Antique Hoosier Cabinets

If your desire is a nicely furnished kitchen with a vintage look, then you will do yourself a lot of good to give the Antique Hoosier cabinet a chance. It is very capable of giving your kitchen that special kind of look that sets it apart. The Antique Hoosier Cabinet had a long standing quality of adding elegance and beauty to the kitchen.

The name itself ?Hoosier? was derived from the forms taken by the cabinets involved in the arrangement and the design. The Hoosier includes long standing cabinets and counters. There are several companies that are involved in the manufacturing of the antique hoosier cabinet. The antique hoosier cabinet was capable of adding quite a measure of efficiency to the kitchen.

The antique Hoosier cabinet introduced a new kind of idea to the construction of kitchen cabinets. Initially before its advent, which was before 1930, the constructions of kitchen cabinets were made in the free standing form. Also before the advent of the antique hoosier cabinet, every busy kitchen would opt for another type of cabinet called the baker?s cabinet.

The hoosier manufacturing company came to being in 1898 in the United State, in the state of Indiana, the city of New Castle, to be more precise. They were able to make a lot of improvement on the baker?s type of cabinet, this they were able do with a considerable degree of success.

Between 1900 and 1940, the company was able to produce more than four million cabinets. For the first twenty years, the wood of choice for making these cabinets was oak.

The beauty of the antique Hoosier cabinet is in the fact that it was made from locally available wood; they also had a very simple design that was quite alluring to behold. They were manufactured along with shelves for storage, work surface and also drawers.

Every part of the hoosier cabinet were made with so much care and attention, this depicted it as the work of an expert designer. Initially, the work surface was made from smooth wood but as time went on, the wood was changed to zinc, aluminum or porcelain, this change in the surface made the surface easier to clean. This also became necessary due to the fear of germs and especially influenza.

Many other manufacturers also came alive and various forms of antique kitchen cabinets were manufactured, all following the same format as the antique hoosier cabinet but each of them bore identifying tags with which one could identify which antique kitchen cabinet was made by who. In case your kitchen cabinet does not carry any tag, you can get a reference book from a library which can help in its identification.