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Show Use Attic Space To Give Children Their Own Room By BETTY WELLS T HOPE you have some ideas to spare." writes B. C. "Because i 1 need them! I have a very large attic room with north, west and south exposure which I want to fix up for my eight-year-old daughter as a room of her very own. "The walls are unfinished piaster board, so I can start Jrom scratch in decorating. The room is 25 by 15 feet and has dormer windows. The stairway leading up comes right in the middle of the room, which is the only reason the room hasn't been used before. I won't be spending much money, so I will appreciate any ideas you can give I A room for an eight-year-old daughter. me that I can work out by my own efforts." Why don't you make an asset out of the stairway that comes up into the middle of the room? Have shallow shal-low book shelves built around it fot toys, books and the like. Have the room painted all in white, including woodwork and book shelves, except that you could line the shelves with cherry red. If the old bed you are using is iron, slip cover it in cherry red if it's wood, paint it cherry red Paint the chest of drawers cherry red. too. For the bedspread, use bleached domestic with a big bunch of cherries appliqued on as a center cen-ter medallion. You can finish the edges with an inch wide bias binding. bind-ing. Have white dotted swiss curtains with bunches of artificial cherries for tie-backs. You could use a red and white percale print for chair cushions, and white rag throw ruga for the floor with red striped borders bor-ders have them smallish so that they can go into the washer easily and often. They'd be doubly nice if you crocheted or braided them in rounds or ovals. Picture frames would be decorative decora-tive if you painted them all red, and nondescript lamp bases could be painted red too if you like. What a crisp cool place that would be for a young lady of eight! But if she's too frilly for red, substitute pink and eo ahead in the same way. By Betlv Well- WNU Service. |
