Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-08 | Page 14 | Bare Comfort is but Delusion

BARE COMFORT IS BUT DELUSION EZ" - ' ; -? W : v." .SVL . 4 .tiv m i. 7", .A ' "'' This small green an J whit living room, decorated by Edna Kern, It cool and inviting without being bar looking. Soft whit walls, a forest green carpet, two whit glove-leather chairs, green tellophane draperies over green Venetian blinds, edged with whit, make the room cheery and livable. liv-able. Both standing Tamps are fitted with brackets for potted plants which Mrs. Kern thinks ar important to any summer room. The annual summer campaign to strip the house of the winter furnishings fur-nishings in the name of coolness and less work haa at least one outspoken out-spoken foe, Edna H. Kern, decorator deco-rator of many New York showplace apartments and homes. "Do let your house look like a home, not a bare hospital receiving room," she urges. "I see no excuse for the denuding frenzy with which many people tstrr up rugs and tear down drapes in the fond hope that the 'nobody home' appearance will solve all hot weather problems. If there are enough heavy fabrics and furniture and warm colors to make an actual difference in temperature, something some-thing should be done to change permanently per-manently the decor." Pallid Colors Are Enervating Mrs. Kern doesn't like bare floora. She says that if you do decide to take up winter rugs, by all means to replace them with gay looking scatter types or thin rag rugs, pref- erably plain colored, or grass ones, In sane ahades and designs. "Don't order all your summer slip covers in pallid, washed-out looking colors. They really do not make a room look cooler, you know, and, after seeing them day after day, the average Individual is likely to feel limp as the proverbial dishrag." Mra. Kern advises her clients to cover their furniture with lightweight light-weight fabrics in gay colors and color combinations. She thinks that bright ahades, except red, make one feel more cheerful. And when the thermometer soars to SO, anything which makes for cheer certainly is worth while. Blues and greens are especially worthy of consideration. "Ginghams, chintzes and other gay cottons and linens come in beautiful colors and make ideal slip covers." the expert continues. "Do have chintz if you like It. The glaze will come off when you have the material cleaned or washed, but any good dry cleaning establishment can reglaze It satisfactorily. Flower and Green Plant "Do. by all means, have flowers and green plants here and there. You can get inexpensive brackets to put on floor lamp stands, be- tween windows, in the foyer. Fill these with pots of ivy or a mixture mix-ture of crisp-looking vines-." In one summer living room, which Mrs. Kern decorated recently, re-cently, plants take the place of Venetian blinds or filmy curtaina. Set on a glass shelf at the bottom bot-tom of each window, the vines are tucked in and out of a delicate wire frame, paintedj to match the walls and stretched from top to bottom bot-tom of the window. For city dwellers, dwell-ers, such a cool idea cuts down the curtain overhead, yet provides privacy.