SPACE-HUNGRY FLATS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 19

SPACE-HUNGRY FLATS

DOUBLE-PURPOSE FURNITURE

Many people who, through either choice or necessity, live in spacehungry flats' and apartments, have often been forced to compromise with good taste in finding furniture which could serve more than one purpose, states the "Cape Times."

Now manufacturers seem to have become aware of a need for a different type of so-called double-purpose furniture and to provide much better designs. Of course, these new pieces are marvels of ingenuity. What appears to be a dignified table of fine proportions' and noble finish opens up into a bed, as does' also .a backless wall-bench of interesting design.

Kitchenettes hang on walls and buffets conceal refrigerators. A slenderlegged console table becomes an electric sewing machine, tall floor lamps have as bases occasional tables with book shelves beneath. A grandfather clock tells the time and conceals, a radio. •

But even for more conservative tastes there are pieces that are in perfect harmony with period decoration. A really, handsome writing desk provides storage space for linens and even for a radio. Radio cabinets themselves may be end tables or desks. Small ftiairs can be used equally well in a living-room, bedroom, or dining-room capacity.. ,•■ '. ■■

AH this is very encouraging not only to flat-dwellers who want tasteful rooms, but also to those who plan some day to have larger homes and who want, in buying furniture,, to get that which will serve them in their present restricted quarters but will stand up well, in beauty and usefulness, under a change of scene.