The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-26
Period Type
Is Popular
With Buyers

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TT is going to be stylish to enter
i tain at home this winter. The
new mode introduces hospitality as
one of its winning aces.
That being that, dining rooms are
bound to come into their own. For
since time immemorial, the high
spot in entertaining at home has
been to break bread.
Many Americans no longer boast
enough to have an honest to good
ness dining room, table, buffet,
dozen chairs, serving tables and so
on. Those that have are fortunate,
for such equipment there are in
finite varieties Of furniture on the
market now.
But there is no reason why every
one, even apartment jewellers, can
not have q dining nook. Not a
builtin nook. Rather a corner Of
the living room which can be made
to assume the dignity OF a dining
room.
Cheerful Note Important
If you have a dining room, be
sure it is dressed up just right for
this winter. 1t should have some
lively, yet simple design in its wall
paper, or some pleasing tone to its
tinted or painted walls, if they are
not papered.
Curtains and Grapes are most i'm
portant and some floor covering that
adds cheeriness to the room. Above
all, a dining room should be cheer
ful as a first aid to appetite and di-
gestion
Period dining rooms are very
popular right now. Combining
pieces of this period and that is
done and can be most effective
when good taste has directed the
composition of the room.
Painted furniture is by no means
passe and for the family of limited
income it is a boon, since a few eve
nings hard labor will be well re-
paid by the way your dining room
takes on when done.
Easement Adds Touch
For the dining nook, the task of
furnishing must necessarily depend
on what the rest of the living room
has.
If you have a preference for the
modern, but do not want to carry it
too far, you can combine modern
furnishings with simple line furni-
ture of other other periods and the
result is excellent.
Such is the solution of COM
Portable, CHEEKY and most pleasing
dining nook in the end Of large
living room.
The nook happens to boast case
ment window, which helps the
scheme UNNECESSARILY, since it can
be curtained in the gay plaid of the
rest of the room and yet look as if
it was designed just for this corner.
The wall paper of the room is
very new, a small intermittent polka
dot in soft red on q rich cream
background. The woodwork is all
cream. The whole room goes in for
hooked and handmade rag rugs, so |
this corner has its own rag rug that I
has reds in it.
Table Folds Up
There is a gate leg table which
folds up to stand demurely under
the window, seemingly only a rest
ing place for a few books and maya
zines. There is an open faced cup
board, with drawers for silver and
linen at the side and its old porce-
lain and few pieces of modern !
porcelain make it a decorative asset. |
There is a Windsor chair and
couple of straight chairs and, when
occasion demands, there are chairs
Of similar design to be brought from
the bedrooms to accommodate addi-
tional guests.
In setting up the table in this
coy dining nook, you might use
either plain damask or one of the
new plaid linen cloths that is very
modern and yet bit old-fashioned
too.
With -colored dishes, red
crystal and a few cream candles, you
can dress up a company table beau
tiful enough to please any guest.
With little effort, the living room
can be rearranged after the meal to
look its own comfortable self.