A COTTAGE BED-ROOM

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 1172, 5 August 1893, Page 4

A COTTAGE BED-ROOM

A cottage bed-room is car able of so much prettiness on a small outlay that it is a pleasure to take it m hand, writes Ella .Rodman Church m the Ladies Home Journal. The red woodwork, however, must not find its way there, a cream white or pale pink beiug preferable. Matting for tha floor, with a small rug at the bed-side, is clean and pretty ; and the room with pink woodwork cou'.d have a cream-coloured piper or the palest of sage green. If preferred, a Kensington art rug for the centre of the floor can he had m pretty tones of geeen, or m grey with pin k daisies. For the windows scrim or cheese-cloth curtains with broad hems tied back with ribbon of the prevailing colour. A cotton fringe with little balls or tassels makes a pratty finish to these curtain -5, and can be ripped off when theyjjneed to be washed. As the principal feature of a bed-ro m is the bed, this should r*c4ve th*. first attention. The mattress should be a comfortable one, even if this necessitates a plainer bedstead, as the bedroom, more than any other apartment, is primarily for use An ordinary iron be Istead may be enamelled m pink or white, or any otber colour desired, and put m one comer — where a fascinating drapery can be arranged on a tester of bro di triangular shape fitting into the corner ;! or, if the size ofthe room will admit of such an encroachment on its space, place the head only against the w 11 and haog the drapery over a short pole fastened above it. This drapery will be very pretty of cheeße-cloth, or of cretonne m asmaU patern. A dressingtable, lounge, and chairs can be covered to match •, and whe.e cheese c\o\h is used alining of sele.ia will give sufficient body for furnishing a spare room.