In this video, learn how to build a wooden storage chest DIY style. The chest is constructed using pine wood with pocket ...

Traditionally, a cedar chest (or “hope chest”) was used to store linens that made up part of a bride’s dowry, because the fragrance of cedar discouraged moths. A cedar chest still makes a spectacular ...

Cedar chests traditionally have been given to young women who were planning to get married. In centuries past, teenage girls stored linens in these ”hope chests.” Because every item was hand sewn, ...

Cedar chest. More than just a handsome piece of furniture to put at the end of the bed, a cedar chest is a good place to store blankets, linens and sweaters because the fragrance of cedar discourages ...

This is the first time I think I have bought something I think is an antique. I bought a cedar chest made by The Roos Mfg. Co. at a thrift store in Minneapolis for $100. I am hoping you will give me ...

This is the first time I think I have bought something I think is an antique. I bought a cedar chest made by The Roos Mfg. Co. at a thrift store in Minneapolis for $100. I am hoping you will give me ...

When Nora Lenehan was 19 her farming parents took her to a small department store in Ohio to pick out her hope chest.The one she chose is mahogany lined with cedar. Like the one her mother had ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — When Nora Lenehan was 19, her parents took her to a small department store in Ohio to pick out her hope chest. The one she chose is mahogany lined with cedar. Like the one her ...

n an era when little girls are no longer being brought up to believe that the arrival of their Prince Charming on his great white steed will guarantee a “happily ever after” life, a hope chest is an ...

Jackie Randich has a childhood remembrance of the smell of her mother’s cedar hope chest, a woodsy, pleasant odor that wafted up when she peeked inside. So when she and her husband were expecting ...

It’s just a simple cedar hope chest made by a young student in woodshop class, but over the past 30 years it has become a treasured heirloom for Marilyn Francis’ family in Idaho. But Francis feels it ...