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Light Chair Suggested With Dark Furniture
October 02, 1942
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
An Edith B. Crumb interior design column.
Light Chair Suggested With Dark Furniture
Embroidered Covering
This chair with its natural ground crewel embroidered covering is suggested for use with dark oak living room furniture. It is priced at $37.50.
For more information call The Detroit News, Randolph 2000, line 555.
By Edith B. Crumb
Mrs. H. H. has a new home, but because she has kept house for several years she have very little to buy except curtains and draperies.
But there is one thing, and that is a chair for her living room. Her problem is that when she first began housekeeping she selected dark oak furniture, quite heavy, and not at all what she would like to have now.
In looking for an upholstered chair she thinks that what she has seen so far would not be in keeping with the things she now has. Heavy tapestry covers the sofa and one chair of her old furniture, and she does not want to put a damask or brocatelle with this. Some of the plainer materials are coarse and in a way appropriate, but Mrs. H. thinks these are too modern.
While she needs it as soon as possible she does not want to buy a chair in a hurry and then be sorry later on for a wrong selection.
For Mrs. H. the chair in the illustration is suggested. This has a covering of crewel embroidery and would be harmonious with the dark oak furniture she now has. Even though the legs are not oak they are in a dark finish and such a minor part of the pieces that they do not determine its choice. The ground of the covering is natural linen color and the embroidery design is in dark rich shades of wool yarn. The chair is priced at $37.50.
Mrs. A. Y. called to say that she had hung a floral picture over the fireplace and wanted to know if it would be all right to use another floral picture over the radio.
There is no reason why she should not have two pictures of this type in her room. First of all, I am sure that Mrs. Y. would enjoy having these pictures of she would not consider having them, and second, they would do much to make her room more pleasant.
Mrs. S. T. wants to know if it is advisable to carpet the nursery like the other rooms on the second floor.
It would be better while the child is young to use small rugs which are washable and then later on the room could be carpeted. It would not matter if it did not match the floor coverings in the rest of the second floor rooms.
Furniture Section to Appear Sunday
This is the last in a series of articles by Edith Crumb on furnishings for wartime homes. Questions which have been sent in by readers on problems of home decoration will be answered in the special section - Furnishings for Wartime Homes - which will appear in Sunday's Detroit News.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
Embroidered Covering
This chair with its natural ground crewel embroidered covering is suggested for use with dark oak living room furniture. It is priced at $37.50.
For more information call The Detroit News, Randolph 2000, line 555.
By Edith B. Crumb
Mrs. H. H. has a new home, but because she has kept house for several years she have very little to buy except curtains and draperies.
But there is one thing, and that is a chair for her living room. Her problem is that when she first began housekeeping she selected dark oak furniture, quite heavy, and not at all what she would like to have now.
In looking for an upholstered chair she thinks that what she has seen so far would not be in keeping with the things she now has. Heavy tapestry covers the sofa and one chair of her old furniture, and she does not want to put a damask or brocatelle with this. Some of the plainer materials are coarse and in a way appropriate, but Mrs. H. thinks these are too modern.
While she needs it as soon as possible she does not want to buy a chair in a hurry and then be sorry later on for a wrong selection.
For Mrs. H. the chair in the illustration is suggested. This has a covering of crewel embroidery and would be harmonious with the dark oak furniture she now has. Even though the legs are not oak they are in a dark finish and such a minor part of the pieces that they do not determine its choice. The ground of the covering is natural linen color and the embroidery design is in dark rich shades of wool yarn. The chair is priced at $37.50.
Mrs. A. Y. called to say that she had hung a floral picture over the fireplace and wanted to know if it would be all right to use another floral picture over the radio.
There is no reason why she should not have two pictures of this type in her room. First of all, I am sure that Mrs. Y. would enjoy having these pictures of she would not consider having them, and second, they would do much to make her room more pleasant.
Mrs. S. T. wants to know if it is advisable to carpet the nursery like the other rooms on the second floor.
It would be better while the child is young to use small rugs which are washable and then later on the room could be carpeted. It would not matter if it did not match the floor coverings in the rest of the second floor rooms.
Furniture Section to Appear Sunday
This is the last in a series of articles by Edith Crumb on furnishings for wartime homes. Questions which have been sent in by readers on problems of home decoration will be answered in the special section - Furnishings for Wartime Homes - which will appear in Sunday's Detroit News.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
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