The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-08

Mrs Hutchins, weil-known au- thority on color and a painter be- fore she turned to decorating, is no more theorizer about the dining Guest-room combination. She has one of them in her own home.
 Every body want a dining room if possible, yet space is so costly in modern apartments and even houses that I have worked out a double-service plan she ex- plains My dining table folds il, half, may be pushed back against the wall and with the addition of a mirror made into g dressing table. The buffet or serving table has three good-sized drawers in which I normally keep linen and silver, but when the unexpected guest comes, store the silver and linen somewhere else and leave the drawers free for the guest. The finishing touch is a little folding couch bed that keep in g closet and, when I am changing the dim ing room, simply roll|out."
 Furniture of Pearwood
 Incidentally, Mrs Huchins' Bie- dermeier furniture is made of luscious golden pearwood with a black line. Her dining room is built as most of her rooms are, around the pictures on the wall. Here are sporting prints of beagle hunts done by her husband, and she has picked up the tints of the woods and outdoors for her draperies, rug and upholstery.
 The walls are oyster white, the rug is a rich dark brown without design and the chair seats are up- holstered in the vivid green of the distant hills in one of the prints. The window draperies are of heavy woven taffeta in a warm rust that repeats another tone of the pic- lures on the wall. The gauge glass curtains are the same gold as the pearwood of the furniture and a long box in the double window is banked with luxuriant Boston ferns to complete an effect that makes the windows one of the rooms high spots.
 Mrs Hutchins gave special thought to the lighting, for her dining room is small. Both for that reason and because she want cd to use 1t for other purposes than dining, she preferred not to have 8 chandelier. Anyway, she thinks. indirect lighting pleasanter for dining room, so she has used small Italian carved wood lamps, very old, set on slender Chippen- dale pedestals in each corner,
 Incidentally, the decorator has proved nthis one room a theory she has long held, that the deco ration of many countries and ages may be combined harmoniously if only you know how to go about it. And there, she quite rightly believes the decorator or furniture doctor should come in.
 People still have the old idea that the services of a decorator are beyond the reach of everybody except millionaires," she deplores. Few seem to realize that a dec- orator costs no more than you would pay yourself at any retail shop, and in addition to furniture and materials, you get the benefit of the decorators taste, Knowledge! and experience"
 Urges Use of Paintings
 Mrs Hutchins, throughout her? own apartment, has subdued ne-, cessities (fioors, walls the uphol- stery in standard comfortable furniture) and played up such decorative features as pictures. It is possible just now to get real. ly good paintings for very little money, she points out, adding:
 "And what you can do with them to brighten and enliven your home is almost beyond belief!
 ''To feature them in my own home, have subdued both back grounds and furniture. My living room is built around a painting of my husband in beagle hunting cos tune. The furniture mostly cov- cred with an unobtrusive home- spun material in an oyster white as near like the walls as possible so that 1t sinks into them and gives a feeling of space. Bad structural features I have eleminated by painting the background all in one color. have mixed periods-there is a Chippendale table which hob nobs in friendly fashion with a Bie- dermeier desk, a low, comfortable