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 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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