ARTISTIC WELLINGTON HOMES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 15, 12 October 1907, Page 3

ARTISTIC WELLINGTON HOMES.

ii.. i - ' i v In. a' leafy place half-way; up tho j precipitous path called. Aurora Terrace j stands a picturesque white &nd green ( house of * the ;clialet' orderjv its-., white- j ness showing effectively against the sombre green ,of.'the '.blue-gums,.near- ! Jjy, and its style 'according - well with • the mountainous , character Y'ofvtho »j 'situation: ■■ j': ■; 1 .- \ :i '. ! This is -lcnown as one.. ofthe .most i artistically-plannedhomes ■ in vWelling- \ .ton; and, it shows evofywhere iii, its ] arrangement the impress of. a- cultured i woman's. thought. From, tho opening ( of ; the'<fr'pnli .doorjits 'charm; is' felt,for i : one steps rifebt, into" a; hall; that i gives 1 the'key -to -tile- character of the .house, i The chill 'formality and emptiness of • 'the'; average : hall.. thiit carefully. hides i every hint of'personality behind 'closed -i doors :is ai great wafetii 6f opportunity. 1 ' and space';- for/the entry .may be made , •the-introductibn....to. all-the pleasant- ) ness arid'.character'.of..the' homo. . That a is ..what, lias been- aimed, at ; 'here,'-. and' ] itTore' than ; abhieved; for-":tHiS hall: not .1 .lies-:",beyond,Abut '( it -is itself one of.thc living, places of f the Vbomo; Green- and if blue are its. 1 colours',, and i]t is papered .'in sugar-bag j blue," with' tho. landscape -frieze' set low 1 on the wall, 'can' see : it ( without; ineurring-'a stiff .neck/. There j aire pictures' on .the . walls, and there ] are ; books -and . furniture' and pretty ( things thatl show : .this ; is ~a place to < linger in". To tho right, through a ] wide' arebway; Ms: a small 'room, really ( part of' the' hall itself j that (is fur- ] nish'ed to serve as a cosy .reading; or j writing room. This '■ is ' done in tho same blues' and greens as. the rest of the hall; the chairs and'tables'are of / oak, and tho mantelshelf set'- acrbss. onftcorncr-holda some pretty pieces of blue, china, : that accentuate the colour of the wall.. At the arehway -between : tho . alcove, and'• the hall . hangs - a ] heavy grey curtain of house flainnel de- ■, coratdd with a 'design in'greon and :bli)o linon appliqucdi' r j . To tho left of the hair is . the draw- • irig-room,. a charming ■'room-, of : irre r : ,'gulir shapo and ' s&bducd colouring. 1 The walls are h'un'gi.with brown, paper , for two-thirds of ■ tno way.' and for the '. rest .light buff. Trie woodwork is painted white, the,door, the window ! frames, arid th 6 mantelpiece;' tho carpot- squaro'is of grey-gfeenj tho exact 1 shade- of acarnation leaf,and the 1 chairs and cOuclies are co'viored in, neutral shades, so that all the colour in ' the room comes" from the red bricks' of j the open firopla'ce,'tho.bookß, the pic- J tures, 'arid that' is * .as it shohld bo, 1 where : .there- are so many bouutiful 1 things to bo shown. : The • brown paper ' of tno wiiils' makes 'a' most effective ' bafckground for pictures, antl .it- was > with; the vio ~wof having as much wall } space as possible that'wbon a. square window was thrown out from one end ' Of the : room -it Was. put at. the .'oiid, hot 1 in the middle of tho wall.- The cross 1 light required to. show a room to ad- ] vantage 'pontes from a little Wide win- ' dow fixed high in the adjacent wall,' ' but near.' the other end..... i v-That is ;tho setting of tho room, and ' overything in it ■ is ' worthy of tho set- < ting,-tho bfeaiitiful Sheraton bookcaso ' and writitig desk; the many pieces ' of * china, old, and . quaint, and -beautiful, 1 the mirror with fiame of .beaten silvor hung against the white woodwork of tho mantelpiece, ovorythirig is T charming, and- everywhere is comfort. T Here, too, • the n.nntelpieto . is .. sot £ cornoj'ttis6',(it is ? rulo Of- tho. house), ® and its bracket shelves are dedicated f to the display of white and daintily- r coloured china. ' . . ; . o The dining-room is colonial in style, f as tho Americans understand tho 1' word. It is ii grey-bluo room and thcro s is an air of IPuritariic severity about it i 1 that is not unpleasing, with its n straight-lined chairs, its fireplace and I maritelpiccb of rough' unpolished red 1 brick, and its oak sidoboard with c iron hingos and fittings. Blue china for the adornment of the inantoipicco, <1 pewter, ware for tho sideboard,' com- i: plete the picture. li

Tip tho stairs—and it is worth while noting that stairway—wall and landing have thoir. share of pictures, and their own. air of individuality—and we como to the study. It-is-aft unusual room. The books that ono oxjiccts to find aro hero,' and the classical pictures Sophocles, Dibnysi'us, and Athono, wlio have gazed down from chillior walls on many a study that did not look like this. Horo. tlic walls ■ are sage-green, as. those of a study should bo, .but colour and cheerfulness'come with a touch .of red in the stencilled friczo, With tho : red covers of. books on the sholfCß, and red.cushions, in tho cosy grfcen ..chairs. ..There, is a gay Mirzap,6ra carppt,.on; the.'floor,,in. which red and white Iprodominate,: and round it is. a-border- of sage-green felt. Through tho long; window,,that; opens:, 011 tho balcony'is a delightful,glimpso of waving . grooii ~;hrariches,, and ' beyond tho blue ,sea.,Vand .beyond' the. mountains. ■ Near-by.lis, 'a bedroom done in- palo yellow , and niauve '. with .green carpet and .all the.{.woodwork painted, white, a. dainty, restful . 'room, ■ and there is another , bddroorii in white and roso. Then comes tho .nursery with its palo blue ..walls,- arid, .dark .stained woodworkj .and. many .pictures for a htttlo girl .to. look, at, Eotcr Pan as a baby, lovely-Greuze maidens, and, what a little- girl should surely, like best. of all, a landscape fnozo set low on ! the wall. ; . "■ '