Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1948)

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Adrian Booth matched drapefies and daybed cover, gave added drama with red bed-flounce and cushion trim SINCE I began this series for Photoplay, I have received an increasing number of letters from yoimg women who live alone in one-room apartments and hate it. They want their room to become so charming it will convince some man they must be immediately taken out of it and installed in a mansion for two. This I regard as most laudable. I trust you have chosen your basic room wisely and well. In smaller communities where you are possibly hving in one room of someone else’s house (even your parents’) you may face more difficulties — or even less. I am pretending that, as you read this, you haven’t a thing except four walls, a floor and a ; ceiling — with at least the use of a bath ^ and kitchen. Also, that you have imag ^ ination, ambition, and a limited budget, i' Since you are a working girl, you ob viously will spend more after-dark hours 1^ in your apartment than daylight ones. P This may influence your choice of colors. ^ Start, then, with these three rules: H [1] No room looks furnished without K window drapes and floor coverings (no B tice, I don’t say carpets). [2] No room K looks lived in unless there is a bit too K much in it. [3] You are not liked for nt yourself alone. (Continued on pagellS) ^ fr -V Liz Scott’s dining alcove features built-in cupboards for linens and dishes, shadow-box for her cherished what-nots 67