The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-06
Prints Add
Warmth TO
Bare Walls
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
NEA Service Writer

nnolng q place in every home this
winter to cheer the family through
what otherwise might be depressing
times.
Not necessarily fresh flowers,
however, or even artificial flowers
in vases or pots. The smart thing
is to introduce the flower motif in
decorations.
If you are lucky enough to pos
sesS some of your grandmother's
floral vases or porcelain pieces that
use flowers in vases for their design,
drag them out and put them on the
mantel piece, over the bookcases or
in the "what-not" you have Just
hung in the corner.
They rank very high as new
note in interior decorating and
authentic old pieces are now bring
ing good money.
Prints Not Costly
If you have no such heirloons
TO bring to light, you still can get
blooms in your rooms for little cost.
The very latest idea in pictorial
treatments in homes is to hang
poCanlcal prints on your walls.
If you have any latent artistic
ability, you may take great pleasure
IN coloring up few California pop
pies, some wild roses or tulips your
self. If not, you can buy prints for
next to nothing that already are
colored,
New decorative screens may be
OF simple color, with a border in
formalized flowers. Being formal
lied, these flowers may take colors
to suit any decorative scheme, even
though the colors never were found
in any flowers on land or sea.
Powered China New
Plates with flowers are among
the newest china. One of the most
expensive new table linen dinner
sets seen in New York is fine linen
Sprinkled all over with tiny flowers
embroidered by hand, in white.
New kitchen oilcloth has delicate
checks in colors, with borders of
flowers.
The newest wall paper for bed
rooms is floral. Bathroom sets of
glass bottles and bowls come in many
colors with pretty daisies, forget
me-nots and other flowers decorat-
ing them.
You never see old-fashioned car
pets in lowered patterns covering
rooms in all-over-the-f1oor manner.
And many a hooked rug has it's
pretty flowers worked in patiently
in pastel or deeper tones.
Pictures Are Striking
Whereas all the little corner cup
boards and odd spots in bookcases
last year gave space to crystal ami
mails or other gadgets, there are
many little porcelain or glass flow
ers blooming there today.
Perhaps of this entire flower
vogue, the pictures on the wall are
most striking. For they do change
the whole atmosphere of a room so!
How you frame them and how you
hang them is all important.
If you want to do a very smart
thing, you can use botanical prints,
all covered properly, and frame
them in mirrors.
A quaint bedroom that uses
flower motifs for its rugs, it's chintz
chairs, it's curtains even, hangs a
group of flowers over the bed all
framed in black mirrors. 1t is a
striking touch to the room and
points up the entire color of the
room.
SpIashes of Gaiety
A second stylish way to use flower
pictures right now is to hang a
whole flock Of small ones in regu-
lar geometrical formation over the
living room or college study daybed
Have them framed in narrow
black wood frames, the pictures be-
ing about the size Of post cards or
slightly larger.
They make a splash of gaiety and
look very appropriate over the day.
bed if the pillows take their colors
from the flowers.
A third way of hanging flower
pictures is to group them around
a mirror. If you have an antique
mirror with strip of flowers across
the top or bottom of it, use two
small floral pictures, one above the
other. on either side of the mirror,
with the tops and bottoms of the
pictures not quite in line with the
mirrors edges.
Give Cheerful Touch
If it is a mirror longer than it is
wide that you are using, use your
pictures below it, in straight line
across.
Last. but not least, is the step
down formation of flower pictures
used alone. This is especially good
for a hallway, for space over a
piano or desk or for that rather
awkward space between windows.
Any of these or other ways OF
USING floral pictures, give a home
a nice touch. They have that added
value of being cheerful.
1t may be impossible to keep cut
flowers blooming everywhere. But
every one can keep blooms in the
home by some of these simple new
methods.
Mothers to Be Feted