The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-16
DECORATING THE
HOME FOR AUTUMN.
A Celebrated Authority Writes That the
Hall Is Neglected for the Decoration
Of the Drawing Room.
By Margaret Hill Garfield.

TN HERD are hardly two women out
Of ten who make the hall one OF
II the speciaities OF autumn deeora-
ton. Indeed I may go so far as TO
say that the hall is comparatively neg
lected In England the han corresponds
greatly to our sitting-room but the
American use OF the word conveys the
IDEA OF a narrow passage leading from
the 'front.' door to a staircasc opposite, or
a passage that extends the full length OF
the house II is the main purpose OF
this article TO treat Of hall decoration.
IL Is easy enough to make beautiful
surroundings out OF material that is so
charmingly designed as 20 be almost self
decorated but II Is another matter with
regard TO commonplace material, which
needs all our efforts to effect success
Therefore. am not going to devote words
10 the pretty. sauarely built hall. which
is only occasionally to be met with. but
intend to discuss ways and means where
by the straight. narrow hail. which Is re-
garded as hopeless" from an artistic
point OF view, and which is encountered
In most houses OF everyday build. may
be improved, and. OF II be a dark hall,
lghtened.
Here are one or two schemes Of color
Ing. Cream paint and plain cream paper.
with Anaglypta frieze or dado; or a
cream paper picked out in gold and pale
tan colored felt or corridor rug on the
noor, with surrounding oak-stained
boards.
Walls distempercd in misnonette- green
or art-blue. with paint and carpcting to
match or shade or tive darker
A seif-colored wallpaper OF rough tex
ture In shade of dun shrimp-pink; or
merely dado OF this paper and dlstemper
above In lighter shade. Terra-cotta felt
or corridor rug.
Dado of brown. rough paper, and wall
above washed cream. Brown felt or
fancy carpet In mixture of shades OF
brown merging to cream.
Primrose washed or papered walls; paint
TO match. Art corridor-rug In tones OF
SOFT green, burnt ivory and primrose, with,
perhaps, touch OF old rose
Keep the scheme OF decoration as light
as possible, when the hall IL too narrow
to admit OF any furniture being intro
duced. When there is old oak TO be dis
posed OF, a more solid-iookine scheme
may be desirable. A plain sclf-coiored
wall Invariably forms a good background
70 dark oak. Mignonetts- green or art
piue. Tor instance. Again, a treatment
mat works out successfully Is TO wash
the walls art-blue, and have dado OF
straw mating These, then, are n few
suggestions which may be OF use as they
are, or serve as guides to other ideas
~'eeNsUa W iHutViuuai preferences
There is one thing I should like 10 add
Win MIN regard to the mention of.felt as a
noor-covering. Few things are prettlea.
SO FAR as appearance goes: but felt has
tne drawback Of showing soil easily, and
u used In hall. where there IL. OF course.
constant traffic TO and from the front
door, IL Is likely to become discolored very
quickly. On the whole. therefore, II IL
more advisable TO use corridor rug or
patterned stair-carpet
The novel feature of the hall am sug.
gesting is the glass window let into the
upper part of the wall In tho ordinary
mouse there ~ usually sitting room
leading out OF the hall on the right or on
the left. The situation Of this room.
therefore, must decide ms 20 whether the
window shall BIO cut In the right or left
wall. In the "sandwiched' and semi
detached house one OF tho walls OF the
haii separates two houses: II goes with
out saying, therefore, that the window
must be let into the opposite wall. This
window can run the length OF the wall
as Tar as the door OF the s.fting-room or
may be curtained TO any siza. II should In
any case be divided into panes. ana
draped here and there ~ith dwarf cur
tains Of art silk or muslin fcolored or
cream). A lovely effect IN gained n a lit
tie shelf is run beneath tho window To
hold art Jars Of chrysanincmums roses.
or amy seasonabie flowers
hall with an inlet window, walls
washed pale green tor art blue) and n
dado OF dark oak-staincd wood, dwarf
curtains OF pale green silk, and-~if space
allows-s black oak hali-seat or chest a
grandfather clock. brass or copper
palm-stand and waving plant. would as
suredly strike a note of success
In white or cream hnii tho addition
Of a small archway tpsinted white o.
creamy and set midway between tbs
front door and the further end OF tho
han, ~ great Improvement 10 the az
pect 81 affairs Frcfa this might be sus-
pended a small wrouxht-sron lamp wlth
a ruby or amhsr-coiored Globe. An arts.
Tie hanging lamp Of some sort should APP
pear In any case IN our decorative hal.