Unit seven is a design to use as a desk, fitted up with whatever you may fancy in the way of pigeon-holes, or even small drawers, the front to let down on two lengths of brass chain. You would make the pigeon holes of 1/2" or 3/8" poplar. Brass chain is to be had for a few cents a foot, and is cut to the required length and affixed to the desk and its let-down lid by means of small brass screw-eyes. You merely open the last link of the chain with pliers, hook it into the screw-eye and squeeze it shut again, or open and close the screw-eye.

The eighth unit suggests a radio-but we don't know what sort of a radio you have, and can only say that the idea is to enclose it in a face of masonite or plywood, carefully cut to fit, and put in place so that it is flush with the face of the radio's dial panel.

The ninth unit is designed for magazines. Nail one of the short uprights in from the shelf, and toenail the other one, front and back, then nail this construction into the "box."

The last unit is of a more or less decorative sort, and maybe you wouldn't have any particular use for it. You might, indeed, use only two or three of the types of units shown, but one great advantage of the unit idea is that you can keep on adding to it, perhaps running them, two-high, all around the room.

These units, moreover, aren't confined in their use to positions against the wall. Four of them can build up very nicely back of a davenport, and if you make a small square table, as shown in the Portfolio of Ideas at the end of the book, you can build up quite an impressive looking group that would be something like a library table, or a work-table.

Designs for shelves and cupboards.

More than that you can divide off a big living room or studio into living room and dining space by standing a build-up of two units out at right angles to the wall. To fit the units around a corner, you have only to build a square stand on 11/2"x 11/2" sticks, with a top made the square of the depth of your units, and to a height equal to two of them, plus the 3" base. Place this in the corner and you will have a continuous corner top.

Properly finished up, you can see that enough of these furniture units will pretty well create a smart looking modern interior. Venetian blinds, a little modern pottery and a few prints or drawings in natural wood frames, several good modern armchairs, and a quiet, restful color scheme-and there you are.

One concluding suggestion, in case you want to add a slight decorative note and a touch of color to the units. This may be done, as shown, by the simple expedient of nailing a square, surfaced stick, (3/4"x3/4"), carefully cut. These could be lacquered vermilion on gray, vermilion on ivory, or black on ivory-or any other color scheme you might fancy. The effect is seen in the two pair of units below.

The sticks are nailed on vertically, which gives unity to the built-up units, or horizontally, in pairs, (a Chinese accent) to be used in such modern furniture as handles. All nails in this work should be very carefully driven and countersunk. The nail-holes should be filled with plastic wood and sandpapered off smooth, as also the ends of the sticks, which must be cut perfectly true.