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Show Up-to-Date Ideas for Decorating Rough Wall In the summertime persons who delight In having living quarters totally different from those occupied during the winter, often prefer to nave their cottages unplastered. And there are other families who find the cost of the plain board walls so much less than plastered, that for tconomlcal reasons the walls are left In this unfinished state. But In neither Instance does It mean that the walls are left bare. It simply signifies that the treatment is In accord ac-cord with the scheme of the interior Bnlsh. The spaces between beams offer excellent opportunities for wall hangings of a crude type. There are fascinating Mexican fiber and grass pieces of charming crudeness, yet with genuine artistic feeling which re well suited to some homes of the kind described. Also there are hangings hang-ings of homespun linen, heavy, and coarse, on which designs are done In coarse cotton, and braid and tape are also Introduced for latticed flower flow-er pots, baskets, etc., from ' which the broadly worked stalks, foliage, and flowers are growing or standing out gaily. Burlap In natural color could be used for the foundation, should the home decorator decide to make such a wall hanging. Play bills, and travel posters are often sufficiently artistic to be attractive at-tractive decoration for unplastered beamed walls. These travel posters may be from a collection made during dur-ing trips abroad or across the country, coun-try, or they may be from some tourists' tour-ists' agency. For seashore cottages, posters of huge ocean liners plowing their way through the waves are appropriate ap-propriate and, with the bright colors In which they are portrayed, they make brilliant spots of color on dull wood walls. Persons who have a fondness for the theater can sometimes get hold of theatrical posters, or play bills, as they are termed. Some of these are artistic, some are merely striking, but all give a flavor of the stage to the simple shack. Shelves fitted In between the upright up-right beams of an unfinished wall supply places for books and ornaments. orna-ments. If these latter are well chosen to suit the cottage Idea they give a cozy look, while books always are Inviting and welcoming. Old china and pottery have a peculiar charm for these Interiors, which should be kept simple but which should also be livened up by the wall schemes. . Belt Syndicate. WNU Servtc. |