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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1924
Page
3
Sun rooms are praised as cheerful, healthful retreat spaces that blend indoor comfort with outdoor light. The article notes glass walls and furniture choices affect mood, texture, and harmony with exteriors, and offers decorating tips for walls drapes shades and seating to enhance the sun room’s airy appeal.
A housewife learns to choose room colors by season room use and light. Guidance covers cool and warm colors wall effects mottling cream lining and neutralized tints with emphasis on furniture and rug contrasts.
Suggestions on furnishing a sun room emphasize fadeless rugs fabrics and undimming paints to preserve the room’s appearance. Proper selection of colors avoids fading and keeps the space vibrant.
A narrator reveres simple furnishings over wealth, describing a hilltop living room where basic pieces create warmth and beauty. She notes a compact, functional space with a fire view, a secretary, a rush chair, a tilt-top table, and practical storage that keeps guests ready.
The article discusses choosing color schemes using complementary hues like green blue with pinkish orange. It suggests using a single guiding item such as a chair or rug, tinting walls with a neutral shade, and applying the complementary color to curtains to create bold relief. It also notes gradually harmonizing a varied room by focusing on one basis item and refining walls and curtains on a limited budget.
The article discusses how window draperies should warm and soften light, like lamp shades, without obscuring a pleasing view. Open nets on rings can adjust light, draperies should add color spots, guide room color schemes, and serve as a focal point while not hindering use.
The article notes that modern printed limen cretonries often feature pictures that echo drapery designs. It highlights motifs such as flower baskets with zinnias or peonies, and cretonnes with parrots and roses in varied colors. A solid color valance paired with side drapes can be tied to the room color via a coordinating picture.
A 1900s style column questions if the iceman will be replaced by automatic home refrigeration. It notes USDA bulletin praising chemical refrigeration as a potential for the average home with a fully automatic, foolproof plant requiring little maintenance.
Experimental stage over several years yields a home refrigeration unit with guaranteed operation. It uses low pressure to liquefy refrigerants like ethyl chloride and sulfur dioxide, replacing high pressure ammonia or carbon dioxide. A calcium chloride brine tank and copper coil integrate into standard icebox spaces with a one fourth horsepower electric compressor and thermostat for automatic control. Average monthly operating cost runs about $2.50.
A guide urges careful color choice for fiber-Reed furniture and window treatments, favoring solid valances with figured draperies and matching tie-backs. Black accents and complementary hues enhance decor, while ship models echo a vogue for maritime art in modern homes.
An essay on how taste for fine pictures brings peace and poise to owners. It discusses patrons like Medici and Huntington, the role of paintings and etchings in decor, proper hanging and framing, and the value of collecting rising artists.
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