One Bedroom Apartment Decor

One Bedroom Apartment Decor

For the business woman who has only one room and ample closet space on which to build a home, the best arrangement for apartment decor is to use a day bed that will serve as a bed but that between times will look like an attractive divan. The colors of the room should be dark enough to avoid the appearance of a bedroom, and the couch should be comfortable but not too "beddy". There should be a chiffonier with obvious toilet articles concealed in the top drawer. The dressing table or regulation bureau would be quite out of place. Beside the bed should be a table large enough to serve as a sewing table. Beside these, should be provided a flat writing desk to serve also as a table, and a round table on which to eat. With the addition of several chairs, these pieces would form the requisites for her room.

The table used for dining is best placed near the kitchenette door, to save steps and the carpet; yet it should not be directly in front of the kitchenette, as no one, even a hurried business woman, wishes to sit and watch the ways and means of her approaching meal. For the purposes of entertaining or even when alone, the tea wagon will prove the one greatest asset to light housekeeping.

Where there are two closets, one may be developed into a charming kitchenette by papering the walls with glazed bathroom paper, placing the gas stove to one side and the table covered with white oil cloth on the other. Underneath may be built shelves for pots and pans, and stores. Over the stove at the side may be hung copper cooking utensils, polished to look fresh and clean. Copper dishes are decorative as well as useful in a kitchenette. Over the table may be shelves to hold the bowls, etc., and on the side wall may be fastened a narrow molding with a groove to hold the pretty plates upright, and with hooks beneath to hang the cups. If the paper in such a kitchenette has a blue and yellow pattern, the woodwork may be painted bright blue and the moldings striped with yellow. Use yellow bowls and copper and Breton china of a blue and yellow pattern. Put down a blue and white square linoleum, or paint the floor a bright blue.

In the other closet, which may be used as a little dressing room, paper the walls with a gay floral pattern, put in a painted chiffonier and over the clothes hang a gay pattern chintz cover. If the hat boxes are covered with the same paper as the walls, the result will be interesting.

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