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Express Your Own Personalit
Individuality and Simplicity Major Factors in Creation of Beautiful Home Interior
H
OME MAKING is a creative
into the family center of beauty and culture. It pervades the home with a spirit in keeping with the times and gives to it an atmosphere of beauty, peace and culture, behind which the mechanics of housekeeping are hidden." Such is the definition of home making given by Ida Bailey Allen, head of the Radio Home Makers Club of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
With this conception of home making in mind Miss Conradt-Eberlin is preparing a scries of articles for Radio Digest in which she presents some of the most important factors in artistic home making. This month she interviews Miss Joan Barrett, youthful interior decorator, and brings us a fascinating story of how to create a truly artistic home interior. — B. M.
While the little sewing girl puts the finishing touches on the curtains Joan Barrett broadcasts the process.
By Eve Conradt-Eberlin
LET'S begin our study of the n< era of inspired home-making w the interior of the house, under Jo Barrett's direction. Joan is still in r twenties, but that doesn't hinder her her work as the interior decorating t pert of the Radio Home-Makers CI She received the basic training for career right in her own home, a ' tiful colonial mansion, mellowed w tradition and memories, and furnish with lovely early American furniti that her great-grandmother had chos together with her husband, long befc he marched away to join the Uni Army.
"We were fortunate," says Miss B; rett, "because the atmosphere in o home came there naturally. But, thou everyone can't have an ancestral hi we all can give to our homes the a pearance of a place that has really be lived in. That's the first quality to stri for when furnishing a house."
After stud}jwig the technical details color, arrangement, period styles, a the like, Miss Barrett went to Euro to learn about the very old and t very new in furniture and decoration.
"It is too bad," this young exp( said to me, "that we have acquired su a snobbish attitude toward antiques America. Considering that the pop lation has at least quadrupled itself sin the early days of our country, the can't possibly be enough genuine c pieces to go around.
"Of course," she hastened to add, I productions can be exquisite — so p< feet that only the connoisseur can d tect them. But it is the avalanche