The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-10-21
LIVING ROOMS GAN BE HELPED
 IN FIFTY WAYS
Mrs. Lydia Fohn Hansen Gives Interesting Talk
 to Woman's Club

Fifty Ways of Improving the Living Room" without inconveni- ,encing any members of the fam fly, were explained at a meeting lof the Juneau Woman's Club in the auditorium of the elementary pub- lie school last night by Mrs. Lydia Fohn- Hansen, Assistant Director of | Home Economics of the Extension Department of the Alaska College of Agriculture and School of mines
 The Relation of the Garden to the Home" was the theme of an interesting address by Miss A. B. Coleman.
 This morning Mrs Fohn- Hansen conducted a sewing demonstration in the parlors of the Presbyterian Church.
 Beginning tomorrow for the rest of the week, she will be in Doug las Tomorrow morning she will in- struct class in sewing. Tomorrow 1 afternoon she will demonstrate rug making. Tommorrow evening she will meet with young mothers.
 Great interest was evinced last night in Mrs. Fohn- -Hansen's enum- eration of Fifty Ways to Improve the Living Room" They follow: 1 Detans or arrangement
 l. Place the rugs and large pieces of furniture parallel with the walls of the room.
 9 Remove center Instructions that is, furniture which blocks easy passage through a room.
 3. Arrange the furniture, pic lures and small rugs in related groups.
 4. Hang pictures, or groups ot pictures, so that they will harmon ize with the wall space decorated 5. Hang pictures so the center will be on the level of the eye, that is, five to five and one-half feet from the floor
 l 6. Hang pictures with nails in. visible or with two cords perpen- dicular to the molding. Avoid V. shaped wires.
 I T. Eliminate silly, meaningless pictures and family photograph and picture calendars.
 g. Simplify or discard heavy cheaply decorated frames. 4 g. Remove unnecessary bric-a
 brac, white doilies, statuary, souve nirs, house plants, etc, that serv' no purpose and give a crowded ap pearance.
 10. Pieces of furniture that ar
 out of scale with the size of tn room replace with suitable ones
 Advice as to Color "A II, Secure a neutral, inconspicu ous. light background color for wall
 such as ivory, sand, cream, Frencl gray, plaster gray, buff. {. 12. The woodwork may be tn
 same as the walls, a shade lighte
 or darker, or it may be very darl :, Hike the floor and furniturei q 13. The floor or carpet shoul'
 be darker than the walls. q IA. The ceiling should be lighte than the walls.
 Is. Repeat one color found il the carpet or at least harmonizinl
 with the carpet in sufficient quanti 'j ty to be predominant N 16. Use small amounts of yer. bright colors which harmonize witt { the predominant color, in flowers pottery, pictures, candles, and cush 1. ions.
 IT. The background color of tn drapes should repeat or blend witt | Fthe color of the wall. 18 Avoid dead white curtains pillows or doilies unless white i a definite part of the color scheme Pattern Is Essential Il A room without pattern IS unln teresting-with too much patterl it is confusing. A small amount o distinctive pattern will beautify al entire room.
 19. In small room 02 20) O less, avoid conspicuous patterns il rugs, wall paper, or upholstere' materials. Drapes and pillows ma be patterned.
 l20. In a medium or large room (20 35) large patterns may b used as follows: If the walls an, Irug are patterned the drapes an, furniture should be plain. If tn walls and furniture are plain tn
 drapes and rugs may be patterned II 21. Rugs should have a conven tional or geometric pattern withou great contrast in color. Too mucl naturalistic pattern with a whit background can be subdued by tn,