Imperial Valley press., 1929-06-13

table, and of graceful lines, a COM
Portable chair or two, possibly a
desk, for your living room, are the
essentials. Then you can purchase
a few cheaper chairs, small tables,
! with an eve to using them later in
some other part of the house, SO
that no piece is really temporary.
Expert Advice
''1f you can afford it, good
dining room set would be the thing
to buy. would suggest, though, ii
You can not afford the more expen-
siye woods, to get one of these
painted sets which later can be used
III the kitchen, breakfast room, or
porch. Color, when used discrimina
tingly. will make the most inexpen-
sive of furniture attractive if sim
plicitv of line exists.
''In the bedrooms, and kitchens,
your opportunity for color is unlim
tied, and 1 would advise you to pay
less for your bedroom furniture,
using the painted variety. So many
attractive color combinations can
be used, your curtains can be made
out of such inexpensive materials
as old fashioned calicoes and per
Gales or cotton prints, so that a
lovely bedroom can be created out
of very little.
''If you plan to do your own
work, do not economize on your
kitchen equipment. 1t pays to get
the best, and here too your oppor-
tunities for color are unlimited. Gay
oilcloth curtains, bright mixing
bowls, a few pieces OF colored en-
amel add great deal to the at
-tractiveness of your kitchen. Mod
ern decorators no longer think it
necessary to have bathrooms and |
kitchens III sanitary white, but
rather are utilizing these rooms for
daring and unusual color harmon
les.
The decorator then showed them !
collections Of furniture Of various
periods, pointing out those whose
lines were really lovely and those
that were clumsy or too ornate.
Most people tninl. tnat because
q thing is a genuine antique it is
automatically beautiful, but, in ages /.
past, just as today, there were ugly
things made as well as beautiful.
From the standpoint of beauty, the
of lovely antique is
of far greater value than an ugly
antique.
''Ir must be remembered that the
furniture of each period reflected
the spirit and the times of the age,
and was designed to suit the needs
of those days. Today, the leaders of
the modern school are attempting in
their furniture designs to reflect
the modern age. To be sure some of /
the furniture is freakish and !
bizarre, just as some pictures, and I
compositions of today have
nothing OF enduring worth but are
designed to attract the attention
by their oddities
However, slowly, but surely, a
definite style is being created, and
is being adopted abroad. The chief
aim in modern furniture is sim
plicity of line, comfort. and in the
design, to catch the speed and the
other characteristics of this age of
high tension, of magnificent ma
ehinery, and scientific inventions. -
Here she showed them a dining,
room set consisting of table,
buffet, and chairs, all OF which
were very simple in line, and whose
distinguishing characteristics lay
in the highly polished woods which |
were inlaid in lovely patterns of a
gcometric nature.
THANK YOU" said Virginia, !
for showing US these things.
shall now work out general plan
and then come back TO you for ad
vice in buying the separate articles !
to fit my needs,