Evening star., 1935-10-13

table - one with few objects on it that can
be removed in a moment of time.
am naturally not at all sure that your
taste and my taste will agree. But were
furnishing a Colonial or Georgian type of
room, my own first choice of screens would be
two of three folds each. Since they should be
easy to move, would have them made of
paper.
Again. first choice would be for a scenic
paper such as "Eldorado," Scenic America"
or whichever other one would go best with the
: furnishings. All of these panoramic papers are
my own idea of delectability but - alas!-
not inexpensive.
If these papers are out of the question, then
lovely screens could be made of ordinary
wall paper instead. Any of those that are
Chinese in design are apt to be good. Gold
pagodas and trees and bridges on black or
red ground Or plain silver tea-paper or other
silver papers with Japanese designs. Or blue
paper with silver stars. Or plain diaper
print of neutral sand oyster or rose-beige upon
which prints - either sepia or colored -
might be pasted. or even frontispieces cut
from high class magazines.
At all events, two three panel screens are
easily made for you, by any cabinetmaker
carpenter from panels of plain wall board -
the smooth thin kind - papered and framed
in half-inch, plain flat picture molding like a
e-partout which is painted black or brown
or Chinese red or emerald green, or whatever
color matches the paper or goes best in the
ROOM When finished the paper and the frames
are shellacked and sandpapered and again
shellacked, and hinges are, of course, screwed
to three cross Stats of wood that reinforce the
frames. These would make charming screens.
And now to answer letter from bride
who wants to know what can be done whit the
foyer of an apartment they have bought, and
therefore want to make permanently attrac-
tive though she doesn't think it possible 1t is
the only front hall there is. and it is too small
she says to hold an item of furniture, and its
walls can't be decorated because each is occu-
pied by door. The wall opposite the door of
entrance is taken up by double French glass
doors that open into the living room. ut is
necessary to bear in mind that her husband
wants these doors kept Shut On the right
into the kitchen And on the left the door
opens out from coat closet.
In answer to this, there are many things
can suggest. To solve the front door, were it
mine, would take away the big single door
and have pair of shutter narrow ones put in
instead. Two narrow doors, the left one of
which fastens with rod that bolts top and
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like French easement window, would secure
the left side. From the inside, the left door
would mbolt with the turning of the handle
and the handle on the other door would be
turned at the same time and the two doors
opened together. But from the outside the
right door alone could be unlocked and opened.
Eighteen inches would be plenty wide enough
to 90 through unless either the bride or the
bridegroom is very, very fat
If l were doing the decoration and furnish
ing | should make kitchen and coat closet
doors blind (flat doors without panels set flat
into frames flush with the walD. The doors
and walls when painted would have an effect
of doorless walls. On each door hang small
mirror or else print and under it a
console bracket table. This does not in the
least interfere with the use of the door. Or, if
you want the utmost effect of space you might
panel both the doors and the walls surround
ing them with mirrors, which can be held
in place with metal strips.