space and Time-Savers 

 for the Home 



How a room was made attractive by a 

 little home-built furniture 



Bedroom Hid in a Living Room 



CONVENIENCE and the saving of 

 space are of prime importance in 

 city flats and country bungalows. Here 

 is an illustration which shows how com- 

 fort was brought to an ugly room that 

 served as both bedroom and living room. 

 The addition of the wall-closet with 

 its drop-shelf provided not only a 

 writing-desk, but a cabinet for bottles 

 and other small objects constantly in 

 demand. When not in use as a desk, 

 just that much space is saved. The 

 built-in seat is utilized for a clothes- 

 closet and it also screens the unsightly 

 porcelain washbasin and its pipes. It 

 is a simple matter to add a drop-shelf to 

 a cabinet already built-in. One seen 

 recently concealed an electric stove and 

 an entire light housekeeping equipment. 



A Handy Magazine- Shelf 



A CORNER arrangement for maga- 

 zines in the form of swinging 

 shelves, obviates the necessity of mutilat- 

 ing the walls by the use of brackets and 

 nails. The boards are joined in the 

 corners by means of cleats underneath, 

 helping to add to the stability of the 

 shelves. The lower shelf is wider than 



the upper, affording a place for maga- 

 zines of larger size. Three long and 

 three short chains provide support. 

 These are attached to hooks in the 

 shelves, the two side chains 

 finding their anchorage at the 

 highest point of the mantel 

 and a correspondingly high 

 point on the door-frame. The 

 middle one extends to a hook 

 in the ceiling. Short lengths 

 of chain run from their hooks 

 in the lower shelf to the 

 longer chains. A framed Frieze of the 

 Prophets (by Edwin Abbey) extends en- 

 tirely around the corner. 



An Improvised Hall -Tree 



IF you have no place to hang your hat, 

 a couple of boards, a few yards of rope 

 and a half-dozen pieces of wood can 

 easily be made to fulfil your needs. Two 

 wide boards, the height of a doorway, 

 are cleated together as a foundation. 

 The upper cleat is used as an anchor- 

 age for a pair of wooden arms which 

 are swung at an angle in order that the 

 coat-hooks will not interfere with the 



The convenient magazine racks filled an 

 empty comer and ornamented the room 



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