Brighten Your Outlook

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 66, 10 December 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)

Brighten Your Outlook

Window Drapings Are An Important Pai;t Of Your Home

By

Prudence.

QUTLOOK brighter and very changed is the report on on window treatments at the moment. According to the overseas writer of this article, much of the success of your furnishing scheme depends on the way you frame your view of the world outside your window.

VyiNDOW treatments are in the forefront of furnishing news at the moment, and much of the success of your furnishing scheme of things depends on the treatment of the window hangings. The most exciting curtains, at the moment, are made of dark blue suede! The suede is worked in small equal sized squares measuring about six Indies, so that a faintly checked effect is achieved by the shading both ways of the surface of the suede. As a completely surprising finish, these curtains have pelmets of those glass lustres that yon see on old-fashioned English chandeliers. The result is tremendously successful and arresting.

A clever Regency treatment has been planned for a modern flat in a modernized Regency style. For this, mushroom pink faille has been chosen, and the fabric draped across the top to form an unusual and entirely successful pelmet, with a silk fringe to give added importance and to emphasise the draped effect which is so good. Anyone, almost, could decorate windows in this manner, by taking a long strip of the curtain silk and pleating it in equal pleats of six inches depth, catching these up lightly about a foot from each end. The caught-up parts should be ar-

ranged so that they come at the corner of the window frame, to hang loosely iu the draped folds. Quilted taffeta is another unusual material which is being used a great deal for window treatments, forming both pelmets and curtains. One sees a great deal of this iu rooms which feature chairs or beds covered with quilted taffeta or chintz. One of the most charming arrangements seen recently in a Loudon flat was composed of piVlpst ToSODtld ' pink taffeta patterned, with- tiny.bunches- of blue forget-me-nots.. The full and billowing curtains had the quaintly old-world ah-of' a-crinoline-scal-loped pelmet covered, entirely, with Hie quilted taffeta.

Cushions to match were introduced into the room, one forming a complement to the other,- and-drawing utt-eii-tion to the curtains

Dress materials are pressed into furnishing service A gi'eat ddaTiit the moment, and one sees a great many of the new season's coat and dress materials forming unusual ami very decorative curtains. One of the most .interesting examples of this trend was seen in a curtain of evening dress crepe oversewn with bands of cellophane —silver on black. The effect of these in a room with pale apricot coloured walls and silver furniture was delightful. A sensible and economical aspect of the fashion is that women are finding that Hie cheaper dress materials, such as hopsaeks and angoras, make the most inexpensive type of hangings. Apple green hopsaek is used ingeniously for draught curtains, with pale apricot marquisette—a very line curtain muslin—close against the windows.

“ Another idea was for rust coloured tweed curtains in a man’s study which was furnished in tones of orange, buff and brown —and a great success they were!