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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Room Furnishings May Be Set OH With Proper Dressing of Window By Ertta Haley Window Magic i i ". f ... ' 7 ' r?'---v.,,,. ' , . ' "i ;.- .; 1 rnHE touch of glamour that a hat . lends to a beautiful costume Is much the same role which well styled windows play In your home. If you have lovely furniture and beautiful accessories, you need carefully chosen window coverings to show them off, to lend proper background. Today's furnishing trends are getting get-ting away from the ornate window treatments of yesterday, as these detract too much from what nice furnishings you have In the room, and they are also expensive. Now we have simple window treatments which have a luxury of their own because curtains and draperies are full, though simple. You may have both draperies and sheer curtains at your windows, but since the combination is apt to run Into a bit of an investment it may be wise to choose draperies for those windows which give a nice view, while sheer glass curtains are appropriate for small Informal room. More than any one single thing, remember that windows can add to or detract from the atmosphere of the room, depending upon what you do with them. You may have a problem with the size of windows or with their placement. There are answers to these rather common problems, and they are all attractive ones. No matter how ugly a duckling any one or several windows may be, you can, with some good planning, plan-ning, turn them into assets. Little money to spend, a lack of sufficient fabric to give full luxurious lux-urious drapes, curtains which don't fit a new house or apartment, all Here's a problem window which has been easily made an asset. Polka dot chintz ruffling goes under the table to camouflage cam-ouflage mops and buckets. A Venetian blind, with contrasting; contrast-ing; slats hi,ies the dreary outlook out-look from the window. Gay ruffles ruf-fles of chintz to match the bar skirt were basted onto the tapes of the blind and an all-over cornice cor-nice frames the window. should not receive the attention which a satisfactory window needs, for instance. Take the room with a large bay window which is distinctly an asset. Use a good attractive print or color in draperies for this window. In the same room you may have a fireplace window, that is, one on the same wall as the fireplace. The size of the window is poor, and to use the same draperies on this window as the 'bay window would be to distract interest from both the fireplace as well as the bay window. The smartest covering for the fireplace window would be a plain material similar to the wall coloring. color-ing. If walls are blue, green or gray, for example, have the plain window draperies dyed exactly the same so this window will melt into the background. Small windows, or a pair of such windows as is found in many homes need not be despairing. Rather than draperies, build a cornice cor-nice around the whole window and cover this with the same material as a chair in the room. If the window win-dow is set off the room a bit, place an easy chair near the window with an ottoman, and have these covered as the cornice. This makes a nice study or reading corner. If you have a patterned drapery material that is not too distinctive, give the windows a dramatic touch by using a lush swag at the top of the draperies, in a solid color which is predominant in the draperies. draper-ies. When you have ceiling - high draperies, use attractive blinds to hide the bare spot above the windows. win-dows. These are especially good for large windows as the blinds can be drawn to give the privacy desired during day or evening. Blinds Can Solve Window Problems Problem windows, can, in almost every instance be solved with the correct use of Venetian blinds. If you have a group of two or three small windows which are drab and uninteresting, create a picture window win-dow effect by treating the entire group as one unit when decorating. You may hang a single large blind instead of two or three smaller ones, and then use a plain or decorated dec-orated cornice to span the entire group, with one pair of draperies on the extreme sides. Once windows have been fitted with blinds, you can use numerous decorating tricks which are simple yet effective. Blind tapes are good to use for repeating the motifs of draperies on them. Artificial flowers sewed on a ribbon and thence onto the tapes are beautifully beauti-fully decorative. If you have an especially pretty wallpaper, such as clusters of flowers flow-ers or fruit, cut the designs out of the leftover wallpaper, and cut into strips measuring one and three-quarter three-quarter inches, the size of each slat. These can be pasted on the slats with just library paste. Another trick which is very useful use-ful especially in dinettes, kitchens or bedrooms is to make ruffling from one of the materials used in the room. These ruffles can be attached at-tached to the blind tapes by simple sewing, and are wonderfully decorative. A full swag emphasizes drapes. can be readily solved if you'll put your imagination and ingenuity to work. Short on Material? Use these Tricks Perhaps you have some, not-so-full draperies, or a length or two of material which do not cover a window luxuriously. Or, if you have two windows to treat rather than one, with possibly a single pair of draperies,, you can do several things. One of the smartest ways to treat the problem is to build a floor length plywood frame for the window win-dow or windows. Cover this frame with the material on hand. It will take far less to cover the frame than to make gathered draperies, and the effect is good. The plywood frame can be straight on the outside top as well as on the sides. Inside, the part which is next to the window, on all four sides can be scalloped, large scallops of course, to add the proper decorative note. Let's say that you have a wide window or two narrow windows in the bedroom or dressing room. Why not treat these as one, for they will look better and conserve material. You can set twin dressing tables against the windows. Use sheer material right on the windows, in full folds, then a three or four inch width of ruffle across the top, of the same material as is used to cover the dressing tables. Glass curtains of the same material can be used at the sides, tied back to the windows. A kitchen window which is larger larg-er than the cottage curtains you have on hand can be easily rem- Cornice matches room chair. edied. Add several rows of ruffle to the bottom of curtain to make it fit. Another solution is to use several yards of cotton curtain material to make a glass curtain for the window. Several rows of bright ma-- ma-- terial made into ruffles can be used as the bottom edge. Give Decorator Treatments To Problem Windows All the draperies in a room need not match. There are times when it's more desirable not to have them match. A problem window, one that has poor size and poor location How to Emphasize Walls Rather than Problem Windows If the view outside the window has nothing attractive to offer, don't emphasize the windows. This is especially true when the windows are long and narrow. One way to get around this problem prob-lem is to use an attractively patterned pat-terned paper in the room, as this is certainly an attention-getting feature. fea-ture. Your room will have to be large to take a boldly printed paper. pa-per. If it is not, use only one patterned pat-terned paper wall. Pick a color from the paper and use it for painting paint-ing or papering the other three walls. |