The fun bit

Paul has finished painting the bedroom, 

so now I can turn my attention to furnishing it.

I need look no further than my 1940 copy

of Housewife magazine for inspiration.

Gay colours in chintz bedspread and curtains glow against the

neutral coloured background created by plain waxed furniture,

fawn carpet and cream walls.

The curtains are made from a novel, tufted fabric 

called Rathkelle (from Old Bleach), consisting of 

charming blue tufts like little bows on linen-coloured ground.

The bedspread has a broad panel of gaily-coloured washable

glazed chintz from Sandersons, mostly in pinks and blues

and the chintz motif is repeated 

in the lampshades each side of the bed. 

The pale blue of the curtains is echoed in 
the pale linen cover of the easy chair 
and the rugs either side of the bed are a soft pink.

(Amanpuri in original chintz from Sanderson) 

I haven't found the tufted fabric yet except for 

somewhere in the deep recesses of my memory.