Show DECORATING DECORA TING I I Buy BY Furniture as You au Buy Your Hats To Suit Your r Personal Personality ity and Tastes 1 By MARIAN YOUNG YOUNG NEW YORK YORK YORK-There's There's Theres no mystery about interior decoration I Any woman can do a good job if she will just be herself her bravest self These words of encouragement encouragement encouragement encourage encourage- ment come from William Wright Crandall prominent industrial designer and interior decoration authority who has re recently been appointed director of industrial industrial in in- In design for tor the American Ameri Ameri- can School of f Design Before you decide on a new color color- scheme or buy a single accessory accessory accessory ac ac- write a memo to yourself yourself yourself your your- self telling what kind of person person person per per- son you think you are what kind of home best suits the needs of you and your family Mr Crandall explains Be honest with yourself If you are the homey type who likes comfort and leads an Informal in informal in In- formal social life say so Dont Don't strive drive for sophisticated effects which will make an entirely in incongruous incongruous incongruous in- in congruous background fo for your personality Bu Buy furniture or curtains as you buy hats because they please you and your husband bring out your own best features fea fea- features tures and in general suit suLt your mode of ot life You wouldn't buy only afternoon hats when your way of living calls for sports clothes So why go in for a formal formal formal for for- mal color scheme when you know very well that you live and entertain informally most of the time Mr Crandall lists reseda green cobalt blue tobacco brown brown and and cedar as fine informal colors to consider He puts chartreuse turquoise prune and fuchsia into a formal category One of this interior designers designer's pet complaints is that er too many amateur decorato stop decorating too soon Bare rooms he thinks are as as overcrowded dat cluttered ones When I see a room with wall walls practically bare books concealed concealed behind doors magazines s in la larack a a. a rack in the corner cornel behind a chair and nothing on the largest table except a sm small lI ash tray and a humidor I shudder I know immediately Im im- im immediately mediately that it was decorated by a woman who takes rules too literally who probably ne never takes enough clothes on ona a a t trip simply because she read somewhere some some- where that its it's smart to to travel ei eiSo light t. t So I repeat get all the expert expert ex ex- pert advice you ca can about colors colon trends a and d so on but dont don't l let t it restrict your own tastes and preferences to the point where nere your rooms have an in in look Mr Crandall concludes Be B brave brave about about colors Dare to han hang i pictures that you like whether you have seen pictures of similar type on other walls or not Dont consider only the legs on chairs or sofas when buying new ones Look at a piece of furniture as a whole whole not not simply at the part nearest the floor If It It is comfortable and If you like its lines get it even it-even even ven though its arent aren't of the legs same period as the rest of your furniture Put paper on your walls in instead in in- st stead stead always ad of always playing fafe safe and having plain ones Know that with the proper use of lamps you can decorate a wall with shadows And do keep flowers in your vases vases whether you you understand un un- understand the so-called so art of flower arrangements or not Theres There's entirely too much self self- consciousness about flowers about the use of color and about the selection and hanging of pic t tures ures 1 |