ARTISTIC “SPLASHERS.”

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)

ARTISTIC “SPLASHERS.”

USEFUL IN VARIOUS ROOAIS. The modern sideboard, with its low hack and plain lines, is a far more attractive piece of furniture than its cumbersome predecessor, but it has one disadvantage. When carving is done on it, disfiguring grease-spots and gravy splashes quickly mar the unprotected wall at the bac-k, unless the greatest care is taken; it is well, therefore, to arrange something to obviate this. A good idea is to hang a “splasher against the wall, just behind the sideboard;, this can be as .plain or as decorative as you like, so long as the colours and design accord with the rest of the furnishings. — One of the most attractive notions is to use a length of the material that is employed to drape the windows. If cretonne is used, the design can. be enriched by going over parts of it with silk or woollen threads, when the effect will be that of a choice strip of hand embrodiory. The edges of the splashci should be bound with dull gold, or silver galon, according to the colouring of the pattern. It is well to remember, by the way, that the splasher .must be dry-cleaned when occasion arises, not immersed in water, which would spoil the galon and shrink the woolwork. Going to other rooms in the house, there are many places 'where splashers can play their , part in beautifying and preserving the walls. In ,the bathroom, for example, a splasher behind .the bath could be carried out in deep blue American cloth, with a curly white wave border and a row of gay green fishes applied in oil paints. Stencils suitable for the subject can either be cut by the amateur or purchased from an art shop. In the children’s bedroom, the splasher behind the washstand may be of natural hessian, with a woolwork border of green grass and red and yellow daisies, and fat brown squirrels, appliqued here and there. Alternatively, it may be made of cream-coloured linen, with a design similar to that on the across it. A cherry-decorated set would look very well with a splasher stencilled with vivid cherry branches to match. —R.AL