Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1930 — Page 20
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DEEP SEA IDEA IS LATEST KINK FORBATHROOM Color Is Major Point for Consideration When One Begins Remodeling. BY JULIA BLANSHARD NEA SrTlee Writer NEW YORK. June 11.—House renovation rightfully should begin in the bathroom, so one would feel refreshed for doing the rest of the house. Os course, color is the magic wand that brings about a positive revolution in a bathroom’s appearance. If one’s house is being made over this year, colored tiles and equipment should be considered, by all means. But, since most folks do not rebuild but redecorate, it is to wall paper, paint, colored curtains, towels, wash rags, mats and lotion containers that one must look for inspiration. The very newest in bathrooms Is the deep-sea scheme. Fish float around the wall, waves are lined in their green-blueness, and there even may be little ships afloat the waves for a border near the ceiling. Washable new wall papers make much of fish motifs. Family Supplies Art One ingenious family that had rough plaster walls let each child as well as adults have a hand in the decoration of a sea scheme. Each daubed on his or her own kind of fish, with more plaster, then all were painted and the whole thing shellacked. It was devastatingly effective wall anr such pride as the whole family took in its gorgeous blue, green and golden tints! For the "under-sea” bathroom, there are green mats that look like moss, sponges like sea-weed, soap in fish shapes. Towels may be both green and blue, with the blue monogrammed in green and vice versa. The curtain should by all means be a rubberized rayon one, for it shimmers like something just out of the ocean. Get Color in Room If your bathroom is white-tiled up part way, with white equipment, you can get color by using daffodil yellow waterproof paint above the tiling, with a border of modernistic design done in brown. Bath and window curtains, mat and all towels should be yellow and brown, the former in a modernistic design of rubberized materials, the towels, mat and wash rags yellow monogrammed in brown. For the very feminine woman’s bathroom, apricot and pale blue is a lovely combination, and the twocolor scneme can be used effectively for curtains, linen and rows of crystal bottles to hold her beauty aids. For this room, a border just above the tiling of dainty tiny pictures, framed alternately in blue and apricot, is an interesting touch. Splash It Up For Men Men like vivid color in bathrooms, so for the bachelor or the family man lucky enough to rate a bathroom all his own, blues, reds, purples and deep, rich yellows are used in combination. The walls should be modernistic and geometric, checked, plaid or striped effects in linen, rugs, curtains and shaving bottles are excellent. Leave floral effects for the ladies. Some of the newest accessories for bathrooms that should be noted are the gay window curtains and shower curtains ensembles. They come daintily flowered, colorful, chintz-like in their sprightliness. There are, too, matching ensembles of bath mats, luxurious turkish towels, wash cloths and hand towels in all-over flowered designs in high color against black, brown, purple or blue backgrounds. Gay petunias on a purply brown background are lovely. So are several tones of blue and pink against black. Accessories are Snappy Lotion bottles now come in widemouthed size, not only fancily decorated in color, but with the names of their contents etched in gold or silver on them. Finger towels are the latest thing in bathroom linen, and are diminutive guest towel size made of fine linen and monogrammed or crossstitched, and hung five on a rack, each a different color. Five pinks, or blue, green, apricot and yellow are nice. Family towel sets now can be had, with one color for Ruth, another for Jimmy, a third for father, a fourth for grandma and fifth for mother, so the family will never get mixed on their wash cloths.
DOMESTIC ORIENTAL RUGS GAIN IN FAVOR New Floor Coverings Wear Well and Look Good. Domestic oriental rugs, both in large and small sizes, axe gaining in popularity because of their rich colors and unusual designs. They are made by the same process as the real orientals and will wear just as well. For the bedroom which has taken on its summer attire, a hooked or braided rug is appropriate. Gay colors to give the room a light and cool appearance are seen in these rugs, and any color scheme may be carried out. These rugs are especially well suited in rooms where furniture after the early American designs is used. CHINTZ GIVES CHARM Edging or Fringe Adds Decorative Quality to Draperies. For the windows, chintz is one of the most widely used drapery materials and the charm and quaintness of this may be brought out by having it edged with some edging, fringe or other trimming made of cotton or rayon in harmonizing colors. This adds a decorative quality to the window treatment which it would otherwise lack. Linen draperies and those decorated with crewel embroidery also may be finished with a trimmed edge to add to the gayety of the room iadts summer clothes.
