Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1918 — DEVISES PRETTY GUEST ROOM [ARTICLE]

DEVISES PRETTY GUEST ROOM

Ingenious Young Wife Utilizes Old Furniture Painted in Alice Blue and Stenciled. Farm and Fireside has a story of a young wife who fixed up her home herself with a small sum of money. In talking about her guest room, she says: , “My guest room was small and I did fiot want to buy any furniture. The wall I tinted a plain cream color. I used an old bed, dresser and two chairs, all painted Alice blue, and tried my hand at stenciling the furniture with oil paint. I bought a stencil of a pretty flower design and put it on the rails of the bed, arms of the chairs, on the top of the dresser and the front of the drawers. I didn’t attempt to do the stencil wiui different colors, just made all the designs in blue, a little darker'than the main part of the furniture. - “For the windows, cushions and bed cover I found a thin ‘sun-fast’ material which had a very wide blue and creamcolored stripe. For my electric lights I made simple little silk shades of yellow. The rag rugs in this room were woven with a pale yellow thread.”