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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Attain Well-Furnished Look By Proper Curtains. Draperies By Ertta Haley DOES the sunlight need softening in your rooms? Does a particularly particu-larly lovely scene outside require a proper frame? Or, would you rather close out an ugly view? All this and more can be accomplished accom-plished in any home with properly selected und styled curtains and draperies. The style of the furniture furni-ture can be accented with carefully selected style and material, and rooms can lake their cue for furnishing fur-nishing from draperies or curtains. There's great freedom of choice in the style to select as well as In lengths and widths, but there are certain rules to observe for propriety. For example, if sheer curtains are your choice, you may have them sill or floor length, but not In-between floor and window. If they're to be used with draperies, sheer curtains should be of the same length as the drapes. When sheer curtains are to be hung straight, you'll want them full and luxurious looking, no matter how inexpensive the material. Make the curtains two and one-half or three times the window width. Lei drapes and curtains , , . Glass or sheer curtains always need a heading so they will look properly finished. Give them shirring, shir-ring, pleating or gathering, whichever which-ever you like for the room type. Ilere are Facts About Tlebacks Should sheer curtains be tied back or hung back? This depends upon the style of the room. If Colonial, Colo-nial, Early American, formal Victorian, Vic-torian, or Eighteenth Century English, Eng-lish, sheer curtains may be tied back to be most effective. If the room is done in Modern, let the curtains hang straight. The best height for the tleback Is right below center of the window. If the curtains are tied back above the center, the window will look fine organdy, silks, rayons, point d'esprit and spun glass sheers. Use Draperies For Color, Accent Certain rooms require drapery treatment for the windows rather than sheer curtains. When furnishings furnish-ings are simple and need the accent of color, your best choice is drapery of some kind. Then, too, If you have an attractive setting outside the window, it may better be framed with drapes than with plain sheer material. Skimpy draperies are worse than no drapery material of any kind, so make certain that the draperies are at least twice as wide as the windows. If the drapes hang on ring or traverse rods and are pulled across the window at night, they should be at least two and one-half times window width. Draperies may be lined or un-lined. un-lined. depending upon the amount you have to spend, and also the material used. If the room is too sunny and you want to shut out some of the light for decorative or fading purposes, then it's smart to use the lined draperies. Lightweight cream or sateen material ma-terial is customarily used for drapery drap-ery lining. Colored linings may be used also, but the color of the lining should not confuse the color of the SBllii jgg- add the decorative note. long and narrow. Tied too far below be-low center they make the window look too wide. With small-paneled windows, the ticback should be horizontal with one of the bars of the panel, so the panels are not cut down In size. Large ruffled tiebacks need to have a slit cut behind the heading of the ruffling so they can be tied properly without bunching the ruffling. Traditionally tiebacks are made of the same material as the curtain cur-tain but this Is not a hard and fast rule if you want to try for different effects. If, for example, you are using a chintz with sheer material, the tiebacks can be made of the chintz, or at least the heading or ruffle teamed with sheer material. How to Use Curtains Without Draperies When you want a light, airy feeling feel-ing in a room, plan to use sheer curtains without the side drapes. This may be a room that is quite dark, and you want to bring in as much light as possible. Then again, if you have a room with an abundance of the rich materials, ma-terials, you may want the relief from such material that sheer curtains cur-tains can give. Many modern rooms, full of rich color and textured tex-tured effects, are good, too, with plain glass curtains, made full and hung in a straight, tailored effoct Those who are worried about giving their rooms the finished look with curtains without the benefit of draperies, have several solutions: solu-tions: painted of fabric-covered cornices, gathered valances of the same material as the curtain or a contrasting material used elsewhere else-where in the room, and brackets at the side of the window. For glass curtains, use sheer materials that reflect tones of white, peach, yellow or pink. Net and scrim are always appropriate, but others to use include ninon, batiste, dimity, organdy, marquisette, marquis-ette, sheer percale, theatrical gauze or coarse net More expensive, but very effective effec-tive are the nylons, nylon laces. drapery. Hold up to light to check. If the colors do confuse, use an interlining of cotton flannel Relate Draperies To Room Styles Draperies are an important part of the room in which they're to be used, so It's a good idea to select them with care. They should be related re-lated in style and materials to the room type in which they're used. Most draperies are full-length, that is to the floor of the room, but if you desire an Informal casual look, they may be sill-length. Choose an informal material for the draperies that are to be used in Informally styled rooms: chintz, cretonne, percale or toile de Jouey. More formal rooms require tht traditional fabrics: rich satin, brocade, damask or moire. Modern rooms may have In there taffeta, linen, plastic materials raw silk, novelty cotton, satin, mo hair, chintz and textured fabrics Quaint patterns in calicor, chintz oi voile are good in Early Amerlcar settings. If budget worries you, then con slder paper or inexpensive plastic materials in appropriate pattern and textures. How to Select Fixtures, Trim With plain draperies, you might consider the decorative value oi fringe and other similar trimmings This may be used at the edge oi the heading. Avoid trimmings oi this type on draperies with textur and pattern interest as it will onlj draw attention away from It. Weights at the corners of draper ies help them to hang straight ant even and give them a professlona appearance. They are bought bj the yard and may be basted. Most convenient fixture fa draperies is the traverse rod, es pecially when you want to clos the draperies at night With i cornice, simple rods or brass ring are best Drapes which are to be sta tionary will do nicely with draper; pins, booked over the rods. If yo don't want a wide stretch of yard the best solution is a swinging rot for each panel. |