Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1926, Page 26

REATL ESTATE. Hand-Me-Downs in Furniture Line BY LYDIA LE BAR( N WALKER. ;00D DECORATION TO HJ wniture and fur- od styles as in them go correctly together. a decided tendency to veer away om per E interior decorate do not have tc much money they spend so long as they get sults, are free to lead in bomemakers who combine various in a single room, this fashion that is being set is most helptul. Few persons of average means can nd choose each article for the Yz VE PIECES OF i0 TOGETHER IN THE SAME XACTLY THE SAME PERIOD. house so carefully that the ensemble is perfect according to the recent | fashion for period decoration. They can, however, select from the things which they have, and, when they buy, pick out pleces that will go pleasingly in each room. This is true | even when families have an accumu- | lation of furniture to which they have fallen heirs, sometimes unwillingly for the pieces might not be those of their choice. Possible to Solve. ‘While it is true that these *“hand- | me-downs,” as they are often face- tiously called, present problems, it is THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, possible to solve them and at least make rooms cozy and attractive in spite of the collection if not because of it. There must be a certain amount of elimination as well as careful as- sembling of the things most appro- priate to go together. It Is a mistake to have furniture of decidedly different colors in one room. This is one foundation on which to build with assurance that we are cor- rect. For instance, golden oak, bird's- eye maple and light woods are not ap- propriate with mahogany, walnut or antique oak. On the other hand, black and Circassian walnut and mahogany Bo artistically together, also mahog- any and cherry, especlally when both the mahogany and cherry are finished in the same tone, either the red or brown shades which are typical. Do not think because the wood goes by one name that any finish of it can be put correctly with any other. Take oak, for instance, with its varied finishes. Flemish oak and golden oak are as {incorrect together as black walnut and golden oak. So we find the color of woods of great import- ance vhen we consider correctness in decoration. Informal Furniture. Willow rattan, reed wicker, by what- ever name we call furniture made from pliable fibers or strands of wood, has gained a fortunate place for itself because articles made of almost any of its various forms can be combined with practically any wood. This is partly because it can be stained or painted to fit in with the color schemes of rooms, and partly because it does not come under any classifica- tion of wood. It is a distinct type of furniture and an occasional piece of it is permissible in rooms that are not formal, though it is decidedly out of place in either formal rooms or those done in period style. It is a furniture accenting informality. On the other hand, gold furniture and much of the French furniture is S0 exquisite and delicate that it is Just the thing to use in dainty re- 3802 T Street N.W. 3806 T Street N.W. ception rooms and music rooms, state- ly drawing rooms and rooms where decoration, purely, is of paramount importance. ~ Such furniture is too fragile to stand hard usage, too orna- mental to combine with stanch pieces, however excellent the lines of the latter may be, and it does not fit in the usual type of American houses. The French are dainty and exquisite, whether it comes to clothes or furni- ture and furnishings. There is an artistry about their interior decoration quite apart from the cozy, livable characteristics demanded by average Americans in their homes. Do Not Go Together. Craftsman, art and crafts and mis- slon types of furniture, with straight, uncompromising lines, bear a certain similarity to each other, but to few other styvles. Consequently, they go well together, but do not combine D. C, SATURDAY, pleasingly with other styles, with the exception of some very old English or crude Ttalian pieces. " So we find in classifying our furniture and setting it apart for certain rooms that we should put this sort of furniture in one room. Another pronounced style of furni- ture that seems to require an atmos- phere of its own is the mid-Victorian. Perhaps some of you will not recog- nize it by this name, but all of you know it, for it is the kind so much in vogue about 50 years ago. Most homes have some pieces. Black wal- nut was the favorite wood, and it was ornamented with various motifs of fruit and flowers and geometric de- signs carved and stuck on to bulky frames. Unfortunately, black walnut, a really flne wood in itself, and ex- pensive today, fell into disfavor be- cause it became so associated with dinky ornaments on massive pieces. J. C. WEEDON COMPANY Realtors Announce The Removal of Their Office From 1507 K Street N.W. To Their Own Building 912 15th St. NW. And in HDUR[EMH - Quality has not been sacrificed to maintain a low purchase price. Our original aim when — we started to build Bur- = leith was to furnish dis- criminating people in mOdC rate circum-=- JUNE 5, 1926. EXPERTS TO DISCUSS MORTGAGE PROBLEMS The guaranteed mortgage is one of the comparatively new forms of real estate financing which will come up for discussion before the mortgage specialists of the country when they come together this year in the annual convention of the "N: ssocia- Tall headboards to bedsteads are char- acteristic, but. I'm sure you all recog- nize the earmarks of mid-Vietorian furniture. REAL ESTATE. tion of Real Estate Boards at Tulsa next week. Townley Culbertson, vice president of the Commerce Trust Co., Kansas City, will discuss the guaranteed mortgage plan before the divisior Lester E. Wurfel of Newark, J., assistant secretary of the Prudential Life Insurance Co. of Americl, will address the mortgage and finance di- vision Wednesday on “Life Insurance Service as Reflected in Mortgage Loans.” As already previously announced, Robert F. Bingham of Cleveland, co- author of “City Growth and Values” and.of “Financing Real Estate,” will address the division on land trust certificates and how the mortgage man can use them, and Robert J. Nash, Jr., of Philadelphia will speak on how the building and loan associa- tion can help in solving the second mortgage problem. 3 The pronounced ease which has developed 1in the money market prob- ably does not mean that the end of the recession in commodity markets and curtailment in manufactured output is immediately at hand. We belfeve the recession now under way will prove only an intermisison of the un- usually long prosperity phase of the présent business cycle. 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