Materials used for Jewelry Armoire Generally wooden armoires are the most common types of armoires. Based on the wood used the quality of a armoire is determined. Different types of wood material like pine wood, cedar wood, oak wood and cherry wood are the most common types of wood materials used for making jewelry armoires. To know about the type of wood material used for armoire is to do a smell test. Pine wood will give you a sappy piny smell, cedar wood would give cedar tree aroma and cherry wood smells sweet and sour. This is very good way to check especially when there is no coating on the armoire. Next thing is the interiors of armoires. The fabric used for the interiors could be velvet, silk and satin such types are expensive armoires. This fabric may be glued or nailed to the wooden structure and wooden pegged. This distinction between pegged and nailed or glued has a direct effect on price tag. Wooden pegged jewelry boxes have higher price tags as compared to nailed or glued one because pegging can be done by experienced and highly skilled persons.
Types of Jewelry Armoires Depending upon the structure, shape and usability jewelry armoire could be one of the following types or combination of one or more types.
Mirror Jewelry Armoire: This jewelry box has mirror on the front side, may also one on the left and right sides as well. Mirrored jewelry armoire is very useful for both storage as well as wearing the jewelry by looking in the mirror. Over the door jewelry armoire: Also know as wall mount jewelry armoire is very handy if you have a space constraint. Just hang it on the door and you are done. Moreover the front mirror on wall mount armoire will act as a dressing mirror. So this hanging jewerly armoire has double benefits. Standing jewelry armoire: This type is a large size jewelry armoires and act as a great showpiece besides holding any amount of jewelry. These have a number of drawers and racks. Standing mirror jewelry armoire is really lovely item for the art lovers. Some of them are antique pieces which provide extra value. The above are the main types. Among other features of armoires include locking jewelry armoire which provides you the safety with a lock on the armoire or flip mirror etc. Others are depending upon the paint used like white jewerly armoire and black jewelry armoire.
Size of Jewerly Armoires Besides the great look and materials the appropriate size of the box is very important. You must select the one which can store your existing jewelry as well as the one which may likely to buy in future. It should have sufficient number of hooks to hold your long and short necklaces. For holding earrings larges number of slot are required for properly managed jewelry. Ring slots and bangle slots must be there. It can also have some places like foamy or with some cushion to store your watches, pendants.