Teak Sideboard with Caned Doors and Six Drawers

The Facts First

• 6 drawers, 4 across the top and 1 deeper one below at each end.
• 4 cupboard doors, the middle 2 caned and the outer 2 solid panel.
• Approx 180 cm long, 45 cm deep, 90 cm high.
• Solid teak, rope moulding along the top edge and again on the plinth, turned bun feet.
• Brass shell pulls on the drawers, white ceramic drop pulls on the doors.
• Cane weave and grain vary piece to piece.

What Goes Where

Start with the top row. 4 drawers, shallow and in every house one of them becomes the drawer with the batteries, the cello tape, the spare keys and the warranty card for a mixer that broke in 2019 and it will be the 2nd from the left because that is the one you reach without bending. The other 3 take the tablecloths, the ironed napkins and whatever else lies flat.

Below them at each end sits 1 deeper drawer and those are for the things you do not want on show but need in the same room, the medicine box with the Crocin and the Digene on one side and the bills and the invitation cards on the other.

Then the doors. The 2 in the middle are caned, so air moves through and you can just make out the edge of what is behind them, which is where the dinner set goes, the good plates that come out twice a year and the rest of the time sit there being seen through the weave. The 2 outer doors are solid, framed panel and behind those goes whatever you would rather no one knew was there, the whisky, the extra sugar, the steel dabbas that do not match.