HOME COLOURING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1096, 7 April 1911, Page 9

HOME COLOURING.

The freakish idea d having walls papered with black obtains considerably in London, though most people are content with merely admitting tfiat a note of black in house decoration is-as useful as it is in dress or embroidery (says an English writer). Quite a number of people have loose covers and cushion , slips inblack, and a few go so far as to use black curtains. A drawing-room in a well-known mansion has walls in rose du Barri, with a deeply embossed white frieze, and white woodwork. Tho chairs and settees are covered with cretonne with black ground brightly flowered, and a f.cfa is covered with ro>o du Barri, and has black cushions. Tho carpet is grey. The grey room is popular as ever, and is usually relieved with purpl'e'from the lightest to Hie deepest shades. Vu\e brown rooms are frequently combined with "log oak black" accessories, and one of tho newest dining-rooms is in dull green, amber and dull, deep red. In this room, too, a note of hlncit is introduced by menus of the furniture. Tho black touch is only successful in well lighted rooms, where it well deserves the wtlcomo fashion is according it.

For permanently rrmoving superfluous hair by electrolysis Mrs. Eolleston was awarded a diploma at tho Rhodes School of Electrolysis. Boston. U.S.A. Appoint., menta made and personal attention aivon at her nnv address. 2"iG Inmbron Quay, nearly opp. the Economic. 'Phone 1599. *