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Equipment for outdoor meals is very decorative this summer. A lacquer red and black table has its gaundy striped parasol run through its center. The chairs have black frames and red seats and fold up when net in use.
FURNITURE BUDGET NEED NOT BE HUGE
Good Judgment Will Eke Out Limited Purse in Purchases. It is possible to furnish a now home or refurnish an old one on a very limited budget if you go about it in the right way. Careful planning as to the essential things which must be bought first will be a great help in furnishing anew house. The pieces of furniture which are going to be used all the time should be of the best quality. Nothing is so expensive as cheap furniture. If you buy the best, it always will be something you can be proud to own and use, and instead of continually having to replace essentials, you can add to your furnishings when your income permits. In refurnishing a home or adding to furniture already in use, there always is plenty of time for reflection as to just what is wanted a?id for searching until the thing desired is found. Many home furnishers think it much better to go rather slowly in furnishing a home so that the mistakes of a hasty purchase may be avoided. Even when money is net a consideration it often is wise to buy a few pieces at a time. PEASANT FURNITURE !S GREATLY IN DEMAND Foreign Pieces Blend Well With American Colonial Idea. The Colonial revival in furniture has brought forth some foreign companions. These ailen cousins fit into a Colonial setting quite perfectly, which is, perhaps after all, natural enough—the period of their origin was about the same as our own Colonial. A surprising interest is shown by buyers in provincial or peasant furniture. Its simple architecture, its lack of formality and its general hominess make it at ease and at home with early American furnishings. Walnut, oak, and maple are used in its manufacture and such upholstering as it needs is done in chintz, percale, or quilted cottons. WIDE CHOICE GIVEN IN CRETONNE DRAPES Lighter Materials Are Popular for Windows in Summer. In place of the heavy materials used at the windows in winter it is refreshing to have some of the lighter weight ones for spring and summer use. Cretonne probably holds first place among the moderate price drapery materials, because of the great choice of colors and patterns offered in it. It is very serviceable and attrretime for the summer dress of the windows. Rayons are offered in sunfast colors and the quaint, sprightly patterns of the chintzes look springlike at the windows. Denim makes a good drapery and for the bedroom there are voiles and thin silks.
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WALL HIDES SANDPILE Unsightly Fence Is Eliminated by Artistic Woman. Instead of having a disfiguring wooden fence around the children’s sand pile, an artistic woman brought stones from a nearby hill and made a very attractive wall of them around the sand which fitted perfectly with the landscape design of her country home. IFFEINfIDEA GIVEN BEDROOM Commonplace Furniture Is Easy to Avoid. The difficult problem of making rooms in which it is necessary to use suites of furniture—bedrooms and dining rooms—look “different” may be solved by selecting distinctive patterns in the suites. Commonplace designs should be avoided. Occasional pieces may be added in the bedroom to create a feeling of individuality in the room furnished with the inevitable bed-drcsser-dressing-table suits. For those who like to read in bed, there might be a bookcase of favorite boohs. The livableness of the room may be increased by placing in it a particularly comfortable boudoir chair. Good reproductions of attractive designs always give a room a distinction. For the dining room there are a number of reproductions. Duncan Phyfe, Jacobean, Early American, sure to give it quite a “different” appearance. ( PLAIN MATERIAL BEST FOR GLASS CURTAIN Net, Swiss and Marquisette Can Ee Used Advantageously. The glass curtain is best if made of some plain material of neutral tone, harmonizing with the draperies. If the view beyond the window is attractive, the glass curtain might be thin enough to see through. If it is desirable to shut out an unpleasant view, a heavy glass curtain will do it and yet admit enough light. Net, swirs, and marquisette are among the materials out of which satisfactory glass curtains may be made. Theatrical gauze is an inexpensive and practical material used widely for glass curtains. Sjcks Death Penalty Relief Bn J iuivu special GREENSBURG, Ind., June 10.— The Rev. J. F. Mitchell, pastor cf the First Baptist church here, is circulating a petition asking that Governor Harry G. Leslie commute the sentence of James Anderson from death to life imprisonment. Anderson was convicted in Franklin circuit court at Brookville Saturday of the fatal shooting of Herman Lange, Dearborn county sheriff.
