Drsskrs And Sideboards
furnishing. In many cases it is an old bureau which is a family heirloom, but where this is absent the general choice is for a chest of drawers, especially the well-known type where the plinth pulls out with the drawer. Many of these chests have been given in exchange for a good bureau. On Plate XVII there is a design for a cupboard chest which should answer all the purposes of the bureau or shoddy chest of drawers and even surpass them. It could he made in deal or whitcwood and
painted, or in oak or birch and polished. It is 3 ft. 10 ins. high and 2 ft. 7 ins. wide. In the top is a cupboard with a tall down flap. A narrow shelf runs round the ends and back of the cupboard space, leaving the whole height in the centre. Then come the drawers, and below them an open shelf for boots or such things as are needed every day. The construction can be similar to the painted chest of drawers, described in Chapter VI. There can be no doubt that failing a dresser or sideboard such a chest would be an untold blessing in a living room. A book rack 011 the top would add to its usefulness.
1<> FUKNITirilK roil SMALL HOUSES
When will some enterprising Cclittle master" take up the job of making simple but well-designed clock cases? When one looks in the clock shops how very few of the wooden clock cases are worth buying, to say nothing of the atrocious designs in black slate or pseudo marble. There should be a fortune for some one who can both design and finish cases to fit the standard sixes of clocks. To a cabinetmaker it should be an opportunity for using up small waste wood and veneer. In Fig. 5 are two out of forty cases which have been made at the Shoreditch
- KifJ. 6.—Clock Cases.
Institute. They were all of one size ro take a pre-war 5s. 6d. American clock, but they all varied in colour and wood. In Fig. 6 are ,two even simpler designs. J he cases are about 1 1 ins. high and 6 ins. wide, tongued and grooved together. They are easily decorated by a restrained use of a box or black line or narrow banding, but many of the odd pieces of veneer which are thrown away could be utilised. A hinged door at the back is necessary, and it can be readily seen that there is an endless variety ¡11 form, simple derail, and colour if the making of cases is seriously taken up.
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