WALLPAPER REMNANTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18297, 13 January 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)

WALLPAPER REMNANTS.

Remnants of wallpaper are splendid for converting an ordinary cardboard hat box into a thing of beauty and usefulness. Cardboard boxes aro less heavy to travel about with than the ordinary fibre ones, and when they get shabby can be renewed for a few pence. The square kind is the best for large hats, as the latter can be attached with cotton to the sides, but the Email round boxes ara : charming for little i pull-on shapes, or those with email brims. : The best way to make these boxes is to I purchase an ordinary brown cardboard hat , box from a shop and paste Ehe chintz Daper J over the box, both inside and out. &love ] and ribbon boxes can also be covered with iretty wallpaper. Soma people like to line all their cupboards with gay-coloured wallpaper. Drawers in the guest room look very inviting lined in this way. ■ At party time wallpaper is invaluable for private theatricals, where impromptu Ecenery is required at a moment's notice. Pieces .of wallpaper pasted on'; to. cardboard, make excellent backgrounds, and jrive scenic effects. . Never throw away Wallpaper of any description, for it is sure vie come ja users) at come time or other.