The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-28
PdneS Admit
Color Along
With Light
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
NEA Service Writer

VIA DEVICE writer
NEW YORK, Jan. 2a.-It is new
this spring, and very. very smart,
70 let color in through your win
cows as well as light.
do not mean paint your win
dow glass. Nor do 1 mean the fair
Tor color that the best Grapes and
even the window shades have shown
Tor some time.
Rather, by a series Of ingenious
devices, many home makers are us
ing windows as focal points Of
beauty, characteristic that used
to belong only to flreplaces, to grand
pianos, to handsome, heirloom
sofa and screen.
One woman who lives in an
apartment where the windows look
upon rather unattractive courts,
solves her problems by hanging
colorful pottery bowls by chains in
which oxalys, ivy, and bulbs thrive
to add gaiety and take the eye from
the scene outside.
Birds Across Pane
Another woman whose kitchen
windows give on court where
ash cans perpetually rest has pasted
trio Of flying red birds and blue
birds across the pane and says they
cheer her tremendously.
The main idea in getting color
IL through the window is to be
careful not to exclude the light.
Granted that consideration is re-
spected, you can try out all kinds
Of things in the way of novel
window sill and window pane treat
inent
In apartments, where space is
st premium, third considera-
tinn enters. Why not utilize the
window sill for some grand pur-
pose2
This unitarian thought has
given birth to so many uses of the
window sill that it is practically
disappearing character, like the red
menl
Book Rack in Window
In one house where the radiators
came just under the stills, board
was built flush with the stills, paint
cd the same color, and used as
stand for gay colored books, maya
zines and a bit of pottery.
One Of the most novel uses of
windows to let in color was orig
mated in a bathroom. There lust
happened to be small space to put
things
So the young couple moving in
had the bright idea of getting the
carpenter to sink cupboard into
the plaster right under the window
sill, where cold creams, shaving
utensils, soaps and undecorative
things were kept. Then three 10
cent glass Shelves were purchased
and arranged, in horizontal manner,
one a few inches above the other,
right across the window pane.
Useful and Ornamental
On these were placed bright crys-
tai bottles, jars and perfume ato-
MIXERS in gala array. They were
extremely decorative, the light not
only came through just as well. but
was brighter for their color, and,
best of all, the crystal shelves
solved the problem of where to put
things.
This particular window, since the
bathroom was not only small but not
very light, because the window led
out on to court, had its brightness
heightened by the use of glazed
chintz curtein in the most vivid of
dafodil yellows
1t caught the light, and in some
curious way seemed always to be re-
fiecting the sun, whether there was
any or not
A living room window shelf I saw
recently was both modern and old
fashioned, if such a thing sounds
sane.
There. in the window itself, stood
the cutest little rnodernistic black
case, stepped up in skyscraper man.
ner from five or six cubicles on the
bottom to q single one on top.
It's purpose was to shelter the
cutest collection of modern whatnots
I've seen in a long tiIne-a humor-
GUS elephant couple of beautiful
cacti. an octopus done in modern
manner in porcelain, an exquisite
vase from abroad, and some other
things, each fascinating in itself,
altogether veritable museum of
interest.
Very new is the idea to place it
right in the living room window.
But why not?
Il gets things out of the way
where they might be knocked, and it
makes everything much prettier to
have the light from outdoors stream
ing through them, frightening their
own lovely color
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