Love Fixtures

The token bounty of chocolates and flowers suffices during the early years of a relationship, but for those of you who tied the knot many years there may be a need to up the ante a bit. There’s no room of your home, save the living room perhaps, that reflects the permanence of your settling down like the bedroom. The rickety futon and upturned box-as-a-nightstand days of your bachelor youth are a long distant memory, though it’s almost certain you wouldn’t wish to revisit them even if you could.

This year, give some thought to showing her your continued devotion with something less delectable or perishable. It’s also quite likely you’ve showered her with a bevy of jewelry over the years, so maybe this year adding a jewelry armoire from www.jewelryarmoireselect.com to your private space will be an equally tasteful and practical choice this Valentine’s Day. Vertically-oriented, they are in line with space concerns and yet still offer a wealth of storage options for a woman’s accessories.

The armoire itself grew out of a wish to have stored garments concealed in a time before closets or any other in-wall cabinet design. The jewelry armoire likely came to be proposed after the opulence of the Elizabethan era led women to have more trinkets and baubles than could reasonably be retained in their expansive vanities.

Whatever the reason, it’s interesting to note that the jewelry armoire is one bedroom fixture that has not evolved to take on more contemporary or modern themes. At least not to a noteworthy extent. Nearly to a one they feature classic carved legs and molded and/or scalloped details like those of the Powell Jewelry Armoire in Heirloom Cherry, one that retains the charms of French colonial life for the bedrooms of today.

The Powell Natural Cherry Jewelry Armoire has something of a vintage cosmopolitan vibe to it, but truthfully that’s about as updated a jewelry armoire as you’ll find. This stoic resiliency to change may play a part in their appeal, as some women feel that making such a classically sophisticated console part of their morning routine adds a certain whimsical charm to it.

The Powell Jewelry Armoire in Merlot is representative of the style most popular today. It offers more quiet trademarks of old-world sophistication with a toned-down transitional nature and a dark merlot finish to make it stylistically suitable for most bedrooms. Both the Heirloom Cherry and Merlot feature side-door cabinets with necklace hooks and a flip-top lid compartment with vanity mirror and 4 ring rolls.

A year passes in no time at all, think back to how you felt on New Year’s Day if you’ve lost track of that already. Valentine’s days come and go, and no one is suggesting you can’t return to the obligatory chocolate/roses/jewelry fare some time in the future. This year, however, throw her a curveball with a gift that will have the appeal of posterity and one she can revel in as she goes through her pre-day or evening routine.