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·THE · CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY. - AUGUST

1953.

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YOU MIGHT CHOOSE "wild west” theme for the rumpus room.', Colour scheme is black and white, from rub- ber tile floor to the lamp.

By JOAN O'SULLIVAN THESE days, home","des corating. posca prob- lems. Some of the problems are due to cramped" quar- ters; others are a result of ahoo-string alim budgets: But if you're willing to sit down and think things out, :. you can find a way out of aven the stiffest of docorat- Ing dilemmas.

Dealguers are giving more and more time to turning out places that make the most of small spaces. They realise that -mont · people ---especially: apartment dwellers don't have sufficient storage room. That's why you'll find all manner of wonderful units. that hold everything from chinn' and' silverware to books and bed linens. You can choose these in the finest, most expensive, woods and in the most inexpensive unpainted pieces as well. You can use a single unit, or combine two or more, depending on your special. needs.

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· READY-MADE SLIPCOVERS in a two-way stretch fabrio designed to fik many sofa and chair styles offer, a budget way

of redecorating,

manufacturers are bringing Your Personality Sets New

out furniture that is equally at home in living or dining areas, and looks well in a room that combines both functions.

Room Decor & Colouring

By ELEANOR ROSS

THE best and most reliable softly tinted wallpaper with a key to interior decorating is simple Unear pattern. Uphol your own personality.

stery fabrics for casual living were heavily textured in nubby

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One of the new decorator rooms, for example, fea- tures a handsome drop lenf table that sets trimly against the wall when not During the recent convention cones of deep bronze in use. Comes dinnertime, of the American Institute of

For Amy Vanderbilt, and the leaves open to pro-Decorators we learned a great vide plenty of space for deal about what makes a de- decorator chose chintz drupedics corator tick and discovered that, with a quaintly old-fashioned serving the family. Next there is little that is esoteric to this charming table, four about it.

floral pattern to bring a criapress armless

into the mellowed elegance that chairs equipped One most interesting phase so well expresses this woman's with casters, and a corner was a set of rooms done by, background. and table are combined in decorator. Linda Christinn

was chosen as the brunette' to Venetian blinds' in clear

a conversational grouping. represent the contemporary yellow admitted the maximum

chose Betty Furness. For semi-

The chairs are placed two sophisticate, and for the blonde, of light to a room that carried of blue, on either side of the table. vivacious woman, fond of the out the floral tones The effect resembles a sec- casual air of today's living, he white and pink, tones that com-

Piemont Miss

Vanderbilt's tional sofa, yet the chairs formal elegance in the country colouring. Daffodi! yellow, was can easily be rolled to table as well as in town,

clever, the accent colour that co........ when it's time to eati

uristocratic Amy Vanderbilt was ordinated the formality of blue. Lelected,

and white striped upholstery, the deep blue of the painted walls, the hushed pink of cm- and bossed sateen on chairs. Soto.

and created a combinadon or

Particularly

lovely Betting. emphasised was a draw drapery

shot of black

with copper threads,

Household Hints

Your carpet sweeper will do better work in cleaning -up crumbs,, dc., if you use it pro- perly. Don't bear down on the handie: exert just enough pret-

A alim budget should be no Plenty of Colour drawback to decorating or," re ddeorating if you're a good To create the dramatic and shopper. Piastics that resemble | ulus-modern background for fabrics are not only inexpen-aving that the decorator thought sively priced but very practical, Linda Chrisuan should have, ne too. They make wonderful went in for colour, plenty of it, draperies.

If slipcovers are on your list turquoise, black and white for a and you can't afford to have them custom-made, take a look

at the newest ready made covers. They feature a

two- -way stretch fabric of rayon and --- Turquoise -Venetian blinds sure-for-the-brush to hug tha calion, and are designed to immered the wallpaper to cm-carpet but still run freely. Emply many basic sofa and chair phacise the effect of spacious the pan after each is, even if the styles snugly. The line includes Dess Orange -throw pillows swooper ran only around the slipcovers

Club

chairs with and occasional touches of dining table, Put

drop of all square or T-cushions, Cogswell orange in the accessories added occasionally on the bearings, and chairs, wing chairs, modern the perfect colour accent for clean the brush weekly."Cut chairs, Soin

styles come to: Mas Christian's brunette, beau- away threads and bains; rub the club, Lawson, London flat army.

4_1_tasik, brush with cleaning fluid. and modern straight or curved

The decorator's suggestions for arm sofas. Modestly-priced and

were most in- A gelatin solution is good for washable, the covers are avail- Betty Furness

beresting. For the woman who cottons that seem too shour Lo able in floral prints, sculptured approximates this typo, it was bo starched, but need some sect monotones and an abstract pattern

casual swirls. Another prevalent problem with home decorators. Is the rumpus room or den. It should

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suggested thank she choose a [of stiffening. Add one pint of patterned drapery that bonts her cold water to one ounce colouring and personality, then gelatin, and heat until the use its coleur co-ordination to gelatin is dissolved. To one part of this solution add from eight to 15 paris of hot water, de- pending on the material and the amount of stiffnesh desired.

be cloverly deno, so that they the entire room.

Anished setting

will really be

a conversation plece. The solu- tion to this puzzler is easy-just choose a theme,

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A soft water-lily print in This may call for some One model rumpus. room was sheer organza scomod uticu-perimentation. The mixture can decorated around a wild west larly right for the fresh chart be saved. If a motif.

Walls were given of Miss Furness. The back- Jadded.

Wes pink and for pickled pine finish. Pony skin round upholstery decked out chairs.ents, gold, bronze and a deep Lamp bases were made with coral wore smartly used. western. "bools topped, with

The increasing popularity of should never be allowed to soak shades of potty siin. The black tragile pink for home decorat in water since this will damage and white colour scheme was ing was nicely handled in a and, loosen the handle. Clesin even carried out in easy-tó-care- (King-sized Venetian blind that blades promptly and scour car- for rubber flooring in a checker-protected the unlined draperies bon steel blades if they need it..

· board design, `

from sun-fading, and in the Rinse and dry thoroughly.

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