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5 Drawer Dresser with Fluted Design, Black
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5 Drawer Dresser with Fluted Design, Black

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$188.86
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Fluting is a texture decision with a maintenance consequence that nobody lists. The wave-cut grooves across the fronts catch light, which is the point, and they catch dust along every ridge, which is not. On a pale fluted panel that goes unnoticed for weeks. In black it is visible within a day, as a set of gray lines running the height of the cabinet. A dry brush takes it out in seconds, while a damp cloth drags the dust further into the groove and leaves a smear in the one place the light is aimed.

Height
43 in tall
Drawers
Five, handleless
Fronts
Wave-cut fluting, black
Build
MDF, reinforced bottom

How it lives in the room

Brush the flutes before the cloth

A soft paintbrush or a dry duster run along the grooves lifts dust out of them. Only then is a barely damp cloth useful, and only on the flat areas. Reversing that order packs the dust into the deepest part of the flute, where it sets and needs a pick to get out.

Forty-three inches of vertical texture

The grooves run with the height of the cabinet and pull the eye upward, so the column reads taller than the 43 inches it measures. In a room of low furniture that is useful. Standing next to a wardrobe of similar height it competes, and the two together make the wall feel shorter than it is.

Reinforced bottom, so load it low

The strengthened base panel is where weight belongs. Jeans, heavy knits and anything stored rather than worn go into the bottom two drawers, both because the panel is built for it and because mass at the base keeps a narrow five-drawer column steady when a loaded drawer is extended at chest height.

Before you order

Fluted fronts are formed into the panel, so a deep gouge cannot be filled and sanded flat the way a plain front can. Keep belt buckles, vacuum heads and anything hard away from the lower drawers, where that damage happens.