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EXTREMES CAN BE AVOIDED IN REFURNISHING Fascinating Patterns Are Available That Match Perfectly. I The great temptation in re- | furnishing these days is to go to ! extremes. Modernistic devotees there are who are all for the plain solid effects. Something like the gay 90s, only more so. Plain woods of stiff lines, solid colors for draperies—all as solemn as the Victorian living rooms, though possibly less dignified. But If you’re among those w’ho want to escape the one-color brocades and pompous solid velours, there are fascinating brilliant patterns to choose from. And also a hazard of running to extremes. House Makes One Dizzy One charming woman who gloated over the disposal of heir dignified old living room as though it were some oppressive inhibition, amazed all beholders by the lengths to which she went in redecorating. Having set her mind firmly 7 gainst all solid color fabrics, she to :nd it impossible to resist each lovely new pattern that came before her eyes. The result is a houseful of patterns that positively make one dizzy. Each piece is beautiful in itself. No doubt about that. But the grand total of flowers and strips and cubistic lines and angles is rather appalling. Patterns are Beautiful The new patterns are beautiful. The chintzes and cretonnes are jolly and colorful, and some of them are fine and expensive enough for a most elegant living room. Others are appropriate for period rooms and there are charming hand-blocked linens and quaint calicoes that are attractive enough to begin wvth—and build a room around the draperies. Nevertheless, if more than one kind of drapery is to be chosen either for curtains, covers or cushions, it’s essential to have some definite color scheme in mind. It may be quite possible to have two kinds of patterns in the same room, either for chair upholstery, or slip covers, or for curtains, and yet have them harmonize. What one has to watch out for in choosing is color—to avoid clashes. If exact tints are repeated in the several pieces, then the difference in pattern and contrasting color harmonies may be very pleasant rather than confusing.
SPINET HAS CHARMS Some Styles Plain, Others Highly Carved. The evolution seen in many pieces of furniture is exemplified in the spinet desk. The spinet was seen in many Colonial homes. With its tinkly, sweet-toned music many a Colonial lass entertained her swain. Under cover of her playing they probably conducted their conversation in a corner of the living room which was shared by all the family and anything but private. When the delicate strings would no longer give out melody and when the keys were worn and soiled they were removed, and what was left made an excellent desk for the then highly important business of writing a letter. In this capacity the charming piece has come to the present generation. There are extremely plain styles and there are styles highly and beautifully carved. FURNITURE MUST ‘FIT IN’ Units In Room Should Belong Together for Good Ensemble. A room in which simple furniture, well designed and carefully arranged, is assembled is to be preferred to expensive ornate furnishings placed in unbecoming positions. The whole room must be composed of units which belong together. each making a separate cluster, but connected in thought and utility with adjoining groups. The walls, floor and ceiling are the frame of the picture. The masses must be assembled with proper attention to a balance and harmonious composition. Mirrors Aid Outdoor Effect Try moving your mirrors around so that each one in your house Will reflect a view’ out the window or the open dorr. It brings the outdoors into the house amazingly.
