Evening star., 1915-06-05
HOUSE IS MADE HONEY
BY ARTISTIC DRAPER|ES
Curtains at Windows Make Rooms
More Cheerful. Writer
States.

Furniture and carpets furnish home,
but 1t remains for the curtains and dra-
peries to add the touch thai makes home
honey and artistic.
Pretty strong statement. says T. NJ
Raliantyne in the American Carpenter
and Builder. but very true Recall the
cheerfuneSs of home during moving and
housecleaning time when windows are
bare-and You will agree.
From the outside. well draped windows
stamp the housewife woman OF re-
finement and taste-and from the inside
they are the most potent source of home
like charm
The housewife with an understanding
Of the art of effective drapins can make
home spot Of real cozness and charm
with a very modest outlay.
Fifty dollars in draperies will go
farther toward making charming. de-
Iightful home than fifty dollars spent in
any other way.
Lack of Draperies Noticeable.
Take away q chair costing $50 and
TIE loss would be hardly noticed. Sub
stitute less expensive rugs and the diff
ference in effect would not ae materially
noticea ble-but take away the draperies
and the charm of the room would be
gone.
With a better understanding of the
value of draperieS and the greater
thought given to the matter of draping.
new style and wonderfully effective
methods have been developed
The particular housewife of today, in
touch with the new styles in drareries.
considers the decoration of the room as
a unit. Furniture, rugs WOODWORK, wall
paper, wall paints. inner curtains, over
drapes, rods and pictures-all are plan
ned in harmony
Work Out Color Scheme.
The wall paper. for instance. is chosen
to emphasize the other objects in the
room The ,colors of the wall paper
should take up some minor, ma yllap
subdued color, usually from the rugs,
should either emphasize some color in
the wall paper or in the rugs.
II the inner curtains are simple in
pattern, the overdrapes can be made a
little more elaborate.
In bedrooms the brighter co!ors SHOULD
he used to emphasize the element of
cheer. We all know that the colors
which make up happy and light hearted
are the yellows, gold. blues. pinks and
the light greens, and you will find that
tneSe cOlOrS are featured III the patterns
for overdIapes intended for bedroom use.
In carrying out the harmony of the
home the housewife also makes her bed
covers, dress covers. box covers, chair
covers. cushion covers, pin cushions,
radiator covers, etc, out Of the same
material used for overdrapes
Cost Not Prohibitive.
This can be accomplished at very mod
crate expense, printed voiles in dainty
patterns can be purchased as low as 10
cents yard. cretonne as low as % cents
a yard, while made-up curtains can be
procured as low sl.25 per pair.
In the living room more sornber colors
are the rule for harmony with the heavy
furniture and the more elaborate rugs
This is also true in the dining room,
although here the effec: should really
be sort OF happy medium between
living room and bedroom
The big wall paper houses are follow
ing the trend Of the times by carving
draperies and showing an overdrape or
porttere curtain that harTnoniZes with
the particular pattern that they have
designed for the wall paper The cut
out borders that they have in the many
brilliant colors are either geometricai or
moral in design and the same design is
taken up In the cretonne tapestries or
the madraSss which are used for over
orapes in the room. Whenever fancy
rretonnes then neutral color should be
i.s6d in the body Of the wall paper so
that the room will not be overdone
Rods Important Item.
With the awakening Of the greater
artistic possibilities in the draping Of
fhe home has come change in the rods
Used. While great many wooden poles
are st!ll In use, and large numbers of
the cheap tubular rods, the fiat styie of
rod, which is guaranteed not 10 sag
rust or tarnish and finished in colors 10
match draperies woodwork is ra mildly
growing in favor because ii makes nos
siole d-aping effects in no other way
obtainabe and carries out the color
scheme even 20 the color OF the rods
These new rods make modern draining
methods possible even in the large Num-
bers OF American homes which have
old-fashioned woodwork for these rods
allow for the placing OF the draperies
outsfde OF the casing
Even the person OF moderate means
can anord to have every room, OF The
home well draped. and surely in no Other
way can the expenditure Of an eouai
sum OF money contribute so Rrea,Iy m
the artistic and comfort giving ouaiIt,e,
OF tho home.