Clock and pewter: this arrangement of mere shelf over a fireplace is an informal one, easily followed. It is typical of early New England houses and appropriate today for rooms of informal character. If you have an ugly mantel, tear it out and do this. A carpenter could build a shelf over the fire opening suitable for the room. Any “treasures” of plates, china or pewter could be used in this fashion.
Your “collection”: if you are a collector and if not – why not, as it’s great fun of any amusing small objects, she shells, ten – cent – store animals, here is a way to put them on display in a hanging shelf. This room is in the French provincial style and delightful. Do not the arrangement of the mantel, papered walls, and draperies.
AND BOOKS
Built – in book shelves and cabinets with a commodious desk in front of a group of windows is as sensible as it is attractive. The desk could be made up of two free – standing chests with a separate top laid across them. The cupboards under the shelves, however, have built – in file boxes on their doors, and a drop – leaf for the typewriter. It is in ways like these that much ingenuity is shown. We think out what we need and then adjust the space to suit.
Thursday, December 17th, 2009, 6:18 pm | 
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