A NEW ROYAL HOME

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 10

A NEW ROYAL HOME

The Duke and Duchess of Kent have now moved into their new home, The Coppins, at Iver, Buckinghamshire. Both have modern ideas in house-plan-ning, and they have personally supervised the redecoration of the house. Every window is dressed with modern printed calico. The walls have been stripped and modernised, and against this severity the Duke and Duchess have used hand-printed chintz boldly patterned and prolifically coloured. In the Duchess’s drawing room the handsome curtains are the key to the colourings of the entire room. The walls and the ground of the chintz are of soft, pale parchment. Trailing across the material are large blossoms and stem designs in rose, blue, green and old gold. The same shades are used in plain tones for quilted upholsteries on the furniture. This gives the antique mahogany drawing room pieces which the Duke has collected a perfect background. The garden room has walls of Naples yellow and the windows are draped with curtains of yellow chintz quilted with red, and the adjoining music room, which boasts two grand pianos, has warm beige walls and more red quilting. The Duchess’s bedroom is in a new peachy-pink shade. This is used for the walls and repeated in the large flowers on the curtain chintz, mingling in a Chippendale pattern with tones of green, black, and grey on a creamy background. Great care has been taken with Prince Edward’s nursery suite. The day nursery is in blue, with curtains of .plain blue chintz, quilted with white borders. Corners have been eliminated, and the furniture and other equipment is cut down to an absolute minimum. The walls are ornamented with designs calculated to attract the baby’s attention, and the windows are of the ultra-violet ray type.