CHEST OF DRAWERS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 98, 1 June 1914, Page 4

CHEST OF DRAWERS.

STATES COMBINED.

In France a remarkable idea has just been patented. It is a very simple one, but one about which everyone is asking, ''Why ever did we not think of it before?"

We all know that in very tiny houses there is a lack of cupboard accommodation for the keeping of clothes. The cupboards seem to have been altogether forgotten by the • architects of these modern residences.

An ingenious Frenchman has found a way of getting over this difficulty.

He has had the staircase built in Ms house in such a manner that each ißtair can be used as a drawer. The drawers are %not wide enough to keep dresses and skirts in, but blouses, gloves, brushes, combs, and all sorts of odds and ends which take up a lot of room can be easily stored away in the staircase.

The handles are the tiniest, quaintest little things imaginable. It seems so funny: to see handles on the stairs, but still one gets used t to that in time. After all, comfort is the chief thing —at least-,■ so the Frenchman who invented this novel'contrivance seems to think. • * ■