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Show Making The Home More Livable j With. End-lamps for the Davenport rr fl ' j Since the end tables in this living room are relatively low, the lamps selected se-lected are tall in order to send a sufficient suf-ficient spread of light on the book to be read beside it. However, if the end tables used were higher, the eye would catch raw glaring light from beneath tb lamp shades. In that case a lower lamp standard like that at the right in the underneath sketch, or a still lower one, as at the extreme left, would be used. Be mindful of the height of your end table and ielect your lamps ac- By Jean Prentice DID you ever notice how your family fam-ily or guests gravitate toward the davenport when entering the living room? They usually da So it's really not surprising how much pleasure and livableness can be secured by adding, as perfect complements comple-ments to the davenport, good lamps properly placed 1 Like an artist with a pallet of paints, a home maker with a davenport, lamps and end tables, can create a balanced cordingly 1 " Many of the tetter lamps of course have adjustable upper stems and movable mov-able sockets, allowing for change-in height or spread of light - . . Bridge or floor lamps, of adjustable types like those sketched in the center, are second choice for this davenport arrangement. They should be placed at either end, the former with a 60 or I 75-watt bulb in each lamp and the latter lat-ter with two 0 or 75-watt bulbs' in arrangement that is beautiful to the eye and more than that good to the eye from the standpoint of lighting. How to go about it when ones davenport is placed against a wall is illustrated in the accompanying sketch. Although the lamp arrangement looks casually and gracefully simple, it embodies several technically correct things over which a lighting specialist would nod his head in approval. To begin with, the lamps (quite modish as twins 1) are just the right height for this arrangement Two 60-watt 60-watt bulbs in each lamp insure adequate ade-quate light The shades are open at the top and sufficiently opaque to avoid undue brightness and glare even when both bulbs in a lamp are in nsejor reading; tewing, or studying. each one. The difficulty is that ttie taller floor lamps cannot be placed lar enough to the b?ck of the davenport (because of the wall) to keep unshaded light from striking the eyes, V": If your davenport, however, stands, away from the wall, well, tiiat's n-. other a coming story. |