THE BEDROOM BEAUTIFUL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 35, 4 May 1927, Page 12

THE BEDROOM BEAUTIFUL

HOW TO ACHIEVE IT Perhaps no other room in the whole house reveals more of the discrimination and fine feeling of its occupant than does the bedroom. How often have we stepped across the threshold of a bedroom that charmed us with its chaste, cultivated refinement—and how often, too, have our finer sensibilities been rudely shocked by a slovenly room that stamped its occupant as gross and slatternly? The greatest fault with the average bedrooms is that it contains so many unnecessary things—trifling articles and tinsel gewgaws—that are of little use or beauty and make order extremely difficult. Clear them out if you mean to make a beautiful room. Remember always that a bedroom should be made to express the personality of its owner, and that each room should have a different appearance, instead of a hospital-like similarity. AVhen arranging the room, the first thing is to select the colour scheme. As a general rule, if the room is small it should be decorated with light tones. Where the light is imperfect, the colour schemes which are especially effective are grey and white, blue and white, buff and white, pink and ivory, and green and ivory. A usual fatilt Is the rack of restful wall treatment. Here again, as a general rule, if the room is small the walls should be plain. Figured walls demand a bare scheme of furnishing, more adaptable to the spacious room. At the same time, if the walls are broken with many doors and windows, a plain paper should, by all means, be employed in the decorative treatment. It is needless to say that pictures against a figured wall are fatiguing and uninteresting—a condition very unfair to the pictures, which deserve a fairer, more discriminating treatment. The bedroom beautiful should be light and cheering, and a great deal depends upon the materials used. A material that absorbs light, like wool-