At little cost
It’s amazing how you can transform an uninteresting room into one of distinction by paneling one wall. And what will surprise you more is that it need not be costly. Shop around for your wood. Shop around for your carpenter. Buy odd lots, and hire a man during the slack season.
To follow the photograph on the left above, buy a good stock mantel from your lumber dealer. He will have pictures to show you. Then have a carpenter fit bookcases and cupboards to your space.
Above is a good treatment of a tongue – and – groove knotty pine wall with concealed double doors, and a single door, which when opened, reveal the kitchen. This is one end of a living – dining room. To left, plywood is used in an interesting way over the fireplace and for the walls. Note the modern lighting, hinged door to adjoining room, hitches to left and cupboard to right of fireplace.
Another in formal type of furniture which is much liked and used in this country is French provincial. It is akin to our own early American maple and cherry but it is made often in fruit woods or in walnut – the wood of France. It is the informal furniture of the French provinces of the 18th century; small in scale, useful, comfortable and with the pleasant curved lines dear to the French.
A detail of the corner of the room left, below. Don’t overlook the economy of space and having a place of their own for your books, radio, record player, and records. Here they are all ready to be used and also a very decorative part of a pleasant room. The space occupied by the chimney, or the thickness of stone walls, often permits a deep, recessed window, bookcases opposite page, and the arrangement of shelves and cupboard shown here.