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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-12-12, Page 21J Page 4—Crossroads—Dec. 12, 1984 Decor Score Transformation creates storage By Barbara Hartung Q. My roommate ' -and 1 have recently moved into a 1950s home that has three bedrooms, a living room, dining room, Hitchen and two bathrooms.. We don't have a family " room and we want to make one of the bedrooms into an extra livingor lounging room so if one of us has somebody over, the other person doesn't have to re- treat to her bedroom or go out. The bedrooms are quite small. What would be the best plan for converting one room into what we need? We are both going to school and. I will .probably stay in this house for quite awhile since my parents are buying it.— C.N. A. You can create a terrific little den ' in one bedroom simply by carefully furnish- ing the room to match your needs. If you have a wall ward- robe or closet, start there by taking the ' doors off the closet and storing them Christmas Gifts DECORATOR CLOCKS and MIRRORS '7.95 '34.95 StClair the paint and paper people WATERLOO TOWN CONESTOGA MALL SQUARE Waterloo (Near K -Mart) Waterloo 8(N2e789 -Mart) 886-3791 1, WALL UNITS—Closet is put to work via a collection of wall units, creating a functional room. Furniture by Stratford. safely so they can be re- turned, should you desire. Carpet the room and the closet, repair the walls and doors and repaint so you have erased your conversion telltales. Carefully measure the space in the closet and pur- chase wall units that will fit into the space. These could be shelves or a combination of . shelves and closed cabinets. This will give you space for plenty of ac- cessories as well as a tele-' vision and stereo. Make• the room comfort- ahle for lounging with a pair of chairs with ottomans. Glass -topped tables give the carefree feeling of not worrying about food stains or spills on wood. Add your own personality to the room —.whatever you and your roommate like in prints and plants. If the room is large enough and if you anticipate week- enders, . consider a • small sleeper sofa in the place of one of your lounge ,chairs. Q. I'm redecorating my kitchen and dining area adjacent to the kitchen. I have medium oak cabinets in the kitchen and old oak dining chairs and table in the dining area, and beige tile with brown grout in the kitchen. What would be pleasant for. tying the two rooms together? The floor is both cream and beige fleck- ed vinyl. The rooms lack personality.—M.M. A. Select an exciting wall covering for your kitchen and dining space; perhaps a cream, beige, brown -and blue floral. Use the ' wall- paper on all of the walls. For the windows • in both rooms use laminated window shades (try to select a wall- paper that has a matching fabric available). If you don't like' shades, hang the fabric on a decorative curtain rod to create cafe curtains. Make fabric cushions from the matching material for your dining chairs. This will allow you to add pattern as well as color to both spaces. A weekly taws eonunentery one ofCanada's outstanding news personalities BEST OP PET ANCINORIILA.N TOR GLOBAL NNW'S a� For years the argument has been advanced that west coast Canadians of Japanese extraction were interned during the Second World War because our political leaders at the time believed they were a threat to this country's security. I have never bought the security argument. I have talked to too many of the people who were interned. Some people have suggested reasonably that I wouldn't be so critical of the King government if I had any idea how worried we were about a Japanese in- vasion in theanonths which. followed Pearl Harbour. Others have ranted away at me about the wily Oriental, their belief that all these Canadians they chose to refer to as Japanese were subversive, and their suspicion that most of them could hardly wait to help the Imperial Japanese forces land on these shores and put us in thumbscrews. Those last arguments, in particular, have always been long on vitriol and short on evidence. It there WERE spies among the Canadian 'Japanese who were interned, why were there no records? I found it hard to believe that the vast majority of those interned were not what they appeared to be — hard -v -11 -k- ing, thrifty, gifted people who were a welcome ad- dition to a country founded on those very virtues. And, finally, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, we have a paper prepared by the National Association of Japanese Canadians, replete with references to govern - meat documents of the day, which PROVES that the Canadian Japanese, were RVOTa security, threat,, and that the 'king government knew it. The RCMP, the Army and the Navy repeat- a full and official apology for every survivor and every descendant of Canadians edly told the government that the Japanese Canadians constituted not the slightest menace to national security, and that the real threat to security was posed by a handful of west coast bigots who would be downright dangerous if they continued unchecked. The new evidence in- dicates that the real reason, for the internment was to satisfy this vocal minority. A minority which one federal civil servant described at the time as "Nazi" and "evil." The question of compen- sation is not easy. For one thing, even the economic losses, when one considers inflation and forty years of interest, would be difficult to estimate. And it would be impossible to compensate for the suffering and the psychological carnage that internment created. But in a free society, there should be no debate whatsoever' about At wit's end by Erma Bombeck It was only a matter of time before the public tired of watching all that oil spill over South Fork in Dallas, • observing the affluence of the Carringtons in Denver each week and watching Angela sit on her vineyards at Falcon Crest . and do nothing but change her dress. There's a rebellion in this country that grows daily. We're tired of living vicar- iously through TV Guide. We're'sick of waiting for the lottery to pay off. We want to be rich too. We want to walk into a room like Alexis with a de- signer date on our arm. We want to sip water that doesn't understand a word of English the way Krystle does. We want to spend half of our lives in a hot tub like Racine in "Paper Dolls" .. . without shriveling. This return to elegance and style was predictable. You can't watch all that opu- Those of us with fantasies lence without one day snap- are on the move in this ping off the set and holding country. We've seen Acapul- your fist in the air vowing, to. We've seen lingerie that . "By all that is holy, I will isn't thermal. We've seen never eat raw turnips cars that start the moment again!" you turn the key. How do you get started on And I for. one will never the road to riches? again own a fur coat that There's a clever book out runs under the sink time the kitchen this year by James Charlton called ``Surface Chic", where you cut and paste your way to status. When you haul out your luggage, if the last ticket on it says "Columbus, Ohio", all you have to do is cut out one of his that reads, "Cathay Pacific for Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai." Got a cheap bottle of wine for dinner? Paste a label N over it that reads ` Chateau Laffite Rothschild, 1970". Or really go glitzy and paste your picture in the hole provided for it next to Henry Kissinger's for your desk. If you still need condition- ing to the good life, there's a new game on the market called "Snob". The game's objective is to be the first player to spend or accumu- late $10 million, and you've got Rodeo Drive in L.A., Fifth Avenue in New York and Michigan Avenue in Chi- cago to do it. As my husband said, "Any woman who can spend $310 in a carwash has a good chance of winning." He's absolutely right. There was a time when he could dangle a cabin in the north- ern part of the state that came with a rowboat and a path for a fun vacation. That was before I saw how they live on "The Love Boat". There was a time when a new piece of oilcloth and a few drops of incense for the lightbulbs would have brought tears of gratitude to my eyes. 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