COMFORT AND REST

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 179, 19 October 1927, Page 7

COMFORT AND REST

LUMBER ROOM RENOVATIONS

LUMBER rooms will often furnish the foundations of really up-to-date pieces of furniture if an intelligent carpenter can be found to co-operate With one’s bright ideas.

The chaise lounge shown in the sketch below was made from the frame of a good chair whose springing and stuffing had gone the way of all things. A longer length of wood was substituted for the original chair seat, and a “mattress” of plain material with a few decorative cushions made it a pretty as well as comfortable article of furniture, which could take its place quite well on verandah, in breakfastroom, kitchen, or study. The average housewife does not rest her feet nearly enough.

The value of “putting up the feet” cannot be too strongly recommended, especially when women are reading, mending, or such household tasks as shelling peas, picking over fruit, or cleaning silver. The most effective lamp standards can be made from the foot-posts of four-poster beds. These can be purchased in pairs even if they are not to be found in one’s attic.