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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 15

V" I > " " :^!i:!!!, '^®^BBsBUEBa3IKBBBEBBE3iHBBBBnBBBBBBBaEBBE3BBaB ! ' ! SBSH!B:s»miii^«ii«ni![r^^B lit Z^S~r—^ A CORALIE STANLEY MKELLAR PAGE IX 1 ir /: -v ♦ —-— —— i taster luaisUs | f§§P ate in tiie fiarktL borate ilfj, Kitchen . - . —,„J fo« in Wallpapers . \ | why Not? y%, I h l r , P- Tf cnthralled "* and made our ™ n littlc } >»<»' t/ rfr«<7», many had the entire histolyoflhT family If ! /~*yTIOSE (hill lifeless kitchen chairs and that well-scrubbed « aoa.naunaatupjt.ng. to whom they belonged worked into them. Wallpaper has always IT I Kj § homely table had not on mil nerves for the past six months. thinking out the reason for another woman s charming arrange- played a prominent part in Chinese interior decoration. |Y ZS Even 'the china shelves with their prim picot-edged American hc^ )rc s ? ym V " mi ™ is all wrong!" First The latter end of the 15th century in Italy brought forth some fine iff [j cloth runners irritated me. My family was away, and perhaps X rr ¥ »» * "j e the ™ a y her drawing room faces. It is to the east, forms of red tapestry paper, and France contributed deliqhtful || because I had time to think for myself I made up my mind to have a • . e fQ umtc tapestry, in greys and orchid colour- brocade in satin stripe with wreaths and cherubim faces |j<£> || companionable kitchen as well as a strictly useful one. I got to work J' oh S*, i f "J™*'! 1 ? 011 tea, and soft lampshades cast in the 16th and 17th centuries. Before wallpapers were thought of ilia* | with my head first of all. Green is my favourite colour. I would beautiful ,m< * md l mk Ua roses ' lt the bareness of lofty stone apartments and granite columns and stair- 111 j! stain the floor leaf green. The walls I would paint paler but an alive * ' toa \f s was hidden, or in parts covered, by hand-worked, sewn and iNfr i| lettuce green. The plate rack round the dado would be primrose like > Now OUR house faces west, and the afternoon sun pours in. We do embroidered tapestries. Firescreens with the family escutcheon || the window ledges, and in painted green window boxes I would grow nc( 'd artificial light. A mellow gold pervades our room at four blazing forth held prominent place in the sombre halls. jjj^gjt |! primroses in season, and every yellow flower that bloomed would bud o clock tea. Our paper is of fawn, with a plate shelf upon which are Nowadays tapestry wallpaper is cleverly coined from matin nf tip nhl 1114? | for me. old pteees of bronze catch,ng the afternoon light beautifully. designs of gallant knight, on horseback and lavishing ImddZns l¥ I We are perfectly right—and so is she! If either of us altered our America has made a fine art of her copies x and some of the American j The chairs were not a bad shape at all, and these would be green, too, arrangement the whole scheme would be incongruous. And yet we art dealers in wallpapers will decorate a house of a millionaire entirely !!!<s*' j with small conventional dames in prim yellow on their backs. The have a hankering for those shaded lights and that tapestry effect. Now * n the tapestry paper of the period. Of course this takes a fortune to !|y &!! table would match with yellow legs like a gay stork. The old ice chest the way to get it is to pick out the room in the house which is filled with do ' ere * n New Zealand, where mansions are rare and a whole house iT <pj and the swing doors of the safe would be yellow with green handles. morning sun and is dull in the afternoon. In this way we can combine done in a period paper would be impractical, we are fortunate in being ja^ M Gingham curtains in green and yellow chequers would make my prosy sense with artistry, able to secure the services of a thoroughly distinguished house of deco- j!k^ a|| old kitchen a heaven to come singing into each summer-time morning. Another thing. Women should choose colour schemes which suaaest rators, who can supply us with one room or more as we have desire Aj![ With this scheme in my head I went to Smith $ Smith's, the paint themselves. They should try to be individuals and not copyists A °*' and CaU yet keep the hou9e in tune with the ambitious art interior Hl# &!jj people in Albert Street, and unfolded my plan. Courteous sympa- home decoration and colour scheme should radiate the thouqht and We chosen for a portion of it. j» £ii the tic attention was meted out to me, and I was told that numbers of individuality that a woman suggests in her personal appearance amazing number of designs that Smith & Smith have to offer at f) , women were adopting the same plan as I was. Make your homes PERSONAL places. Suitable frames are needed the moment is hardly believable until witnessed by one's own eyes SX Tj .j ,7 -i , A . tfr , 7 . • for certain pictures, aiul suitable colourings in wallpapers, and ifidi' I Now ** th e time if ever it was to consider the interior re-decoration of Cl Y I And why not. said the shop assistant. If you work in any sur- ■ vidual designs for different personalities. See Smith & Smith about I your home. Be sure to come armed with three pieces of definite inforf | roundings you should have them as attractive as possible. I this—they are here to help you! I motion for your decorators— |X Y j A fair percentage of women in New Zealand, owing to labour condi- The position and aspect of your home. Y ; tions, do their own work. It is fair to say that each one of them would —The definite colour or period scheme you want to employ. pijT ♦ | do it more happily and consequently much better if colour played the 3 —The memory of your furniture and the colour of your own per» lljX Y | principal part in their kitchen lives. Dish-washing can never be sonality. il! T ! termed romantic, but it can lose much of its unsavouriness if a girl or \mi%v Vfvu _ r ~ . , 11!Y" f!i woman does it in happier surroundings. ' ff' SMlk l° T home ,fyou practtce stmple precaution. |f 411 Mill (hi, fpt y) BUI DO NOT copy someone else s house blindly. The personality iij# Yll 7/ you cannot hit on a colour scheme yourself, Smith $ Smith will JhM \ I ar *i r°bbing yourself of 4ii * help you. They are there for that very purpose^-"to brighten the 1 Mllll \jJ L Jj7 -llir jj 11 I ! -a * j+• J anything to anyone else. m livei of others" I MT if), ■ T m "9ntficent selection of wallpapers m Smith Smith's and ■ OiT j J ' j J lT ca P a ble assistance is at your service. I FOR BEST VALUE & "ft It Looks Better! I I It> . , 1N tt .. Y w Goes Further! if Paints Varnish | f It Wears Loneer! I Oils Glass v» p- * l. .u..ji.uh m | ® |p I i u j I Colour and the Neighbour . . I CTV Vf TTI? it Hardware ■ , , ,, 4 " TTT m _ jLrTjjTd Ar E you ever walked down your street and taken stock of I Wallpapers Zj\D h go7o\heo o fflce "f' f ' h t°e Ur th A bee° f t nd ROOF PAINT * Builders' Sundries *d "ae h ' pOJd dover Smith & Smith Ltd. l|| Smith 6 Smith Ltd I•* the duty of every individual to consider the feelings people in ! ALBERT STREET AUCKLAND |* | * ***•- # a« their to 'Phone: || §mifb & toil! s>ags —|