IDEAL HOME

Opunake Times, 3 June 1947, Page 2

IDEAL HOME

EXHIBITION AT 6LYMI>Ia ;/ helping"hotJsewiyes ■; Some ideas on what's new in the home have been given.by a visit Dr to the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia. These are some of the goods he saw: — Wallpaper, lots and lots of it, in enchanting designs that baven't seen ±he light for seven-' weary years. Stripes and spots in J melting colours, tiny flowers, washable papers, and even reproduction wood panelling. Rubber floor-covering—no dockets, but it. is expensive; wool rugs, hand-made in brilliant stripes by disabled Welsh miners —no dockets for these either; thick felt floor-covering in many colours. "Utility furniture that shows , the very pleasant new designs; and non-utility furniture, which doesn't require units. Some *of ~ this is made of plastic with a wood veneer and with metal edging, and is mark-proof and burnVroof and looks extraordinarily like mahogany. A vacuum cleaner that fills the air an anti-moth deodorant as you xi se it; a carpet sweeper that is covered in nonchip enamelled metal and has riastic buffers; a rubber curtain rod that stretches well, hut aoesn't rust or catch on the cur•'tf'ins when you pull them; cur-tain-drawing tape with pockets for hooks that hasn't been on the roarket .(or a long time. An ingenious table lamp that J<eats you while you read; It has a heating element in the stand, so it keep* jour hands warm if you read in bed and your back Vann if you read while you toast your toes in front of the fire. An iron without a flex so that there are no tangles wljile you work. The flex is actually attached to the ironing board, and" the iron plugs into its. metalrest on the board, itself, simply pulh ing out as you iron and recharging" as you fold the clothes. Little comforts . .a bread i saw that also carves meat,. a palette . kirfe that bends almost double for pancakes, etc., a container to turn a saucepan into a strainer; a pair of cooking tongs which lift hot food; and potato chippers for the good days when there might be some fat.