A NEW NOTE

NZ Truth, Issue 1052, 21 January 1926, Page 4

A NEW NOTE

QUAINT CURTAINS Fascinating Designs Simplicity is the keynote of life nowadays, whether it be m dress, m furnishings or m our mode of living. Gone are the days when a room — to be considered tastefully furnishedhad to be cluttered up : with' ornaments and antimacassars^ dried flowers and jgrasses, sea shells and such like.- ..... These early Victorian notions have departed with .the crinolines and the bustles, and nobody wants to see any of them back again. To strike the simple note everything must be m harmony, and too often an otherwise charming room is spoilt by one small detail. Curtains are often : chosen m haphazard fashion and do not blend with the general scheme of things as they should. .'• .■ :■-.-; .■ » ' „ . i Curtains should'; /be chosen with a view to the duty>they have-to perform. If they\ have to take the place of blinds and secure privacy for us m the evenings they must necessarily be opaque, but<' if they are .merely for draping they can be made', of dainty material, net or ninon; muslin or voile, or the newest idea— gingham. „. This may sound rather outre — gingham for curtains, but * this material is being made m such a wealth of fas-, cinating 'shades . and. designs to-day

that where price is an important de^ ciding factor nothing better could be chosen. v ■■,■"■.: Besides, an easily washed fabric, which will always bear a fresh appearance, is far to be preferred before an expensive material which 'will not statid the tub and must therefore' be sent to the cleaneijs. , . Imagine a little diningropm with dark oak furniture, ; facing south or on to a verandah. ; : i Why have dark brown casement curtains to match : the furniture? Why not have gay cambric hangings, blue and tan, pink arid fawn, or even orange, to try and bring- back a suggestion, of the sunlight that is missing. Little conventional designs or, b/oken checks ai*e equally attractive.