Talk:Sideboard

Image
Insert this pic? Scriberius 18:40, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Probably better to use a classical model for the lead image. Also a front on view showing the face would be optimum. Best regards and thanks for your interest in improving this page. Decoratrix 19:10, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I include it in the article. Better one image than none. --Nopetro 22:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * ... but can we have a traditional one, too?   D b f i r s   08:06, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

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Buffet?
Is this American usage? I've never heard 'buffet' used as a term for a sideboard in Britain. --Ef80 (talk) 11:03, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm Australian, and I am familiar with both terms. To me, a sideboard is an old-fashioned piece with the "board" at about waist height. Most have legs, about a foot tall. Often there is a mirror at the back, like on a dressing table. Ours is 1930s. It has a cupboard on each side and a set of three drawers in the middle.

For me, a "buffet" is 1960s or 1970s, is lower than a sideboard, and if it has legs, they are shorter than sideboard legs. Google "Parker Furniture buffet" and that will bring up the typical Australian types, which are in the Danish mid-century style. A buffet doesn't normally have a mirror, but there may be an optional hutch on top, usually with glass doors.

So, the usage in Australia may be the opposite of the usage given in the article, which is perhaps the usage in America.

Elizamidnight (talk) 04:58, 27 April 2020 (UTC)