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An old-fashioned platform rocker iscozily at i home in blue master bedroom. Doris had it upholstered in red, white and blue. Sofa is in red and white check
sunny side up
Take some old pieces, add some modern notes and spray it all over with bright colors — and you have Doris Day’s home
BY LYLE WHEELER
Art Director, Twentieth Century-Fox Studios
When you come in the front door, right away you know this is where Doris lives. Somehow the gay colors, the warm informality reflect her engaging personality. “Only the house isn’t finished yet,” adds Doris, after a welcoming grin. “Those chairs have to be re-covered. Curtains are scheduled for the dining room. And what do you think I should do with the entrance hall?”
That’s Doris, and that’s her house. To anyone else it looks good. To. Doris, there are a million things to be done. But she’s the girl in a hurry, and no time in which to do everything. “If only 1 had nothing to do but to shop around for fabrics and wallpaper . . .” she moans.
“You’d go crazy,” finishes husband Marty Melcher, and Doris laughingly confesses that he’s right.
Surely, gradually, the changes will be made, but there will always be something else to do, and that’s what makes it fun.
In the meantime, despite Doris’s protestations, her house is delightful. It’s on a quiet, tree-shaded ( Continued on page 104)
Mirrors behind bookshelves give depth to living room. Doris used Provincial shut
tters with movable louvres at windows
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DE GENNARO
An early Welsh cupboard, selected by Marty, goes well with other informal period pieces in the living room
Pine lazy Susan table makes a charming centerpiece for Early American dining room, with its cheery red and white Provincial paper, white wainscoting. (Doris is in “Alexander, the Big Leaguer”)