Almirah

An almirah is bought for what goes inside it, so start with the lock. Ours take a proper mortise lock with 2 keys and the lockable shelf sits at the top where a person reaching in cannot see it from the doorway. That is where the papers go, the gold that is not in the bank, the passports, the things that get asked about at the worst possible moment.

The rest of it is ordinary storage. A hanging rail on one side for the kurtas and the sarees that crease if you fold them, adjustable shelves on the other and drawers at the bottom for the folded cotton. Mirror fronts are worth taking if the bedroom has no dressing space, which in a lot of flats it does not. Before ordering, measure your staircase turn and your door frame, not only the wall you are putting it against.

A 4 door almirah in solid sheesham is heavy and it does not fold and there is no polite way to find that out on delivery day. We can supply it knocked down if the access is tight, so tell us at the time of ordering and not after.