The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
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THERE is a renaissance in ultra
i feminine bedrooms for women
this autumn.
OF course it is in line with the
new modes in dress, music, and
manners. The business woman,
even more than the stay at-home,
appreciates the. softening influence
Of a woman's room.
Instead of the den" of former
years that served as living room
and sleeping room, as many as can
afford it are enjoying the beauties
of very feminine bedroom, with
frills, dainty curtains, soft pretty
colors and even four-poster beds,
with canopies
Mothers with adoleScent daugh-
ters are benehting by the vogue to
try the psychological effect Of Such
gentle" rooms OH their girls.
Colonial Furniture Favored
It is natural that, along with such
a vogue, Colonial furniture would
become even mo-e popular.
Early American pieces fit in just
beautifully with scheme that calls
for frilled organdie or dotted Swiss
curtains. lowered wall paper, hooked
rugs and delicate colors such as baby
blue, soft rose pink, the lightest OF
greens and buttercup yellow.
It is not necessary to spend a
great sum to contrive as artistic a
bedroom as any feminine heart
would ask. Good taste is the first
requisite; the purchase of the neces-
sary pieces of furniture and a handy
needle to make curtains, slip covers, /
lamp shades and so on.
Wallpaper is very important in
the new bedrooms. If you want
daintily sprigged wallpaper, then it
is wise to choose plain glazed chintz
or other types of plain material for
the Grapes, picking out the wall
papers predominating tone.
Buy Glass Curtains
BY all means have rufled glass |
curtains for they add such a lot to
a rooms softness. And, if possible,
do have a drapery valance over the
top of the window and the over
Grapes hang clear to the floor. 1t
makes the window more dignified.
For an early American bedroom, |
a four-pOster maple bed is used, with |
low chest of drawers and mirror
for the dressing table and a high !
chest of drawers for more space.
Remember, women will need more |
space this winter, for they are wear
ing a multitude of extra this-and
that's that they did not dream of |
wearing last year
The wallpaper is cream, with tiny |
sprigs OF blue forget-me-notS, with |
a tiny touch of green leaf. The
chair in the corner is covered with
glazed chintz in a blue-green pat
tern and the over Grapes are plain |
glazed chintz in blue.
COlOrful Rugs Help
Hooked rugs on the floor have /
some blue and much green in them |
and in addition sprinkle the gaiety |
of several tones of pink into the |
room.
The dresser lamp and the corner
reading lamp both are parchment, |
the former with design like the wall
paper and the latter depicting an
old-fashioned garden scene.
With this dressy a room, nothing /
in the way of pictures is loylier than |
the note introduced by good sill |
houettes
If you have any old-timers in the /
family, dig them out and have them |
framed in the narrowest of frames. |
If your family possesses none, you /
can purchase quantities, already |
framed. that are quaint, many of /
them amusing, even.
Bedspread of Dotted Swiss
Your bedspread can be fashioned !
OF dotted Swiss, like the frilled glass |
curtains, and made over blue, or if
that is too dainty for your tastes
you can make one of the glazed !
chintz of your overdrapeS, with
big medallion in silhouette design
Of black and white in the center.
This is merely one room of hun
dreds Of combinations possible this
fall. If pink becomes you more
than blue try a pink scheme.
To be successful. a womans bed
room should be the most flattering
o. backgrounds. She sees herself
tnere first thing each morning.
Her entire behavior through the
day is apt to reflect just how
cnamingly the room set her off.
10 effort should seem too much
20 perfect the proper setting.