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Now is the Time That House Shows Need of New Apparel

December 30, 1928
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
An article by about freshening up the home after the holidays.
Now is the Time That House Shows Need of New Apparel
By Edith B. Crumb

With the rush of Christmas over and the New Year almost here, the trim home maker usually takes this opportunity to gather suggestions which will help make her house look newer and better dressed. Perhaps she had guests and was so busy with the preparation of Christmas dinner and gifts that she did not pay attention to the guest room aside from seeing that it was spotlessly clean. Therefore, resolves she never will there be a holiday season again that does not find the guest room fully equipped to the last detail.

Why not see that the house is given a few presents one at a few presents one at a time throughout the year, thus making sure that the holiday season will find it ready for the festivities and guests?

Gay and Practical
Why not put some colored sheets and pillow cases in the guest room? For those who do not approve of colored spreads and there are a goof many who do not, this addition will lend a bit of color which will be unusually attractive. Or one might put colored borders on the upper sheet and pillow cases, if the all colored ones are not desired. The shades in which these sheets and cases are made of peach, rose, yellow, lavender, blue and green any one of which is very beautiful. And if one does not care to put the money into these at this time a note might be made to look for the material after the holidays.

This may be purchased by the yard, at a moderate price and made up with hems put in by machine or hand hemstitching or fine hemming. Every home maker always has something in the way of needlework which is fascinating to pic up and work on at odd leisure moments, and it is the time spent on this that means so much to her in the way of beautifying her home at small cost.

Guest Room Accessories
There are other important details which must be looks after in the guest room. One should be sure to have a good supply of coat and dress hangers, shoe trees, a clothes brush and hat brush in the closet. The brushes may hang on the inside of the closet door.

A little emergency sewing basket of drawer in a small table should...

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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