Our homes and their adornments; . Fig. Fig. 73. BEDSTEAD AND DRAPERY. 297 A recent writer on this matter says of the bed-roomtable: Quite an inexpensive one may be made from a dry-goods box three feet high, four wide, and two and a halffeet deep, with four blocks of wood, one inch thick and fourinches square, nailed beneath each corner, to which castersare fastened. The box is placed with open side out, andfitted with a convenient shelf or two. The whole interiorshould be neatly jDapered. On the top at the back, one or two small boxes maybe fastened, and the entire top covered with oil-cl
Our homes and their adornments; . Fig. Fig. 73. BEDSTEAD AND DRAPERY. 297 A recent writer on this matter says of the bed-roomtable: Quite an inexpensive one may be made from a dry-goods box three feet high, four wide, and two and a halffeet deep, with four blocks of wood, one inch thick and fourinches square, nailed beneath each corner, to which castersare fastened. The box is placed with open side out, andfitted with a convenient shelf or two. The whole interiorshould be neatly jDapered. On the top at the back, one or two small boxes maybe fastened, and the entire top covered with oil-cloth orother suitable material, and the front may be hung withdrapery concealing the inside shelves. Another plan wouldbe to sand-paper the outside and finish in shellac ingenuity can be displayed and money saved, bywatching the fashion and other journals and carrying outtheir susforestions. *«30^ Bedstead and Drapeky. Our illustration presents a very neat bedstead anddrapery. The hangings are of muslin and net, worked insatin
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