IMITATION PANELLING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 22 (Supplement)

IMITATION PANELLING

British writers are speaking with favour of a new composition panelling in a wood substitute that is fireproof, vermin and ratproof. This material consists mainly of asbestos, and is manu factored with finishes that harmonises with various schemes of furnishing. “Hard on the heels of this composition panelling,” an authority observes, “followed the even more wonderful wood veener papers. Here the paper has a thin veener showing the grain and texture of the imitation wood. It is so exquisitely mounted that it is necessary to scrutinise it critically to recognise its real nature, and even then it often evades detection. A wood veener paper is so amenable and easy to handle that the homo decorator may experiment with it without a single qualm, and can devise ah sorts of schemes suggestive of untolu extravagance for the price paid to the professional for papering an ordinary room.

“These wood veener papers are usually stocked in 20 x 30in. pieces. Most of them have the grain running the 20in. way, though when the type of wood calls for a reversion there is the grain 30in. long. There are papers to suit every room in the house, both upstairs and down, and stylos that rang? through seasoned old walnut, rosewood, ash, chestnut, birch, and maple. Thon, in response to the new interest in painted woods, there is a satisfying olive green, ideal if used in combination with orange, an amusing pinkisn beige in answer to the demand for the fashionable “paiu brule” a large range

■ i of this season’s pastel shades, ana * : : brilliant cherry that would bring ■ j to the most depressed little room. 'I “Exquisite both to touch and eve is | a paper in soft golden satinwood that, i would be invaluable, i.i a room wit 1 painted furniture decorated with stin little posies of roses anil forget-me-nots, or garlanded by tho convcntii nal pansies and lilies. There is also a fine de.- v oak effect in those veoners that could be worked up into countloss entertaining schemes for rafters and half timberings in the country cottage liv-ing-room.” *