THE BATH-ROOM BLIND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 22

THE BATH-ROOM BLIND

It seems a pity that bathroom windows should invariably be made of frosted glass; it looks odd from outsides, besides informing the world which room in the house is the bathroom ! There are many ways, in which ordinary window-glass may be curtained to make the room quite private.

During the daytime, plain straight hangings of net, or material like that used to drape the other windows, will be sufficient. At night, however, you will want something definitely opaque, and here an ordinary dark roller blind does as well as anything. It is soon fitted, easily removed when necessary, and there are numerous ways in which it may be decorated to suit the bathroom colour scheme. In a green and white bathroom, the blind might be very dark green, with a white painted border of fishes and seaweed, or fishes leaping over crested waves. The design is sketched on with white chalk, which can be brushed away if the first drafts are not pleasing; suggestions may be found in a child’s picture book, or a transfer strip from an art-needlework shop might be adapted for your purpose. When the design is sketched to your satisfaction, fill it in with ordinary white enamel or oil paint. Allow it to dry thoroughly before putting up the blind, or else the paint will soon chip off. Should the bathroom be decorated in red and buff, and the floor covered in tiled-effect linoleum, the blind might be made of Chinese red American cloth, with a border painting of orange marigolds and bright green leaves. A deep purple blind, with a stencilled decoration of lavender and blue irises and soft sage-green leaves, would look delightful in a bathroom with soft dove-coloured walls and a dark grey floor. The pretty coloured bath-towels now obtainable offer many suggestions for the adornment of blinds; it would be an attractive notion to carry out the decorations to match the bright-hued designs on the tow-els. R.M.