The following is the simple technique to be employed in mounting any kind of paper on wood panels. You want it to lie perfectly and smoothly flat, and you don't want it to peel off or buckle up. It is easy enough to stick things to masonite, but natural wood must be painted or sized. The paper print should be slightly dampened so that it can be pressed down for a uniform contact all over the wood surface. It is better to use a thinned glue for the mounting than any kind of paste, even wall-paper paste.

You have your choice of either waxing the paper, or of shellacking and varnishing it. Shellac in itself is not a particularly good finish, and whether you use clear or orange shellac for antiquing, it is well to protect this with several coats of good clear varnish. The paper is then so thoroughly protected that it may be cleaned with a damp cloth just as though it were actually painted on the wood. Moreover it harmonizes more attractively with whatever finish is used on the chest itself.

This technique suggested for the panels of a chest may be utilized in just the same way for the doors of cupboards, in the creation of some very unique pieces of decorative furniture.

On the page of suggestions for chests you will see that the two-door cupboard design of our unit scheme is here shown made as a chest, with one advantage no chest possesses. You may get at the inside of it without disturbing anything that may be arranged on the top.

Among the suggestions in the concluding "Portfolio," you can see the effect of this "Chinese" chest, and others, elevated on stands. The making of a stand needs a little more real carpentry than some of our work up to this point, but it shouldn't prove too difficult.

This seems to suggest more varieties of chests than you could ever possibly use-but there they are, anyway, and you can make any of them you like-or skip them altogether, if you happen not to like chests.

One thing-the most pleasing proportions for a chest seem to be, approximately, as high as it is wide, and about twice that dimension in length. The height may be a little more than the width, but these proportions, generally, come out well.

Any of these chests, of course, may be lined with cedar, if you can get it. Aromatic red cedar (3/8"), milled with tongue and groove, is an obtainable article of commerce.

A well-known convenience, especially if you are very short of storage space, is a broad, flat chest that will go under the bed. This is simply a shallow box (8" is not too deep), and it should be fitted with wheels or casters. To install the casters, get large ones, and nail 2"x 2" corner posts into each corner of the box to take the shanks of the casters. A hole needs to be drilled up through the bottom into each corner post, with the brace and proper-sized bit. To complete the creation, there should be an easy-to-grab handle on the face of the box, or it is too hard to pull out. Such a box, of course, is a good choice if you want to make something of cedar, and in any case, it may prove a handy contraption.