Evening star., 1942-11-11

The first item in both rooms is to
acquire color interest and design to
take your mind off pale walls and
unimportant floor coverings. This
is most easily done with vivid win
dow draperies and q slip cover or
two. As color and texture is more
important in this case than some
fabric which will last a lifetime, in
expensive materials may be cleverly
used. If you love fabrics and can
not bear to pass up hand-blocked
linen at $12 yard, buy yard and
a half OF this and use it as wall
hanging. Then repeat the colors in
it for slip covers and draperies of a
plain material which costs about a
dollar a yard. This will satisfy your
love of beauty and give you a mil
lion dollar effect" at small cost.
AS dinner will be for two most Of
the time, a small table slightly
higher than the usual coffee table
may be set between two lounge
chairs before the large window. Or
1t may be placed before the large
sofa, making it q pleasure to come
home to quiet, rest and good food
after the intensity Of the day. For
this your own silver and linen from
home will be used with gay, informal
china and glass. Ease OF serving
and preparation will be the keynote
of the menu, and unusual acces-
sories in the way of soup bowls,
salad bowl and dessert plates will
take all the "humdrum" out Of the
day.
There is a clever table for under
$25 which has wonderful tricks con-
cealed within its mahogany or wal
nut surface. About "a inches wide,
with leaf that goes up against the
wall, it may be placed in the hall or
living room as an occasional table.
With a twist of the top and the in
sertion of a leaf which rests on two
concealed legs, this small console
becomes dinner table for eight or a
generous buffet table. This will solve
the entertaining problem beautifully
In the small apartment.
Another inexpensive way of setting
an interesting table is to acquire an
outstanding soup tureen, platters
and salad bowl and combine these
with colorful plates and coffee cups
from the dime store" The color IS
the thing, and the conversation
pieces" of pottery or china may come
from the antique shops or smart
accessory shops. A lovely old
Lowestoft tureen may be combined
with pale blue. and jonquil yellow
pottery. A glorious modern meat
platter of Portuguese pottery in the
shape of two huge endive leaves,
recently seen in Washington shop,
could be used with other pieces of
plain green and copper colored pot
terry.
To complete the living room pair
Of interesting lamps at either end of
the sofa will make that group i'm
portant. Small tables conveniently
placed beside deep chairs give that
comfortable "lived-in look" A dis
tinctive picture or two wherever a
long vista into hall or alcove meets
the eye may pick up the room color
scheme again.
In the bedroom, window draperies
and bedspreads in colorful fabric will
take away the ''hotel' appearance.
A chaise Tongue with book table and
lamp close at hand and small desk
or dressing table which you will add
to the furnished equipment viii
make it your own.
In all Of this you will shop for
interesting, exciting, rather spec
tacular equipment that will make
your new quarters individual for the
next few years. They may not be
the things you would like to live with
forever or pass down to your grand
children, but they will give your
spirits a lift during your sojourn in
wartime Washington.