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How You Can Make The Best Of Your Bedroom

Exciting designs and colors are out of place in the sleeping room, where the effect should be restful. In the small home of today while individuality should be a feature of each bedroom, there should be overall harmony, otherwise the effect will be unpleasant when all doors are open.

Color note of paint and floor covering in one room might match the hangings in another – in some respect there should be, is possible, an overall color scheme.

Room which gets the morning sunshine may be decorated in cooler colors than that which gets its sunshine late in the day.

A room with little natural light must be decorated and furnished in light colors which will reflect what light does enter it.

Most important piece of furniture in this room is the bed, and the very best should be bought with

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A Dining Nook In My Living Room

More than half the population of this country eats today without the benefit of a separate dining room.

I do, as the towering costs of building and the saving of every inch of house space have contributed to the disappearance of the dining room.

Recently I planned a corner dining alcove and am delighted with it. Would you like to share the idea with me?

And if you have a growing family to be considered, there is nothing so useful as a big spreading steady table always ready for use.

Now for the plan – I took the corner of the kitchen with the window space and made a window box for outside the window. This facing south, flowers bloom well in the summer-time.

On the floor of that corner I placed a sisal mat. Seating space under the window and one wall was

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50’s

As Australia becomes more prosperous, home ownership rates soar. Simultaneously, the world sees a higher production of plastics and composites which become a fixture in contemporary interior design. Welcome to the decade of lino, melamine and brightly-coloured feature walls!

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Decor Depends Upon You

That word-of-the-moment, decor, should not frighten any woman who wants to furnish her home with individuality. A successful home depends not so much on any current trend, any decorator’s dream of decor, as on an artistic balance in furnishings and furniture. Your decor depends upon you.

Old furniture – for example, those pieces of cedar or walnut which are now so precious, but which a few years ago were in the discard – is not incompatible with modern streamlined furniture provided that the pieces in both styles are selected carefully. Many of these old pieces have great charm and decorative possibilities.

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Women who have little knowledge of furniture periods and styles would find it an interesting study to help them to select furniture for their homes with greater taste. Modern production methods put good furniture within the reach of everybody, but unfortunately not all

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