EASILY-MADE STOOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1025, 16 July 1930, Page 6

EASILY-MADE STOOL

A BEDROOM ACCESSORY FOR HOME CRAFTSMEN A dressing table gains vastly in attractiveness if accompanied by a really handsome stool. A lovely one can be made quite easily if one already has any kind of plain wooden stool on hand. One made recently was exquisite and smart looking, although it was only a discarded kitchen work stool with a round seat. It was cut down to the right height and the legs painted white to match the painted woodwork of the room. An oblong, heavy board, a little wider than the seat and considerably longer from side to side, about 32in, was nailed firmly over the seat to produce the proper oblong form. Several thicknesses of newspapers were then rolled into two solid rolls sin in thickness and long enough to extend all the way across each end of the seat, and were wound with cloth to keep their shape. One of these was laid above each end of the seat, close to the edge and_ a piece of heavy canvas stretched over and tacked close to it on the seat side, and also along the outer edge, so that the roll would remain firrply in place. Then each roll was covered with a plain satiny material, turquoise in colour, which colour was repeated elsewhere in the room. This material came down over the edge of the board and was tacked underneath. The seat betwen the rolls was padded heavily, and a remnant of old damask, having a delicate tan background, was used to cover its top and to extend down over the padded edges. The flowers in its design were coloured with oil paints, some in turquoise, some in rose, others in mauve. At each end of both rolls a good-sized, tancoloured tassel was attached, and a row of smaller tassels of the same shade covered the front and back edges of the seat, between the large tassels. Other fine materials could be used in a similar manner, with equally charming effect. Cretonne is less desirable, since richer materials produce an effect that is decidedly handsomer and more unusual.