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Show Woodwork Plays Part in Harmonious Appearance A room is Just as beautiful as Its woodwork. Many a color scheme is upset by cheap, homely woodwork painted or stained a weird shade that never harmonized with anything in ; the house. In such instances, the housewife usually tries to cover the offending wood with wide curtains, to hide as much of its ugliness as possible, pos-sible, but It still Insists on peeking out at some vital spot and spoiling the whole selling, j For a long time, it was believed that a house had to keep the woodwork -j ; which a wise or otherwise builder had seen fit to bestow upon it. But the housewife of today is Inclined to follow fol-low nobody's taste but her own In decorating dec-orating her home, hut the woodwork comes in for a renovation just as the walls do. The housewife who can choose the woodwork for a new home without re-j re-j gard to cost, will, of course, choose hardwood with a waxed finish to bring out Its beautiful grain. If It proves too expensive, she can choose Its best t substitute, soft wood, with the stipulation stipu-lation that it must be well finished. , Soft wood, when new, may be given a mtlural finish, which allows the I grain of the wood to show through i a coat of wax, or the flat varnish, j which has taken the place of the old- time highly-glossed varnish. If this treatment is to be given to oak, chestnut chest-nut or other open-grained woods, a coat of paste wood filler should be applied ap-plied on the bare wood to fill the grain and pores and form a smooth hard surface for the finish. Close-grained woods, such as pine, cypress and hlrch, do not require a filler and the wax or varnish may be applied directly direct-ly to the bare wood. |
