FRENCH COLOUR SCHEME

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 119, 10 August 1927, Page 10

FRENCH COLOUR SCHEME

SPIRIT OF REST IN BEDROOM CONE is the large, heavy and ornate furniture of the last century—the large brass-knobbed bedsteads, cumbersome chest-of-drawers, marble topped washstands. To-day the furniture is more simple and light in design, and its beauty is determined mainly by the colour scheme. Here is a dainty French idea. The Parisian decorator aims to capture the spirit of restfulness in a bedroom—to create the proper feeling of repose. In this room the harmonious treatment of walls and floor is the dominating feature.

VX7ITH the vanishing of the oldv * fashioned furniture, more and more time and thought has been spent on capturing the spirit of restfulness and repose in a room by the right choice of colour. When an amateur combines a number of colours in a room, discord generally results, but the expert can be lavish with colour. In the bedroom .sketched below, several colours were used to advantage by a clever Parisian. The walls are partly recessed, the recesses distempered in pale grey and

the remaining parts covered by a paper of unusual design—pink, yellow ochre and green on a pale straw-col-oured background. The bedspread is of squares of gold and deep pink, and the floor covered by a soft pile carpet of grey. The big central oval mat is of grey with a deep brick-red border, and the bedside mats are of the same colour. The scheme results in a room of colourful charm and repose, relieved only by the vivid blue bowl placed on the wardrobe.