Types of Antique Kitchen Furniture

Farmhouse Table

• The farmhouse table is an essential piece of antique kitchen furniture. In the kitchen design, it serves as a workspace for preparing meals and storing kitchen utensils on a bottom shelf. A large table in the center of the room is common in Mediterranean or Tuscan design kitchens. This piece of furniture may be the predecessor to the kitchen island of today. The table provides enough space to cut and prepare foods without kitchen counters.

Kitchen Armoire

• Armoires are usually thought of as furniture for the bedroom, but homeowners used the piece in the kitchen to hold dishes and food items. Two or more armoires in the kitchen allow you to rearrange and move your furniture to best suit your needs.

Canning Cupboards

• Canning cupboards or jelly cabinets were a common item in older kitchens. Canning and jarring preserves was a common practice, and a jelly cabinet stored the results. Jelly cabinets were also used to store pies and other foods to keep them fresh from the elements and rodents. Today the cabinets can store glasses, dishes and other kitchen essentials.

Baking Cabinets

• Baking cabinets, or Hoosiers as they were commonly called, were the baking center of the kitchen. The cabinets came onto the home design scene in the late 1800s to help streamline the kitchen and save the homemaker steps when preparing foods for her family. The cabinets featured a workspace, cabinets for holding flour, sugar and spices and drawers to hold utensils and tools.