This is a quick and easy to understand guide to learn some popular information about furnitures. If you have a term or phrase that you want to learn more about, click on its beginning letter down below.
This glossary of common furniture terms may help familiarizing yourself with furnitures. It may also help improving your product knowledge on different kind of furnitures, and on furniture construction as well.
Furniture terms
Occasional Table - A term used for any small table but, more commonly, for cocktail, end and sofa tables.
Ogee Bracket Foot - Commonly used in Chippendale case good pieces, the double-curved leg wraps around two sides of the piece.
Ottoman - A low upholstered seat with no arms or back used as a footstool.
Overlay - A decorative trim piece of a material applied to a flat surface of wood.
Oxbow - The opposite of a serpentine curve, somewhat resembling the curve of an oxbow, used on the fronts of case pieces.
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