BY ARRANGEMENT

Radio Record, 7 August 1936, Page 54

BY ARRANGEMENT

Achieving Brighter and Lighter Rooms

VERYBODY knows the woman who just can’t leave things alone. She comes on a visit and before’ she’s been in the house two minutes starts rearranging your life and your furniture. You are thankful if her visit ends before your stock of patience runs out! Shifting furniture round does at least make a.change: rooms can be made to leok very different without any expense. But it is small touches-in the arrangement of your china and giass, and other ornaments-that give a room an intimate air. Charming effects can be obtained, particularly when these still-life groups include one or two pieces of copper or brass. These shining, twinkling, giowing pieces put the whole room ‘at its ease,

The picture at the top of the page shows one very simple idea-an old brass tobacco jar in the centre of a brick mantelpiece with long church-war-den pipes crossed above it. Your mantelpiece offers similar opportunities. . : Copper and brass sigiéat other bright ‘ideas, The picture of the occasional table in the circle shows a charming arrangement in which these bright metals: play a, leading part. Here you see tulips ; in a lovely copper-bowl, breaking the line of a tall candlestick, with a brass salver against the wall casting happy reflections over the Whole group. The | ° corner in., which, this table (manda: glows with life t+ 2 and colour.." 5°"! "aes

. The. sideboard is another appropriate place for one of these graceful groups, Keeping these gleaming pieces at their sunniest is quite easy. A few rubs with.a modern liquid metal polish soon 4 ‘ ; ;

' brings them to a brilliant pitch of. bright~vess. Brasso works quickly and well. — Nothing else you do in the house gives such goiden rewards for go little trouble. Treasure-hunting for brass and copper is alw ays good fun. Charming pieces come to light in the most unexpected places or a, street- market stall, or in the dusty

corners of a secondhand furniture shop. Reproductions of old pieces of copper and brass are also quite inexpensive,