CHINA MAIL HOME SUPPLEMENT --
SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1935.
Make your own home
LANE, CRAWFORD'S
SUMMER
Sale
PLATE-SILVER CLOCKS
ROLEX
WATCHES
25% Discount.
20% Discount.
CUTLERY, FORKS, SPOONS, CARVERS,
ETC.
EXCEPTIONAL BARGAINS.
VISIT
- JEWELLERY DEPT.
PHONE 2815L
SIX LINES.
SOFT FURNISHINGS
We are in Receipt of New Shipments; of Beautiful Cretonnes, Brocades, Art Silk Slubbs, etc.
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The Colourings and Designs, are Unsurpassed, and the Wonderful Value, of these Lovely Materials, will astound you!
Prices Range “
from 85c. to $2.95 yard.
Loose Covers Made Up
“Free of Charge”-
during our Special
Display
We have an' Equally Fine Range of Curtain
Materials, to select
from, and to tone
with the Cretonnes, etc.
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Curtains made, and fitted at Very Moderate
Cost. Estimates Free.
FIRST FLOOR SHOWROOMS.
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
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Painted Floors
100D quality parquet floors
are an expensive item. while the usual board flooring is often an eyesore in an other. wise carefully and successfully furnished house. There is fairly simple and easy way to brighten up old floors and make them an important" and attrac- tive part of the whole decora- tive scheme
The aversion that many people used to feel towards painted £oors is to a certain extent justified. The door paints available, until quite re- cently, lacked durability and their colour range was limited. Even the best quality floor paint shows signs of wear in a comparatively short time, and we all know the painfuliv shabby appearance of a painted floor after parts of the paint have worn off. Also the necessity was often felt to employ some brighter colour, but the few greens or reds hitherto obtainable have been even more de- licate than the most frequently used browns
The appearance of cellulose paints has opened up new possibili- lies in interior decoration, but their drawback at first was the expensive material and stil
more expensive application. There are now on the market, however, synthetic paints which possess all the qualities of · cellulose paint, and also the aćtaz- tages that they can be brashed and dry with a high gloss,therefore re- quiring no polishing. They are ex- tremely durable and can be obtain. ed in very pleasing colours.
This has brought painted Soors again into vogue. Some very -de- corative effects can be achieved by painting strips of six inches wide (the width of the flooring board) in blending colours and of random length. This forms a geometrical pattern in which accident plays ar important part. But with a sense of balance anyone without a know- ledge of drawing can produce good results.
The woman possessing sorne skill can attempt more elaborate ef- fects. In a period room designs. taken from antique parquet floors
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A Fashionable Wood MYCAMORE is among the most fashionable woods employed in modern furniture.. It is not stained or coloured, but is polished lightly just as it is, in its natural colouring.
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As it is very light in tone lends itself very readily to the vogue for contrasting woods, and we see it combined with dark woods, anch as mahogany or walnut, with striking effect.
Often the main part of the simply designed furniture is of pale syea- more, while the corners and paneis are edged with a narrow band of the darker "wood
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or old prints will help to create a -suitable and artistic floor. For the modern room symmetrical geomezzi- cal ornaments can be recommended.
One must be careful in the selec tion of colours. It is always wise to se deeper colours to give a suit- able contrast to walls and furniture. Lighter colocs should be used in very dark rooms, or where it is de-" sired to have a general effect of light hoes, as in a girl's bedroom."
Not only wooden floors lend them- selves to painting, as is generally supposed, but also the cement floor of sun-room or veraideb. Natural- ly the painting of the cement floor in the first instance must be done shortly after the foor is laid. While the floor is still wet the design can be laid out and -marked into the ce- ment with a suitable tool Before the cement has become thoroughly dry, select certain blocks and coat. them with two or three layers of the above-mentioned synthetic paint, allowing each coat to dry well into the cement When complete, give a final coat of wax. Where an anti- que effect is desired, before the wax is applied, go over the entire floor with a dark oil stain; rubbing it well into the floor in places, to give the (fect of age.
Crimson cord curtains under white cast iron
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Mats Of Glass TABLE mats of coloured
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mirror glass are very smart and quite lovely, too, when they are chosen with due regard for the colour scheme of the table decoration.
Round table mats of green mir- ror glass having wide, bevelled edges
white look lovely with flowers, or with a yellow decorative scheme.
Choose your mats, incinding the centre piece, of, perhaps, pink "mir- ror glass, have your dowers in various shades of pink, and choose white china with tiny flower sprigs upon it.