Let's say you have an empty apartment: living room, dining room, bedroom, bath and kitchen. Where do you start? What is the first piece of furniture that you should buy?
The bed, of course. The biggest size you can fit attractively in the space, the best quality mattress you can afford, and all the accompanying linens required for your comfort and pleasure. And that's all I'll say for now; we'll get back to the bed at a later posting.
So, okay, what I really want to talk about is the second most useful piece of furniture: a chest of drawers. And if I were to select my favorite of all styles it would be an antique English, mahogany, bow-front chest of drawers. There is nothing cutting edge here; it's a style that has been around for a couple hundred years. It's also an elegant classic that adapts well to many settings.
And it's versatile. You can put in the entry hall (store gloves, scarves, umbrellas, the dog's leash), or the dining room (store your placemats, napkins and silver flatware). It can anchor a living room, topped with two slender lamps flanking a mirror or painting. (Store coasters, candles, cocktail napkins, barware, games, photo albums.) But you'll put in your bedroom for now. You'll line it with subtly-scented drawer paper. After you move to the condo with the custom dressing room you can try it in the baby's room.
It will be perfect there, too.
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