The large sitting-room has walls, guest room is complete in detail, down to the old Dutch writing-desk and large fitted cupboard. The colour scheme is based ceiling and carpet in the same shade Of soft grey-green. This colour also appears in. the pattern of the silk brocade furnishing fabrics. but here the backgrounds are diflerent—dark oyster for (ho curtains and old rose on the chairs. There is an attractive alcove in the corner of the room on two pictures bywde Glehn that adorn the walls. Beige-yellow and chocolate brown appear in the very heavy padded chintz bedspread and the chintz curtains that hide the shoe-rack. The windows have plain velvet curtains. The adjoining bathroom is black and white in colour collar, stitched pockets, short bow and buttons this "Two: piece in putty-coloured sheer wool worn Miss Jane Wyman nas everything in its favour. palled at the discovery of the vast numbers of spoons, forks, knives, cups, plates, dishes, jugs, glasses, saucepans and frying-pans which even a modest household accumulates in.the course of years; and still more appalled at the outrageous number of them which a very small party can make dirty in the course of the simplest meal. Washing up greasy plates is truly a loathsome job. At first one seems to be doing nothing all day but preparing for one meal and clearing up from the last: Yet in aday or two one gets the thing systematized, and practice makes one wonder whether the average servant does not give herself a good deal of unnecessary trouble merely for want of 4 little planning.
The week was lightened by the assistance of the wife of the night-watchman at the local gravel pits, who before marriage had been brought up in a the stern old school—l4 years as successively fourth, third, second and head housemaid in a great old house i Hampshire. All the ground floor was parquet and the housekeeper, 9 perfect dragon, made the four housemaids get up every day at four am. to polish the whole huge floor. All the living rooms had to be finished before the family appeared for. breakfast- Then the which is used to show some little óbjets d'art, The dining-room is divided from the sitting-room by sliding doors: Here the walls have been treated with a cream plastic paint that gives the appearance of rough stone. There is à heavy refectory table and square Renaissance chairs with leather up-The curtains are of deep is decorated in the same grey-green as the sitting-room. The bed, vhich is on a raised dais, has draperies of old gold brocade, and ti curtains have amusing pelmets formed by looped drapery. The mantelpiece has mirror panels, the panels being divided up into hundreds of bits of square gold mirror. Most of the furniture is Italian, and the chairs are covered in silver brocade.
A small dressing-room opens aff this room, the entire left wall of which is taken up by fitted cupboards painted to match the walls: A good idea Is the little rack that stands in the dressing-room, over which: dresses and blouses can be thrown before they are finally put away, A door leads from the scheme—white bath. black floor and furniture, black oil silk curtains with goldfish painted on them, and, to complete the picture, black towels with white edges.
The music room, which contains a grand piano, also combines the duties of library and study. A very restful shade of green has been chosen for the colouring. Two coats of paint, first one in cream and then a green one, were applied to the walls, and thus a stippled effect has been achieved. With a brighter light and on close inspection the lighter coat becomes "alive and sparkles like flakes of snow. The heavy brocade curtains are green, and the chairs and comfortable settee are covered in dull red velvet
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