Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1952 — Page 30

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Furniture Does Dual-Duty In Family- Made House Like One In Brownsburg

By OPAL CROCKETT

Times Homes Editor

LITTLE girl handed the decorators of an unlived in house in Browns“burg a crowning compliment, She looked at the house in 440 Douglass Dr. in the new. Murphy Meadows 120-home development and said to her mother: “A little girl lives here too, doesn’t she?” This Pollman home and 28 others of the project are open to visitors today, 10 a. m. to 7 p. m., again Friday and Saturday, 4-8 p. m,, and next Sunday, 10 a. m. to 7 p. m. . - ” LJ THE FIVE-ROOM, three bedroom house in the photos is furnished by Ayres’ and equipped with Westinghouse appliances and Youngstown cabinets, It's built for a family of five with furniture, rugs, window treatments, hardware and rods .and lamps totalling $1723.42. The grand total to cover TV, major appliances and bedspreads is $2938.15.

A haven for house-hunting couples with children, this house combines fashion, friendly charm and practicality. Dollarstretching effects are managed ™ by “do-it-yourself” projects, use of moderately priced American provincial furnishings and unfinished furniture, and doubleduty furnishings. ” = ” THE EXTERIOR is Hot Chocolate brown with wood trim the same color. Window treatment serves as color accent. Blue, gold and brown are combined in the interior with off-white ceilings used.

For the couples moaning “we can't find a place to live where they'll take children” and “we can't afford to buy” this house is perfect. With a little imagination and elbow grease with -paint brush, hammer and sewing machine such a house can be theirs, The contemporary-provincial theme begins inside the front door. Bright Franciscan Fruit serving pieces are arranged in an open room-divider to decorate the entranceway and be close to the dining alcove beyond. o = THE BIG put lightweight brown Simmons sofa is a bed by night, when grandparents “stay over.” The living-dining room is fairly small, but it looks large. The stretch in size is accomplished .by blending wall color with the gold cotton poplin drapes and the big front window. It's the same in the small master bedroom. There drapes are set out to give feeling of space. There’s good reason for the various woods used in furniture. Mostly pine with fruit-, wood coloring, keepsake pieces of the family are friendly with SR ——"

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OLDER CHILDREN'S ROOM—Double-duty furniture provides plenty of play space in three-bedroom

house in Brownsburg.

them. Natural oak floors and > mm amwmemorsy birch doors are used over the #* af :

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panels. » » n FURNITURE does doubleduty. The cocktail table has a magazine and storage rack below. The big chest in the living room holds a pretty brass candle lamp—and linens. chairs go all over the house as do rush-bottom maple stools, painted in harmonizing colors. For Junior, there's a high chair that folds up to make a rolling play table. His metal table folds and goes inside or

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outside. In the older children’s

room is a huge drum. It's a seat and also a storage medium. The chest-desk there does double duty and the bunk-twin beds used as singles are planned for “double decking” in the winter when indoor play space is needed. » » - A SCREEN is used instead of a door between living room and kitchen. It's decorative and" it also hides kitchen preparations no matter where guests sit in the living area.

With such a ‘screen comes husband work. This one was bought unfinished, then stained. A man really wanting a home of his own has a lot of jobs in a home like this. He can install the rods for the ready-made drapes in the living room. He can paint the stools and inex pensive mirrors. He can touch

NURSERY —Furniture and walls are painted carnation pink. -

up flowers on inexpensive hampers and waste baskets. He can set up unfinished furniture and gtain or paint it. He can splash if he sticks to a kitchen like the one in Brownsburg. Terry cloth hand towels are used on the yellow built-in table, hinged to fold back to the wall. The

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dayne taylor pumps

a wide, wonderful assortment

7.95 and 8.95

A. Perforated , . . black or brown calf with high or

medium heel; also navy calf with high heel...

7.95

B. Braid-Bound . . . black or brown suede with high or medium heel; also navy suede with high heel..7.95

C. Bead-Trimmed , , . swirls of patent! In black suede, with high heel seeseaecececcsciseeesere...8.98

D. Half-and-Half . . . black suede with black calf for the frim and high heel........c000i0vieee....8.95

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hand-painted plates lined over the sofa amid brass wall scones holding candles came from Ayres’ but heirlooms will do. The red onions used in the planter’s lamp came from the corner grocery.

