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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 14, 1988.
Brightening Up The Jaded
(By ELIZABETH MACRAE BOYKIN)
"I don't suppose there's much to room up to suit her if that could do with slip covers that have seen be done without too great expense. their best day" writes Mra, B. E. We are going to have the walls pas J. "but I don't see where I'll get pered, but I will have to improvise either money or
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ones for rugs. What spread and cur this year. Our old ones are flower-tains would you advise?" :
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THE ANSWER
the cept that they're so faded and drab Why not try dye for looking. If you have any ideas, covers? Sometimes you can
slip get
I'd appreciate them.”
A YOUNG MODERN
"Also, what would you do with some painted furniture in my daughter's room. It was ivory with flowers painted on it, but it's the worse for wear now, besides looking out of style. My daughter likes modern things. I'd like to fix the
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Just how quickly many, a girl recovers from a broken heart, de pends upon just how much she-
Covers,
For a young modern.
quite an interesting expensive-look- ing effect by dyeing over a faded pattern. Try out a small piece of the material first to see how it takes the dye.
As for your daughter's room, why not paint the furniture in bright red, add rugs made of rags dyed powder blue, and there you are; A wash cotton in spanking white with your daughter's mono- gram appliqued on in red would be our idea for the spread. Then juat| plain white curtains.
Or you could have curtains and spreads of blue seersucker,' then and paint the furniture maroon make blue rag rugs.
Or do the walls in pale grey, paint the furniture a light plum colour, have spread of grey with an appliqued monogram in plum. Then make braided rugs of grey with plum border.
If you choose any of these bed- room colour schemes, be careful to combine just the right tones, and they'll be awfully modern looking.
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