Built-in Cupboards.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 15, 11 October 1937, Page 3

Built-in Cupboards.

The most striking feature of the interiors is the number of built-in cupboards and wardrobes in every house. In the large dwellings some of the bedrooms have two fine, roomy wardrobes. Linen cupboards and places for storing coats and bats have been let into the walls in most of the passages, while the' kitchen walls consist-for the most part of cupboard doors. Fuel and wood cupboards stand in most of the porches. The simplieity of the wallpapers has been continued in the ceilings, which are notable for their lack of adornment. The old-fashioned scrolls and designs, liable to collect dust and emphasise stainS, have been eliminated in favour of plain, white plaster. The bathrooms and elosets alone have coloured ceilings. The bathrooms should please most of the future householders at Orakei. The baths themselves. follow modern trends, but in some cases . appear short and stubby. The colours are a little less violent than in the kitchen, greys and greens predominating, The usual commodious cupboards aro installed.