: NS40
Dimensions:
Depth: 425mm
Width: 1380mm
Height: 770mm
Further product information:
Devonshire New Solid Oak 4ft 6in Dresser Base:The Devonshire New Solid Oak 4ft 6in Dresser Base
This Devonshire New Solid Oak Dresser Base is made throughout from solid oak. It is sturdily built using a jointed and glued method of construction and is completed in a tough lacquer finish. The front, sides and base of the drawers are oak and they are constructed using dovetail joints. The cupboards each have a single, height adjustable, shelf made from solid oak.
Devonshire Pine New Solid Oak Dining
Devonshire New Solid Oak dining and living room furniture is made throughout, as the name suggests, of solid oak timber. This contemporary styled furniture is fully assembled and benefits from all the features of high quality cabinet furniture, such as the use of dovetailed joints on drawers, solid wood panelling to cabinet backs and solid wood panelling to drawer bases.
Supplied by the renowned North Devon company, Devonshire Pine Ltd. the New Solid Oak dining and living room furniture is completed in a tough lacquered finish that highlights the attractive colour and grain of the wood and simplifies cleaning and maintenance.
All items are fully assembled except for dining tables which have the legs removed for delivery and complete dressers which are delivered in top and bottom halves.
For complementary bedroom furniture, see the
Devonshire New Oak Bedroom Range.
0103 Oak Furniture - Versatile Material
Oak is a slow growing tree. It has a dense timber that does most things well. For example, it is not as rot resistant as sweet chestnut when used for fencing, but it is still a very good material for fencing. It cannot be carved as easily as lime, but is still a good wood to carve. It may not be as pretty as walnut or mahogany, but still has a beautiful grain pattern.
Perhaps of all trees, it is the oak that has contributed most to Britain's history. From the oak used for building ships, to the oak pit props that allowed British coal to power steam engines the world over. Oak is also a great timber for building solid, reliable, attractive furniture.
4403 Sideboards in Oak
While many items of furniture common to the UK would almost always have been made in the first instance of oak, this might not be the case with sideboards. This is because the sideboard came into existence during the 19th Century at a time when mahogany, rather than oak, had become the timber of choice for the most fashionable in society. As the affluent upper classes were influential in taste, sideboards would have either been solid mahogany or perhaps oak or beech with mahogany veneers.
However, oak was still, justifiably, held in high regard and so the next ‘layer’ in society would have commissioned one of these new-fangled pieces of furniture but would have had an oak sideboard, rather than a mahogany or imitation mahogany piece. Oak was in plentiful supply as it covered large parts of the country in the 16th and 17th Centuries. It was an almost universal construction material – the plastic of its day. Oak was used for buildings, furniture, carts and boats or ships.