Gingham is Gay for Bedroom Furnishing

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 4, 6 January 1941, Page 3

Gingham is Gay for Bedroom Furnishing

Few people when furnishing the children’s bedrooms realise how very useful gingham can be, states a writer in the Alelbourne Age. Both the spotted variety and the checked look extremely well when they are carefully used. One rather lovely room shared by two small girls was- decorated by their mother for only a few shillings. The old iron bed ends were discarded, and the beds mounted on low legs. Then bed covers were made on the style of those used on divans—with sides and frills—and the covers for the pillows matched, and were edged with frills. The gingham used was of a medium shade of blue spotted with pin spots of white. White curtains spotted with the same blue fluttered at the windows, under which a window seat, with a covering of the same material, stood. The mats on the dressing table were of organdie of blue, worked in white, while both wardrobe and tabic had been enamelled with white.

The children took great pride in caring for their room, and the mother found these easily laundered covers more attractive, and quite as easily managed as the printed cotton ones that had been used before.