The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-05
Massive Pieces Won't Go
in Most New Apartments

THIS YEARS midsummer
furniture sales provide perfect
answers to "how to furnish
small and medium-size rooms"
problems. Furniture depart
ments offer a large variety OF
beautiful living and dining room
chairs, tables and lamps, AZ well
Is chests and other bedroom fur
nishings that were designed with
the small homeowner's needs
firmly In mind.
One Regency dining room set,
for instance, includes q smart
oval table, buffet that isn't
much larger than a narrow bed
room chest and a miniature
breakfront with space for dish
es behind its grillwork doors and
space for linen in its three small
drawers. Chairs with striped
satin seats are scaled down In
size to suit the table, yet are
strong enough and large enough
to be comfortable.
An attractive mahogany fern
stand Is shown with the group.
Lamps on the buffet were de-
signed to give plenty Of light
but at the same time eliminate
q look Of massiveness. The en-
tire set might be used in rather
large breakfast room as well as
in q small dining room.
SMALL FURNITURE
FOR SMALL ROOMS
Interior decorators agree that
it is q great mistake to put huge,
massive pieces of furniture in a
small room or tiny, fragile ones
in a large, imposing room. For
small wall spaces, they suggest
pedestal and wig stands filled
with ivy, shallow tables or pier
chests, rather than tremendous
breakfronts or large chairs and
side table groups.
Where there is q mere silver of
wall space between doors and
windows, Elizabeth Peacock, one
of New York's best decorators,
often uses a long panel of mirror
glass, so that form and color
are repeated - without taking
up any space. Sometimes she
fastens a shallow, rounded con-
sole without legs onto the mir
ror at just about table height.
This idea, incidentally, Is good
one for small foyers or upstairs
halls.
Mrs. Peacock says that the
corners of q room usually are
more important than they are
made to seem. According to
her, their crying need,eise for
high pieces; for they always re-
quire building up. Following
her advice, the smart shopper
might look for high corner cab
inets or whatnots and tall
screens, attractively priced dur
ing midsummer furniture sales.
A desk - small if the room is
small; massive If the room is
large - often will add just the
necessary note Of charm and in,
terest to q living room. And
desks of every size and in every
possible type of wood are fea-
tured in the midsummer furni-
ture sales.
However,. Elizabeth Peacock
continues, never place q desk,
or q rectangular table or q chest
across q corner. This wastes
space and creates an ugly tine.
If you know that it will not be
possible to place your desk
against q wall or at right angles
with it, then forget about q desk
and use a drum or rounded table
with q tall lamp on 1t and q
chair with high arms and back
in the corner which now looks
unfinished"
Among other items that you
can find in the sales and which
decorators like are: globes of the
world - to be used on high ped
estals in corners with books or
books and desks; huge, square
hassocks to be used near the
fireplace or to be kept near the
alcove and pulled into the living
room when there are more guests
than there are chairs available.
Beds without footboards are
featured in all furniture stores.
So are matching bedroom chests
to be used side by side instead
Of opposite each other.
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