After Human Race Hostility II woodworking became a accepted hobby among the halfway classes. The expanded serious and skilled amateurs in Bath Storage Cabinets this enclosure now detour out pieces of furniture which rival the effort of professional cabinet makers. Together, their functioning now represents but a small percentage of furniture production in any industrial country, but their numbers are vastly greater than those of their counterparts in the 18th century and before.

A cabinet ordinarily has at least one compartment. Compartments may be open, as in open shelving; they may be enclosed by individually or expanded doors; or they may contain one or more drawers. Some cabinets contain conspiratorial compartments, access to which is generally not obvious.