The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-06
Good Taste
Important
inSeIectiOn
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
NEA Service Writer

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Charm and
distinction in a home are by no
means Just a cold cash proposition.
With inexpensive furniture and
furnishings as comfortable and
lovely as they are today, given good
taste and a little time, anyone with
a moderate salary can evolve an at
tractive place worthy Of the name
Home"
The smaller the furniture budget,
the more scrupulous must be the
care taken to get exactly what is
wanted and needed-the perfect
kin. Of chair, table, and so on, the
rigi color and the right price.
- good plan is to start with a
skeleton equipment and then fill in,
taking advantage of furniture sales.
A current exhibition at the Art
Center proves that you really can
have a pretty home, though not
earning a whale of a salary. The
couple living on $50 to $50 week
has a chance to enjoy background
of distinguished beauty.
Strive for Simplicity
Keep things simple, have a min
imum of pieces. and stick to your
color scheme; these seem to be the
first principles.
Remember, a small place looks
much larger and more dignified if
not cluttered up. Pick color
scheme that can be matched up in
inexpensive accessories. because
some tones are million dollar hueS
and are a mistake for the average
home.
An excellent color scheme COM
bines a most livable green with
tawny yellow and some burnt reds
suggestive of maple leaves in
autumn.
Walls can be that pretty, sunny
buff against which both furniture
and pictures look we'll and which
makes a room seem cheerful
whether you happen to feel that
way or not.
For your living room you may
like the following list of equip
ment, all Of the wood pieces being
maple reproductions of early Amer
lean: First. a single daybed couch,
with green cover made with pleated
fiounce. with a maple coffee table
in front of it.
Get Two Wing Chairs
Next. two wing chairs, one with
maple arms and legs, with the seat
and back of gay calico in the rooms
colorS the other upholstered In a
glazed floral chintz, in holder pat
tern. with a fiounced skirt about its
maple legs.
With these, a drop leaf table that
can be used for library purposes TO
hold books, a; vase of flowers and
magazines by day and be opened
up for a formal meal at dinner time.
Two low butterfly tables serve as
accessories to comfort near the
chairs.
The curtains may be a glazed
chintz in yellow and green with a
toile design in red and they may
be made long and rather dignifled
to heighten the formality Of the
room.
A couple of prints. framed in
green, a reading lamp that is a
reproduction of an early American
lamp and a two-toned rug in green,
and your room is tremendously
pleasing and delightfully."- ivable.
Low Rocker Handy
You can add a couple of gooc
straight chairs, or Windsors, as you
see fit and the budget corrobor-
ates your decision.
And you may add a low rocker
without arms, for rockers are COM
ing in again and there is no deny
ing the relaxation of comfortable
rock.
To keep up the color scheme, you
can have your bedroom papered in
a dainty figured design against a
light green. with small hooked rugs
on the floor and a four-poster bed.
chest of drawers, bedside table and
easy arm chair all of maple.
The chair may have cretonne
back and seat patterned like the
wallpaper or plain green or yellow.
And your kitchen can be a gay yell
low, with pots and pans in cream
with bright green rims.
Unity Has Practical Side
If you do make your entire home
a unit. you can move your chairs
from one room to the other, when
you have company, for instance.
Also, there is a sense of unity and
peace about a home that is consist
ent in its general color scheme.
But do not duplicate the scheme,
exactly. in any two rooms. For
nothing is DEALER than monotony
which comes from lack of variety.
Reunion to Be Held