NEW NOTIONS FOR TABLE TOPS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 910, 1 March 1930, Page 23

NEW NOTIONS FOR TABLE TOPS

Interior decorators, ever on the alert for new ideas, are busily engaged m planning new trimmings for old tables, and some of their discoveries are so attractive that they are well worth passing on. There is. for example, tae table with its top covered by an antique map, the legs and side-pieces being painted a rich blue-green against which the parchment-yellow background of the map shows up with very good effect. The map is coloured in shades of mulberry and green, mellowed by time, and 'the whole is coated with clear copal varnish to preserve the suiface. Bv wav of variation, if a genuine old map cannot be obtained, try the effect of a decorative railway map such as is used for advertising purposes. Inother notion calls for several flower-prints, of the old-fashioned Mctorian variety or of frankly modern inspiration. The number needec. depends, of course, on the size ot the fable to be decorated A small sq, a e table will require foul. a longer will need six, and so on. The 'e“s and side-pieces are painted in a colour to harmonise with one of the tit,t= in the pictures, and the punts ' e Das ted on the top with their lower edges facing the edges ot the table. Tliev could be covered by a sheet of Mate-glass cut to fit, instead of being varnished, if preferred. This method of ornamenting tables is especially suitable for refurbishing shabby articles. quite dilapidated pieces being beautified out of all iecognition at very small cost-