Show cuje ou 0 Us je e ho fd ayi ints by BETTY WELLS y H TJ T J OW much do you use your sun porch in nine homes out ol 01 ten the sun porch is all very nice but everybody sits in the living room our idea would be if we had one of these very useful extra rooms in our home to make it just that an extra room where the members of the family could either be alone and get away from it all or an ex tra room where the family would love to do things together it if your living room is colonial try placing a linoleum simulating wide board flooring in the sun room add gay rag rugs two comfort able arm chairs and a rocker a study desk with a small radio for those members of the family who have peculiar tastes in radio fare and book shelves under the windows on the tops of the shelves shelve s you could place plants or jaunty pieces of pot tery for the windows bright chintz hangings or simple white glass cur tams with large snowball fringe or for more formal homes hobby rooms are interesting perhaps such a room could include a place for young tom s stamp collecting a table with plenty of drawers and a good light or turn your sun porch into a rather formal little morning room with small corn com fordable for table chairs in floral chintz cov brings small light wood tables and a very feminine desk where you can do your accounts or plan your menus or perhaps a game room would be most practical here especially if a p play ay center is not provided for in the cellar or attic you might use dark blue linoleum on the floor a bridge table and chairs in blonde wood with a pale green leather top and chair seats have the pale green for sheer curtains with dark blue fringe and add several corn fordable for table chairs slip covered in pale terra cotta and a deeper green in short get away from the porch idea in your sun room regard it as another room with glass walls instead of brick and watch your family respond for mrs sew sw and ald sew A lady who sews owes herself a few conveniences and the few con can run into so many items as the years pass that she will end up by owing herself a sew ing room too alas however few homes are large enough to give up a whole room to a lady s hobby even though that hobby may be a necessary one and anybody who has struggled to hide her seamstress equipment with the machine pushed here scraps shoved there and other oddments hidden in a hall closet will tell you that it s a lot of bother guest room into sewing room is a bright idea or many times a good sized do clos t will substitute for a sewing room any home sewer will tell you that the machine is the least of her troubles now that smart cabinet models and handy portables are on the market it s the pattern and the pins the thread and the thimbles thim hies the bobbins and the bindings that get in her hair it if a guest room must double for a sewing place try using a long table under two windows that can hold books a pair of lamps and perhaps a bowl of flowers or a pret ty growing plant when not in use sweep these off when you start to make that new dress and you have a fine work space for cutting patterns pinning in pleats and the like keep an ironing board in the guest room closet and be sure there is a handy outlet for the iron buy a closet shoe box with many drawers to hold the notions darning things in one drawer various colored silk spools in another swatches and patching pieces in another scissors needles and pins and thimbles in another and these shoe box drawers are usually just the right size for filing away favorite patterns too always keep a large sheet handy and when you start to work place it on the floor under the machine then be as prodigal as you like with falling snips of material threads and pins after youve you ve finished swoop up the sheet shake it out and a disagreeable cleanup clean up job is avoided C by betty wells service |