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Hutch

Articles of furniture used in both the home and office often include a desk, table or credenza equipped with a set of overhead storage compartments or shelves that are conventionally known as a hutch. Especially in home environments where furniture is increasingly modular in design to allow ready reconfiguration depending on needs and available space, hutches are frequently provided as separate units, each of which units can be mounted on top of a horizontal worktop of a selected desk or the like. A hutch unit is typically designed with vertical panels that extend down from the ends of the storage compartments and which are fastened to the desk for stability. Chests and dressers are well known furniture items that are typically used for storing articles of apparel. They typically include several drawers which are slidably mounted to a cabinet. The tops of such dressers are flat. A hutch is mounted to a chest in the form of a combo unit. The assembly offers superior versatility, and as well as arrays of storage compartments which enhance the utility thereof. The shelf is removably securable to the cabinet. If removed, the combo unit to which the hutch is mounted can be used as a changing station as sufficient head room is provided between the top of the lower and preferably wider section of the combo unit and the upper shelf or top of the hutch.

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