Distinctive Decorations

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 83, 4 October 1930, Page 19

Distinctive Decorations

There: is something very distinctive about the'outside of the little late Georgian house in South Kensington that Sir Grey,, and Lady Skipwith moved into, recently. The walls have been painted a flesh, pink and the windows picked' out in apple green (writes '.a correspondent). Inside all sorts of amusing things, have been done with paint. What, looks' like stripped pine panelling .in tho dining-room is really paint with the. grain stippled, in..The amber and yellow "marble" of the stair treads—combined with, an apple green carpet—is also painted by workmen - who have studied in marble quarries bow to reproduce the grain of marble in.paint. Rubber backed with silk—exactly- such\as is used for the homely- sponge-bag—has been used in •a warm claret'colour for the curtains ■andchair-seatsin .the duck's-egg blue bathroom adjoining Lady Skipwith's bedroom. Following the American idfca of' dress closets outside the bedrooms, Lady Skipwith has made a 1 whole passage into k dress cupboard down which she can walk with, her dresses ranged neatly on-either side. " ,