Show Decorative Prop Properties in Wide Vide Window v Sills Now Nov that most modern houses have c none none to speak of decorators have thought up ull the most fascinating things to do with window sills If they are Hrc fairly wide the they put radiators or shelves of hooks books under them If they lire are loa long running across two windows the they place Illace baskets of fern or bowls howls of Chinese e lanterns on top and If the they are Pl very wide an out arch may be built over o the top of the window valance alance rush fashion ion un and lung long narrow bookcases In Inserted in III th the walls at each side bide The decorative possibilities of window window win win- dow dotty sills sill in fact appear to l-e l well ell nigh night limitless but hut the tine lies in securing the t window sills themselves es For as Marcia Murcia Clark Churl points out in an m article In Home and Field modern houses built for profit and not for love e have the thinnest walls that can CUll squeeze e by hy t the iC building codes toLles This means that you do 1101 not gel get deep reveals re reo veils Into which to set your windows end and consequently wide twide window ow v sills sill are now extremely rare In the majority of or cases the tile al ab sense serce of a it sill can be lie successfully camouflaged n ed and a w whole lole decorative c scheme hunt built up around tire tile remodeled windows windo Miss Ii s Clark advises ad Some Scone window sill treatments are complicated c ed IJ by the presence of radiators under the windows an and others simplified The Thc average a builder er thinks he lie haa has dune done you ou a gracious fa favor faor or when he the steam radiators in packing pack pack- ing lug cases with wicker er faces and Jet lets lets- It go at fit that You can hu buy really good looking radiator with decorative dec lee value alue or you ou can rip off ofT the and start afresh with a construction in one piece that the radiators furnishes sills for whatever whatever what what- ever er windows stand in lit a row on one wall and adds character to the room In houses an and particularly cottages cottages cot cot- of the thc colonial type window sills are ure Indispensable Here you Oll may mar build out un under er your our window In cabinet fashion either putting doors on the little cupboards whose tops are the thc window OW sills or shelves shel for l b s ol or ornaments Often one end of the room or two sides of It are treated this way 1 and the low bookshelves are integral In In- parts of the architectural background background back back- ground rather than afterthoughts tacked on an Sometimes the windows are me made matte to appear recessed by building building building build build- ing bookshelves nine inches deep all the wa way around them and across the top if the windows windows' do not reach the ceiling using the top of the lower Jower bookcase as 1 a win window ow sill This is attractive c in many kinds of rooms but perhaps most so 50 in childrens children's play rooms where toys tOj'S and picture books bools fill till the shelves sheh-es and are out of ot the thc way and ornamental at the same titHe time |