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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 5 (August 1, 1939)

Unit Furniture

Unit Furniture.

Plan your furniture in advance, and then talk things over with your cabinet-maker. He will have new suggestions to offer, and will probably produce overseas trade catalogues to illustrate what he has in mind.

A clever idea for the house with two guest rooms is to build interchange-able furniture units. You can then put together a suite for a double room, or single rooms to suit either a man or a woman.

A two-drawered cheval dressing-table may be made more elaborate by placing a pedestal (lower cupboard, two drawers on top) at one end, or at both ends. Two single wardrobes become a unit when a chest of drawers is placed between them. You may prefer to link the man's wardrobe to his dressing-chest and the woman's to her dressing-table. A small dressing-mirror will be placed on the chest of drawers when it is moved into the room you are preparing for the bachelor. The dressing-chest thus remains for the married man.

The combinations are many and interesting—and you are always at liberty to replan your rooms to suit your mood or your guests.

Units must, of course, be of the simplest design, with no projections at the sides. Their attraction will lie in their good line and form, and in the beauty of the wood. An inlaid banding of contrasting wood forms a simple and effective decoration in the modern style.