Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1915 — IDEAL FOR SUMMER HOUSE [ARTICLE]

IDEAL FOR SUMMER HOUSE

Moat Attractive Table la One Covered With Chintz and Fitted With a Plato Glass Top. For the well-appointed summer house, a table covered with chintz and fitted with a plate glass top is exceedingly attractive. This is very expensive If ordered from a professional decorator; but if you buy the chintz yourself, fit it to your table and have the glass cut to measure, the cost will be much less and the effect quite as pleasing. Another device for an inexpensively furnished country house is the transformed kitchen table. A cheap kitchen table can be treated in a variety of ways to make an attractive bedside or writing table for the guest chamber. One that I have seen, for a green and white bedroom, had the legs sawed off to a convenient length and was painted an apple green. Over the top was stretched —and tacked on the under side —a cover of green denim; on the top of this was set a large green writing blotter, a rack for note paper and a green pottery ink well. The result was a pretty and original writing table at a cost of two dollars and a half. A kitchen table painted white and decorated to match the chintz or wall paper is attractive; but this demands some skill with the brush.