Oak file cabinet could be a great choice if you want to purchase it for home or office use. Oak file cabinet may found in different styles, sizes, and quality levels. Apart from functioning as a useful furniture piece, Oak files cabinet providing a way for organizing and accessing the documents at your places.

Oak basically, is a durable and the most popular wood for all types of cabinet works. It has natural variations in colors, in knots, in its grain patterns as well as in flecks too. Besides this oak has full of green, gold and black mineral deposits that beautifully enhanced with finishing. The above characteristics give it an edge against the other wood materials and vastly in use for home as well as office furniture, especially for file cabinets.

There are many styles of Oak file cabinets. To name it such as

· Mission

· Contemporary

· Traditional

Oak file cabinets come in several standard sizes, such as:

§         Letter: sized file cabinets that generally hold

Only 8.5" x 11" paper, also in used for 8.5" x 11" legal size files

§         Legal: size file cabinets that generally hold

Both 8.5" x 14" and 8.5" x 11" paper

§         Lateral: file cabinets, which come with 2 or 3 drawers and generally hold

8.5 x 11" and 8.5" x 14" paper

§         Personal or custom size: file cabinets that are generally smaller and hold

Only 8.5 x 11" letter files

The letter or legal size file cabinet can be used the alternate to each other way by moving the metal brackets.

Based on the numbers of drawers it contains Oak file cabinets are available with two, three, four or even five drawers. When you are going to decide which one would work best for you, consider not only the amount of file storage needed, but also the other uses you have for the file cabinet as a piece of furniture.

It may use as

§ An end table,

§ a storage chest,

§ a credenza,

§ a DVD or video tape cabinet,

§ a nightstand, or

§ a place to keep your printer,

§ fax machine,

§ copier, or

§ coffee machine

If you want to place some of the above items at desk height,

· A two-drawer cabinet proves useful to you and gives a 2’ 6” high platform. If you line up several two drawers Oak file cabinets in a row, you can have quite a large surface. A lateral file also offers you this advantage without a seam in the middle. For this purpose, look for file cabinets with flush sides so there will not be any gaps between the cabinets.

· A three-drawer file cabinet, which stands about 3’ 7" high, offers more storage per square foot of floor space and you can still put plants or other light items on top.

· A four-drawer file cabinet, which is about 4’ 7" tall, offers a remarkable amount of storage, as does an even taller, but rare, 5-drawer file cabinet. Just put a very light item on the top.

The history of Oak file cabinet, date back to the 1830s. The first file cabinets similar to the cabinets of today created in the 1830s they made from wood, usually oak. Most of the Oak file cabinet makers added a layer of insulation, often sawdust, inside the cabinets to make them fireproof. They advertised as a way to protect important documents in a fire.