Cupboard
Acupboardis a piece offurniturefor enclosing dishware or grocery items that are stored in a home. The term is sometimes also used for any form ofcabinetor enclosedbookcase.It gradually evolved from its original meaning: an open-shelved side table for displayingdishware,more specifically plates, cups and saucers.
Description
[edit]A cupboard is a piece of furniture for enclosing dishware or grocery items that are stored in a home. The term gradually evolved from its original meaning: an open-shelved side table for displayingdishware,more specifically plates, cups and saucers. These open cupboards typically had between one and three display tiers, and at the time, a drawer or multiple drawers fitted to them.[1][2]
Types of cupboards
[edit]Airing cupboard
[edit]Anairing cupboard(orhot press) is a built-in storage space, sometimes of walk-in dimensions, containing awater heater,either animmersion heaterforhot running wateror a boiler forcentral heatingwater (hence, also "boiler cupboard" ), or ahot water storage tank.Shelves, usually slatted to allow forcirculation of heat,are positioned above or around the heater to provide room for clothing. The purpose is to allow air to circulate around the stored fabrics to prevent damp forming.
Some variants of airing cupboards also serve as the linen cupboard, the storing area of the household's clean sheets and towels.
In another version, the airing cupboard serves as a temporary drying space, either for laundry or for wet outdoor clothes and shoes. Its shelves can be used to fully remove traces of damp from dried clothing before the items are put away elsewhere in drawers and wardrobes. A moveable electrical version of this is adrying cabinet.
Built-in cupboard
[edit]Abuilt-in cupboardis a storage space that forms part of the design of the room and is not free-standing or moving. It is not the same as a cabinet.[how?]In the United Kingdom houses often have a built-in cupboard under the stairs.
Linen cupboard
[edit]Alinen cupboardis an enclosed recess of a room used for storinghousehold linen(e.g. sheets, towels, tablecloths) and other things for storage, usually with shelves, or a free-standing piece of furniture for this purpose.[3]
Stationery cupboard
[edit]Most offices have a lockable repository for valuables. The heart of this is usually the supply ofstationery.
Gallery
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Built-in cupboard: A cupboard built into the wall of St James's Church,Whitechapel, Lancashire -
Stationery cupboard: An office stationery cupboard, with its lockable doors open -
Antique cupboard: Englishliverycupboard approximately 1600 to 1640 -
Antique cupboard: Decorative crockery and bibelots invitré armoireorvitrina
See also
[edit]References
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- ^"Cupboard".The Free Dictionary By Farlex.Archivedfrom the original on 27 June 2022.Retrieved19 May2012.
- ^Andrews, John (2006)British Antique Furniture.Antique Collectors' ClubISBN1-85149-444-8;p. 226
- ^Bravery, Suzanne (10 May 2008),"The Linen Cupboard",Mother's Day Address at Eryldene,Gordon, NSW: Eryldene Trust, archived fromthe originalon 13 April 2009,retrieved30 March2009
