WINTER TIME COLOUR

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 24, 20 April 1927, Page 10

WINTER TIME COLOUR

MAKE THE HOME BRIGHTER Winter’s almost here —we’re beginning the dull, wet week-ends again. Lark clothes, heavy coats appear, and all the bright blaze of summer colour is disappearing from the city streets once more. But don’t let the colour go—Winter is the time when it’s wanted most. Grey skies and dull, cold days, make us long all the more for the warmth of colour, and to go home at night to a colourful, cheerful home, is a very sweet sensation. Fill the house with colour then for the Winter months! Take away those flimsy white curtains and put up something warm and bright—orange, rose, and cornflower blues! A new fireside rug, and a few soft, tempting cushions —what a difference they make! And that shining, figured table, so cool in the Summer, with its narrow runner—it is beautiful in the Winter, but cold. Bare tables have had a long season. Throw a warm cover over it for a change. Not the old-fashioned, one-colour velvet cloth, but a light one, with a bright border to blend with the colour scheme. Unusual? Yes. but warm and attractive, and at least it’s a change. If you can’t add the new colours in in the form of curtain and rug, there are other ways. A bit of warm-toned pottery, a bowl of vivid flowers, a gay work basket—they all add the touch of colour that brightens the room. The workaday surroundings of office and workshop are drab and uninteresting—plain walls, banging typewriters, dull old ledgers and journals, and never a splash of colour to break the monotony. Pent up in these dull places all day it’s good to rest at night in a real room—a room where colour and warmth blend in a sense of welcome and satisfaction. To the woman who spends a big part of the day in her kitchen, too, colour is good—don’t neglect the kitchen; make it just as bright and cheerful as any other room. Catch a little bit of the Summer, with its sunny brightness, before it’s gone—keep the colour in your home!