The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-16
Tinted Wall
Sche me Is
Attractive
BY JULIA BLANSHARD,
NEA Service Writer

NEW YORK, Jan. ls.-Bath-
rooms, dated 1881. promise to be
epoch making.
In the first place. designs for
1881 models of this important room
show that new ones will become
dressing rooms, powder rooms,
lounging rooms, instead of serving
eheir single purpose o. bathroom.
Second, they prove that the one
vivid color scheme-witll giddy,
brilliant walls, floor, thing, fixtures,
curtains and bath accessories all
endeavoring to match each other
exactly-is out. That is last years
model.
New, artistic bathrooms use neu-
trail, softly tinted walls, a SINH
larry neutral floor tone, and then
by subtle nuances of color play up
the beautiful sunken tub or the
tub raised as if on a pedestal, and
the other fixtures by use of many
lovely delicate tones they make the
color scheme as delectable, varied
and soothing as the multi-colored,
delicate blooms in carefully picked
bouquet.
New Beauty Ideas Given
These trends are summed I'D in
bathroom design contest launched
by the Standard Sanitary Company
Tor new floor plans, new color
schemes, new ideas in beauty and
utilitarianisn combined.
The thousands of competing archi-
tects and interior decorators-from
all over the world-were united in
the following characteristics of the
model up-to-date bathroom:
More windows are needed in
bathrooms, more windows to give
light and sunshine, for this room
makes the greatest use of water of
any room in the house and there
fore needs more light and sun
shine. The new glass which sun
penetrates is used in many of them
TO give you sun bath while you
are undressed.
Built-In Features Galore
The bath tub, lavatory and closet
no longer will depend upon wall
placing as of old. The lavatory
may have windows to gaze out upon
as you wash your teeth, the closet
can have its own recesses or al
cove curtained of from the rest of
the room, and the tub may be
placed in the center of the ROOM
up few steps or down a few.
The bathroom recognizes the need
OF built-in closets for beauty To-
tons, for supplies, for all the make
UP paraphernalia women need.
In efficiency, it will catch up
with the we'll planned kitchen for
conveniences, for height of fixtures
for comfort in using.
Typical Of the new bathrooms is
one cylindrical one, with the tub
in the center, sunk like an italian
garden. Another has a charming
fireplace built into it, with COM
Portable chair to sit upon while dry
ing yourself.
A third has its tub and 1avatory
up three rounding steps, with glass
shelves behind glass doors, just like
an inclosed book case, where all the
beauty supplies can be kept.
At one side of this a dressing
table really, a. combination dress
ing table and writing desk--with
French phone attached for greater
convenience.
A handsome prize winning bath
room for 1881 uses the following
color combination: The Iavatory
and bath are of royal Copenhagen
blue. the ceiling, light ivory, the
walls three shades darker, the floor
white tiled with border of black
marble both in the dressing room
end of the bath and around the
tub; the furniture upholstery is
golden brocsde and the Venetian
blinds, for the window of special
glass that transmits the ultra-vio-
let rays of the sun, are of gold
tone. The rugs are of rich bur-
gundy red.