The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-01
Make Bath Room Attractive
 In Spring
By ELAINE MASON

On going through the house of friend of mine I was much impressed by the beauty of the decorations and the tasteful furnishings. Every room was thought-out whole, with perfec- tion apparent down to the least details of lamps. cushions, pictures and even cigarette boxes. But the bathroom was horrible. The one flaw in an otherwise lovely home, and there really was no need for it. It had simply been left as the plumbers had finished it, all tiles and porcelain, like restaurant. As if any one splashed water clear across a room when taking bath
 There is no reason for the tiles all over the room any more than there is reason for the ceiling being tiled. Some of these sentiments were impart- ed to the woman whose house it was, and she had just never thought of it, as she was so used to seeing bathrooms as they were. The next time I visited her there was a complete change. and a lovely one, too. She had not only re- decorated the bathroom, but had made 1t dressing room as well, because 1t had turned out so pleasantly. This ! idea could be aplied to small apartments where the bedroom is the sitting room as well and the bathroom could be made ! to serve as the dressing place.
 In one remodeled room, the walls are tinted pale green down to the point } where the tiles had been. From there to the floor is stretched silver oilcloth, i cut in wavy line at the top and i tackled on firmly. Where the cloth and ] wall meet are painted five dark green l lines, all wavy, to suggest the idea of i water X large gray and green rug covers most of the floor and is made of ] heavy linen so that it may be easily l cleaned.
 A parchment shade painted to repre- , sent wave in green and white is curved | so as to reflect light back into the mir TOT. and the set-in medicine closet has ! been painted silver. Directly in front | of the window is low chest of draw CTS with small standing mirror which serves as dressing table. Both of these articles, which were brought out of the attic, were entirely rejuvenated by q coat of silver paint. and glass knobs were fastened on the drawers. To take the place of a chair before the dressing table an old piano stool was cleverly covered with cretonne and its ugly legs were hidden with flounce of the cretOnne.
 The curtains at the window are of tHe Sdul6 CTclOLuc uuu uEc llduc NiuC enough to permit being drawn in the daytime, when the. shade would keep out too much light. These are bound with silver ribbon and the valance is prettily scalloped and bound.
 On the opposite side of the room from the bathtub highboy Is placed It was of home manufacture and, after 1 being painted silver to match the lower walls and dressing table, made won derful place to keep the linens and cloths. Its lower half consists of an old chiffonier and above were built shelves that had ruffles of cretonne at their edges. The towels and sheets were neatly piled in equal sized bundles and ] tied with green ribbon, showing all the bows in front. These shelves could easily have been used for any other pur- pose, but the arrangement described was most lovely and original.
 As an afterthought, there was a huge set of pockets on the back of the door made of silver oilcloth, with room for everything imaginable.