Evening star., 1933-09-24
article is intended for
the many brides who ask how to
furnish a small, loW-ceilinged
i apartment so that it will look
bigger than it really is.

furnish a small, loW-ceilinged
apartment so that it will look
bigger than it really is.
Obviously, then, let us first consider
color The color that will seem to push
the walls back is very light blue-any
of the lightest blues of the sky, from
pale gray blue to turquoise. Blue
that IS tinged with purple will seem to
bring the walls nearer because OF the
red In the mixture. On the other hand.
the lightest tint of yellow-green or
lemon yellow will give you an effect OF
added light as well as size. Whlte
gives about the same effect OF space as
lemon.
am taking it for granted that you
are painting doors and trim and walls
alike. since walls of one color, blocked
and banded with woodwork OF another
color, cut a small room into a patch
work of samples. If your living room
happens to be finished in white plaster
and dark wood trim, making 1t seem
larger Is as impossible as to make
package, tied securely with stout coro,
look vague in outline.
To create an effect of size, the out
side curtains and lambrequins should
precisely match the woodwork and the
walls. The rage of the moment for
aI-White rooms is merely carrying this
linited-to-one color idea to the extreme
of no color. Even if we could meet the
cost. which few of us can consider, an
all-white room, as typical of the pala-
tial houses, would be utterly unsultaple
to the requirements Of most OF us.
room so perishable that a city WINDOW
onened on hangings of white brocade,
or dark dresses and mems black clothes
nressed against white satin chair BACKS
or few comings and golngs across
white carpets would all be devastating
to its freshness and prove that WHITE Is
not exactly practical.
A ND yet, in very small cottage IN
"A lot climate, or for Summer
weather, all-white rooms can be Suita-
hle as well as lovely if one may put
denend upon the efficiency OF the
laundry. Perfectly plain white-washed
, walls. white washed beams, white
4 painted brick, white corduroy sip
7 covers, with narrow white cotton
7 fringe, waxed; white linoleum, Whlte
, organdie curtains, white lamps ana
sheces white ornaments and flowers,
windows looking out upon an all-Wnlte
parden-all this couldn't be prettler!
But for Winter or for an apartment
in a city, a room painted pale green
or prev-blue, smokyfeSh or cream
mixed with the slightest amount OF
t brown and yellcw-green would De
! practical, livable, restful and charm
i. ing as only room that Is completely
comfortable can charm.
To make 1t seem bigger, keep Lhe
entire room the same color-WallS,
trim. doors and curtains and furniture
coverings. The ceiling should be
: slightly lighter and the floor some
what darker, but all Of it the same
hue. Hang all the mirrors you ike,
but keep pictures few and marrow. II
YOU put any contrasting mass OF color
In the room it will come toward you
In proportion to its difference in value
For instance, if you want to MAKE
4 very big room look cozy, put IN pig
masses of strong color. Huge roomed
Spanish and Italian houses are always
hung with tapestries, or wall squares
of colorful brocades, or velvets. In ao-
dition to keeping small room all I'D
one color, another direction Tor max
ing it look bigger is to keep every
niece of furniture not only small In
scale. but low to the ground. I have
fancied this last my own discovery,
but 1t Is no doubt one of those things
discovered bv every one who has tried
To make a big piece of furniture look
comfortably inconspicuous in small
room.
"A LONG time ago I tried to put a
"A high, four-post double bed, with
an arched canopy, into room about
il feet square and not much over 8
feet high. The posts, without finals,
reached to within 2 inches OF the CELL
ing. and the curve Of the canopy re-
ouired 5. Even though the bed was
ANTIQUE. 6 inches had either to be cut
of the legs, or the finals and canopy
left of, or the bed sent to an auction
room. So off inches came. Gin the
end we cut of 3D. TO my unexpected
delight the bed, which, with its two
steps necessary to climb it, had literally
filled the entire room, left it almost
empty after the legs were lowered
Ever since this experience, have
been recklessly cutting down every over
sized sofa and chair with an amazing
increase in the apparent size Of rooms.
The present fashion for beds without
footboards. or headboards, is not only