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Avoid Characteriess Coiorine - Employ
Strong Contrasting Coiors-A Few Rules.
In painting house OF barn, take into
account natural environment. Surround
ed by trees and shruhbery, the building
should be in light eolors. as these afford
the best contrast with the setting of
trees, ETC., and look better at a distance.
Where the building stands in the open,
more subdued coloring may be employ
ed, The reasons for these rnles must be
obvious The buildings are required to
sustain color relations with the sur
rounding country, explains a correspond
ent Of The Country Gentlemen, and au-
thority for the following:
The so called colonial coloring-pale
yellow with white trim--is pretty for a
farmhouse Of plastered stone or Of frame,
especially where surrounded by trees.
The trim should be as white as possible,
the blinds green, and the shutters and
doors white If the roof is shingled,
stain it dull red or brown In the alb
sence of knowledge of color, a good
color perception is useful, but few pos
sess this gift Hence few general rules
may not be amiss,
Avoid pale characterless coloring.
Employ strong, rich, contrasting colors.
A safe rule is TO use shades of one color
say the body is drab, then add more
umber and some laniphack and bit of
red 70 make trim color Tighten body
color for Stats Of blinds and slightly
darken it for panels Of shutters and
doors. Use trim color for stiles and rails
(framework) of blinds ard shutters and
doors, as well as for cornice, corner
pieces, etc. That would be what we call
color harmony by analogy BY contrast
is when we use positive colors, such as
red beside, say, green. Sashes done in
red, look well with almost any color
scheme. Venetian aud Indian reds,
mixed half and half, give nice sash
red and Tuscan red. a darker sort, is a
general favorite. The most beautiful red
is one used by the carriage painter and
known usually as aurora lake. 1t costs
81 pound, though half pound would
do the windows Of an average house.
Tuscan red gives good color for blinds,
and. like all iron base colors, is quite
durable. Blinds are usually difficult to
paint suitable color.
Cold colors are hardly ever as we'll
adapted to surroundings as the warmer
colors. And yet cool grays look we'll in
conjunction with other colors in masses.
Take'a cottage that has natural (siruc-
tural) divisions, The first story, unless
of stone or brick, may be in Tuscan red,
the next leadish gray and the gables a
warm yellow. Nothing is prettier than
a cottage structure thus painted, and the
gray is the most pleasing color Of the
lot, though massed by itself it proves
cold and repellant Buildings that have
no such structural divisions must be
painted in one color from bottom to
top, excepting Of course the trim.
] Groups Of buildings should be Of one
color scheme. If the dwelling is in CO.
lonial yellow and white then the barn
may be in ocher color and white. The
barn, being in the open, must be more
subdued in color than the tree surround
ed house. If the house is in rather sub
dued coloring, then the barn may be in
iron oxide brown.
High buildings look best with dark
roofs; ditto massive buildings. Low
buildings look best with light colored
roofs. As a rule, the roof sustains no
color relation with the rest of the struc-
ture, but dark roof impl es heaviness
and light color the contrary hence the
rule above given.