COVERINGS FOR FLOORS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21020, 23 November 1933, Page 4

COVERINGS FOR FLOORS

KEY-NOTES OF HARMONY Appropriateness and colour arc essentials in the floor coverings of every room in the home, because on them depends the entire key-note of harmony. Empty-looking rooms can be furnished by using patterned rugs, and crowded rooms can be made simpler and larger by using plain floor coverings. Serious thought should be given to buying rugs because the wear and tear which each is to receive should determine the quality for which you shop. Hall and stair coverings receive the hardest wear, also living-room floor coverings, but a dining or bedroom carpet may receive less. In a room where the covering is likely to become spotted by hard' use, as in the dining-room or a child's room, a patterned or washable floor covering should be used in preference to a plain perishable one. It is economy to buy good quality floor coverings, for nothing you purchase wears out more quickly than cheap ones. Your greatest safeguard in buying these is a purchase from a reputable denier whose word regarding the quality of his goods may be relied upon. Few are sufficiently experienced to be able to rely on their own judgment when it comes to rug buying.

Every good carpet or rug you buy is worth caring for. and you will find that its life will be lengthened and the comfort to be derived from it increased, if you use a good hair mothproof padding under it.

Sydney architects report that the improvement in the building trades is being steadily maintained, and that orders for plans and specifications for new works for immediate tender arc coming in satisfactorily. There arc not many big city works offering, but at present there is a rush of alterations and shop improvement work on hand to hasten extra provisions for Christmas shopping.

The British gas industry carbonises 18,000,000 tons of coal a year.