The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-27
Sets Vanish
dSAnHQneS
Win FaUOY
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
Nv United Press

NEW YORK. Nov. 27.-Dining
rooms are in high favor this win
ter. The vogue for entertaining at
home rather than in a public res
taurant Or hotel is bringing back
that good old room where so many
happy hours "at table, used to be
spent.
However. the present problem
confronting the small space occu-
piers is to have a dining room so
planned that it also can serve as
some other room. No apartment
dweller or small home owner can
spare that much space for only
couple Of hours use daily.
This dilemma has brought about
many ingenious solutions TO the
dining room problem. This family
room has doubled into being the
dininq-music room, the dining-lly-
ing room or the dining-bedroom.
And all that through the careful
selection Of furniture and furnish
lngs.
In the first place a dining room
that has other purposes as well
never should go in for "sets." They
are not so stylish now, anyhow.
And they inevitably stamp room
for one definite use.
The best possible solution to this
modern problem in the way OF the
dining table is a gateleg or drop
leaf table that takes its unusued
hours against the side of the wall.
There it may become a library
table. with lamp, books magazines.
The chairs going with it, four or
six. should have two of the Wind
sor type with arms, and two plain
ones.
Now comes the less important
furniture. There must be room for
linen, for silver, for dishes. There
must be surface space to place
things. There should be some place
for choice bits of decorative china
and glass.
Open Faced Cupboard Good
The ideal solution to this prob
lem is the combination of an open
faced cupboard, with inclosed
shelves below, and chest that
takes the place of an old-fashioned
side board or buffet.
If you can afford antiques, moth
ing in the line of old things is
lovelier than these two types OF
furniture. If you can't afford them,
you can get inexpensive reproduce
lions, or modern versions of them
or YOU can even have them made
by local carpenters, probably with
little expense, this winter.
The cupboard vii hold your
pretty china, and pe'gter and crys-
tai if you wish it. Below the open
faced shelves you can put your
other dishes. You Wa ne surprised
how much room there is in the
space behind the doors.
Keep Linen in Chest
The chest has room enough for
your table linen and is often eX-
pansive enough to house your bed
room and bathroom linen in it
too. There are drawers for silver
and the extras.
Best of all, everything is out of
sight and the top can be decorative
" treated with a samoyar, vase
of flowers, candles or whatever you
want.
One highly successful dining
music room combination in an
apartment in an old-fashioned
high-ceiling house has two such
pieces, beautiful black walnut
French antiques, against the walls
on opposite sides of the room, an
early American drop leaf table
against the far end of the room
and the piano across the corner to
the left as you enter from the liv-
ing ROOM
Fireplace Adds
Between the piano and the cup
board is the fireplace. The whole
room ties tremendously into its
double-duty purpose.
The old china in the openfaced
cupboard has rich old greens, faded
yellows and deep blues and reds
that the big oriental rug on the
floor sponsors. The fireplace tiles
reflect some of these same colors.
Above the old chest is a hand
some wall-hanging of brocade
against which a Russian samovar
and two candle sticks are beauti-
full indeed. Ordinarily, this is
room to live in; to enjoy music
and the open fire.
When the dinner hour arrives, it
becomes a beautiful place in which
to linger over a well-prepared meal.
1t is a satisfactory solution to a
modern problem that confronts
many city jewellers today.