A NEW IDEA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 261, 25 January 1928, Page 7

A NEW IDEA

ALUMINIUM PAINT IS USED FOR DECORATION

Since lamp-posts and sandbins are often covered with aluminium paint, an enterprising housewife has decided that the same paint must possess remarkable wearing properties. She has, therefore, procured a tin wherewith to renovate the shabby walls of a bedroom and the wallpaper, a roughsurfaced one, has taken the paint admirably.

To go with the walls, emerald green curtains have beeb chosen, the paint has been enamelled black, and the surround to the haircord carpet stained black to match. Result one charming an original room. The gas-cooker, unless enamelled white in the beginning, is apt to become a dreary sight to look upon. But if you give its iron frontage a coat of aluminium twice a year, you will find it quite attractive. Even if you let the soup boil over it will still present a bright silver surface. Aluminium is no longer restricted to kitchen utensils, as of yore, but is made up in the form of attractive candlesticks, bonbon boxes and so forth. It is most effective when some definite colour scheme is worked out with it and when other metals, such as copper and brass, are rigorously excluded. Aluminium combined with old rose or a soft mauve, makes a lovely svmpliony; or you may, if you prefer it, merely ring the changes on a gamut of greys, from pale silver grey to the deep elephant tone. The idea is commended to all in search of a simple and restful arrangement for a sitting room. Furnishing fabrics are at present procurable in a large range of good grey tints.