CORNER SHELVES MADE OF A CLOTHES HORSE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 2, 10 January 1891, Page 15

CORNER SHELVES MADE OF A CLOTHES HORSE.

Use the small size, which comes only a yard in height. Place the clothes horse in a corner of the room, as seen in the illustration, standing in such a manner that the middle one of the three sides shall be towards the room and the two outside frames shall meet and form the back corner. Then take the measurement for the shelves. These must rest on the three sets of bars, and be cut from board a quarter of an inch thick. In order to make the shelves fit around the edge of the slender upright poles, place a button-mould of the same circumference as the uprights on the place to be fitted, and mark on the shelf around the edge of the button-mould a

semi-circle ; cut this out, and proceed in the same manner with the other places where it is necessary to cut a semicircle. Fasten the shelves firmly on the rack with slender screws, and paint all the rack white. When perfectly dry, tack on the decorative bands across the front. The bands are made of chamois skin cut in openwork designs, and lined with yellow silk or cotton ; and are fastened to the shelves with brass-headed tacks. The shelves can either stand on the floor, or be hung on the wall in the corner of the room. When intended as hanging shelves, screw eyes must be screwed into the top of each upright pole, so that the shelves can hang on hooks placed in the wall for that purpose.