Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25
THE NEW WALL PAPERS.
Brown and Yellow Are Favorite
Tones.

Written for The Evening Star.
With many home makers the absorbing
question of the moment is the selection of
new wall papers Even the dweller in a fiat
has a voice in the doing-over of the rooms,
for the agent of the house now places
price limit and allows the tenant to select
the paper which comes within these lmi-
tations 1t will considerably lessen the
ordeal at the shop for both paper hanger
and patron if the general color scheme of
the house is settled before the home maker
starts on her tour of inspection. Here are
some practical hints from a wall paper
dealer which may be of service to the per-
picked housewife:
In choosing paper for a hall care must
be exercised that it harmoniZes with the
papers in all the rooms which open from it..
One of the many shades of light or dark
brown will usually blend most satisfac-
torily with vari-colored decorations of ada
cent rooms, while a World-renoWned Eng
lish decorator never uses any tone but
brown in its many standings for his general
color scheme through entire house.
Stripes and MORE effects are particularly
effective in long eXpanse of hall. and a
yellow paper with two-inch satin stripes,
alternating with lighter yellow stripes in
dull finish, will give a most cheerful and
sunshiny appearance to an otherwise dark
passageway.
FOf pdFlOr waits, DrOcdueS are AGAIN III
high favor, and these are initiated remark
ably well in heavy papers as well as IN the
more costly tapestries. A drawing room Mt
ted out with furniture upholstered In hight
blue has the walls hung with an ivory bro
cade paper from which exquisite orchids in
self-tone stand out like velvet blooms Pan
eled effects also continue to be extremely
popular for parlors, and delicate coiors
furnish the most pleasing background Tor
this the show room of house.
Tapestry papers and large flower designs
are in general use for the walls of living
room. The former, even in cheaper papers,
show rich blendings of color in the deeper
shades An indistnct peony motif in null
berry and q dark shade of pastel blue with
a tapestry finish is delightfully."- restful to
the eye, beside being a most excellent set
ting for gilt and bronze frames and the
brilliant hues of many new art prints. Huge
poppy blooms, especially in yellow against
a cream ground, make the walls or big
living room look wonderfully festive and do
not become appalling, as it might seem on
first thought Dark-hued papers with her-
aldic designs and paper showing remark
able limitations of leather or wood are the
most artistic for library wals&
Red has long been a fayorite background
for a dining room, and new papers show
massive flower grounds in red with high
satin finish. The dining room Of a spacious
country house near New York has the walls
decorated in rose pink. A very deep frleze
painted by a well-known mural artist de-
pictS men and women mounted on sleek
horses and attired in brilliant reddish pink
coats.
Flowered papers are daintiest for bed
room use, and new papers show big dos
SONS as well as ribbon stripes entwined
with garden flowers A gracefully curVlng
ribbon stripe in blue on a white ground
forms the trellis for a vine of large pink
roses, mingled with dropping punches OF
blue bachelor-buttons.