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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-03-09, Page 22Page 6—Crossroads— M arch 9, 1983 Imagination on tight budget Q. I soon will be moving into a one -bedroom apart- ment, my first home -away: from -home. I don't have much money to spend on my furnishings but I do want things to be modern, comfortable and functional. I never paid much attention to my room at home because my fami- ly always took care of things like that. Please suggest some starting points for a real novice in home decoration. I like light colors and I want my place to be com- fortable for myself and my friends including those. who may stay overnight, N.N. A. When you're short on money you need to think long, hard avid creatively to make up. And borrow good ideas from friends, stores, designers and mag- azines anything that fits your taste and your needs. For people who are look- ing to stretch their uphol- stery dollars and who like modern styling, flip -top foam chairs are a great in- novation. They are basical- ly blocks of foam covered in heavy cotton or blends of fabric that stack for seating and unfold for sleeping. They can fre- quently be purchased at contemporary furniture shops for about $100 each. They generally come in medium to bright sherbet colors that mix with most lightly colored contempo- rary furnishings today. Many apartments are simply architecturally dull squares and rectangles with little personality to them. Designer Patricia Gaylor achieved an imagi- native look when she pur- chased eight 10 -foot -high cardboard tubes that are 10 inches in diameter (actual - '13, concrete pouring molds available at a construction form and accessory sup- plier). These she covered in various metallic vinyls — arranging them behind her flip -top chairs as a divider and a focal point of design and color. For tables, lamps and accessories, check your family and see if they have some cast-offs to contrib- ute. Give your new finds fresh paint. Add your own treasures — posters, books and col- lectibles — to give your home your own personal touch. Q. Do you remember when blue and green were all the rage? Well, I still have that color scheme in my bedroom but I want to change it. however, I real- ly must keep the medium - green carpeting which is too good to tear up and re- place. What can I do in the way of a new color scheme? I'm tired of a cool look and I want something more upbeat and fresh. I'm willing to repaint the paper and buy new draper- ies and bedspread. My fur- niture is Scandinavian in design in light walnut. — N.R. A. You could create a light and airy look in your room through the use of pale shades — perhaps pale pinks and rose, cream and various greens. Or maybe a pale apricot and pale yellow combined with a pearl white and greens would be to your liking. There are so many pas- tel colors on the market today and they're refresh- ing and exciting — a change from deeper tones popular in the past. After you select your paper, take a pretty pale shade from it and off-white and use that for your bed- spread, repeating that same color combination at the windows. Another possibility: your wallpaper might have co- ordinated fabrics. perhaps a tiny geometric or soft stripe or plaid to go with an open tracery of flowers on the walls. Be certain that the print you choose for the walls has a tiny touch of green in it to tie into your carpeting for a well-planned look. FOR TIIE RECORD EXPLORES THE WORLD OF THE CRIMINALLY INSANE The forbidden and desper- ate world of the criminally insane is the setting of Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a For The Record production which will be telecast on Sunday, March 13, at 9 p.m. Two of Canada's finest young ac- tors, Robert Joy and Nicho- las Campbell, star in this abrasive and unsettling drama. "The problems involved with the treatment of the criminally insane are very difficult ones," says Alan Burke, producer of Out of Sight, Out of Mind. "Our courts send criminals to psychiatric hospitals hoping they can be cured. Often these people are released be- fore proper treatment can be given. It's like a Catch-22 situation: one court puts them in and another court takes them out. Very little happens in between." Out of Sight, Out of Mind chronicles one man's at- tempt to rectify that situa- tion. Dr. Jack Erlich (Robert Joy) is just/out of school and is filled with ideas when he arrives at the maximum security wing of the Pine- hurst Mental Hospital. ...:lch one Has High Blood Presnra? There's no way of knowing by just looking. There are no symptoms, and even if you are calm and relaxed you may still have it. Have your blood pressure checked by your doctor or another trained health professional and follow his advice. Take the medication he recommends. AN IDEA TO BORROW—Take a page from Patricia Gaylor's design notebook and cover 10 -foot cardboard tubes with various metallic vinyls'to create architec- tural interest in a contemporary setting. She used Stratford flip -top chairs in pastels comfortable seating by day and twin -sized sleeper by night. BILL BBRAAMAN'S ONTARIO The last time I saw Paris was about 30 years ago. That's not the Gay Paree of the Eiffel Tower and the Sor- bonne I'm talking about. It's Paris, Ontario. Population 7,500. I used to visit once a week to gather news for the near- by Brantford radio station where I was a newscaster for a time. Paris is a pretty town at the "Forks of the Grand", as the brochures say. It has an attractive old world look. I always, enjoyed my weekly trips to Paris. But I was looking in the wrong direction for news. Young and bushy -tailed, I was chas- ing, fire engines instead of looking at the town's archi- tecture. As a result, I didn't find out until recently that Paris has more cobblestone buildings than any other place in Canada. There are 12 of them, and all but one were built by the same man. He was a master mason named Levi Boughton who lived in Paris during the last century. ' Margaret Deans of the Paris Heritage Committee sent me some material about the cobblestone houses, along with a pict a of one of . the churches. I went down to take a look at them. I met Margaret at a little restaurant called "The Cof- fee Cup" on the main street. Bill. Gilchrist, editor of the Paris Star, the town's week- ly newspaper, joined us briefly. It was the first time I'd met one of the editors of the group of weeklies that carry this column. It was • presaday and he had to keep moving. I understood per- . fectly. Contrary to popular opinion, .weekly editors are usually a lot busier than edi- tors of metropolitan dailies. After that, Margaret took me on a tour of the town. The first stop was St. James Anglican Church. It was the first cobblestone structure Levi Boughton built in the town. That was in 1839. Then we went to a beautiful old cobblestone house where Alexander Graham Bell lived for a while. We saw a few more of the houses as well as Paris Plains Church. That's the only one that Boughton didn't build. It was con- structed by pioneers of stones gathered from their own farms. Finally. we went to the Deans' own cobblestone house. I met Margaret's hus- band Bill, and their three children. Bill's family have lived in the big home for five generations. Bill was telling me that what you actually see of the cobblestones is just the tip of the iceberg. He showed me a typical cobblestone. It wos heavy and about eight inches long. The stones are set in an oblong fashion and all you see is a few inches of the stone. Behind the stones is about a foot of rubblestone. These houses were built to last. 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