Show household hints 0 by BETTY WELLS M you cant trip off to the beach for a breeze but dont let that stand in the way of 0 you and comfort tor for the summer months mary T one ol of our readers has the right idea about that she writes we dont have money to burn but were determined to make our home as attractive as possible during the summer I 1 selected the dining room tot for most ol of the improvements because Ws its the tha coolest room in the house weve bad a double window expanded into a french door so we can open the tha room right into the garden not such a iancy fancy garden to tell tha tha truth but pretty in a tangled overgrown way our dining room furniture is colonial mahogany new and were very proud of it it the tha room itself is large with space enough tor for an old sofa and two mahogany windsor rockers and ar ai easy chair besides the dining furniture were keeping these because they add such a lot of comfort to the room but everything had to ba freshened 1 1 the walls were done over in white with light green wood woodwork worl and a very pale yellow ceiling then we got a green summer grass rug for the floor the chairs ii la the dining set we slip covered in yellow rep it took away the heavy 0 A A ij maybe you cant trip off to the beach for a breeze 1 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 making them floor 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 secluded yet beautiful in the fall well bring back our old green broadloom rug from the cleaners und and im going to have a flat weave mohair tor 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 for summer and winter for we expect to go back to the use of summer rugs and summer slip covers every season |