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Show 'Built-in' Type Furniture Is Latest Building Trend Built-in furniture is rapidly increasing in-creasing in popularity. In planning a built-in corner cupboard, upholstered uphol-stered wall seat, or some other piece of furniture, the home owner should decide well in advance about such important details as what fillers, finishing materials and colors to use. According to an authority on hardwood hard-wood finishing, it is important that the right fillers be used in accordance accord-ance with the color and consistency desired, and also that the filler be wiped at the proper time. A filler is basically a mineral pigment such as an asbestos compound, silica, whiting, or clay, bound together with a small amount of vehicle and thinned with gasoline or mineral spirits. There are many finishing materials, and most of them are well known to the home owner. Among those most often used are white and orange shellac, rubbing varnish and spar varnish. Because there is such a wide choice of colors and demands vary so greatly, each home owner should select the color for his built-in pieces so that they will be in harmony har-mony with the general style of the room. The natural color of wood represents the warm side of the color scale, and, remembering this colors should be selected to conform con-form with the usual rules governing good decoration. |