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Show 'BarreP Furniture For Brick Terrace Is Unusual Device By BETTY WELLS If there's one thing that wears us down when we go visiting to a new city, it's for our host or hostess to drive us around to see too many sights. Not that we aren't interested. We are very much. The part we mind is having to exclaim ex-claim with enthusiasm just too often for any good. For one thing we give out of adjectives. We even give out of enthusiasm eventually. Yet we're guilty of inflicting the same punishment on our guests. We spent all yesterday afternoon driving driv-ing our company around to see our favorite spots and waiting for their exclamations. Well, anyway, we picked up this bright idea which even our we-fear-bored guests perked up to see. 'Twas a corner of a brick terrace furnished with barrels, nothing more or less, but painted all in white with green bands. The table had a barrel for its base with a square top of wide planks painted white. The chairs were made of barrel frames cut out to form a back and supplied with a cross piece and a cushion. One barrel stood on its side with braces underneath to keep it from rolling. It was rilled with dirt and had an opening for plants to grow in. Several barrels were cut down into tubs for shrubs and others were cut down and braced for stools. When cushions were added they were green, and as we said, all the barrels were painted white with green bandings. Picture that against a red brick terrace surrounded by flowering shrubs, and you have something! As pleasant an outdoor grouping as we saw included a rustic arbor with table and chairs of natural unfinished un-finished hickory. By Betty Wells. WN'U Service. |