NEED a playroom for the young sters? Could you use a room for that ping-pong table and other rec reational activities? If yours Is a busy, energetic and active family, then such a room is absolutely es sential. There are undoubtedly space for these activities if you just look , about the house. Decorated proper ly, they may well provide the rec reational outlet which your family ; needs. i A recreational center or playroom t is something which not only can be, : but is, used every single day. Once you've set the space aside and dec orated suitably, though inexpensive ly, you'll never know how you got along without it. “But where can we play?" is a familiar cry not just from your younger children but the teen-agers as well. Then, too, Dad may have some of his friends over and will want space exclusively for enter taining them, without youngsters. A recreation room is the answer to such needs as these. Rainy days, as well as cold weath | er days which are ahead after the ; summer-sun season is over makes . the small investment well worth ! while. It’s a room which will be used all the year around. Most I homemakers appreciate the room, j too, since it relieves the house and children’s bedrooms of much clut ter, and still she can keep an eye , on the children without more than a moment’s checking. Decorating a recreation room calls for a family conclave and atl the fun and interest that usually has. Whatever the interests and ac tivities are, will, of course, deter mine what will be done. Use favor

71.7%