Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-04 | Page 5 | When the Bride Plans Her Home

) When the Bride ""Plans. Her Home j Enamel and Stencils Transform Ordinary Furniture Into j Dining Room Suite of Refreshing Tones , i : , . ( Console Tables Made From C Id Extension Table and Unique Un-ique Lighting Fixture Are I Notes of Dining Kcoin. i . 1 BY VIOLA FLEISCiniAN", Interior Decorator. CLEVELAND A dining room needs light and cheerfulness, but It does not require of necessity highly expensive furnishings. Tn the dining-room Illustrated Il-lustrated every article of furniture Is an example of the way old pieces relegated rel-egated to disuse may be transformed. The tabic is the kitchen variety with staunch legs anri a drop tlid on each of two sides. The chairs are the simplest stylo to be found. The glass enclosed cabinet shown was made from an old china cablnot. It was sawed off, as shown in tho smaller illustration,, illus-tration,, arid supplied with a substan-j tial base and set of turned legs, a' pair of console table?, which, can bol used as serving tables, were mado from an old discarded walnut oxten-1 slon table by sawing it apart and sup- plying a, wldo board at tho back. Cream Colored Enamel. This set of furniture was thoroughly scrubbed with lye water to remove grease and loose paint, lightly sand-papered sand-papered whero surface was rough and uneven, and given two or three coats of flat white paint with a finishing coat of enamel, tinted to an ecru or deep cream color. Around the edge ' or main surface, was applied a line of dull modlum bluo color about a half Inch wide. Then a simple fruit, floral or bird design was stencilled In dull red. orange and npple green. An individual lighting fixture can bo made by suspending an Inverted wlro lamp shade on four thick silk cords from a painted tin tray attachod at the colling. For the panels In the center cen-ter fixture wall paper was ied. A de- , sign In keeping with tho stencil decoration deco-ration was selected in blue, cream, orange, green and ecru. It was convert- cd Into parchment by being dipped In l Unseed oil. WnlLs and Floor Covering. Tho walls were finished In a mottled effect with washable flat paint, gray, blue and Ivory predominating. The stencil decoration was repeated oh tho p p m sole tab- closet two .t dotted l!ve t0 "r-Kc two rrodm p'lecci of furnita-tc, ! I , i walls Just below the cornice. Tho cornice cor-nice may be enambeled cream color like the woodwork of tho room, or It I may be stained mahogany and varnish- I ed. I On the floor a hand-woven rag rug . In black, buff, bluo and green makes an effective covering, with the wood I of the floor finished in natural color or painted a light brown. Hangings. I table runners and other accessories , may be made attractive with a little (needlework, blue and natural color linen, sateen or crash bclrg suitable for the articles.