LOOSE COVERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 187, 21 May 1938, Page 4

LOOSE COVERS

LINKING UP ODD PIECES Even ill-assorted furnishings can be made into a harmonious scheme if you give them matching loose covers. I am thinking in Particular of a delightful living room in the home of a newly married couple. They lfad not too much money with which to set up housekeeping, but they had heaps of enterprise and enthusiasm which proved very good substitutes. Various aunts and uncles had given them odd pieces of furniture which did not, at first, look very happy with the one or two modern things they had bought themselves. And then the girl thought of concealing the Victorian dining chairs beneath loose covers of natural hessian, to match the easy chair covers. Piped with tangerine braid, and with bold modernist flower garlands embroidered in wools on the backs, the covers looked smart and up-todate. A similar garland was worked in the' centre of .an extra hessian panel which! was slip-stitched to the back of the easy; chair. ' This is easily removed for dry : cleaning, and takes a good deal of wear from the actual cover. The.coffee table included in the sketch was . made from a wooden packing case, the. sides covered with tightly stretched hessian secured at the edges with tangerine drawing pins. There is a square o£ hessian on top, embroidered to match the chair backs, and it is covered with plate glass in the modern manner.