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WHEN CARPETS AND COVERS ARE BEING CLEANED

When carpets and covers have to visit the cleaner’s the rooms present a bare and forbidding appearance if no substitutes are available. Furnishing firms, having in view these contingencies—which are serious in the small household where every room must be in constant use—are advising customers of means by which they may be circumvented. In place of the felt underlay cheap linoleum or cork-carpet is suggested. This presents a perfectly acceptable surface when the top cover is removed; it is quickly and easily cleaned; it lasts indefinitely, and can be refitted in the event of a removal. In place of the holland under-covers which used to be tacked to Chesterfields and arm-chairs, there is a stout cotton damask, woven in greys and beige upon a deep blue ground. This costs even less than a reliable holland, and when the loose-covers are taken off, it looks so well that the housewife is inclined to doubt the wisdom of covering it at all. When cushion covers of silk and satin must visit the cleaners, there are still inner covers of check twill which will bear inspection. These twills cost no more than common calico, but are so pretty that it is quite a delightful change to enjoy their charms for a time. There is no need nowadays to encourage dull things or ugly things, whatever be their metier in life. —L.S.

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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 522, 27 November 1928, Page 5

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WHEN CARPETS AND COVERS ARE BEING CLEANED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 522, 27 November 1928, Page 5

WHEN CARPETS AND COVERS ARE BEING CLEANED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 522, 27 November 1928, Page 5

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