Dining room sideboard

4 years ago

last modified: 4 years ago

I'm looking for a sideboard, preferably with upper and lower storage, and all I can find is cupboards on the lower half, sometimes with a few drawers. I am DONE with lower kitchen cabinets for all the reasons we all know, and want only lower drawers in the kitchen. Naturally I want only lower drawers in a dining room buffet/sideboard. But I can't find any designs online where the lower half is all drawers, no cabinets. Does anyone even make such a product? Or would I need a cabinet-maker & my own design?

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Tom S

4 years ago

Keep in mind that most sideboards aren't going to be designed to have drawers that accommodate large serving pieces. I have a lot of china that will not fit a typical set of drawers, nor would it be safe - when you pull out a drawer you are pulling out all its contents, which, depending on the fragility of the contents, may not always be a good idea. If you are only envisioning storing things like tablecloths and non fragile items, then a nice antique chest of drawers could work as well as provide visual appeal.

I would also keep in mind why people like kitchen drawers over cupboards is because modern kitchen cabinet drawers are designed to be user-friendly, with specially engineered pulls and hardware to make it easy to pull out and close heavy drawers crowded with food or dishes or pots and pans. Sideboards and dressers are not going to be engineered to provide that kind of ease of handling.

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Sherry Brighton
4 years ago
Find nice dresser. I have a marble top dresser from the 40's that I used as a sideboard for a while. You can add a hutch top if you want upper storage.
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maddielee
4 years ago
Not knowing the style you are looking for, found this. using search terms ’buffet hutch with drawers’. There may be others.

..cottagehomefurniture.com
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porkchop_z5b_MI
4 years ago
What you're looking for is more accurately referred to as a hutch.

If you can't find anything you like ready-made, check out an Amish furniture store -- many Amish furniture makers will customize pretty much whatever you want. Or scour antique/vintage shops.
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Holly- Kay
4 years ago
https://www.arhaus.com/furniture/dining-room-furniture/buffets-hutches/wagner-buffet/

I have this on my list of possibilities for my dining room. it’s not all drawers but at least some. Arhaus has some other pieces with upper storage and some lower draers.
scarbowcow thanked Holly- Kay
scarbowcow
Original Author
4 years ago
Thank you for all these hints! I'm from California originally & I never heard the word 'hutch' for the piece of furniture I'm thinking of apart from one neighbor lady from Minnesota. I totally forgot that word. In my family it was sideboard or credenza, but I honestly don't remember if that referred to the units with top & bottom.

Now I've got better search terms & a photo to go on that's a big help as I've lived abroad for most of my adult life and some things are hard to remember (hutch) or for people in this country to visualize what I'm talking about.

All this help is great. Sorry if I'm responding to all in the wrong place... Getting used to this site on my phone.

What a great community! Thanks to all!