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Furnishing is an art. It requires w
flair. Some women need a thousand pounds and eight rooms of elegant proportions to do their stuff.
Others get grand effects with orange boxes, plywood and lots of tin tacks. It is all a question of
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It suits the mmle decor dern houses and statss Carefu chosen, it will not look out of place with furniture that has been in use for thirty years.
You may feel that some of it is hard. but it looks right with radio sets, telephones and electric fires. It catches the spirit of the twen-
House sense is sometimes inborn. It is more often acquired. If you have it you will not buy furniture to impress your friends and neigh-tieth century. bours or because it is the fashion- able shape.
Your curtains will not sus ggest that they were originally intended for summer dresses. Textures and colours will be used with discern-
ment.
Your furniture will be chosen for its good looks, but also for its fit- ness of purpose.
It's Modern-But It's Right
How are we furnishing in 1937? All the sign-posts point to a style
VEGETABLES WILL DECORATE YOUR TABLE
are
Fruits as table decorations having to make way for vegetables, with their wide range of colour and form. Eggplant, with its rich pur- ple, brilliant orange carrots, celery or parsley arranged on a tray: platter can be as colourful and fes- tive as any kind of decoration.
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Many of the colours, found fruits and flowers are also found in vegetables and striking results can come from planned arrangement. Red and green peppers, radishes, parsnips, turnips, beets, summer squash, tomatoes, green and white onions, acorn squash, green and wax beans, okra, endive and brussels sprouts all lend themselves surpris ingly well to table decorations. Leaves of plants such as maple, oak or ivy may be used for variation
Cabbage and cauliflower also "fit in nicely with a vegetable decoration,
especially if smaller heads are used. The table arrangement should have some of the larger vegetables in a wooden bowl or other container and then arranging wax beans, broc- white onions around them coll container should harmonise
other table accessories.
with the
New designs are softer in out- line. In furnishing, as in dres- curves have returned.
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oak which looks good, ery little and can be scrub-
Consider this when there children in the home.
have noticed that old and cherished chairs of almost any per- od can be brought up to date with these new textures.
As with actual furniture, so with the smooth charms of chintz and When you want a change from
carpets, pottery and hangings. percale remember that even cur There are many new and interest-tains have gone shagg. ing designs.
Some of them are odd, others amusing Most
them, however show old ideas hand way, and that is a good thing
Have you seen the new tufted car- pets? They look as though a great mushrooms had sprung up in
Light woods are popular. They the night. create a sense of light and space, and they cost a lot less than they did a year or two ago.
you
If you are going in for elegance, choose sycamore and ash want simplicity in small room, buy unpolished oak or pale birch.
Lots of us, who have to be penny- wise all the time, will appreciat
If you are timid about new ideas try this tufted fabric 01 on 2 couple of cushions. If you hate em you can blame me, and use them in the garden.
Showy Stuff
One last thing to remember.
Show furniture is bad furniture. A gay tufted rug would be good but which will hardly accom- The desk which looks graceful in a modern room, but a whole car-modate a notebook is a sham. The pet might be trying to high-heels modern trend is all against shards and disastrous for the wheels of and shoddy good looks.
the dinner-wagon.
It has banished for good and all Tufted materials are being used the old I'm for use and you're for for upholstery, but these are minia show relationships between rooms. ture tuits, and have great possibili- It combines sound workmanship ties for chairs which are used a with good materials and clear de- great deal.
signs.
I have seen beige fufted in pale It is beautiful because it is sen- brown looking lovely in a new sible and efficient
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