March 9th, 2011

Kitchen Buffet Furniture: A Wonderful Place to Display Your Heirloom Dishware

One of the things I miss about our ancestral home is the huge kitchen hutch we have in the main dining room. The main dining room is a wide expanse of space where our family gathers for meals during special occasions like Christmas and New Year. It has a huge dining table with 12 intricately carved chairs. My siblings and I would joke around whenever we had our lavish meals on that table. We felt like that we were the 12 apostles having our last supper.

On one side of the wall is where the kitchen hutch is placed. It is actually an eye-catching piece of kitchen buffet furniture. It has a magnificent display of my mother’s heirloom dishware collection that she had inherited from my grandmother. Those dishes on display were made of genuine porcelain with intricate gold etchings on the rim of the plates. The hutch itself is magnanimous. It occupied the whole wall with its immense size. It is a large cabinet made of hard wood, 3 glass paned cabinet doors and several layers of drawers underneath. My mom’s precious sterling silverware and folded linen napkins are kept in those drawers. I always looked forward to having those special gatherings in that dining room. The hutch contributed to that opulent feeling whenever we had our parties in that room.

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