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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Suit Self in Choosing Bedroom Decor pictures, books, or have any other such interests and hobbies, plan a part of the bedroom for them. Make this your cozy corner, and make it lovely enough to interest all those who might look upon it. Whatever the wall color or pattern, pat-tern, you 'will probably want light woodwork. This makes you happiest in the long run and carries out the purpose of the room. Floors, Furniture Offer You Variety Most women, if given their way, would probably carpet the bedroom from wall to wall. This, is, of course the easiest way to keep the floor clean since a vacuum will do the cleaning and eliminate your crawling under the beds for dusting. dust-ing. If the budget refuses to take wall-to-wall carpeting, settle on the largest, most luxurious throw rugs which you can find. If throw rugs are equipped with inexpensive non-skid non-skid pads, they will keep the room looking neat and orderly since they wiil lay square as well as avoiding accidents. Matched shag rugs are much favored for decorating bedroom floors, and they can be chosen in a variety of pastel or deeper colors. They have the advantage of being easy to clean. By Ertta Haley REMEMBER PLANNING the living liv-ing room and dining rooms, the front halls, the children's rooms? You always had to think of pleasing others who would see them and others who would be using them. When you decorate your bedroom, bed-room, however, you have only yourself your-self to please. This is your private domain, and more than any other room in the home, it can reflect your personality to the fullest degree. de-gree. Don't let your daughter tell you she would despise those lovely ruffled curtains since they're so old-fashioned. Tell her that she has her room as tailored as she likes, end you'll do what you like In your own room. What color should be used? Your favorite, of course! What's to be the main impression? Charm, sophistication, so-phistication, demureness, formality or informality? Ask yourself what kind of person you are and plan from there. You are the starting point, and the room should reflect your best tastes and your personality. person-ality. You should, of course, bear In mind basic principles, so that the room will meet standards of good decorating, but study will reveal that you will not have to make too many compromises. There are so many colors in paints, wallpapers, draperies, furniture and other bed- back. Play them up by using a lovely love-ly patterned paper on them. On the walls use a solid color which takes its cue from one of the colors in the print. Bedrooms need no longer be fluffy fluf-fy if you like them more tailored. You may use tailored drapes in place of ruffled curtains. Those who like a note of luxury In the bedroom and a rather formal air may make use of satins and quilted fabrics or rich and interesting inter-esting textured solid colored fabrics. The furniture in these cases may "be modern or it might be Regency carried out in the dark and lustrous mahoganys. Do you like a restful place to read? Consider a chaise lounge, and if you find this takes too much Let curtains and drapes .... room necessities that you can end with what you want the bedroom to reflect. Discard any notions of what bedrooms bed-rooms should be if they don't please you. Pastels have long been thought to be the only thing for bedrooms, but if the room has good light, there's no reason why the scheme should not be built around your favorite fav-orite dark green walls. Wails Set Style For Boom Decoration You will probably want to choose the wall color and pattern first when you decorate the bedroom because be-cause it's easy to work around this on other essentials. Sometimes the proportions of the room will appear to interfere with your 'desires. For example, some women like plaids, but the room is just not quite large enough' to carry car-ry a plaid all the way through. Give it up? No, why not plan to use the plaid on one wall or two. This is the way to have what you want and still adhere to good principles. If you have dormers in the bedroom, bed-room, don't regard them as a draw- reflect your personality. space, how about a comfortable chair styled to your proportions and a foot stool covered to match the chair? If you like knick-knacks, flowers, |
