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Fifth Avenue — Madison Avenue 
Thirty "fourth Street NEW YORK Thirty^fifth Street 
INTERIOR DECORATION 
AND 
FURNITURE 
S HE HOUSE OF HUBER manufactures its own 
furniture from rare antiques. 
Furnishings for town and country homes and for in¬ 
dividual rooms, a specialty. 
No service charge. Samples submitted. Send for 
booklet. 
H. F. HUBER & CO. 
New York: 13 East 40th Street Paris: 18 Faub. Poissonniere 
A Closet For Everything 
(Continued from page 32) 
In the end of the bedroom 
chimney breast can be built a 
shoe closet 
and rubbers; and the other is provided 
with shelves for the numerous unclassi¬ 
fied items of personal and household use 
which need to be kept out of sight, and 
yet have no special place of their own. 
Service Cupboards 
The service portion of the house is 
a marvel of convenience with scarcely 
an inch of waste space, and nearly every 
closet has been built to the measure of 
its contents. The small spaces at either 
end of the sink in the butler’s pantry 
have been utilized in a most original 
manner. At the left is a tall, narrow 
cupboard with a lower section for table 
leaves, a middle one for serving trays, 
and upper compartment for the storage 
of soaps and soap powders. On the 
right, in the wider space necessitated by 
the drainboard, is a low cupboard with 
shelves placed only a few inches apart 
to hold platters, and an upper one in 
which is kept the glassware in everyday 
use. The saving of time and labor ef¬ 
fected by placing the glasses directly on 
the shelves as they are washed and 
wiped, is obvious. Almost equally ac¬ 
cessible is the china closet built against 
the upper half of the opposite wall. 
One half of the space beneath is de¬ 
voted to the plate warmer, enclosed by 
slatted doors, and the other half to a 
series of drawers of graduated sizes 
which hold dish towels and table linen. 
Around the top of the pantry, close to 
the ceiling, is a row of small cupboards 
for the storage of odds and ends and 
surplus china. 
Another “special purpose” closet puts 
to practical use an otherwise useless jog 
in the kitchen, and holds the carpet 
sweeper, mops, brooms and brushes. 
Against the rear wall is fastened a half- 
round block of wood on which is coiled 
the heavy hose of the stationary vacuum 
cleaner. The brooms hang on the side 
wall, with their bristles just clearing 
the floor. 
Above the broom closet is a cupboard 
for the china used in the kitchen and 
servants’ dining room. 
One of the oddest closets in this 
lavishly closeted house is in the lava¬ 
tory on the first floor at the end of the 
main hall. The toilet is placed beneath 
the stairs, and between the water tank 
and the sloping ceiling is a foot or so 
of space which has been cleverly utilized 
to form a little cupboard that holds 
extra supplies of soap, towels and paper. 
The door is hinged at the bottom and 
a chain at one end prevents it from 
striking against the tank. 
The sewing room on the second floor 
is furnished with a capacious double¬ 
doored closet fitted with variously 
spaced drawers and shelves for sewing 
materials, patterns and fabrics. A sec¬ 
tional cutting table fits into the lower 
compartment on one side. Near the 
head of the stairs is a closet built to 
hold the clothes hamper and bathroom 
supplies, and just beyond is a roomy 
linen closet. 
Closets for Bedrooms 
Each of three bedrooms contains a 
clothes closet of generous capacity, high 
enough to allow for a hat shelf at the 
top, and finished inside with white 
enamel. The depth of the partitions 
not being great enough to admit of run¬ 
ning a pole the long way of the closet, 
each section is provided with a short 
pole which runs from front to back as 
shown in the illustration. In the fourth 
or guest room the closet has been lined 
with cretonne to match the window 
draperies, and even the hat shelf and 
clothes pole (which in this case runs 
the long way of the closet) are covered 
with the same fabric. A unique feature 
is the placing of mirrors on the inside 
of the doors, so that when they are 
opened Milady may stand between them 
and view her costume from every angle. 
A clever example of space conserva¬ 
tion is the shoe closet in each bedroom. 
The disposition of shoes in the ordinary 
house is a vexed problem. If kept on 
the floor of the wardrobe, they accumu¬ 
late dust and are knocked about in the 
process of removing and replacing gar¬ 
ments. Shoe pockets are hard to clean, 
and the contents become defaced by rub¬ 
bing together and also lose their shape 
more quickly than when set upright 
upon a hard surface. Special shoe 
closets, therefore, prolong the life of the 
footwear, besides promoting convenience, 
and here they have been ingeniously con¬ 
structed in the narrow spaces at the ends 
of the chimney breast, each shelf being 
just wide enough to hold one pair of 
shoes comfortably. 
The biggest of all—and one which 
makes every feminine visitor frankly en¬ 
vious—is the cedar closet. Few house¬ 
wives aspire to anything more royal 
than the ownership of a cedar chest, or 
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A special closet for his tools is 
the dream of every handy man 
