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Fluted 5 Drawer Dresser for Bedroom

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$149.98
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Load ratings are rare on furniture at this level and worth translating. Thirty-five pounds in a drawer measuring 20.6 by 11.8 inches is a genuinely full drawer of folded cotton — more than you would normally put in one, and comfortably beyond a stack of jumpers. One hundred and fifty pounds on the top is a television, a large mirror or a person sitting on it, though the last of those is still a bad idea. The floor-mounted base rather than raised legs is the other structural decision here: more stable, less to clean under.

Drawer size
20.6 x 11.8 in
Drawer load
Up to 35 lb each
Top load
Up to 150 lb
Base
Full floor-standing

How it lives in the room

Translate the ratings

A folded cotton T-shirt weighs around five ounces. Thirty-five pounds is well over a hundred of them, which tells you the drawers are not the limiting factor in how you use this.

Floor-mounted changes the cleaning

Nothing gets under it, which means no dust drifts collecting out of sight. It also means the whole unit has to move to clean beneath — a fair trade in most rooms.

Fit the strap anyway

A stable base reduces tipping risk but does not remove it, particularly with a child pulling on an open drawer. The supplied metal device takes minutes.

Before you order

The 150-pound top rating assumes a spread load. A heavy object on a small foot concentrates the force and can dent the surface even well inside the total figure.