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Beauty in the Home

November 22, 1928
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A Beauty in the Home column describing decorating a girls bedroom.
Beauty in the Home
By Edith B. Crumb
This department seek to give assistance to all who are interested in beautifying their home and will be glad to answer questions pertaining to interior decoration. In order to serve all who, seek advice promptly, no more than three problems will be discussed in any one reply. Readers are invited to write in this department as often as they wish, but to limit each letter to three questions. State your questions clearly, write only on one side of each paper, enclosing a self-address, stamped envelope and will be published for the benefit of all homemakers, but names and addresses will not be made public.

How beautifully a small library and writing room may be achieved in one end of a large living room is shown in the accompanying illustration from the American Home.

There is not always an entire room in one's house to devote to these two occupations and in that case there must be provisions made in the living room for these. No other room lends itself so graciously to a setting of this kind, for unlike any other room, it may be composed of several unites, such as reading, writing, card playing, and conversation tea, tiny cakes, dainty window, a gate leg table and comfortable chair invites the needle worker to a few hours of pleasing occupation, while at the most faraway place in the room may be a desk and book shelves.

And, of course, the card table never has a permanent positioning the living room, but such an agreeable piece is it that at any time it may be brought forth and used in any part of the room.

The color scheme of the room shown here is really very rich and yet conservative. The woodwork is finished in a rich shade of cream and the walls tinted in a soft shade of yellow parchment.

The floor covering is gray blue Wilton, made large enough to cover the floor up to the base board. The glass curtains are of pale gold cotton gauze and the over draperies of gray blue ground linen with scenic design in putty, mulberry, yellow and lavender with a touch of green.
The furniture is walnut and the covering of the desk chair is light brown leather, trimmed with brass nails.

Room for Little Girl
Dear Decorating Department: I want to make a pretty room for my daughter who is 11 years old. I want her room so that she will not outgrow it. The only furniture I have is a three quarter four posted bed in walnut. Do you think a small odd dresser would be nice- or a dressing table?

What color for the walls and what would be nice for spread curtains and rug?
Mrs. M.S.

Your daughter's room will be very pretty if you carry it out as follows: the walls may be finished in a soft shade of yellow, and the floor covering may consist of hooked rugs in dull shades of yellow, red, green and black.
The glass curtains may be made of cream French marquisette or white organdie finished with two inch ruffles of the same. For the over draperies light green ground flowered chintz may be used. These may be long enough to reach to the bottom of the apron and put up with a French heading valance.

Beside the four poster bed, which you have, a large chest of drawers with a separate over mirror, dressing table with skirt of the
drapery material single ladder back chair, with yellow ground chintz slip cover piped in green may be used.

The bedspread may be a patchwork quilt in green, cream and yellow, and the electric fixture may be equipped with shades of yellow ground dotted Swiss over taffeta of the same color, bound top and bottom with light green moir' ribbon.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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