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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 569, 23 January 1929, Page 7

r Electrical Appliances I Up-to-date Furnishings Gas Heating & Cooking p K MODERNISE YOUR PRESENT HOME! Hn mo a l_su Bring your house up-to-date ! Domestic science has made Bathroom Comfort Is great strides in recent years —enjoy the advantages —increase the value of your property and make yours the HOME BEAUTIFUL Landscape Gardening IWallpaperslWallpapers & Painting Wise Furnishing BUY CAUTIOUSLY Circumstances and income seldom form tlie agreeable association that permits furnishing to be started at the beginning and completed with detailed thoroughness. Even if we have the money and the inclination and an empty house awaiting furniture, we are confronted with the difficulty of Finding the right furniture; but this difficulty only becomes discouraging if we happen to be in a hurry, and funless one is very wealthy) it is better not to be in a hurry when furnishing. * The best system demands patience and imagination. Buy cautiously and as you can afford them articles of furniture that pass every test your common sense can invent. See that the things you buy are well made: that they are not flimsy, or covered with useless trimmings of ornament. See that the legs of the chairs and tables and sideboards have a respectable girth; the spidery leg is the machine’s worst bit of work. See that dark brown or gummy yellow stains and polishes are absent from the surface of the wood. Pull out every drawer, and satisfy youself that it runs properly and that the framing is strong. See that doors shut easily. Look for the little wedges of wood or paper packed beneath the feet of wardrobes and sideboards. You will be told that they are there because the showroom floor is uneven; and this may be true, but then, on the other hand, it may merely be the salesman’s ingenuity. It is better to buy a few well-made thmgs and to have some cheap makeshifts (camp-beds, deck-chairs, and the like, for spare rooms), until such time as you can finish your furnishing, than to attempt to furnish all at once and run the risk of having a shoddy home. The alternative is to select designs of modern craftsmen and to have a house full of pleasant twenti-eth-century furniture, with perhaps here and there an antique piece picked up by good fortune and serving exactly the right purpose in some room. To furnish entirely with antique furniture demands time and many journeys to many dealers. (By “PENATES") FARES, PLEASE! ■tm ■*- Once the scene of desperate battles as agitated suburbanites scrambled for seats, this old tram-car has now been transformed into a cosy wing in a Melbourne seaside cottage. As near home as N.ew Brighton, the popular Christchurch marine borough, old trams have been successfully used for the same purpose. Dates for Tenders January 24, at 12 noon.—Alterations and additions to premises at Clonberii Road, Remuera. Tole and Massey, Shortlaud Street. January 25, at 12 noon.—Erection of block of shops and bakery at Remuera. Tole and Massey, Shortland Street. January 25, at 12 noon.—Erection of brick fire station at Avondale. D. B. Patterson, Shortland Street. January 31, at 12 noon.—Erection of school building- in wood at Atiamuri, near Rotorua; additions in wood to Whau Valley School (Whangarei). Auckland Education Board. January 31.—Alterations and additions in wood to public hall, Clevedon. Secretary, Ball Committee, Box 8, Clevedon. February 4.—Erection of residence at Remuera. Piper and Brooker, Swanson Street. ; CHEERFUL BATHROOMS INTRODUCING COLOUR : A very big reason for the popularity of the coloured bathroom, says an exchange, is that it does not “give one the shivers to look at.” Consciously or otherwise, people are chilled at the sight of the all-white bathroom, and, according to a nerve specialist, it is better for people suffering from nerve trouble to use coloured bathrooms. The modern bathroom has all the dignity of a room. In former days it was more like at recess. Now, it has a proper window, the lighting is studied, and it is furnished with all the care paid to the colour scheme of another room. The dining-room and drawing-room were considered by our mothers to be the most important. We are more interested in the drawing-room and bathroom. Decorative schemes for the modern bathroom are many and attractive. There are the bathrooms in which the floor, walls and even the windowframe, are of softly coloured mosaics lin greens and blues. In this room the bath and other furniture are usually white. Blue, pink, green, yellow—in these and other shades it is possible now to get the bath, basin and various fitments. This coloured furniture is immensely popular, and calls for walls and floor tiled in the same shades. A bathroom scheme for the wealthy consists of real marble panelled walls, a bath to match, and Mexican onyx basin and dressing-table. The modern bathroom contains not only bath and basin, but a shower in a glass recess, and a china dressingtable to hold toilet accessories. Everything is for easy cleaning, and ! easy management. STAINED CEILINGS “X.Y.Z.*’ writes: Can you tell ! me how [ can remove a paraffinoi! stain from the ceiling of my living-room? A lamp was upset in the room above, and though I have had the ceiling whitened several times the patch stiil comes through. Damage of this sort is very hard to deal with, and you will certainly have to have the ceiling done again. Two measures may be tried. Probably the most effective will be for the decorator to cover the patch with decorator’s tin foil, or “laminated” (very thin sheets) lead, and then to rewhiten over that. Another remedy that might be successful would be to have the ceiling painted with oil paint. 1 hope one of these will solve your difficulty. * • * “Penates” is alwways pleased to welcome inquiries from any reader who may have difficulties to solve. Such problems are always of general interest and, though by no means infallible, “Penates” will endeavour to give any possible assistance. The decay of structural materials is far more rapid than would appear likely to the layman. The microscope will record the initial start of such decay even after no more than 24 hours’ exposure of certain products, and after a few weeks the naked eye will sometimes be able to perceive the erosion. It is obvious, therefore, that surface protection by the application of paint or varnish is quite as important as sound engineering or design. Trellises, arches and pergolas, freshly painted in white, are centres of interest of high value in planning the spring garden of the house. These are available in knock-down form, of Western red cedar, ready for setting up by the handy man. To protect the coloured surfaces of such garden equipment, the bottom parts of the uprights should be fastened to heavy stakes driven into the ground. Fastenings should be made a few inches above ground level.

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