MY DISCOVERIES—FOR YOU TO TRY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 22

MY DISCOVERIES—FOR YOU TO TRY

IMPROVING THE BATHROOM Take ordinary oilcloth ot an attractive pattern, measure it to aoa that it is of the correct width, and stick it with thick paste round 9m lower part of your bathroom kitchen walls. This “dado” can be washed constantly, and -will wear and look well. You can put it round tha gas stove and sink also, if you think fit. Good quality American cloth ta a light colour will serve the same purpose: but fry oilcloth first. Before using a new iron kettts or pot, grease it inside and crat and Mt it stand for 24 hours. Then wash ft in hot water in which a lump of cooking soda has been dissolved. utensil will never rust, and wfll R ways be bright. If you have an old carpet, too dilapidated for ordinary purposes, try making it into a lino sqnare for the kitchen. Clean it thoroughly with a vacuum cleaner and wash it with carpet soap. Now take it into a-n outhouse, and give it a good coat of sizing and pipeclay, mixed. Let this get quite dry and hard: then sand-paper the surface until it is smooth. To this smooth surface give four coats of paint in the colour you prefer—orange, green cinnamon—what you will. Be sore to allow each coat of paint to dry quite hard before applying another. It you wish, you may add a stencilled border, using contrasting shades and a conventional design. Over the whole, put a final coat of clear varnish, and your “linoleum” will be attractive as well as useful. p .R.