DECORATE YOUR OWN HOME

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22343, 5 March 1938, Page 20

DECORATE YOUR OWN HOME

Decoration for the Small Home. By Derek Patmorc. Putnam. 224 pp. (10/S net.) Through Simpson and Williams Ltd. Mr Patmore urges each family to plan and choose the decorations of its own home—the one method, he says, that will achieve individuality. The pitfalls which await most planners and choosers without experience may be avoided by the help of this excellent book, which is so comprehensive and detailed as to need only the small supplement of a professional word or two from the furnisher, where a doubt or an unforeseeable difficulty arises. Mr Patmore opens a broad and easy way to the satisfaction of Jiving and entertaining in rooms that express and please a personal taste—and vindicate it. An enumeration of the chapter headings will give an idea ol the scope of the booH; the problem Of the grnaU room; practical schemes for the small sitting-room; a small dining-room; entrance hall, bathroom, and kitchen; colour and lighting; heating; fabrics; and the country cottage. Sixty-five large, qlear plates illustrate the text. These plates, full page size, representing actual rooms, fabrics, papers, and accessories, are so fully described that the reader could turn from thom to estimate the possibilities of his (or her) own rooms and then go out, with clear ideas arranged, to the furnishing house,