Colour and Sleep The Bedroom Beautiful

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 53, 25 May 1927, Page 12

Colour and Sleep The Bedroom Beautiful

A SOMNOLENT, placid atmosphere is the principle underlying any successful scheme of b edroom decoration. Colour plays a very important part in the stages immediately preceding and following the state of sleep. The dispositions of masses of light and shade, hard contrasts or unexpected forms, may jar on a sensitive mind with serious results.

Sufferers from nightmares and other unpleasant interruptions to slumber may find the cause in the decoration, or lack of it, in the bedroom. Some remarks made by “Silhouette” on the modern movement in Continental decoration are apropos. Stark severity sometimes advocated. with plain white or light col-

oured walls, soft grey or fawn carpet and unobtrusive furniture; other designers rely on colour harmonies or have recourse to radial compositions suggestive of vastness and distance, but in them all can be detected a sense of placitude, an absence of conflict, a one-ness, highly conducive to repose. The old style wall paper, with its

d mathematical repetition of a weario some pattern, was a blatant offender, e stimulating the mind to unwanted - arithmetical feats associated with sheep in a fold and insomnia. n Dominique, the designer of the room in the reproduction, relies on large ex- - panses of plain soft colour to impart - an air of spaciousness. The carpet is

a dull fawn, the walls grey, and partis illuminated from above. The furniture in amboyna wood, together with the hand-made rug with bold primary colourings, and a gay vase of flowers impart warmth and richness, an effect which is further enhanced by the cheerful colourings of the silk tapestry coverlet.