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How the Magic of Colour May be Used in Making the Home (From Building in Canada) Colors can completely change the effect of your haome. Decorators and architects consciously use color to make a house seem larger or smaller, the rooms higher or lower. Certain eolor arrangements can accent good line or conceal bad proportion; they can completely change its spirit. To create a feeling of space and light, use light colors, those mixed with white, as the groundwork of your plan For instance, a gray background used throughout the whole house, brightenâ€" ed with light shades, yellow, pale green, French blue, coral, any light bright tone, their intensity varied in the difâ€" ferent rooms#, will add a feeling of BETTER HOME3 EDITION space and make your too dark rooms 31 First Averue Schumacher Hardware WE WILL SUPPLY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO MAKE IT MODERN Builders‘ hardware of every description for every need. A complete stock at all times means delivery when you want it. Nothing can add beauty and brightness to a home as inexpensively or quickly as paint and wallpaper. We have deccrating materials for every room; the complete Brandramâ€"Henderson line of quality paints and new wallpaper patâ€" terns by Reg. N. Boxer. BUILDERS‘ HARDWARE We carry the better grades of building mattrâ€" ials at no extra cost, roofings, insulated sid; ings, insulation, wallboards, cement, lime, etc BUILDING MATERIALS PAINT and WALLPAPER Examine Your Home Inside and Out! AND FURNITURE COMPANY SCHUMACHER appear much brighter., Sun shades such as yellow, ivory, light gold and chartreuse, should be included in the rooms with little sunlight. In a too large or rather empty apâ€" pearing house, the opposite is true. Rich dark shades should be selected. The vogue for dark backgrounds with light accesories is a great help if your home stards out in the blazing sun. The general rule if you wish to draw together a large room is to use deep glowing colors, rich textures and warm accents of brighter hues. All shades of blue and green cool a room and temâ€" per too bright sunlight. If there‘s part of your room that you particularly do like, such as a charmâ€" ing alcove, good windows, or one wall that you wish to accent, completely cover this part of the room with a sharp contrast in color, so it will stand out definitely against the other wall One of the new freedoms in the handling of wall paper makes it posâ€" THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTMkMINS, ONTARIO _ GARDEN SUPPLIES FURNITURE ELECTRIC APPLILANCES Genuine Frigidaire Electric Refrigerators and Rangers, sold on 24 month payment plan if deâ€" sired. Ask to see the New Prigidaire. Make the most of the outdoor season. Plan your garden for the utmost enjoyment. It will prove true thrift to plant vegetables, too. We carry the best seeds and the tools needed fo1 successful gardening. Add to the enjoyment of home with new furniâ€" ture. You will have no trouble making a selecâ€" tion from our showrooms .. . and no trouble paying on our easy term plan. sible to use paper on two or three walls instead of all four and the effects are often more satisfactory and charming than when put on all four. Of course when used on fewer walls there must be a sense of intention and design,. If the results are just queer, more harm than good is done. Shaded and difâ€" ferent papers in graded colors offer many opportunitiee for individual Often we find a pattern of wallpaper sold n several number which,. differ only in color Interesting effects can be had by using two of these in the same room instead of one throughout. If a roum has a fine fireplace on one side which acts as a focus for the eye, wall paper may be chosen to be suborâ€" dinate to this interesting architectural feature The opposite wall, however, may frequently profit by a stronger paper of compensate or balante the fireplace wall. . , Phone 748 ‘_Drapes for Two Windows Set Very Close Together Some of the Spring Touchâ€"ups Needed Around the Home Check up on This List to See That Nothing is Overâ€" looked. Build and install flower boxes under windows. Build new and convenient place for electric refrigerator. Install new (baseboards. (By Phyllis Field Cooper) @QUESTION: In our living room we have a group of two windows practicâ€" ally togsther as they are separated by only about a foot of plastered wall. I would like to know how I could drape them as one window? Replace old roof with new decoraâ€" tive one. Replace broken, loose, or missing shingles. Add new dormer windows. Replace broken, loose or missing balusters. Replace broken or loos floor boards. Reâ€"design and build entirely new Enclose porch with frames and build screens. TInstall builtâ€"in seats on porch. Build porch flower boxes. Enlarge capacity of garage. Install* new set of easyâ€"opening dsors. Build new shelves, hins, and storago area in basement. Build half partition and install breakfast nook. Waterproof the basement walls if wet or damp. ; Look for leaking taps and replace worn out washers. Repair rutted driveway with fresh load of gravel. You‘re "touching up" the home? You don‘t want to overlook any little need? Well check un on this list:â€" Cover old siding or stucco with shingles or new stucco. Replace broken or cracked glass. Build new sereens and repair old ones. Put on shutters all way around to improve exterior. Build recreation room with wood panelled walls in hasement. Lay new wood fioor over all old fiooring. Build new broom, mop, and cleaner closet. Repair and refit sticking doors and windows. . ANSWER: A very satisfactory treatâ€" ment would be to hang one fullâ€"width lined drapery at each end of your winâ€" dow unit and have a wood cornice made for the top the entire width of the window, unit If the woodwork is light and nearly like the walls in color, you could have the cornice painted to match. On the foot of plaster wall between the two windows you might hang either a wallâ€"shelf or have a pisce of mirrored plate glass made to fit the entire space To complete this window unit place a pedestal reading table of rectangular shape in "set out"< arâ€" rangement from the wall and on. it place a lamp at the wall end..On either side place two chairsâ€"one could be a lounge chair and the other an arm writing chair of good style. Enlarge existing porch. Build entirely new steps. Install lattice work to hide spaces under porch and steps. Build new partitions for fruit room, laundry, etc. Lay wood floor over concrete for warmth and footease. Install casement windows over kitâ€" chen sink. f Cut additional windows for more light and better appearance. a Panel living room and dining room. Build new battery of kitchen cupâ€" boards. It was never so casy as at Present for the ordinary man to secure & home of his own. Install new, upâ€"toâ€"date front door. Build in corner cuphboards in dining THURSDAY, MAY 29TH, 1941 modern wood trim and