THE POSSIBILITIES OF “THREE PLY”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 41, 11 May 1927, Page 5

THE POSSIBILITIES OF “THREE PLY”

If you are unable to afford really good furniture for your new home do not invest in cheap, poor stuff, but see what can be done by means of common deal, faced with “three-ply” in elm or some other wood with a good grain and a pleasant colour. It is necessary, of course, to find a jobbing carpenter who will be willing to carry out your ideas. Proportions are all important, for simplicity will be the keynote and any shortcoming in regard to design will therefore be obvious. A good writingtable can be made from two deal pedestal cupboards, placed with sufficient space between them to allow of comfort in sitting, and joined together bymeans of a plain table top of the same wood. In facing up with three ply, two colours of wood can be used, the darker being employed for the top and sides and the lighter for the front. This combination of two tints is most effective and can be well exploited in fitments for a sitting-room, especially when a recess gives scope for treatment on these lines. To take the place of bookcases and chests, a series of shelves, each row concealed behind sliding doors, will give ample accommodation books, China, work materials, and various other things. The small finger-holes at the ends of the doors may be made a decorative feature if accentuated by means of metal plates in wrought iron or polished brass. A door that does not seem in harmony with the furnishings may easily be brought into line by means of a facing of three ply’, attached with ornamental nails.