Evening star., 1937-07-18
Your Rooms
May Reveal
New Charm.
Decorating Done by
Boy or Girl Who Is
Able to Choose.

IF YOUR mother and father have
Just redecorated the house, you
may be looking with distaste at the
Old pictures you have to hang on that
newly painted or papered wall OF your
very own room. Or perhaps you Just
want some new pictures that will make
the bed room look as though it really
belongs to you. You can solve this
problem by spending only little of
your allowance, yet the result will be
20 attractive that you'll be proud when
your chums see the room.
girl can make her walls look
overwhelmingly smart by using floral
pictures. In many of the home and
garden magazines you can find COL
ored flower prints. Select three Of
the prettiest which are Of uniform
size.
Then go to the dime store and buy
three white frames Of larger size
than the pictures. Carefully mount
the flower designs on heavy white
paper of the size that will fit into the
frames. That's all-and you have
three charming pictures!
Here are some even Cleverer quirkS.
You can mount the pictures on
pastel tinted heavy paper and even on
f1ne-lined or dotted wall paper. II
any new window shades have recently
been bought for your home in the
light buff or cream colors, you may
be able to find pieces which have been
trimmed from the shades to make
them fit the windows. This shade
material also makes an attractive
mounting.
If you want to spend few more
cents, 60 to the lumber dealer or
cabinet maker in your city who sells
one -eighth-inch wood veneerng Have
him cut it into the proper size to fit
the frame, and cut a square hole in
the middle, so that you can paste the
picture behind it. This is one of the
newest ideas in picture framing.
You can hang these three smartly
framed pictures in cluster over the
bed or chest. Remember to hang
them low. If you have a table or desk
in the room, hang one or two pictures
very low over it. Pictures are sliding
down the wall a little every year. This
year they are just above the large
pieces of furniture.
After finishing the three pictures
you can mount enough more to give
the room interest. but all the pic
lures must harmonic in color and
IN manner of framing. A patch of
gay wallpaper with definite figure
such as a garden or colonial silhou-
cite. can be used itself as picture on
q background of plain paper.
Boys can make their rooms just as
striking as their sisters by using
motif of alrplanes, sport pictures or
wild animals. Brightly colored ones
can be found on the covers Of maga
zines Be sure to select pictures
which are really interesting. They
need not have such wide mounting
as the floral pictures and they can
have darker, narrow frames. Just be
sure that you mount them neatly and
hang them in interesting clusters.
Now that your rooms are frightened,
perhaps you would like to make pic
ture to give to your parents as gift.
Select a really tasteful etching which
has been reprinted III magazine and
mount it. Give it frame which
brings out the soft colorings OF the
etching or line drawing. A black and
white etching is very attractive when
mounted on white and framed in
black.
Even babys room can be made
colorful and fascinating by making
use of the choicest of many OF the
animal and baby pictures which ap-
pear every month in the magazines.
Just be neat and select the pictures
carefully and they will be truly lovely
additions to nearly any room.