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COLOUR: What's
trend now?
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London.
seems that 1960 is going to be the year when decor in the home, having gone through some pretty hectic phases since the war, has settled into a recognisable mould.
Mistakes have been made years ago the trend was always room lighter alt thone different to make a darkc
with pale paint. coloured walls-in a doa. This is a mistake. A natural perato effort to be different. y dark room or síalreaso in Taboos have been ironed out not improved with light paint. all those cream coloured The walls should be in a dark walls because paintings clash shade and given extra orüßcial
Blumination. with anything else.
Pointers
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curtains of this show-room lampshades and ornaments of a diminish the shock of too much bright pink called, Delft Rise.
Blue is a colour
lae with a mixture of purple,
white and two shades of green fallen our which has
Jasmina yellow in the colour last few years, but the Colour which is beginning to ourt the Council hnya restored its traditional cream and old cold prestige with a moon blue room shades for so long beloved by that somehow manages not to
look cold.
Interest in home decor being what it is, the British Colour Commeil have decided to admit Britiels. members of the public to their 1080/01 interior decor exhibi- tion for the first time.
Restored
The answer probably lies In the addition of elcar rose. green and black.
Their room setting showing
"Think hard about mixed the bedroom of a town house uses this year's top favourite HE, Colour Council show
bluer and greens," advised the Modern schools go in for colour combination, inc and country bedroom in shares of British Colour Council designer brigitt pranary
colours in white.
yellow and white, grey care Audrey Mitchell. "It has been a gymnasiums or where any sort Lilne, the most feminine of peted, curialued in grey and popular fashion combination and of activity takes place, but in all colours, needs core and the white with a telling contrast in It looks wonderful in the home." the classrooms where concen- tration Is essentiat subdued colours are used.
IR JOHN WILLIAMS, chief large paint desimer of a firm, whose job it is to brighten Unless one wishes to be up everything from factories to constantly stimulated, trial and private homea, has some points error has proved that the which can be gained only mistier shades are best for through the sort of large-scalo living-rooms where relaxation is decorating most do-it-your- the main idea. solfers are not likely to en- counter.
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Three lessons likely to help
came from
Factories, where,
suys
Offbeat
Mr
Williams, people still ask for dark colours
that don't show THE more sombre colours Ike
aubergine which the dirt. "In fact workTours
which start off looking clean tently fashionable, are
cur-
better
and bright are kept far cleaner for a contrast against parking than rooms decorated with dirt while woodwork. This goes for almost any colour, especially the In mind," he says.
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"Decorate any room in your more offbeat shades, house which is able to get knocked ubaui (such as the nursery in light washable paint and you will feel far happier about cleaning it."
Before embarking dratlo change in decor John Williams advices experimenting in a limited way.
Mistake
any
Lady Casson startet the fashion for a whole new range of colours by showing aw orange chair with a pind cushion.
Small Items Hké eushions and lampshades can bo a great help FFICES often have dark in deciding whether any noW
foyers or rcorns without scheme is one that you
Ten live with or merely a fad.
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Showing the new trend for restraint in the use of colour, the entrance hall in the Grosvenor Square flat of architect Emil Scherer shows pearl grey walls and a geranium-red ceiling. The
ceiling, says Mr. Scherer, is one place where you can afford to use a stirring colour without damage to the nerves. Carpet is in Thames green, while the comfortable modern furniture is upholstered in tweedy grey.
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
King Nep's Castle
-It's At The Bottom Of The Frozen Pond--
By MAX TRELL
THE pond was all trozan over
"Helgho, m'lad" King Nep shouted back to Knert. "Have you come to visit me on a cuid
br-r day like this?"
"Yeal" yelled Knarf, "What are you doing way out there?"
Wants Knarf to come
excep: for here and there where lost summer's cat tails and irises sluck up through the ice. But when Knart, the Shadow Boy with the Turned- About Name, reached the "C'mon out and see for your- willow tree he heard the old self" maid King Nep. "The lea fernillar whistle. It sounded will hold you. Come cat very close at hand, but though Knart stepped out on the ice. Knart booked all around, the It was slippery but it was trunk of the old
tree, strong. Looking down, he could ree into the pond. He could see the black muddy boltons with "Klos Nept Oh, King Nept the green water plants growing Where are you?" Knari called in it. But it all looked dart "When you're with me," King out ut last,
like a grey winter afternoon,
Nep said, standing up proudly "Here we are" greeted King in spite of his small size, 7 Nep as Knart came up to the see to it that the water doesn't cattails!. "I'm certainly very get near you even when you are happy to see you!"
at the bottom of a pond!"
ho could noo no one.
Listened to whistle
Again the whistle came. This time Kaart listened very cure- fully. He traced the sound back
And King Nep, who was no
to a clump of brown cattail worger than a worn-down pencil. clasped Knarf's hand warmly, Įstalks in the middle of the for there was no doubt at a [pond.
Knarf saw King Nop standing by the cattalia.
They walked a little further and there, behind a bushy water plant that looked like a tall, tree, was P
In the summertime, when the thet he was more than happy thin Christmas
to see Knart. sum shone and the water sparkled, this was a phallow
"I'm glad to
custic,
It wasn't a very large rce you, too, castle. It didn't look very strong. The towers weren't high and there was only one gate.
pot, only a few inches deep, King Nep," said Knarr. Several Frogs lived there.
"King Nep! I can see you! You're in that clump of cat-
| talls!" shouted Knarf.
Known as King Neptune
"But it's a csile just the
"I call Long, long og little King same," King Nep said. Nep was known for and wide It the Castle of the Silvery Knar! was pleased to see a as groas King Neptune, ftuler Roof."
hoad come among the cattails.
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King Nep's castle
Knart slood back and looked
roof sheet of silver.
"Now, m'led," said King Nep up at the roof of the castle.
Enough, the to Knarf, well, just go down And sure md seo the place where I'm looked like a spending the winter. The steps And then he saw that it logitod are right here. Now mind your ilke aliver because it was made
head. Horo wo engy"
of foc.
Cary,
____ "Why, it's the ice on top of While King Nep was talking the pond" Kmart exclaimed.
he was leading Knatt down a
fight of stone steps that went
That'a, what it in all right;
down under the low in the mid- m'lad," said King Nep, "And dle of the clump of cattails. It's 'de' sweet o castle as phy For a minute or two, it was king ever had. dark, but then Knarf's eyes grew used to the darkness.
Bottom of pand
"Oh We're on the bottom of the pend!! Kar Kol.
King Nep miled. "You don't fool wat, do you? hd asked.
"No," said Knart. "I don't. hat why don') £3*
"And tell me, do you how of any other king in the whole wide world, big or small, who has winter castle, under, tho ice of o pend?" he asked.
"No," sakriort. "I don'!! You're a wonderful king King Nepl
And they both wont Inside the castle for en and, chips.
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