The Beach Cottage

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7085, 6 December 1929, Page 11

The Beach Cottage

HOME-MADE FURNITURE.

Are you going to t a he a house at the beach' this ' summer Lucky and wise people if you dd. Now we will suppose that the little shack in which you are going to spend so many happy, carefree days is unfurnished. Well, Christmas is certainly an expensive time, isn't it? Why not make your own furniture? No, it isn’t half as impossible or as hard as it sounds. You won't want your holiday house overcrowded with things, so just have the essentials. Now, instead of a dress-ing-table in the bedroom all you want is a semi-circle of deal fixed to the wall with ordinary iron brackets. Tack a ‘petticoat” of cheap, but pretty cretonne all round and place' a little shaped cover bound with braid on top. It will prove a regular boon to be able to poke shoes, hat-boxes, etc., under the frill, blessedly out of sight. You think the bed will “stump” you? Well, it won’t for thore will be just a box mattress set on ball feet. This will lpok just like a fourposter, for to the Veiling above there will have been nailed three lengths of wooden moulding, forming, as it were, the three sides of a tester. Inside these mouldings place slender rods to take a box-pleated frill of chintz with narrow chintz curtains to hang at the sides. In the sitting-room a handy little table is made from a flap of wood, hinge 4 to a wooden slat plugged to the wall, "and supported when in use by a hinged wooden triangle. No couch is needed, but a snug, comfy nook is found in the window recess, where a broad wooden seat is frilled like the dressing table and heaped high with lots of fat cushions plumped on a spare mattress covered to match the frill. Does the prospect please? I tfiink these home-made furnishings would help to make a beaoh cottage fascinating and delightful, although they by no means constitute the whole stock of furniture required. Still, they would save a good deal of expense.