Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-26
COLOR IN THE Aours.
Sort Ceiors and Uaebtrusive Resigns Ia
 Wall-Papers and Carpets.

Soft Ceiors and Inehtrusive Resigns h
 Wall-Papers and Carpets.
 Contrast on broad scale can al- ways be secured by choosing carpeta of an entirely different tone from tue wall and this Is sometimes very hap py espedient For instance. as con tract to a copper-colored wall, 3 softly toned green carpet is nearly always successful This one color green. is always safe and satisfactory in q floor covering, provided the walls are not too strong in tone and provided also that the green of the carpet is not too green. Certain browuish-greeus possess the quality of being in com plete harmony with every other color. They are the most peaceabie shades iH the color world-the only ones with out positive antiquities Green in al the paier tones can claim the title of peaee-malset among e0l0rs since all the other tints will fight with something else. but never with green If q cor responding or even a much greater strength of course this valuable quality combined with a natural rest fitness of effect. makes t the safest of ordinary fioor-coyerings
 In bedrooms with polished floors and light walls good color effects can be secured without carpets. but if the floors are of pine and need covering, no better general effect can be secured than that Of plain or mixed ingrain filing using with it oriental hearth and bedside rugs.
 The entire second floor of a house can in that ease be covered with carpet in the accommodating tint of green mem tioned leaving the various color con nections to be made with differently tinted rugs. Good pine floors well fitted and finished can be stained to harmonize with almost any tint which will harmouize with the walls.
 I remember seaside chamber in house where the mistress had great natural decorative ability. and so much cultivation as to prevent its running away with her. where the floor WAS stained transparent olive like depths of sea water, and here and there a floating sea-0eed or q form of sea life faiutIg outlined within the color In this room which seemed wide open 1 to the sea and air. even when the windows were closed. the walls were of faint greenish blue. like what is called dead tar= quoise ana the relation between floor and walls was 50 perfect that it re mains with me to this day as a crown ing instance of satisfaction in eo1@
 II k perhaps more difficult to convey l an idea of happy choice CT selection 0f foor-color than Of walls. because il is relative to walls It must relate to what has already been done. But in reorganization ii k safe to say first. that in choosing color for a room. soft and medium tints are better than posi- tive Or dark ones. and that walls should be unobsunsive in design as well as color: secondly. that floors if of the same tint as walls should ba much i darker: and that they should be made apparent 0Y means of some strong method of treatment. such as desin4s in the carpet itself. or by the addition Of rugs or borders. that should m questionabie make the relation be tween the two strongly felt and per feetlY anaistak3ble fo1 it is the per lection of this relation of color which
 makes decoration an art. Harper s ] Bazaf.