Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-10-18

piled to the frieze, the depth of which
should be determined by the height Of
the room. Eighteen inches to three
feet in width may be allowed frieze.
When a frieze narrower than the
height OF the room justifies has been
put on the walls, 1t may be supple.
mented below by plain painted band.
The picture rod always divides the
upper wall decoration from the paper.
Dadoes are no longer the style ex.
cept in halls and on staircases, though
a dado takes the place of wainscoting
In rooms filled with dark furniture and
lined with light paper, for striking
contrast between the outlines of
chairs and tables and wall is not
: pleasing. The adoption of dado per.
mits the use of dark furniture in
} room finished in delicate tints above
! the backs of the chairs. Wood or imi-
! tatlon of wood makes the best dado
Lincrusta in simple and pretentious
1 patterns also looks well. A substan-
tial wainscoting dado will protect that
part of the wall which is most exposed
TO hard usage.
When a family takes possession Of
new house, they often decide that
certain rooms shall be papered in GER
tain ways, because the colors selected
will harmonic with the hangings, the
curtains or the carpet, or because GER
tain colors are fashionable. For in
stance, they may determine that the
library, which is a south room, snail
be papered with bright red and hung
with red draperies. The sun pours
into the windows all day and the eff
feet is unsatisfactory. The garishness
of the coloring is apparent even to
the least sensitive taste, and, conse-
quently, the room is Stunned. espe-
cially in summer, when the apartment
suggests nothing so much as the int.
rior of a blast furnace. Had the same
red paper been placed in an apartment
having a northern exposure and a few
windows through which the sunlight
casts only indirect rays, the result
would have been quite different, for
brilliant colors should never be eX-
plotted in glaring lights. The rule Of
the skillful decorator is to put no
warm tinted papers or fabrics on
south or west rooms. White, green
and blue are most pleasing in such To-
may be lined with red, pink or yellow.
Match Size and Patterns.
Large patterned papers do not look
well on small rooms. For a dining
room or library papers which have a
dull, subdaed appearance are most sat
isfactory. Plain tinted surfaces are
best for bedroom and parlor walls.
In very low rooms it is well to omit
the frieze and finish the ceilings in
plain colors. This will apparently in
crease their height.
For the bathroom a thick, glazed
sanitary paper should be chosen in
case the walls are not tiled or finished
in hardwood. The surface will be
made more durable If coated over with
varnish, for the steam arising from the
hot water tends to loosen the paper.
Painted bathroom walls can be wash
ed down the same as thing and are
therefore recommended by sanitary ex-
perts.
The woodwork in a room should
never be finished In two colors or two
shades OF the same color. Just at
present white paints are the most
fashionable because they provide an
artistic frame for the Powered colo
NAL wall papers. A Goa. of ivory white
enamel will stand much cleaning. Hot
water soap and sponge will renovate
enameled paints easily and quickly.
Brown is a serviceable color, and in
oak, walnut or mahogany is suitable
for halls and dining rooms.
Faults In Imitation.
The great fault with fashionable
wall papers is that the majority of
them are made to initiate tapestries
and wall hangings. What looked very
well when draped looks stiff and inar.
tistlc when tackled fiat upon the wall.
the use of French designs of the time
of Louis XIV. and Louis XVI. is far
from happy for the patterns do not
. harmonic with our modern furniture,
and they are much too pretentious to
> afford suitable background for an ev-
ery.day living room. Striking pat.
terms are suitable for large, open halls
where the use Of deep friezes and
| dadoes is necessary in order to reduce
= the apparent height.
D Even the American wall papers re.
l peat the tapestry designs exploited by
!. French and English makers. The pref
l. test foreign patterns have a delicate
l. frostwork OF white, over which large
!. and spreading floral patterns are scat.
i tered. These look well in rooms of
Q moderate size and especially well in
z bedrooms containing furniture in light
$ woods. Chints papers and those that
= resemble designs for organdie muslins
are now fashionable. Tapestry papers
= come in tan, green, olive, blue and
some shades Of red. while the Powered
patterns have pale blue, rose and yell
low backgrounds. Cartridge papers
= may be had In all the new shades.
: Some heavy papers have a smooth sur.
! face that looks like silk.
People who can afford them cover
4 their walls with woven fabrics. OF
!. these cretonnes silk tapestries of va.