BED ENDS.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18652, 2 June 1932, Page 5

BED ENDS.

FROM OLD TABLES. Maybe you have looked longingly at the new style of bed-end, a semicircle of finely grained wood, innocent of carving and moulding, and relying solely for decorative value upon the markings of the walnut or mahogany. Perhaps you have enquired the price, and the assistant has named a figure for which you might have expected a whole suite of bedroom furniture. “It is such a magnificent piece of wood,” he has explained, “you have to pay for that.” But have you? Not if you set about it in the clever way. Ransack all Ihe secondhand furniture shops in your neighbourhood until you find one of the old-fashioned Victorian diningtables, circular or oval in shape, set on a central support—wobbly as a rule. You will probably discover that as no one wants a table of this sort nowadays—they are usually dubbed atrocities—you will get it for a pound or thereabouts. You may even lio offered one that is inlaid round the edge, for thero is no demand and it lakes up room, so the dealer may be glad to get rid of it at any price. Get a carpenter to cut ihe table-lop across the middle-, or, belter still, into two unequal parts, so that you have the larger portion for line head ami the smaller for the foot of the bed. The man will also join these to the box bedstead at the- heights you decide upon, and you will obtain from a joinery firm four supports for the corners. There is your bed witti the curved ends of fine wood, as good as you might pay many pounds for in other circumstances. Keep your eyes open for out-of-date tables suitable for this purpose.