A handmade chest of drawers with drawers of various sizes
Cajonera is a term with several uses. The concept may refer to a piece of furniture whose structure is made up of drawers .
Furniture with drawers
It should be noted that a drawer is a container that, in a chest of drawers , a closet , etc., is inserted into a specific space and removed from it. Drawers are used to store all types of items.
Returning to the idea of a chest of drawers, it is a piece of furniture made up exclusively of drawers . In this way it lacks doors and shelves, although the surface of its upper part can be used as a table .
Typically, chests of drawers have a simple frame to contain the drawers. Many times they do not have legs, although some models have small legs.
Possible locations
The drawers can be located in all rooms of the house . In bedrooms , for example, chests of drawers are used to store clothes. In a kitchen , the drawer is usually used to store cutlery, tablecloths, napkins, cloths or rags.
In children's rooms, on the other hand, a chest of drawers can have other more specific uses. For example, they can use it to store toys, dolls and board games , all depending on the dimensions of the furniture. If we are talking about older children, you can also leave their school supplies and textbooks in the drawer.
While there are drawers that are installed in any sector of the room (generally, next to a wall), others are placed inside the closet or closet . It is also common for them to be allocated to areas of the home that are difficult to use, such as under the stairs .
Given the dimensions and shape of the drawer unit, it can be especially useful for this purpose. Furthermore, it is a piece of furniture that is manufactured and sold in different proportions: there are cubic ones (each of its faces has the same dimensions as the rest, or the difference is minimal), but there are also models that are taller than they are wide and deep The former usually have three drawers at most, while the latter start at four.
Chest of drawers with trunk
An uncommon variation of the chest of drawers includes a chest , usually located on the opposite face of the drawers. This means that on one side we have access to the drawers, but on the other we have a lid to store larger objects, shapes or sizes that are not suitable for the first ones.
The direction in which the trunk opens is not always the same, especially if the furniture is custom-made. But it is generally done in the same direction as opening the drawers. This presents a disadvantage as well as an advantage: on the one hand, a piece of furniture with these characteristics is ideal for storing a large number of items of different sizes , something especially useful for a child to have all their toys in one place; However, to access the trunk it is necessary that only one of the sides of the furniture be attached to the wall.
Children can use the drawer to store their toys.
This is easily solved by rotating the direction in which the lid opens, so that it is perpendicular to that of the drawers. In this way, two of its faces can be blocked without this representing a problem.
Other meanings
It should be noted that the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) recognizes other uses of the notion. A drawer, in this way, can be a planter (an installation to put ornamental plants); a type of drawer that is part of the desks and where students keep their books; or a structure that protects the seedbeds , to mention a few possibilities.