A SPACE-SAVER.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16815, 5 June 1926, Page 15 (Supplement)

A SPACE-SAVER.

FOR THE BED-SITTINGROOM

Shortage of space is one of the greatest, drawbacks in the bed-sitting-room. Those who have to put up with this substitute for a home are anxious to make the room look as pretty and comfortable as possible—a real bedroom by night and a real sittingroorn by day. The chief trouble is to pack into one room the furniture that is usually divided between two without making the room look crowded or untidy.

There is a new invention on the market that will be welcomed by those who live in hed-sittingroorris in " diggings.” It is called a hed-cabinel, and is made in oak, walnut, or mahogany, to harmonise with the other pieces in the room. At first sight ibis cabinet appears to be merely a neat little closed in china cabinet or bureau. In its shut position it is only three feet square. "

When bedtime arrives the cabinet is opened, and is found to contain, or make up, six full-size separate pieces of furniture. There is a comfortable folding bed, a cupboard for bedding, a detachable washstand, an oak or mahogany- framed plateglass mirror, and a chest of drawers. It seems almost impossible without seeing the invention actually “working.” Every one of those articles is an attractive piece of furniture in itself, and in the morning ten minutes’ work and all signs of a bedroom have disappeared. You i-anmit ask your friends to come and stay the evening in your bedroom, hut with liiis patent bedcabinet nobody would know that you slept in the room. ,

There is another advantage in this hed-cabinel. Those who have only limited means find it difficult to afford, besides sitting-room furniture, all the requisites of a bedroom, such as a bed, dressing table, washstand, arid so on. But nil these articles are Included in the bed-rabinel at little more than the msl of one of them in the ordinary way.—Daily Chronicle.