THE HANGING BOOKSHELF

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1073, 10 September 1930, Page 6

THE HANGING BOOKSHELF

'\TOT infrequently in the furnis’ning of a room we find that there is some particular place —usually a corner—in which a group of low furniture pieces seems to stand apart and not come into the general scheme of decoration. Just how to bring this group into the room, decorative!y speaking, often proves a difficult problem. Sometimes a high screen of irregular outline and deep colouring will accomplish the desired end. Another idea which often works out is the hanging on the wall of some rather heavy feature which has interesting form and sharp definition.

Gas ovens of the portable box type should always have a vent, otherwise they will soon become filled with carbon monoxide. If your small gas oveu has no vent, raise it above the gas flame on two bricks or small flatirons, so that air is allowed to circulate between the gas and the.oven.

In this sketch of a room corner, a hanging bookshelf has been used for the purpose. The shelves are of warying depths to conform with the oiftlinc of the pieces, ar.d two small drawers in the bottom increase the effect of weight. A few of the books have been selected for their bindings, which repeat colours used elsewhere in the room; the remainder are in neutral tones. The piece itself has been finished in the same manner as the corner pilasters and other woodwork. A few pottery figures have been introduced between books.—“ House and Garden.”

During. the recent heavy weather leaks in roofs betrayed their presence, to the dismay of many householders, and the rain soaked through the weatherboard walls and right into the plaster and wallpaper in some homes. Even walls of stone were not immune, for “Builder,” of the “Christchurch Press,” -was shown the interior of a building—revealing unmistakable signs of dampness—in which the walls are composed of a thickness of hard stone on the outside, then a concrete core, and on the inside of Oamaru stone, making a total of at least 15 inches, yet the rain had soaked right through.