Telegram-herald., 1891-06-20


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oratloa 81 f0sE Hoass.
There Il 40 excuse AZ present for tho
Use OF q gaGdy. ugly wallpaper. Excel
lrnt, tasteful Designs can DO found at q
10" price. Do not attempt . niggard
sonorny in this matter. Few rooms TO
ga1re more than Ten rolls Of pager, MANY
much less; and there Is often only the
difference u i've or ten cents on q roll
In the price Of q pretty or a cheap. ugly
pattern A beautiful paper for ordinary
use can be purchased at twenty i've
cents roll. and II properly cared for
VIII last many years The laborer who
hangs Il should not charge over ten or
twelve cents roll 1t is the fancy Of
the hour u use wide border or frieze.
varying from eighteen inches 70 twenty
two IN width, and usually wide enough
10 cover the space from the tops of the
doors and windows to the ceiling. This
tFieze Is usually separated from the main
body OF the paper by narrow picture
molding.
This inolding costs about eight or ten
cents foot, pat up. The paperhanger
can do It, and IL Is much better Ia let
lin. as the carpenter, though he may do
it A. well, may not be SO careful not To
inlurc the new paper In the process. An
amateur could probably learn easily 10
put up this molding. It is put up with
brads, but care must be taken not to
nick or scratch II IN putting il up. as it
IS already finished In gilt or natural
wood stain When purchased already
finished the picture molding costs much
less than when the carpenter makes il,
and finishes IT on the wall, as Is some
times dOne.
4 pictnre molding properly put up
VIII last is long is the house. In par
iors, where delicate pictures in black and
white or water colOrs will he hung, a
white and gold paper Is desirable, bur in
simpler parlor a cartridge paper will
probably give more satisfaction. Choose
one IN a brownish terra Gotta, robins
egg blae or silYery Divine gray, and
have the frieze above 1t Of lighter tint,
stenciled of with pattern in black or
gold or silver. and separated by gilt. or
In some cases an ebony picture molding.
There mist be an abundance of pictures
hung on this plain background or it will
be monotonous Remember that il is
an artistic rule that the base Of q room
should be darkest.
Where there Is a dado used, ii is al
lowable 10 use heavy dark color: never
pronounced color. as such shades are
utterly ont OF place on the wall The
IS h.
medium shade, the frieze should DO sew
eral tints lighter and the ceiling should
be still lighter. Where two colors are
used, one for the main wall and another
fer the frieze, the colder color should be-
used above. Thus, in bedroom papered
with palest rose and blue. the blue should
be used for the frieze and the warm color
below; and the two may be separated by
an ebony or ivory and gold picture
molding.
The dado and frieze are not often used
together now. except in houses where it
Is desirable to bring down" the ceiling
and make the walls appear lower. They
are more often seen in halls or dining
rOoLas than anywhere else. 1t is quite
easy 10 get friezes for any shade of
cartridge paper printed in stenciled pat
terms. The hand painted stencil work
would OF course be expensive il pro-
fessional worker was engac al to do it.
As a rule. it is better to choose the up
hclstcry Of a room in contrasting rather
than in similar colors, so rs to avoid a
monotonous effect in color. In q draw
Ing room more dehcacy Of color is allow
able than in other rooms, and bright col
ors are introduced in bric-s-brac orna-
ments, in wall curtains and in other
decorative ways.-New York Tribune.