USEFUL FITTINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 669, 22 May 1929, Page 15

USEFUL FITTINGS

SIDEBOARD SUBSTITUTES 1 Modern furniture designers, having decided that the sideboard is a : clumsy piece of furniture appropriating overmuch space, are providing a variety of substitutes for it. There is, for instance, a servingtable, built at a height convenient for carving; it is usually equipped at the back -with a vertical piece of wood which, besides proving ornamental in its display of fine graining, acts also as a practical protection against gravy splashes on the wall. Fitting into the table is a drawer, subdivided for the reception of cutlery and silver and lined with green baize. Not much wider than a good-sized meat dish, the table occupies the minimum of space, 1 and is useful for other purposes bej tween meals. Those who care to display an array j of silver entree dishes and fruit-bowl, j now use a display cabinet, built upon I cabriole legs, and equipped with f shelves that are backed by mirrors or pieces of old brocade. Less silvercleaning is needed when the plate is thus kept enclosed from the air, and this arrangement appeals to the housewife who is on the look-out for means of lightening work. Below the shelves comes a small space for the accommodation of bottles. Some there are who prefer the tall, slender cupboard, with painted doors that conceal all the contents. This is fashioned with sliding shelves, subdivided so that the compartments will ' accommodate practically all the table j trappings for a simple meal. A stand j with arms to hold tumblers upright swings forwards at a touch, and j everything from knife-rests to table 1 napkins has its own appointed place, | so that the table may bet set in the i proverbial jiffy.