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Desk hutch

Hutches or desk-top shelf units are often used with the corner desks for added storage convenience. Numerous combination type furniture have been designed to serve multi-functional purposes and have long been constructed by furniture manufacturers in the past. Many different designs of this combination type of furniture exist in the form of dining tables, nooks, work tables, desks, recreation tables and the like constructively combined with open or closed shelving structures such as hutches, breakfronts, closets, cabinets, secretaries, armoires and the like. Combination type furniture design is not limited in use or placement in a specific location, room or office in either a home or in a work place. Neither are these articles of furniture limited in their structural support as some are attached to wall structures or the like, and others are designed as freestanding units. 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. In order to increase the storage capacity of a chest, dresser or combo unit, hutches have been designed to rest on the top surface or surfaces thereof. Such hutches are generally comprised of cabinets having shelves. Drawers and doors are generally not provided. A pair of hutches are typically placed atop the leftmost and rightmost desk portions, maintaining an open space above the middle or corner desk portion. It is popular to place a personal computer on top of the corner portion of the desk top so that there is no obstruction in the upward direction by a hutch.

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