6-Drawer Cherry Dresser - Issue No. 246

Issue #281 - February 2004

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6-Drawer Cherry Dresser
A couple of years ago, we built an heirloom bed and a matching bedside table for a bedroom suite of furniture. These pieces ended up being so popular that we received a number of requests for more furniture pieces for the set. So many requests, in fact, that we felt it was only fitting to build a third piece to round out the bedroom suite. That’s how the idea for this six-drawer cherry dresser first got off the ground.
This dresser features all the same great design elements we liked about the bed and the table. Just a few of note are the thick corner posts with decorative curved tapers cut in the bottom; the end panels made up of three individual solid-wood slats; the six drawers joined with strong half-blind dovetails; and the front stretcher connecting the two sides with a gentle curve along the bottom edge.