Then, an apothecary; who is a medical practitioner dispensed medication making use of the cabinets to keep medications and ingredients. Today however, an apothecary cabinet is reproduced as a storage item that can be used in homes. These storage items can be quite expensive. This piece of furniture usually has many drawers. It is made up of a large chest of drawers, which has a lot of square chests that are organized in a rectangle or square. The cabinets vary in size. Some can be very small, while others may be somewhat large. The small ones can be used for keeping little trinkets, while the bigger items can be used for storing clothes or similar items. They usually have a flat top with four short legs. This apothecary cabinet was an item also used by typical Chinese medicine professionals, who used it for storing herbal drugs. The chests usually have many small, deep drawers and each drawer had segments. At the front of each drawer, names of substances contained inside of it were written. This was to make identification and subsequent retrieval easier and faster. It is very possible for you today to meet people who are still making use of the apothecary cabinet for storage of herbs and drugs. There is a good chance you will find an ancient apothecary chest used in the 1800s by the pharmacist (apothecary) of that time if you carry out a Google search. An apothecary chest can also add beauty to your home, although there are corner cabinets, which can equally be used to achieve this when placed in different junctions of your home. In addition to this, they are also a good source of storing various items from your pottery to bathing accessories.
Corner cabinets are used for different junctions in your home to ensure that no available corner is left out, which would have otherwise been used for other things that may not add value to your home. Care however, should be taken not to use cabinets, which come with sharp edges if you know your kids or someone else might get hurt with them around.
Therefore, if your home has spaces that edge in and are not in use, it may be time to start making use of them by placing corner cabinets there. If you do not think that you have any, please check again because you cannot be too sure.
Finally, some see an apothecary cabinet as too simple, not good enough to beautify a home, but such feelings or beliefs stem possibly out of a lack of knowledge of the more intricate cabinet options. Some of these cabinets are made in China, while others come from other regions of the world.