Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1930 — Page 19

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FURNITURE AND HOME SETTING SHOULDBLEND Modern Types May Be Out of Place in House of Older Days. Modem furniture taken from Its appropriate setting in an exhibition room to an old-fashioned home is apt to become another Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court. It will revolutionize the old surroundings. The skyscraper book case, the little box affair that can be used for a footstool or a telephone and magazine stand or a coal scuttle, the soft arm chair that somehow suggests a comfortable animal sunning itself, the cubistic andirons—these articles demand a setting different from that which was suitable for furniture designed fifty or even fifteen years ago. It is usually the fault of the purchaser and not the furniture designer if the new pieces seem as out-of-place as a ministerial frock coat on a cannibal. It Looks Lost Early American furniture in a Louis XIV room looks lost. And modem furniture in a 1900 room looks strayed or stolen. Many pieces or good old furniture, it is true, look well beside modem articles, but the room for the new style furniture must be of this age in character. Simplicity should be the keynote. The room should give the impression that it is designed to be Just as it is. There should be no feeling of haphazard uncertainty. Spaciousness is essential. There should be no crowding of furniture or knicknacks. Avoid involved patterns. If the curtains show a strong figured design, let the walls and the rugs be plain. It is well to have colored walls, but no pattern other than the texture of the painted walls themselves. The basket weave and the fan swirl, both made with a whisk broom and white-lead plastic paint, are distinctly of this age. Glazing Is Effective The weave moderne, another recently designed finish, gives an appropriate background for the new furniture. The effect is produced simply by drawing a whisk broom through the plastic paint at various angles as shown in the accompaning illustration. • The broom sweeps should be fairly long and overlap so as to form a series of interlacing diagonal lines. Particularly effective results may be had with this finish by glazing with gold, silver, bronzti or some other metal color. The Interlacing lines give to walls a richness as subdued and unobtrusive as the fine graining of a tropic wood. A solid color rug Is more restful than one with a striking or bold pattern that leads the eye back and forth in wavy lines or around in circles. Comfort and restfulness are of paramount importance in the modem interior.

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The most drab bathroom can be endowed with a gay, distinctive character if done In the new undersea decorative plan. Left—Above the tiling, on wainscoating, washable paper in the blue-greens of the ocean has fish, big and little, rolling waves and a few little ships atop the water. The curtain of rubberized rayon is shimmering blue-green and the bath mat is green

PAINTER CAN MAKE CEILING SEEM HIGH

'Shaded Tiffany' Effect Is Excellent Treatment in Low Room. We do not want to live in a room the ceiling of which seems so low that it appears about to graze our heads. The depressing effect of a too low ceiling can be remedied without calling in a gang of engineers and carpenters. Any good painter can do it alone. He will have a number oi special wall treatments to offer as solutions. Perhaps the most satisfactory of all is the shaded tiffany produced with a colored glaze over an undercoat of white lead paint. Aside from its very useful function of increasing the apparent height of a room, it is one of the most satisfactory and pleasing wall finishes. The shaded tiffany is carried up

and looks like moss. Upper Right—Try out a line of colorful crystal bottles for a cheery note in your bathroom. These are bubble-glass, with red stripes, and the steppers are brilliant red. Lower Right—Some of the newest bath mat, towel and wash rag sets have gay petunias on a rich navy blue background.

from the baseboard. Rich and carefully blended tones of golden brown are used, starting with the deepest tone at the base and extending to the ceiling line where scarcely more than the undercoat color shows. It is this blending and gradual shading that creates the illusion of height. The shaded tiffany can be used as well in rooms of ordinary height. The blend may be of warm browns and reds and yellow’s, or it may take the form of cooler colors such as green and blue. An ivory colored white-lead undercoat is usually employed. Period Furniture Everywhere Most of us live amid “period” furniture. It is unlikely that we can tell the history and pedigree of all pieces, and it is not necessary. But there is a* feeling that every piece used “belongs”—is appropriate to thf adjoining pieces.

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SOFA PILLOWS ADD BLAZE OF COLORINHOME Styles Are Different for Every Room; Fabrics Are Varied. NEW YORK, June 11.—Chic new sofa pillows for summer seem t* have developed a veritable caste system. Pillows for the living room are distinct from those for the sun parlor; pillows for the boudoir never would step into the den; pillows for the children’s quarters are decidedly different from those for the drawing room; and last, but not least, travel pillows hold themselves apart, conscious of the distinction that their experience lends them. These seven castes of pillows present multitudinous shapes, sizes and fabrics. All pillows, like Milady's clothes, show elaboration this season. Also like clothes, they acknowledge the advisability of following the color schemes of a room and blend, contrast smartly or in other ways express its "feeling.” Utility’s the Thing For the living room, pillows take utility sizes, such as 18x24 inches or 17x17 inches. All the serviceable sateens, reps, velours, tapestries, chintzes, hand-blocked linens and other wearable fabrics fashion these. They are more apt to be square or rectangular than fancy shapes. A beige and brown room, or one done in taupe will catch color from a pair of lacquer red velvet pillows with fringe or cordings. Sun parlors use the most amazing array of materials for their pillows. Oil cloth, glazed chintz, raffia embroidered flowers against black background, modernistic fabrics in studied new shapes, and geometric pieces of vari-colored linen making futuristic effects in skyscraper design all are appropriate for the sun parlor. Brilliant yellows, reds, greens and bright Lido blues or else stunning black-white schemes against butter yellow or jungle green are new ideas in coloring. Boudoir Pillows Delicate Boudoir pillows are fragile looking —quite as delicate and dainty as Milady herself. Tiny round, square or triangular pillows come in bundles of three, tied with satin ribbon. Newer are the washable covers, such as polka-dotted organdie, with fluted ruffles or hand-embroidered little bits of pillows, lace dainties or small patch work ones, done in the shape of old-fashioned girls or little French cuties. Boudoir pillows match the chaiselounge, the bed covers, curtains or the general color scheme of the room. Slurred chiffons are dainty, but perishable. Folding Furniture Attractive Folding furniture of wood or metal and some waterproof and sunfast material is convenient and attractive for the lawn in summer. Gay colors in the material add to the brightness and charm of the scene.