The sewing machine has hummed in drape-making. Cur-

LIVING-DINING AREA—Bright and light, with gold poplin drapes and walls, this room has fruit‘wood pine furnishings.

tains in the master bedroom are made by splitting a chenille bedspread. The spread is shortened and hung with preshrunk nleated tape, Remove the pleat pins and the drape if flat fabric, easy to launder, The drapes match the turquoise spread in this room with its sandal-

Times photos by John R. Spicklemire.

cozy KITCHEN—Space and budget saving continue here.

wood walls and birch furniture. Crisp, ruffled Windo-Treat

curtains frame the windows in the soft. yellow and white kitchen. Ae ruffles, trimmed with blue and yellow plaid chintz are on elastic. Hanging them means merely "anchoring the hooks attached.

Two yards of nursery-pat-terned chintz made the window shade in the baby's room. It's stapled on a shade roller and hemmed with the shade stick at the botom. Over it is a ruffled brown cotton curtain.

» tJ - COMPLETE from ashtrays to TV, this house and others in Murphy Meadows are just 15 miles from the Circle. The 29 new homes of cedar shake construction are designed by Richard Pollman, at price ranging from $10,750 to $11,600. They are built by H & H Builders, Brownsburg, with Donald E. Gray serving as broker and developer. Interior decorations are done to buyers’ selection. The up-and-coming town of Brownsburg is proud of its new addition. “Can't we just look in the window,” visitors asked last week, between tour hours,

A O Pi Sorority Plans Back-to-School Party

Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter, Alpha Omicron Pi Soror-

ity, will have a Back-to-School party and covered-dish supper in the home of ‘Mrs. Adrian Wilhoite, 936 W. 58th St. at 7 p. m. Wednesday. Mrs. Ray Clutter is in charge of entertainment.

Hostesses will be Mrs. Roger Riley, chairman; Mesdames J. C. Harrower, Max Barney, Cloyd J. Julian and R. F. Cloyd and Miss Marthanells Colfield.

=n SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 1052 In a Personal Vein— - 1

Vacations Begin, End

For Couples

R. and Mrs. pe H. Sluss, 3657 Washington Blvd., sailed Friday on

the steamer Independence for Africa. After they cross Gibraltar, they will tour Spain, Ttaly and Turkey before attend: ing the sixth general assembly

“of the World Medical Associa-

tion, Oct. 13-16 in Athens, Greece. Dr. Sluss is on the pro-

gram. : They will visit France before

returning to New York Oct. 27 on the Queen Elizabeth. Before sailing, they visited Dr, Sluss’ sister and brother-in-law,

Mr. and Mrs. Vance Hall, Akron, 0. and Dr. Sluss’ cousins, Mr. and Mrs. David Rothrock,

Philadelphia. .

LEAVING Sept. 15 to enter their freshman year at Notre .Dame University are Don Walz and Richard Rupp. Mr. Walz is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Walz, 137 W. 47th 8t. Mr. and Mrs. V._R. Rupp, 4125 Ruckle S8t., are the parents of Mr. Rupp. = ” .

MR. AND MRS. C. B. JOHNSON, 5924 E. Pleasant Run Pkwy., returned this week from a vacation in Jasper Park Lodge in the Canadian Rockies, # » " MR. AND. MRS. BR ADFORD NOYES, 4087 N. Illinois St., will return home this week from a cruise of the Caribbean area on the SS Alcoa Clipper. Their 16-day trip included visits to such ports as LaGuaira, Puerto Cabello and Guanta (all in Venezuela); Port of Spain, Trinidad, Kings ton, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. » . ” LEAVING Sept, 17 for Duke University, Durham, N. C,, is John Sieloff, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sieloff, 5718 Winthrop Ave. ny » td MRS. port, has been the house guest of her son, L. E. Lenon, and wife, 1831 E. 61st St.

St. Vincent's Guild To Open Season

St. Vincent's Hospital Guild will hold its first meeting of the season at 10 a. m, tomorrow.

Mrs. M. K. Bryant will be

officer of the day. Mrs. Daniel Brosnan and Mrs. Robert French will be assistants. The guild will be guests of the sisters, Daughters of Charity. Luncheon will be served by board members, Mrs. Joseph McGowan and Mrs. Mary Zried are chairmen of the fall prajects. Te i FA RR

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Mrs. Peg Stok author of “Out « ness,” will be a at the September | Wednesday Book Mrs. J. Clifton will review the bo Wednesday in Blo jum,

Mesdames G. W J. McDavitt, J. E.. E. D. Stone will g and guests at th Hoffman is the n ed treasurer. and Kenney is the new the club.

The committee dames E. H. Bac ker, W. H. Becke ton, J. N. Callahar Cruzan, Charles Gi Grotegut, Gordon Kennedy, Bert M A. Milam, W. J.) O’Brien, A. L. Ri Rohr, W. L. Se Shea and C. W, § Future reviews, Nov, 12, Apr. 15 are to be give Maurice Goldblat! McDavitt and J Fitzgerald Schick

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