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Each cube provided coming from these young people deep storage space for records, are geared to what is natural books and "found" or collected h '- j i " ri -n r j ft) H . and practical for today's art. Other space savers inlifestyles, be they urban, corporated into the room were suburban or bucolic. mirror squares to increase Sixteen interior design space visually and unpainted students from Los Angeles' tables and wicker stools with Woodbury College were given free rein to design six room settings. Working in teams using carpeting, fabric, furniture and accessories, eacL group attacked a specific contemporary living problem. They came up with fresh solutions to such perennial problems as how to create extra storage space in a small room, how to make a apartment a functional room, how to utilize problem architectural features, hoT to decorate a whimsical children's room, how to personalize traditional furnishings and how tc create a dining room when there isn't one. Lack of space is the decorating ' built-i- n storage areas to increase space literally. Although young decorators use modern design easily as their natural birthright, they are by no means tied to it. One design team, for example, selected colonial furniture for a nostalgic "return to the hearth" themed living room. They the personalized period one-roo- m ur I T I - . r A strong knit feeling previals tfcaigh the boys' clothing market for spring. It includes jacquard effects ranging from petit point irotifs in the tricolor to discreet tapestries with a needlepoint tone. used on both levels, nd a seemingly useless beamed wall bookshelf-display area. Even a was used as a desk could be squeezed in, and altogether a problem room was averted into a personality-packe- d setting. v vcg-- CLIMBING l(jJ ,ZZm -"- -jp v v fi n ..f-- , 7& 1 I 1 ' (MtN t yVJ. i 3t y j t II Aj Jh ftA$(xl&t Wood Import Clogs the shoe with the kautiful fit Weyenbergs, y f Sbicca, 't BUSTER E'T'Wr.'9ht' ??- ! ... All in - I J jM "jL ? jS j ( ' J 'Z " jS now for the finest styles W. x Vogue, Lisa, in jj A? Robin Hood, sizes. Colors, f Nv the name brands you know best. after-diniK- .. . Keds' Pedwins' selection of table was chosen because this shape is ideal for squeezing in an extra guest or two. The lightweight Lentwood chairs can area of the room for be moved easily into the daybed-sof- a r coffee and conversation. ! y S SHOE COUEOTON Ay mention a few: PX, jjl L g I MM For Every Occasion in Name Brands You Know Come A DOUBLE LIFE is a necessity when a home or apartment does not aiiow for both a separate dining area and a guest r jom. Pictured here is a solution that makes out of an unused bedroom a combination pavilion. A round mm A For Each Member Of Your Family fl U... aw vmb, Randall's Has Shoes 11 , bed-sof- THE WALLS is one way to attack that perennial problem, lack of storage space. An ingenious wall system is just one of the solutions that can be applied. This small, closetless room boasts of lots of storage space when the system shown here is used. cubes are arranged atop metal file cabinets and painted boards. The unpainted tables were chosen for their natural good looks and shelf space and the wicker stools for their storage areas under the lids. Drawers are available to be fitted into the cubes as well as wine racks, which can double for pigeon holes for magazines and newspapers, one tidy way to store these offenders of order. Cushions can serve as seats in an informal atmosphere and the material used to cover them gives the room color and expression. Potted plants liven up die scene and are great ornaments for environmental buffs. Youll be surprised how many things you can store with this system which is only limited by your imagination and will to experiment. And the best feature of all : the idea is readily adaptable to rooms of any size. 15-in- " st 5 ujsi ous --- area by arranging favorite books and objects d'art on tir additional horizontal beams. By coorspecial-ordered furnishings and fabrics matching upholstery fabric and dinating on the upper and lower levels, walls. to tL: it applied level room an Where to put dinner guests is they gave the split look. an even more recurring problem interesting, total All in all, the young designers than where to stow overnight took advantage of their fresh, home a when pests, especially ideas to creat or apartment doesn't have a unbiased design uncontrived room to livable, Never area. separate dining unravel a multitude be daunted, the students devised settings that home contemporary a combination dining room-gue- ,of dilemmas. decorating extra of an out room bedroom. A large entryway or enclosed porch could serve the THE same purpose. To avoid a TB DURING AGE a while effect bedroom dining, Tuberculosis as a killer of twin bed, sans headboard, was lined up lengthwise against one young adults pervades the wall to look like a sofa. A round literature and theatre of the a good shape for Romantic Era. A number of the table was "classics", including David squeezing in extra guests the Copperfield and Wuthering of other end the at placed room. Lightweight Bentwood Heights contain descriptions of chairs were ch jaen as they move the disease. Poets especially easily from the table into the were traditionally consumptive. Evidence of TB has been a area for after-dinntraced in skeletons 6,000 years coffee and conversation. Unusual architectural old, and in Egyptian mummies features certainly give any room dating from 1,000 B.C. This was individuality, but they can also before drugs to treat the disease create decorating doldrums. were available. Today, new Rather than tying to hide or drugs such as Rimactane, minimize a split level room and combined with another drug, are actually a beamed wall, the interior design students opted to em- "curing" tuberculosis patients phasize them. They turned the and in a relatively short time. multi-purpo- el KL. distracting beamed wall into an bookshelf-display eye catching a i THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER is what makes successful decorating. Here a number of architectural disasters are room was turned into decorating pluses. The split-levturned into an advantage by coordinating the striped fabric I reproduction with bold plaid and paisley upholster)' patterns on sofas and chairs. To give the room a coordinated look, they OPEN MON. & FRI. a ' NN TIL .p'' y J 9 P.M. jWr '9' ' . |