The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-09
Home Needs Spring Coats
AOf Paint In Vivid Contrasts

Nv MARIAN YOUNG
NEA serrIce staff Correspondcnt

NEA Service Stan Correspondent.
New York.-If you had suggest
ed to the housewife of decade
ago that the walls of her kitchen
might be painted red, the ceiling
silver and that her closets could
have blue walls and canary yellow
floors, the proposal would not only
have seemed bizarre and fantastic
but in bad taste. 4
But times change and SO do the
fashions. To-day interior deco
rators and paint manufacturers are
busily sponsoring those very color
combinations. And how vivid and
vital and vivacious they are!
Pure white or gray or tan in
the kitchen was the vogue when
mother was girl. As for closets,
well, they didn't matter much any
way. But these days they do mat
ter. The object seems to be to
paint the guest room closet in such
an array of colors that even the
professional guest" will gasp In
admiration. Admiration, you I'M
derstand, not establishment. For no
closet should harmonic with the
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A great deal can be accomplished
by application Of the right paint,
In the right way. An odd-shaped
room lends itself well to walls
painted in four different colors and
very dark wall of q room can be
painted a light color while the
other three may be darker. The
effect Is charming. Your room
seems to be light all the way
around instead of having dark cor
ners here and there.
The bathroom is an excellent
place to try out some novel paint
schemes. Use pale yellow on one
wall, light green on another and
pastel blue and pink on the other
two. Then any kind of towel-and-
BATH mat color scheme will fit in.
Modern Just try 1t and see what
original themes can be accomplish
ed with paint. housekeeping will
be q pleasure If you start that way.
Try to cultivate a sort of elimi-
nation complex when you start to
houseclean. Throw out USELESS gadg-
gets and give the accumulation Of
magazines to the hospital. Why
keep cups without handles just be-
cause they were wedding presents?
Wouldn't 1t be better. to replace
them with some new anniversary
china? And couldn't you love the
new pieces almost as much?
While the walls and ceilings are
getting their new coats, send win
ter bed covers and heavy wooden
clothes to the cleaners or, II not
that, see that they are washed or
at least properly aired in the sun
shine prior to being packed away
for the hot months. Remember
that sunshine is months worst
enemy and hanging all the WOOL
ems on the clothes line before put
ting them in their boxes Is one ex-
cellent precaution against the little
pest. And newspaper print is an
other thing that moths detest.
Wrap the woolens in 1t before
packing them away.
When the last drop of paint has
dried and the last strip of wallpa-
per has been hung, go about the
business of getting the house into
livable shape for the summer. Your
summer curtains, draperies, scat
ter rugs or mats, pictures and win
dow screens should be made ready
while the painters are working.
Don't hang large portraits and
hot looking tapestries on the walls.
Diminutive prints and floral
plaques are better for the sum-
mer. Furthermore, there Is no
place for gadgets during June,
July and August. The stuffed ami
mails, and the little glass ones too,
large vases unless they're suitable
for fresh flowers, knick-knacks of
all descriptions should go into the
attic until fall.
When everything is in order, put
on the new slip covers and hang
up the summer curtains. Slip COW
ers, by the way, are all impor-
tant. They save the overstuffed
furniture from the deteriorating
effects of dust from open windows
and also make for GOODNESS when
the temperature threatens to ruin
your disposition.