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Well-Equipped Flats
Make it Easy To
Be Tidy
FITTINGS GIVE 'PLACE
FOR EVERYTHING'
'A place for everything, and everything in its place'
was one of the objectionable maxims which have remained
with us throughout the years like a nightmare seen in child
hood. The old adage is a very sensible one, no doubt, but by
dint of much repeating, the sense wore off.
ft was left to the present age of
small apartments and judiciously
laid out restricted space to redis
cover this old and only way of
keeping: things in order.
But then it's made easy for us, these
days. Being tidy is taken out of the in
efficient hands of amateurs. It is all
planned for you by expert furniture
builders wno cecree wnere it is best
to keep your shirts and neckties, your
books and handkerchiefs, and golf
clubs and evening pumps.
In the well-planned modern flat, with
its scientifically conditioned wardrobs
or closet space, it becomes a veritable
art to lose track of a collar stud.
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fTVHERE are cunning tiny drawers to
?*? hold every separate kind of little
odds and ends. Sliding drawers and
shelves are so devised that groping in
the dark is a thing of the past. Shelves,
drawers, and their contents shoot forth
into the sunlight for inspection. Brass
racks support boots and shoes and
lengthen their life as well as that of
the cupboard bottoms they used to
stain and wear out.
Trousers, on their hangers, revolve
round a circular rod that makes it
easy to choose the right pair. Sweaters,
stockings, belts are no longer dumped
away into oblivion at the back of some
obsc'ure drawer, but have apartments
of their own.
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VX7ARDROBES,- cretonne lined to
' accommodate the most cobwebby
of evening gowns, are illuminated
inside by electric lamps that merci
lessly show up anything that's hung
on a peg where it shouldn't be.
Pigeonholes are fitted to the propor
tions of your toilet things, files clamor
for the papers that fit into them.
Verily, to be untidy within the space
of one of these modern wardrobecum
chest-of-drawers-plus-desk combina
tions ?would demand mucn forethought
and hard work — it's far easier to be
neat!
\ NOTHER epoch-making discovery
^ of our age is that cupboards,
shelves, wardrobes, and so on need be
neither deeper nor higher than you
can use them.
Gone for ever are the deep, dark,
mysterious recesses where you
groped, at the back of shelves, for
objects you could never find, unless
they reappeared months later at
the bottom of the wardrobe where |
they had slipped with a perversity !
all their own.
Gone for ever are the high altitudes
in your cupboards which you could
attain only by balancing on a chair.
The dominant line in modern furni
ture is the low one. Everything is
within easy reach even when you are
seated. All the receptacles designed
to hold your things have grown more
shallow, ' calculated to hold just what
belongs there, and no more.
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TT means luxurious ease in keeping
-*- your things in order and finding
them, as well as yards added to your
floor space, with no monstrous pieces
of furniture jutting out at awkward
angles to trip up the unwary.
Built-in wardrobes in appropriate
cavities of wall thicknesses, under win
dow ledges, or covering entire walls
with the smooth shiny surface of their
polished wooden doors, are some of the
ways in which modern decorators
camouflage the 'place-for-everything'
stunt They do away with that all
cupboard, dressing-room look of which
we don't approve when we want to use
our bedrooms as cosy living rooms as
welL
Even a double bedroom, with two
couches placed end to end along one
of the walls, cupboards fitted below the
windows, and presses filling up one
corner, may be a pleasant room to live
and entertain your friends in, as long
as 'everything's in its place.'
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BUILT-IN WARDROBES usually look best when lacquered to tone
with the color of the wall. The wardrobe illustrated is finished in
ivory-white. The small night-table is of mahogany, with a glass top,
and is fixed to the wall, mooing on hinges. A reading lamp is fitted
above the couch.
BUILT-IN WARDROBES usually look best when lacquered to tone
with the color of the wall. The wardrobe illustrated is finished in
ivory-white. The small night-table is of mahogany, with a glass top,
and is fixed to the wall, mooing on hinges. A reading lamp is fitted
above the couch.
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