DAY DREAMING ADVISED

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 136, 5 December 1935, Page 18

DAY DREAMING ADVISED

FURNISHING A NEW HOME

Day dreaming is not only a permissible occupation when one is planning to furnish a new home or to do over one already occupied. It is, in fact, distinctly advisable, for the room furnished and arranged in a spirit of determination and haste will forever lack the elusive qualities that are built up in the gradual evolution of the practical from an idealised conception of what that home is to be, says a writer in the "Cape Times."

The starting point for any plan of decoration is the "fixed background"— walls, doors, windows, fireplace, and ceiling. Proportion and, to a large extent, colour, will depend upon these architectural features. If one is building the house, the day dreams may have visioned the setting along with the furnishings, aijd the built-in fea« tures will have been planned; accordingly.

If the house is already built, some ingenuity may have to be exercised to overcome or to co-ordinate pertain fixed features with the furnishing and decorating plan. The ideal way might be to start from the beginning with an architect and a skilled interior decorator who would instantly catclt what the owner had evolved out of his day-dreaming and be able to work the whole thing out smoothly 'and without any hitches.