• Furniture feet tend to match the style of the furniture.dining chairs image by Adrian Hillman from Fotolia.com
  
  Over the years, furniture makers have created many styles of furniture feet. Sometimes sleek, sometimes elegant, sometimes whimsical, many of the styles used hundreds of years ago are still popular today. Furniture feet generally match the genre of the furniture. Modern furniture may have sleek, unadorned feet, while formal furniture may have fancy, carved feet.
  
  

Claw-and-Ball

• Claw-and-ball feet usually appear on formal pieces.queen anne style bench image by James Phelps from Fotolia.com
  
  Claw-and-ball feet have been around for centuries and are popular to this day. Resembling a bird claw clutching a ball, this type of foot has also been created with the paws of lions and other animals. Claw-and-ball feet are ornate and formal.
  
  

Arrow

• Arrow feet, as their name implies, are straight except they have a ball a few inches above the end of the leg. The blunt arrow foot is similarly designed, with the ball shape closer to the ground by an inch or two. Arrow feet are simple but classic.
  
  

Bun and Ball

• Bun feet look like ball feet that are slightly squished.chat la panth?¡§re rose image by robert casacci from Fotolia.com
  
  Ball feet are various round shapes that have a flat base to rest on. Bun feet look like ball feet that have been slightly squished. Because bun feet are thick, they tend to appear on heavy furniture. Bun feet can be found on modern furniture as well as Early American furniture styles.
  
  

Elegant

• Gentle curves often end in elegant feet.antique bench image by Ivonne Wierink from Fotolia.com
  
  Queen Anne is a simple style of furniture foot that gently curves at the base. Similarly styled is the sabre leg, which curves like a cavalry sabre, and the spider leg, which arches like a tripod and resembles spider legs. All of these legs have very little ornamentation yet are classically elegant.
  
  

Detailed

• The traditional Marlborough leg is straight and sometimes scored with a block foot. Another detailed foot is the bracket foot, which resembles a hanging plant bracket. The bracket foot can be ornate or simply carved and is often placed on the front two legs of a dresser or table, with the back two legs being plain and straight.