IDEAL HOME

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 42, 18 June 1947, Page 3

IDEAL HOME

EXHIBITION AT OLYMPIA Some idea on what’s new in the home have been given by a visitor to the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia. These are some of the goods he saw:— Wallpapers, lots and lots of it, in enchanting designs that haven’t seen the light for seven weary years. Stripes and spots in melting colours, tiny flowers, washable papers, and even reproduction wood panelling. Rubber floor covering—no dockets, but it is expensive; wool rugs, handmade in brilliant stripes by disabled Welsh miners—no dockets for these either; thick felt floor covering in many colours. “Utility furniture that shows the very pleasant new designs; and nonutility furniture, which doesn’t require units. Some of this is made of plastic with a wood veneer and with metal edging, and is mark-proof and burn-proof and looks extraordinarily like mahogany.

A vacuum cleaner that fills the air with an anti-moth deodorant as you use it; a carpet sweeper that is covered in non-chip enamelled metal and has plastic buffers; a rubber curtain rod that stretches well, but doesn’t rust or catch on the curtains when you pull them; curtain-draw-ing tape with pockets for hooks that hasn’t been on the market for a long time.

An ingenious table lamp that heats you while you read; it has a heating element on the stand, so it keeps your hands warm if you read in bed and your back warm if you read while you toast your toes in front of the fire. An iron without a flex so that there are no tangles while you work. The flex is actually attached to the ironing board, and the iron plugs into its metal rest on the board, itself, simply pulling out as you iron and recharging as you fold the clothes.

Little comforts ... a bread saw that also carves meat, a palette knife that bends almost double for pancakes, etc., a container to turn a saucepan into a strainer; a pair of cooking tongs which lift hot food; and potato chippers for the good days when there might be some fat.