TABLES, CHAIRS EMPLOYED FOR OUAUWOSE Cabinets, Lowboys, Highboys and Other Pieces Can Be Transformed. Furniture to serve more than one j purpose is becoming increasingly j popular and many useful and ati tractive pieces of double purpose ! furniture were displayed at the [ winter furniture exhibits and on | dealers’ floors this spring and sum- | mer. Tables to be used for more than ! one thing are the most numerous of the furniture pieces of this kind. A tea table, the top of which may be lifted off and used as a tray is one of these. Another table has legs which collapse at the touch of a button and the top is thus a tray for use in the dining room, living room or sick room. Just Punch a Button An end table, with a spring hidden in a drawer, becomes an ideal tea or small dining table when the drawer is opened and the spring released. Another table opens to reveal the contents of a sewing cabinet. In some end tables the little drawer pulls out to show an ash tray and match container. Another table has a radio built in it. It looks like any other table but on opening a small door just below the table top there are seen the dials, and lifting the top reveals the “works.” Cabinets, on first sight thought to be just ornamental pieces of furniture, have neat compartments and little doors which make possible the storing of valuable papers. Tables Become Screens There is a highohair which becomes a small rocking chair, at the turn of a knob. A button concealed in the arm of an overstuffed chair will release an ottoman, and let the back down to a comfortable angle. Card tables which fold up and become decorative fire screens add yet another item to the long list of double-use furniture. Os course there are countless pieces of furniture which may be used for more than one thing, without making any change in them. The lowboy may be used as a console table; the highboy may be used in dining room, Jiving room or bedroom; the gate-leg' table may be a console table, a dining room table, an end table or a library table.
COLONIAL BEDS ADD TO DIGNITY OF ROOM Lowboys Also Give Air of Welcome and Graciousness. The simple dignity and solid comfort of the colonial beds and lowboys, when used in the guest room, help to make that room what every homemaker w’ants it to be—the very essence of graciousness and welcome. There are innumerable delightful prints, choice pieces of pottery and other ornaments to complete the room furnished in early American. Chintz is quaint patterns, or some of the dainty sw’iss material, or even an attractive gingham may be used for decorating the windows. The floor of the early American room calls for a hooked rug and the use of this gives opportunity for adding a touch ci guy color. FURNITURE IS SMALLER Size Changed to Suit Little House or Apartment. The popularity of the small house and the apartment has created a demand for furniture scaled to their rooms. Because of this demand it is possible now to buy furniture, even in oak, which easily can be accommodated in the room of small dimensions. The increasing favor enjoyed by oak is probably due to the fact that furniture of this wood is now made small enough to get through the doors of an ordinary house. The essential beauty of the early English, Tudor and Jacobean patterns is adapted to oak furniture for the small house. Varnish Your Lamp Shades An effective treatment for parchment shades to be used on lamps on the porch or in the sunroom, is painting them with transparent var-< nish. This does not mar the beauty of the colors and preserves, the parchment against the ravages of dampness. The very smooth surface is also easier to keep clean.
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Rustic furniture is appropriate for the summer home. Every one likes to get away from the polished surfaces of the winter home and enjoy the informality of the summer cottage with its rough furniture and its atmosphere of ease and relaxation.
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Housework Is Made Lighter by Close Attention to Floor Coverings. The home maker who is getting her house ready for the summer, will do well to consider her floor coverings. Summer is the time when every one wants housework reduced as much as possible and a great deal of house work is spent on rugs and floors. Small rugs easily taken out and shaken are a boon to the housekeeper and make the rooms in which they are- used look more “sumnierish” than the all-over carpets. Linoleum is a floor covering whose care is easy. In most rooms in the house it is appropriate to have this material on the floor. It is no longer necessary to have a simple, geometric pattern in linoleum, if a floral or other design is preferred. A great variety of patterns and an unlimited number of color combinations are seen in this floor covering. The tile designs are especially appropriate for hall and dining room; there are figured patterns for the living room or bedroom, and quaint styles for the children’s rooms. For the' bathroom and kitchen a simple pattern in colors harmonizing with the decoration schemes of these rooms is the best choice.
