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Keys, chargers, a spare set of napkins: an accent chest is where the small things of a room go so they can be found again. Among our accent cabinets, these are the drawer first pieces, chests and tallboys built to sort rather than hide. They sit as easily in a hall as beside a bed.
Why an accent chest with drawers beats a door
A door gives you one dark cavity. Drawers give you layers. That is the practical case for an accent chest with drawers: scarves in one, candles in another, table linens below, each findable at night without the overhead light. Stacked fronts also give the piece rhythm, and the shadow line between drawers adds texture even in plain wood.
Our Japandi chests show how far restraint can go, in pale or caramelized bamboo with dovetailed drawers and faces left almost bare. Others here go the opposite way, with ribbed, faceted or carved fronts in walnut and mahogany that catch the light differently drawer by drawer.
An accent chest of drawers or a door front cabinet
Flat and small things belong in an accent chest of drawers. Tall, bulky or bottled things belong behind cabinet doors. Put a pile of small things behind a door and it turns into one heap on one shelf, and the cabinet stops getting opened.
Sizing an accent chest for the entryway, living room or bedroom
A small accent chest by the door
An accent chest for entryway use wants its top near hip height, so keys land without bending, and a narrow footprint. Our small accent cabinets gather pieces 36 inches wide or less, many of them chests, and that width suits a typical hall. A 3 drawer chest at that scale has room for gloves and mail with a drawer to spare.
An accent chest for living room walls
In a living room a chest can stand in for the side table that never had enough storage. If it sits in sight of the sofa, look at the pieces with a stone or marble top or a burl veneer front, surfaces that hold their own next to upholstery. An accent chest for bedroom use can be plainer and taller, since a narrow tallboy pulls storage up the wall and leaves the floor open.
The black accent chest
A black accent chest in hand rubbed black or ebony walnut gives a pale room a full stop. Our black accent cabinet styles put those finishes on chests and door front designs side by side.
The mid century accent chest
A mid century accent chest gets its character from proportion and joinery rather than ornament. Most here are solid bamboo or acacia, tall and narrow, in caramelized, wheat, amber or black walnut tones. The bamboo pieces use English dovetail joinery with soft close glides, so the drawers close quietly. A few sit on slim black steel bases, some add tiger bamboo accents across the drawer faces, and the acacia chests show butterfly joinery, a structural detail that shows right on the drawer faces.
How a mid century accent chest changes after dark
Wood tone shifts more after dark than photos suggest. A caramelized or wheat finish that looks light by day goes golden under a warm bulb, and black walnut deepens toward a dark, heavy brown. If the chest will mostly be seen in the evening, judge it under a lamp rather than by a window. I would rather have one darker chest anchoring a pale wall than a light one fading into it.
A decorative chest, placed with intent
Treat a decorative chest as a small anchor for its wall. Center it on something, a mirror, a window or art hung low enough to relate to it. Keep the top to a few objects of different heights and leave space on both sides. Pushed into a corner, a chest reads as storage. Given a wall to itself, the same chest reads as a choice.































































































