TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

CO Home and Family

The trend current among interior
designers is to mass pots of plants
giving the effect of an interior garden.
Shown here are yellow and red Dutch

“One of the happiest aspects
of modern decorating is the
merging of the outdoors with
indoors,’ says Jeri Van
Leeuwen, the Ottawa interior
designer who has recently
returned to Canada from an
extensive stay in Europe.

“Houses are being built with a
border for plants under the
window in the living room. At
my country home when we had
the concrete floor poured, we
had a hole left opposite a win-
dow, and later the hole was
filled with geod earth and
planted.. Nearby a lighted fish
tank was set into the wall, and it
makes a most interesting
conversation area.” .

In her designs she uses an
abundance of plants. She finds

that in -working with --young

newly married couples who
have not had time to ac-
cumulate intersting pieces, and
with people who have a Hmited
amount of money to spend, well-
chogen flowers and plants are
just as attractive as an ex-
pensive carving,

“A designer may make a
room extremely attractive, but
it doesn't come. to life and
reflect the personality of the
owner until there are plants and
flowers in it, and besides,
nothing emphasises the colour
scheme of a room more than
flowers,”

Mrs. Van Leeuwen explained
that when designing an interior
she first looks for a focal point
—a fireplace, a scene or a view,
and if there is no focal point,

then she creates one. This may’

be by building a platform which
is filled with gravel and stones
for the placing of potted plants,
At this time of the year such a
platform would be used to
display hanks of spring flowers
. — all one variety of tulip for

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tulips, sunny

instance, makes a stunning
effect in a really modern set-
ting, whereas in a more
traditional design, a mixture of
daffodils, freesias, tulips,
hyacinths and crocus is
pleasing. Sometimes she will
use an ‘etagere — which she
describers as a ‘kind of curio
cabinet without glass, and most
attractive for displaying
plants’, and yet another
suggestion for a focal point is
the use of a tea wagon —
‘perhaps ‘one that is inherited
and is really too old or too ugly
to use as it is. It can become
quite beautiful when it has been
painted and then filled with
plants.’

Florist shops have masses of
plants available now — all the
lovely Dutch spring flowers
with their wonderful range of
colours to suit any decor, |

daffodils and fragrant

hyacinths. All of them are available in
the florist shops now, ready for the
creation of your own interior garden.

Flowers should be used all over
the house — in the kitchen and
the bathroom, where the
humidity prevents them from
drying out too quickly; in the
foyer or entrance hall — away
from a draught — to give a
welcome to visitors; and on
stair landings, where there is no
room for furniture. Instead of
covering a window with cur-
tains at the head of the stairs,
set glass shelves in front of the
window for small plants — pots
of species or miniature crocus
which are in supply now are
especially suited to display at
landing windows,

“In my own home,” says Jeri
Van Leeuwen, “I keep branches

of cedar in pots of water |
throughoiit the ‘Witter. ' There *
are sOrie' ii most rooms df {He “|

house and it makes the
bathroom smell very
pleasantly. ] use cedar when I

Beware ‘tides’

of March

“Beware of the Ides of
March”, Shakespeare’s Julius
Caesar was warned.

The B.C. Safety Council
warns all parents to ‘Beware
the sudden thaw” if ponds,
lakes or streams have heen
frozen over in the Skeena this
winter, says the B.C. Safety
Council. ;

Last March, in two accidents
of breaking through ice, four
small children lost their lives,

In each instance only one
child was saved, the ceuncil
said, .

If your children have been
playing on an ice surface all
winter, be specially careful.”
Inspect it each day befor

allowing them to return to it.
These are the treacherous
weeks from now until the end of
April when a winter-long safe
strip of ice can turn into a death
trap. In all, eleven B.C,
children drowned in such ac-
cidents last year.

Beware also the cnuld witu my
dog near ice, The dog wanders
onto the flat surface and the

child follows,

If you do crash through ice,
try to lie prone and Bradually
ease the upper part of your body
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original Eskimo art make an at-
tractive Canadian setting for this
arrangement of Dutch flowers. Pink
tulips, gay yellow daffodils, blue iris

Trend to bring outdoors into hom

am arranging flowers in a clear
glass container. I was taught to
cuta twig from the branch and
iwist the leafy part to take the
shape of the container, It hides
stems which may look rather
bare, and it keeps the water
clean," .

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containers.

It need not be expensive to
have plants and flowers in
abundance in the home. Plants

‘last for a longer time than cut

flowers and when buying spring
bulbs, it’s important to choose
those which are in tight bud.

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