MOULDING IS LIKED Appropriate Touch Added to Early Designs. For the house w’here furniture after the early English designs predominates, chests of drawers, cabinets and square desks, outlined with mouldings, are appropriate. Oak is used for the heavier, more massive pieces, finished in a dull, antiqued polish. For the lighter, more refined designs, walnut is the correct wood. Gate-leg tables, refectory tables and table desks also are in keeping with the early English styles. They may be combined with lighter weight pieces. Upholstered pieces to use with this style are those of massive, heavy lines. Upholstery was not used at the time these styles were originated, but upholstered chairs are more comfortable than the w’ooden ones of those times, and the two may be combined if attention is given to line and relative weight. DRAPES ARE COLORFUL Graceful Figures Take Place of Merc Startling Combinations. Every year the statement is made that “never before have drapery materials been so colorful and so beautiful” and every year it is true. Designers of drapery material seem to get better inspirations each year and this year, as every year before, the patterns are more pleasing and the colors more attractive and more varied. The rather unusual designs of a few seasons ago are giving place to more graceful figures and less startling combinations of color.
STARCH HELP TO WALLS Coating Protects Painted Surface of Furniture and Woodwork. Painted surfaces of walls and furniture and woodwork may be kept in condition by covering with a coat of starch. Make the starch as for laundry, being sure it is perfectly smooth. Stipple it on with a sponge. It dries clear and transparent and makes a protective covering for the surface. When cleaning time comes it may easily be washed off with cold water, all the dirt coming off with it. Another coating of starch is then put on the clean surface and it is ready for another season of wear.
At Sander & Rocker’s SUMMER FURNITURE STRIKES A GAY NOTE It is really surprising what welders you can work with a piece or two of new furniture or a bit of fresh color. The most ordinary room can be transformed into a joyous place, alive with beauty and color. All at very little cost. It only takes thoughtful planning and wise choosing to furnish a very delightful room on a limited budget—here. Right now, our store is aglow with new styles, new colors, new ideas for the improvement of homes like yours. Come, see them now. A Most Unusual Showing of Furniture for the Sun Parlor, Porch and Garden The Newest and Smar test Creations Including the Famous “Troy,” “Comfort” and “Beauty” Lines. “Troy” Gliders, Couch Hammocks, Metal Garden Furniture. “Troy” Gliders. .$29.20, $34.20, $45, $72 “Troy” Folding Armchairs $6.30 “Troy” Reclining Sport Chairs $5.95 Sander & Recker Furniture Company Meridian at Maryland
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RADIO CABINET CHOjCEJS WIDE Many Uses Are Served by New Furniture. Now that the radio has become a standard piece of furniture for the home, the homemaker is giving more thought and rare to the choice of cabinet. Back in the days of the crystal set and head phone, beauty was not considered possible in a radio. Today, although radios were undreamed of in the days of Thomas Chippendale, you arc able to choose just such a radio cabinet as the old master might have designed. If most of your furniture is walnut, you naturally will choose a walnut radio cabinet, but if you have oak or any other wood, chances are that just the cabinet you need to match the other pieces in your home is available. The radio is an ideal mass about which to group furniture, and it takes a natural place in almost any setting. Today, in addition to serving as radio cabinet, it may have many uses. Some radio cabinets are built to serve also as desks. Others are? inclosed in tables. Small sets go atop radio tables, and some are built to be placed on one shelf of a bookcase. DAVENPORT BED HELP SOLVE GUEST PUZZLE Plays Indispensable Role When Not in Uset for Sleeping. The predicament which arises in the home where there is no guest room is solved easiest by a davenport bed. There are many times when an extra bed would be exceedingly convenient, but frequently it is not possible to have an extra room. The davenport bed in the living room is the solution to the problem. Most of the time it serves as an indispensable piece of living room furniture, enjoyed by all the family. It is attractive in appearance and when not made up as a bed in no way suggests a place designed for sleeping.