STARFISH AND SEAWEED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22468, 11 July 1936, Page 6 (Supplement)

STARFISH AND SEAWEED

REALISTIC NURSERY WALLS Now that English children have pixies for nursery playmates, young New Zealanders will soon follow suit. Interior decorators are paying special attention to nurseries, and their recent productions are most attractive. There is a magic forest of dark green pines agaiust pale yellow walls in one design, for example. Birds perch high in the tree-tops and, among the giant toadstools on the grass, gnomes and elves make merry. Overhead is a blue sky dotted with scattered stars. Less imaginative, small people may prefer the cottage nursery, which has windows looking out on to perpetually green and flowery fields. A cuckoo clock and shelves filled with gay china are painted on the walls themselves. The seaside nursery makes life ono long holiday. Blue waves lap the sandy beach and realistic rocks and pools invito adventurous deeds. Starfish and seaweed and sand castles are there and in the distance there is a gay-striped bathing tent. Tho seaside nursery is finished with a long, shallow trough of real yellow sand, arranged along ono wall, and for that reason is probably the most popular of all.