The Archive · 1939

Redecorations

Ideas For Successful Schemes

"Phe discerning decorator will realize that, though antique furniture, a a and old-fashioned knick-knacks can be very lovely wen Mrs W. J questions on general cultivation. bridge and mahjongg tea on April 26, The Sports Section are holding a

for the wind-up of their season. It is open to all members of the Association. Tables may be booked at the office.

The following bridge and mahjongg ea will be at Headquarters on May 4, and the profits will be for the House Committee, Who are planning some much needed repairs and renovation: at Heaquarters, and are im fin place, the actual planning of the rooms in a house must be on modern, scientific, and economical lines. New materials such as steel and reinforced concrete, ard the enormous advance in scientific knowledge and the design of sanitary fittings, enable us to plan our rooms and the disposition of the pieces in them in a way conducive to both physical and mental health unknown to our ancestors.

We must plan our redecorations on a modern basis, using the old furnishings merely to embellish the new ideas. and wil be glad to Fitty years ago rooms were large bell, light switch, and telephone con-articles of any sort. Pa y and lofty and there was no need to nection—everything, in fact, in a tent to the office or will be called for create an illusion of space. Cour storage niche—but the bed need be if necessary sequently furniture was cumbersome the only exposed object in the room. and planning relatively unimportant.

The dressing-room, on the other hand, Today, when space means money, the should be properly fitted on ship's Old shoes that are hard and ur Tooms and furniture must be planned cabin lines and pleasantly warmed, comfortable can be softened by sir far more carefully, and the smaller and in the day time this larger and a little vaseline upon them. Just rub floor area and lower ceiling affect personal room would provide an ntit on with a cloth and leave the entire conception of treatment. tractive private study. night. Then rub away the vase The fireplace is probably lower, though no broader, creating a feeling of lateral space. For the same terri reason the chairs should be low-backed and the lighting disposed,

OIL PERMANENT WAVE

not in the centre of the ceiling where Removal of warts, facial massage, make-up. it breaks up the largest plain area Dyeing of eyebrows and lashes. Artificial eye-in the room, but low down, in dia-lashes affixed with the most natural results, Opposite corners to enhance of scale.

Highly qualifza experts in attendance Ni LIH Sense of Space Medical Pediew:

In the same way a sense of space can be created by using screens in-

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stead of partitions. A large room,

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