The common chests that you will find available in furniture stores across the country are replicas of vintage chests that were used as travelling luggage and the like. You can get a cedar hope chest with an oak finish for a few hundred dollars and they make a superb storage unit.
They also satisfy the need that some traditional people have for making a dowry chest or a glory box. In other words, the hope chest is what single women traditionally kept as they stored clothes and household items for the time when they would get married and move out of home.
Whether they are left plain or ornately decorated, the hope chest is still a valuable piece of furniture to have sitting in your family home. Something as versatile as this that has the potential to be highly decorative is certainly a piece that you would make a point of tracking down.
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