DOOR DECORATIONS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 22

DOOR DECORATIONS

FURNISHING IDEAS

A NOTICEABLE trend in modem decorations is to devise unusual adornments for the doors in a room. If they are of the old-fashioned type, burdened with ornate beading and panelling, the best plan is to cover them with plywood, which gives a neat surface for new treatment.

Clever things are done with coloured wool tape, or narrow furnishing braid In one example the plywood covering is enamelled oyster colour to accord with the rest of the woodwork, and lengths of nigger-brown wool tape are fastened on, in three simple geometrical designs with drawing pins. The foundation designs rfiust first be ruled in, if you adopt the idea, and then the braid arranged on top with all angles carefully mitred, to get sharp comers. A rather more ambitious variation of the scheme calls for narrow wooden picture beading, arranged in similarformation. You will find it easier by the way, to add the decoration on the flat, so do it before the new plywood facing is fastened to the door.

The attractive “quilted” door covering that is becoming increasingly popular, especially in bedrooms and small sitting rooms. The door is slightly padded, and' material to match the curtains or covers is fixed on with tiny furniture brads. The surface is then marked off, as in quilt, with pins, pressed in at regular intervals. You can get the pins with different coloured heads, but if the particular shade you want is not available, you can easily enamel them yourself, before fixing them in place.