Furniture Feet Styles

Claw-and-Ball

• Claw-and-ball feet have been around for centuries and are popular to this day. Resembling a bird claw clutching a ball, this type of foot has also been created with the paws of lions and other animals. Claw-and-ball feet are ornate and formal.

Arrow

• Arrow feet, as their name implies, are straight except they have a ball a few inches above the end of the leg. The blunt arrow foot is similarly designed, with the ball shape closer to the ground by an inch or two. Arrow feet are simple but classic.

Bun and Ball

• Ball feet are various round shapes that have a flat base to rest on. Bun feet look like ball feet that have been slightly squished. Because bun feet are thick, they tend to appear on heavy furniture. Bun feet can be found on modern furniture as well as Early American furniture styles.

Elegant

• Queen Anne is a simple style of furniture foot that gently curves at the base. Similarly styled is the sabre leg, which curves like a cavalry sabre, and the spider leg, which arches like a tripod and resembles spider legs. All of these legs have very little ornamentation yet are classically elegant.

Detailed

• The traditional Marlborough leg is straight and sometimes scored with a block foot. Another detailed foot is the bracket foot, which resembles a hanging plant bracket. The bracket foot can be ornate or simply carved and is often placed on the front two legs of a dresser or table, with the back two legs being plain and straight.