UGLY FITMENTS
CONVERSION TO ORNAMENTS Every home possesses certain “skeletons” that must be hidden in cupboards, or at least a lot of ugly things that are best kept out of sight. What is to be done about them? The obvious thing is to think out some scheme for turning them into ornaments. In one house tho gas meter had been foolishly placed in quite a prominent place in the entrance hall, so the owner fixed in front of it a painted clockface, taken from a grandfather clock which sho picked up for a shilling or two. The dial had been surrounded by a wooden frame, and supported on a bracket; two chains with clock-weights were suspended from it, and the whole formed a most decorative feature in the hall. The built-in bedroom wash basin is not usually a pleasing sight from the aesthetic standpoint, but get a clover handy man to cover the under portion with a fitted surround, and you may make it so. Tho surround may bo of lacquered wood, or it may bo constructed from bits of old carving. Afternativcly you will cover it with a gathered frill of chintz, fixed to u shaped moulding of wood, rather in dressing-table form.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 278, 24 November 1931, Page 2
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204UGLY FITMENTS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 278, 24 November 1931, Page 2
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