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Show BBBBB-IB "TsDCCORATIVE AND USEFUL. How Unused Doorway May tie Converted Con-verted Into an Ornament. Tho illustration doplcts an exceedingly exceed-ingly ambitious treatment for an unused un-used doorway, which, if well carried out, will mnko a great furnishing addition addi-tion to n room nt a comparatively small cost, and ono which will bo found specially useful when a room has two doors, ono only being used. Immediately over tho top of tho door Is a wide shelf for pottery, this being exceedingly novel In treatment, irr as-much as-much as it has a wooden plcco underneath under-neath It Into which tho shelf brackets brack-ets fit; this under pleco when stained or enameled noting as a good background back-ground for two or threo cholco plates. The decorative scbomo of tho door- Mm -! sSxf SK!& BSt ctMCTJwf- ilS itrttL Ml " way is essentially Moorish In style, and consequently exceedingly graco-ful graco-ful In shapo. N It may bo mado of very thin wood, nnd you will soo that at tho sides and top it Is cut away In an opon pattern. Tho nrch frames shallow shelves fitted across tho doorway proper, boforo bo-foro tho arch plcco Is put ovor, and the door must bo hidden by Japancso gold or lcatnor paper pasted over it. Tho sholves aro sot wide apart down to whorotho nrch terminates, when thoy aro set round a shallow cupboard in tho center. Thcso" lower shelves servo as a bookenso, whllo tho cupboard cup-board will bo admirably, adapted for stationery and small xiuects. Tho whole framework may bo enameled or stained as suits tho taste. |