A “STRAWBERRY ROOM”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1938, Page 8

A “STRAWBERRY ROOM”

How would you like to have a “strawberry' room?” Just a nice upstairs sitting, place with strawberries ■for the decorative motif. One family in Boston, U.S.A., with a bent for having variations from the general run introduced the idea in their little upstairs sitting-room off the master bedroom. To begin with they found wallpaper with little bunches of strawberries in the pattern, silver ones, so the family put the- ripeness into them by tinting each berry cheek with a dash of red. Instead of ball fringe on the window curtains, little strawberry shaped emery pin mushions were sewed along the inside, so that when the curtains were drawn back the strawberries dangled along the edge. An old pottery lamp base with strawberries painted cn the side was discovered in a sec-ond-hand shop. This was fitted up with parchment shade with strawberry decoration. As soon, as friends learned of the strawberry room they began to give things reminiscent of the luscious fruit.. The result is a collection of pottery, porcelain pieces, embroidered table mats—all. having strawberries for the decorative pattern.