CITY IS SWEPT BY KITCHENET HABIT

Today’s girls . . . enjoy being domestic.

Hundreds of Business Girls Fine Delight in Our Housekeeping. Girls are going back into the kitchen! Household equipment heads of big department stores, evening cooking class teachers, apartment house managers and corner grocers all attest this new feminine movement. It is not, however, into old-fash-ioned kitchens that girls now go. Nor is it in the quaint old manner of fourteen hours out of every twenty-four. Nor is it the timid “home girl” who heads it. Successful business women and working girls make up the vanguard. They are getting the kitchenAWNINGS ABE VARIED Arabian and Moorish Types Are Popular. “Take me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst.—” This line from Kipling pops up when householders consider the style, texture and personality of their summer awirngs, for awnings distinctly have heard the “call of the east.” Arabian, Venetian and Moorish canopies will be more popular in 1930 for residential sun-shades than ever before in the past. Spearheads are the predominating ornaments for the Arabian and Moorish awnings, with wroughtiron chains used in the Venetian window protectors. Colors are bizarre. A tone for every house paint can be purchased.

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ette habit and learning anew that there Is a lot of enjoyment in a hand-cooked, well-balanced meal and what is more, it has charm for the men of their acquaintance! "We have ten times the requests for cooking equipment with oneroom apartments today that we had three years ago,” the manager of an apartment house told me. “Most girls have their breakfasts in and several times a week cook company dinners for their men friends. Over week-ends they cook all their own meals and seem to get a lot of enjoyment out of being real domestic.” The buyer for a big department store cites many new household gadgets as a direct response to requests from women keeping house in little apartments in a big way. Anew ice-box that fits under the sink, sets of dishes that come twv of a kind instead of three, twoplate electric stoves with grill underneath, the combination electric cabinet and dinette which seats two and has plugs for a single grilled dish, for percolator and toaster, and all manner of fancy molds made in small sizes. “Cook-books with recipes for two are those that have sold best this winter,” the head of the cooking department of one of the city’s book stores said. "Most of them sell noon hours, so I conclude it was working girls who bought them. They are rather fussy about balanced diets, too, which shows they are beginning to take a real interest in cooking.” “Many a marriage, I have noticed, seemed to have begun in a kitchen. Young men, living in furnished rooms, appreciate the girl who can serve them a tantalizing home meal. I should say that this back to the kitchen movement might almost be called a romantic one!”

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PERSONALITY IS GIVEN ROOM IN HORNEBY PIANO Musical Instrument Often Finishing Touch of Charm. Pianos often lend just the charm needed for rooms which seem to b# lacking some vital piece of furniture to give them the personality the home maker wishes them to possess. Piano styles have undergone some revolutionary changes during the last few years. The impression was given in the past that they were built to certain bulky measurements and there was no varying from these styles. Today one can get beauty of tone and attractive designs in the same piano. The price range is within the means of all those who own their own furniture. Apartment Piano Popular An innovation that ha*- caught the fancy of all is that even the small home or apartment can be furnished with a piano small enough to meet the requirements of space limitation. These are obtainable both in the upright and grand models. They are finished handsomely and their tone will meet the demands of the most exacting. If one is doing his home in the period style it is possible to get a piano that will be in harmony with the general trend. Even art modems has wound its way to the piano field. Likewise the one w’ho is furnishing his living room in certain woods may have his piano in the same material. This is a privilege that is being made use of by those who are discriminating. Many Prefer Upright While it generally is supposed that the baby grand type of piano has pushed the upright into the background it is not entirely borne out by fact. Interior decorators will show you that in many styles of homes the pright is preferable to the baby grand. And if painted furniture is the vogue in the room where a piano is needed—then one can get a painted one to carry out the color scheme of the room. Piano manufacturers have kept abreast of the time and even though the occupants of the house are not musically inclined the modem piano lends its charm as a piece of furniture, a thing of beauty. Gate Leg Table Appropriate In the breakfast room after the English styles a gate-leg table is appropriate, and where the furniture is of early American design, a butterfly table finds its place. Place Rugs Over Carpets A fine opportunity for adding to the distinction of a room with carpeted floors lies in the adding of smaller rugs placed on top of the carpet. .