News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-02-27
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coLoRs FOR FARM BUILDINGS.


Avoid Characterless ColoriDG - Employ
Strong Contrasting COlors-A Few Rules.
In painting house or barn, take into
account natural environment. Surround
ed by trees and shrubbery, the building
should be in light colors, as these afford
the best contrast with the setting Of
trees, etc., and look better at distance.
Where the building stands in the open,
more subdued coloring may be employ
ed. The reasons for these rules must be
obvious. The buildings are required to
sustain color relations with the sur
rounding country, explains correspond
ent of The Country Gentlemen, and au-
thority for the following:
The so called colonial coloring-palo
yellow with white TRIMS pretty for
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 a knowledge of color, good
color perception is useful, but few pos
sess this gift. Hence q 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
lumber and some lampblack and bit of
red to 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. Sashcs done in
red, look we'll with almost any color
scheme. Venetian and Indian reds,
mixed half and half, give nice sash
red and Tuscan red, a darker sort, is
general favorite. The most beautifulr(
is enc used by the carriage painter al,
known usually as aurora lake. 1t costs
81 a 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 well
adapted to surroundings as the warmer
colors. And yet cool grays Jock we'll in
conjunction with other colOrs in masses
Take cottage that has natural (struc-
tural) divisions. The first story, unless
of stono or brick, may be in Tuscan rcd,
the next q leadish gray and the gables a
warm yellow. Nothing is prettier than
cottage structure thus painted, and the
gray is the most pleasing color Of the
lot, though massed by itself it proves
cold and repelIant. 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 il 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 rule, the roof sustains nC
color relation with the rest of the struc
ture, but dark roof implies heavines'
and light color the contrary hence the
rule above given.