The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-20
HOME DECORATIONS.
Some Valuable Hints From n Sal
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Some Valuable Hints From n Sal.
Lake Lady. :.
What an advantage the woman OF
today has over her mother in making
her home beautiful and artistic at a
small outlay of money. OF course
there are plenty of ugly things which
the statesmen insist are just what we
want and it often requires firmness 10
prevent them from persuading us to
take something we do not need. or
like, but with some knowledge, added
10 the good taste nearly all American
women possess, our home can be made
beautiful even though ones purse is
slender.
To begin, the walls are of the first
Importance. If the background is not
good nothing will look as well as it
otherwise would. White walls, like
strychnine, will kill anything. Then
cold, cheerlessness makes even the
furniture appear stiff and frighl. 1t
is a mistake to leave them until you
can afford expensive wall covering.
Paper with some cheap paper of good
design until you can afford what you
want.
Don't choose q paper simply because
YOU like it, unless it is appropriate for
the room. Your first consideration
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possess and what will best harmoni8e
with them; your second thought, the
position Of the room and the way it is
lighted; your next, the uses for which
the room is intended.
Halls can usually stand stronger
color than rooms and warmer tones
are admissible. Dull reds, yelloWS or
terra Gotta look we'll. They give d
good effect upon entering. Blue is the
most difficult color to manage sue
cesGfully. 1t takes an artist to make
q harmony from it. In the hands of
the ordinary painter and decorator, it
is nearly always a failure. 1t would
better be let alone, as to the principal
color, unless you know how to handle
II yourself.
For a reception room or parlor
color that might be called terra Gotta
of a delicate shade with a suspicion
OF pink in 1t, is a most becoming back
ground for people, as we'll as one that
harmonizes with handsome ornaments.
Being of a similar color to flesh but
more dull it makes compilations LOOK
clear by contrast and gives a cheerful
lively effect when used in a room
used for entertaining.
IN a room used as a. sitting room, or
library, where the family usually sit,
the greatest attention should be given.
a cheerful room that breathes well
come happy spirit depends more than
many people think upon the colors
used in it. We often feel an effect
upon entering room, of a pleasant
sensation as il we would enjoy sitting
down and being comfortable; but we
seldom realize that 1t is the harmony
of objects in that room which produces
that pleasant effect. Nowhere in a
home IS it more necessary to strive for
this. than in the room where most of
the home life is spent. Color should
nj ha q n frE irafd hoe IloOv
tendency in this direction the last
few years. Carpets grow so faded in
color that they looked like the dusty
road. There has been some improve
ments since large rugs have appeared.
Color should be kept dull but that does
not mean it should look faded.
Ingram paper is the best kind for
rooms where there are many objects,
such as ornaments and pictures. 1t is
very durable and even the light shades
do not soil easily. There are many
pretty shades and none are bad but in
mind that the warm colors are much
better in north rooms where the light
Is whittier and colder in effect
Striped papers, or any with a, design
40 marked as to attract notice at once,
are in bad taste. The walls must be
Kept OF secondary Importance and
made to retire as much as possible or
they Will Overpower everything else In
room and make it look like a box.
II is much better if the woodwork is
u be painted, to have 1t so nearly as
POSSIBLE the same color as the walls
Contrast is to be avoided This will
not make a monotonous effect, as your
orna ments and pictures will be enough
variety in color and will look all the
better Il their smaller size and more
delicate beauties are not 0ver9owered
by the doors and other woodwork
IT Is safer and better for an iney-
Derienced person to undertake har-
Inony of analogy rather than harmony
OF contrast as the latter requires great
skill to keep it from being harsh. l.nr
instance take a room IN which green
Is TO be the dominant color. Your
wall shade is decided upon. then make
your ceiling the same color but eeveraI
shades lighter so as to get space Re
sure not to 60 off the key into another.
color when making hing lighter or
darker. Then the ground shade OF tho
carpet or else the design upon it SHOULD
ne CHOSEN several shades darker than
the walls so as to give strength. You
now have the parts Of your room. in
which. by reason of their greater size
u is best not to have contrast. in \
harmony of analogy. Your furn;fI;re
and other objects will allow a greater
range OF choice without So much care
belng necessary, and if tlat much of
the room is ali right it gives much more
chance for things that NAV NOT he
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