Home-maker

New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 938, 2 August 1957, Page 19

Home-maker

OMES and their decoration are a subject of permanent interest, a subject to which Mary Evatt, of Dunedin, has a rather unusual approach. In Adventures in Interior Decorating, she shares her ideas with listeners to the women’s Hour at 4ZB, starting on Monday, August 5, and these talks will =be heard later from other Commercial stations. Mis Evatt is convinced that housebuilding can be the basis for happy home-building. She and her husband have rebuilt an old villa, making all the furniture, patchwork curtains, floor-rugs, and accessories themselves. The house has been decorated in different styles, and although Mrs Evatt had been a little doubtful about the effect, the family finds the contrast between the various rooms a pleasant stimulus. The main living-room is in contemporary styling, but the rest of the house uses to advantage Mr Evatt’s ability to make good period reproduction furniture, The living-dining-room is in American Early Colonial style, while the bedrooms have Queen Anne and Georgian furniture,

Each room is described, and the way in which the special features were planned is explained. Mrs Evatt, however, does not seek to make everyone his own house-decorator, But she is concerned to show. that common family interests have a great deal to contribute to happiness in the home.