SUMMER FURNISHINGS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 63, 8 December 1926, Page 17

SUMMER FURNISHINGS

Now that the days are lengthening and warming up, our thoughts will naturally turn in quest of home equipment having a tendency to reduce temperature and thereby contribute to the personal comfort of all in the family circle. Much along these lines can be accomplished when the furniture is suitably chosen and the various apartments in the home left tolerably free of unnecessary curtains and other drapery. Cushions should be placed with a studied restraint, for a lot of cushions on a sweltering hot day are nothing other than a nuisance and a vexation of spirit, destroying by the heat they generate the restful ease and comfort they should by their softness create. In a very few weeks’ time a good deal of entertaining will be conducted in the sun room of the host’s residence, an apartment specially located and equipped for the special objects we have in view. The furnishing scheme will be light and airy, the floor sparsely covered with rugs and mats, light in both colour and weight, while the partitioning on all sides (of course there will be no definite walls) will be blinds to roll up or let down as required. The most suitable furniture for the sun room assuredly is wicker, for by its open and consequently well ventilated nature it is as cool and comfortable as anything we know. Nothing can excel the coolness of a wicker or seagrass chair or lounge, and the popularity of the material is based very largely upon that fact. The result of all this is the great summer demand for wicker furnishings of all kinds. . .

When thinking of wicker furniture, the very adequate and inexpensive seagrass material should not be overlooked. This is conformity to every imaginable use, and when woven upon a good cane framework is practically everlasting.—li.W.S. in “The Australian Home Beautiful.”