Hostesses faced with the problem of renovating Victorian houses in London will be interested in some of the ideas of Mrs, Roger Byryn.
Guests at her house-warming party at 7, Wilton-place, saw a staircase and bedroom doors padded with oiled sih in grey and pastel colours that. can be scrubbed down by the housemaid Chintz blinds for bathrooms and passage windows, and heavy fung? over satin to conceal unsightly radiators, are other novel ideas of this hostess.
The maids wear pale grey cotton dresses, white aprons and plum-colour ribbons in their caps to tone with the grey, white and plum-coloured hall and staircase.
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