PERIOD FURNITURE
BLEND THE OLD WITH NEW. Such a lot is heard about modern furniture in glass, steel, etc., that one would think the antique varieties were completely outmoded. But this is not so. There is at present as great a demand for “period” furniture as ever there was, but housewives to-day contrive a nice blending of old and new ideas in furnishings. They do this by placing old-world chairs, tables and other pieces in modern settings, with light decorations in cream and white.
The new trend is to mix white with dark blue or green. ' A more unusual colour scheme with white can be seen in a Victorian . London house which has been completely modernised. Here the curtains in the dining-room and drawing-room are of bright canary yellow linen, with a leaf design in white, while chair covers .are in yellow and buff. The one-time Victorian bedroom is in ice-blue and mulberry and the bedroom leading off it is decorated in the same colours.
Bedroom curtains, bedspread and bedhead and the cover of the kidneyshaped dressing-table are made of a thick ice-blue satin with a regency stripe. The window treatment in this room is particularly good, for the curtains and pelmets border ice-blue Venetian blinds, the slats of which are jointed with mulberry ribbon. As you see, the mulberry touch is not overdone.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2670, 15 September 1937, Page 2
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