BLUE AND WHITE FOR NURSERY OF ROYAL BABY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 5, 21 January 1937, Page 5

BLUE AND WHITE FOR NURSERY OF ROYAL BABY

Little Prince Edward, son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent received many original Christmas gifts, but aone so important as the baby sister, ,viio arrived on Christmas Day. Situated on the top . floor of a large and dignified house in Belgrave Square, the nurseries, bright and airy, perfectly equipped, and full of colour and comfort, provide ideal surroundings for the development of babies; A long, narrow hall gives privacy to the nursery suite by cutting it oif from the main part of the house, and a deep pile carpet deadens the souhd ot footsteps from "the outside world. A day nursery, night nursery, bathroom, and lobhy comprise the nursery quarters. White, with an accent of deep blue, is the colour scheme that has been chosen. In the day nursery, walls and ceilings are .painted white, and the white rubberised floor covering, used throughout, deadens sound, is easy to clean, and is warm to the feet. All the rooms are curfcained in glazed chintz, patterned in white scallop shells on a blue ground, and those in the day i ursery are lined with white, with a biue-fringed tailored pelmet. Tahle and chcairs are of plain wood, painted to match the blue of the curtains, and the chair seats are. upholstered in the eurtain fahric. The hliie sideboard has white handies. A point that will apppal to all mothers is that ihe furniture has been specially designed with a plain hat surf ace, leaving no sharp corners , to endanger baby, and no crevices to. catch the dust. Coars.e, white linen covers, piped with blue, adorn the comfprtable sofa and easy chairs. Behind a screen of tooled leather, in shades of brown and gdld, stauds a white-painted bookcase, with 'blue lines, waiting to he lilled with the rolumes- that will m ark. the first essays of babyhood into literature. . Pleated white muslin shades, bordered and smocked with blue, cover the twin reading lamps, which havs decorative bases of white plaster. The poibtery inkpots on the inlaid writing desk are in deep blue. A-big square clock over the 'door is painted to match the wali, and has silver figures. . Nursery characters disport themselves on the blue rug before the fiieplace. One door in the day nursery leads straight out of the suite, the other opens oiT to the little lobhy ""connectmg the three rooms. Everything is white in the bathroom, which has a sunKen bath with all the taps outside the bath. Four maps, framed in blue passepartout^make a novel decoration ior this room, and a heated metat rail holds an array of towels. The blue and white shell-patterned fahric is'used not only for the cuitains in the night nursery, but entirely covers tho dressing table st'anding m the window. This is decorative. but a(8o washahle. A three-fold screen, covered with the washable. sheil chintz, keeps draughts away from the cots. The larger one, used .at night, is curtained. The other, a bassinette,' designed for day-time sluinber, can be carried from room to room. Trimnungs are fairy-like — fine cream net and lace over crepe-de-chine, with rosettes of narrow cream satin ribbon. Lace edges the pQlow slips, and the downy cream blankets are bound with cream satin. A cream wieket basket, lined to match the cots, is. filled with nursery paraphernalia. A round basket, also daintily trimmed, is on a stand, ready to be pulied up to the nursmg chair when required. A low, rubherwheeled trolley holds certain necessarv equipment. ' In the white lobby stands a large? white trolley, adorned with blue. and holding such things as warm boiled water in a flask, a jar of cotton wool, a small spirit stove, and all the things a nurse must have at hand. Everything in the nurseries, is, of course,. British made.