BEAUTY OF BARE ROOMS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5647, 20 June 1919, Page 2

BEAUTY OF BARE ROOMS

THE PASSING OF THE SUPEH FLUOUS

REFORM CAUSED BY WAR

Il : gh prices have their advantages in that tl)ev tepd to discourage that acquisitiveness which is natural to the majority of us (states the Daily JN'ews). Every woman lov?g a bargain, and the low pvices which ruled in pre-war days were responsible for the purchase of innumerable "objets de rertu'' f'>r the home which the borne cculd quite well have done wiihqut. But the war has altered all that. One can only afford the essential -and from the aestheic point qf vk-w our houses are going to bcneßi enormously. Por the majority of war brides the purchase of absolute essentials taxes the resources so severely that only tho minimum of furniture is bought, while most of the wedding presents are of a strictly u'ilitarian. ord«r. The consequence is that many of us are b?ginnjn>j to realise for tho first time how exceedingly pleasant to live wilh the somewhat under-fur-imbed room can lie. To minds accustomed to " suites," with their monotonous array of chairs.- unnecessary cabinets and occassional tables, the beauty of the rooms ot to day, with their strict complement of severely rationed fillniti'ire, copies as something of a" revelation, for the first tmio we are ablo to appreciate tho merits of each piece of furniture, undisturbed by the too close proximity of another. . For ilia first time wo are tree from tho disft acting influei co of "ornaments," crowded into every available corner; tor the first time we can concentrate on the merits of tho single ai'tisjio p ; eces we may possess. One of iho most satisfying that has been scon rccei.tly wis that furnished by a war bride. Its sole furniiure consisted of a spacious diyan, two armchairs, a table and a gruid piane. lis only wall decoration was a strip ot Persian embroidery. It needed no other.