The one I want to take issue with is: That thing in the bedroom for storing clothes is a:
If it's built into the wall and has doors (or a place for doors--my sister's is currently missing doors and has a curtain-type thing in its place), it's a closet.
If it's free-standing and has drawers, it's a dresser or a chest of drawers.
If it's free-standing and has doors (and possibly also drawers--mine has three at the bottom), it's an armoire, which I've only seen one other person mention here. But then, I am Southern, and we tend to do things differently.
The only time I talk about "wardrobes" is when I'm referencing Narnia. :D
Haha, I agree with Narnia, and 'armoire' is hilarious to me. Also, the idea of having a freestanding dresser, which I've never seen a real, non filthy rich person have.
Well, I have a closet built into the wall, and then a dresser - but that's different, cause it's all squat and simple like a normal dresser, not all big and tall and crazy like a wardrobe or armoire.
Really?? I must be super filthy rich, then, because I have two freestanding dressers (although I call one of them a chest, which I explained somewhere in this thread...).
I've realized after I made that comment that I'm crossing myself up - when I think wardrobe/chest/armoire (don't know why I said dresser), I think this big ornate crazy thing either from the 1800s or for rich people. But dresser is like the regular thing for clothes, which I have one of - just regular compartments and stuff. I think Lion, Witch and The Wardrobe has formed about 80% of my ideas on this, haha.
Ah, yeah, a wardrobe/armoire is more rich people-esque than a dresser. Although my parents have one, but it's older than I am, so I have no idea where it came from. Maybe the 1800s, who knows?
Really? What do people who don't have enough closet space do? I'm trying hard to imagine this, and it isn't working. I've never lived in a house where I had enough space to fit all of my clothes in the closet. And where do people put their underwear and such--things they can't hang up?
I messed up on this one - I would find not having a dresser super weird too! I do have one, I just think of wardrobes/armoires as these crazy elaborate British hiding-from-the-bombs-and-going-to-Narnia contraptions, which are very different from my humble it-has-drawers thing.
Ohhh, I've pinpointed it! The difference in my mind is that a wardrobe is basically a free-standing closet - doors open, and your clothes are all hung up. Whereas a dresser or chest has pull-out drawers that you place clothes in. One is for stuffy rich peeps, and the other is for average Joes. :)
Oh, okay! Yeah, I don't know anyone who has one so tall that you hang things in it. My armoire has two drawers on the bottom, and then you open the doors up top and it has shelves for you to put your (folded) clothes on, plus another drawer. You definitely don't hang anything in it.
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If it's built into the wall and has doors (or a place for doors--my sister's is currently missing doors and has a curtain-type thing in its place), it's a closet.
If it's free-standing and has drawers, it's a dresser or a chest of drawers.
If it's free-standing and has doors (and possibly also drawers--mine has three at the bottom), it's an armoire, which I've only seen one other person mention here. But then, I am Southern, and we tend to do things differently.
The only time I talk about "wardrobes" is when I'm referencing Narnia. :D
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Ohhh, I've pinpointed it! The difference in my mind is that a wardrobe is basically a free-standing closet - doors open, and your clothes are all hung up. Whereas a dresser or chest has pull-out drawers that you place clothes in. One is for stuffy rich peeps, and the other is for average Joes. :)
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