Arizona sun., 1948-08-20

For bedrooms, choose candy
striped fabrics or fowered types. II
the room is small, a muted stripe
will be most in keeping, but large
rooms with few pieces of furniture
need large floral prints to give them
the necessary filling.
For rooms that are just in between
you can, Of course, combine a floral
covering with plain seat, or a
solid with a striped material This
same type Of thing can be followed
through in making drapeS.
Change Furniture Style
Through Coverings
# you are living in a one-room
apartment and do not have the de-
sired bedroom, you can use mat
tress on box springs for bed. To
make the room look less like bed
room, however, the bed should have
a slipcover rather than a spread.
For the bed, select nubby or
textured fabric in a color that goes
well with the room. Inverted pleats
can be used on all corners, and a
tailored look should be the goal.
Make the cushions very thick to re-
duce the size of the bed and thus
achieve sofa look.
If space is at premium, uphol-
stored boxes can be covered in the
same fabrics as the bed itself and
used for storing pillows, blankets
and other goods.
To give room a really smooth
look, sipcovers must be carefully
measured and made. Zippers are
popular now that they are again
available because they make the
slipcovers easy to put on and the
final result will be smoothness.
The original shapes of chairs of
which you have tired can be
changed with clever slipcovering.
If, for example, you have wing
chair, cover it with gay plaid and
a solid toned seat to match one of
the darker colors in the plaid. This
will keep the chair from showing
dirt.
For bedrooms and sewing rooms,
wing chairs can be covered with
floral prints or candy stripes. If
you have household pets, it's wise
to make at least two sets of founces
that Upper on and off so that the
founce always will be neat and
clean.
Dining Room Chairs
Can Be Frightened
Few of us can afford a new dining
room set as often as we would like,
but slipeovering the chairs will save
them for many year.
The seat can be sGpcovered, a
fiounce added to hide the ungainly
legs at least partly. The back also
can be slipcovered with piece that
simply SupS over IL.
If you like. the chair and back
cover can be made in one and tied
at the back. The cover can be
tailored or frilly, the latter on the
edge, if you like. Add draperies
either to match the chair covers or
to contrast with them. and your
dining room will sport new look.
Cotton quilting can also be used
to hide the frame Of the chair, if
you really want to disguise it. This
can be cut from a paper or pur-
chased pattern; then pinned, fitted
to the chair and stitched. The slip
cover then is made to fit over the
padding.
Fabric chosen for dining room
chairs should be sturdy because this
furniture receives lot of use. Ma
terials also should be washable. so
they can be freshened often without
going to the expense of cleaning If
you choose something bright and
gay. but still in good taste. the joy
of new slipcovers will last a long
time.
The main thing about the covers
Is making them fit. Be exacting
about measurements and fitting, and
usc elastic bands or self fabric tie
backs, not only under the seat but
also at the back of the chairs so
they fit smoothly and wrinkle less
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