CUPBOARD HINTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 865, 8 January 1930, Page 7

CUPBOARD HINTS

MAKING MOST OF SPACE COMBATING DAMPNESS If you possess a useful cupboard which is persistently damp, a tiresome thing which often occurs in old houses, or those where the walls are none too good, have it lined with sheet asbestos, which excludes all dampness and enables clothes or anything else to be kept in the cupboard. The local builder will be able to procure the asbestos and fit it at small cost. A built-in cupboard In a dining room or lounge is not always attractive. Have the panels replace! with glass to show a display of plate, china or bric-a-brac. In the case of a tall cupboard the upper half only might be glazed. When you want to use a convenient bedroom cupboard as a wardrobe, have a brass rod fixed from side to side to carry coat-hangers. With a very narrow cupboard, or a corner one, on the other hand, put in one of the w ardrobe fixtures which draw out from the back. As an alternative to the latter, three hooks on a single swivel screwed in the centre of the top w r ill carry quite a lot. Veil the back and sides of the wardrobe cupboard with folds of linen or cretonne. This is easily done by ruchiug the material on to top and bottom rods, and fixing them in with hooks at the corners like window curtains. It is a good idea to screw one or more coat-hooks on the inside of the door at a convenient height on which to hang umbrellas. Many people object to the smell of camphor. If you want to keep a cupboard free of moth, fill a bag with the fragrant crystals now being sold for the purpose, in which the necessary camphor has been skilfully blended with lavender and otbsr sweet odours until it is indiscernible to all but the insect pests. If the kitchen and pantry cupboards of the house or fiat you have just moved into have stained shelves, cover them neatly with white American cloth, using large-headed upholstery nails for the purpose.