Vogue for Green Rooms

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 10

Vogue for Green Rooms

WHEN the Queen returped to %ekW ingham Palace in September she found that the redecoration, of her favorite sitting-room, to which she gave much careful thought before she went to Balmoral, had been carried out during her absence. The color scheme is a very charming one in green, white and gold, the green being in a particularly restful shade, with the white and gold introduced in the ceiling decoration. It is not easy to plan the decoration of the private rooms in a Palace where the pleasant home-like atmosphere is desired, without, however, producing an effect that is out of keeping with the background of an official Ko.yal residence, but Her Majesty possesses a natural flair for choosing gowns that suit the occasion, and decorations that harmonise with their setting.

Green rooms are already having a vogue at Home, and their popularity is likely to increase in London with the Queen’s example. Possibly, indeed, the Queen may be regarded us the leader of the revived green-room fashion. She carried out a particularly successful scheme at Sandringham, her much-beloved country home, some time ago, where her private sitting-room there was redecorated in green—a delicate jade tone. One of the many virtues of the green room from the point of view of the flower-lover, is that it affords an artistic background for flowers in all seasons of the year.