Show 0 lp e ho fc ra in ints ts f by R BETTY wco WELLS I 1 OY M f you y ou cant trip off to the beach for a breeze but dont let that stand in the way of you and comfort for the summer months mary T one of our readers has the right idea about that she writes we dont have money to burn bum but we jre are determined to make our home as attractive as possible during the summer I 1 selected the dining room for most of the improvements because its the coolest room in the house weve had a double window expanded into a french door so we can open the room right into the garden not such a fancy garden to tell the maybe you ion cant trip off to the beach tor for a breeze truth but pretty in a tangled overgrown way our dining room furniture is colonial mahogany new and were very proud of it the room itself is large with space enough for an old sofa and two mahogany windsor rockers and an easy chair besides the dining furniture were keeping these because they add such a lot of comfort to the room but everything had to be freshened the walls were done over in white with light green woodwork and a very pale yellow ceiling then we got a green summer grass rug for the floor the chairs in the dining set we slip covered in yellow rep it took away the heavy dark effect of the furniture the sofa and easy chair got slip covers too a fabric with green leaves on a white ground washable and completely shrunk of course the windsor rockers have pads of this same cool looking cotton print we used pongee dyed yellow for curtains malting making them floor floo r length and to draw back and forth on rings the pongee hangs beautifully and seems so cool yet its bright and fresh looking youve no idea how much we enjoy this room during the dog days its so simple and seems see ms secluded yet beautiful in the tall fail well bring back our old green broadloom rug from the cleaners and im going to have a flat weave mohair for slip covers on the sofa and easy chair something in a floral with a coral ground the dining chairs will doff their slip covers and keep their regular coral velvet seats and the windsors Wind sors will have coral velvet pads to match that way the walls woodwork and ceilings can stay the same tor for summer and winter for we expect to go back to the use of summer rug and summer slip covers every season definite A definite lift dining outside or dining in e a lady with a house does get tired tired of the same old table settings it is ak al ways a little depressing to think of the gigantic task of planning three meals a day every day in the year but weve found that if the settings of these meals are varied and intriguing tri guing a lady gets a very definite lift and her meals take on glam glamour and piquancy r we dont know why but summer seems to be the time when our little gray cells begin to percolate and new and unexpected ideas for table settings come natural to most of us just now were terribly excited about some linen cloths claths and napkins weve seen lately in gorgeous audacious colors taken from chinese paintings mandarin red old blue moonstone gray and turquoise even the most mundane of hashes if set on white plates against any of these rich colors would bring zest to jaded summer appetites these cloths claths are surprisingly inexpensive and are made even more dramatic by a wide band of white around their borders wed like them particularly ticul arly with white pottery plates and cups and a dashing arrangement of the more flamboyant summer flowers perhaps you could mix black eyed susans and babas breath in a white bowl for a i centerpiece ter piece on the moonstone gray cloth or for a really exotic centerpiece try cutting madonna lilies very short and allowing their creamy blossoms to float on the waters surface in a low square brass container this would be lovely on the turquoise cloth if you have lovely spiky zinnias kinnias zin nias their colors will give you all sorts of new ideas with your chinese j cloths claths wed like the deep r red ed zin nias in a blue container on an old blue cloth and flamboyant dahlias kahlias will feel right at home if placed in exotic containers to grace any of these brightly colored cloths claths a by betty wells service |