The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-15
NBW STYLES IN WALL PAPER.
PANEL EFFECTS NOW REPRO
DUCED At SMALL COST.
Least Expensive Method 10 TO Cover the
walls With q Solid Toned Paper
Then Outline the Panels-New Effects
in Picture Designs for the Nursery.

walls With o Solid Tened Paper and
Then Outline the Panels-NeW Effects
In Picture Designs for h NurSeEy.
II is now possible to initiate for a nominal
sum the wall coverings and decorations
OF the earlier days, which Americans Of
large fortune duplicate at a cost Of many
thousands Of dollar
1t il no unusual thing, for instance, for
$40, 600 to be spent by New Workers in deco
rating the walls Of a drawing room. On
the other hand, it is possible by the aid Of
the lntest wall papers to get a very pleasing
imitation of a $40, 600 effect for 800 OF $40.
Carved wood, gold leaf appliques, painted
canvasses, are all suggested in the latest
wall paIers, the more artistic of which
are designed to bring to the front panel
effects. Never before AVE panel effects
been so popular, not only in drawing rooms,
but in dining rooms and in bedrooms, and
it rests with the housekeeper alone whether
she shall have an ordinary plain papered
wall or a wall broken up by oblongs Of
contrasting paper into a very pleasing
copy Of a French or Italian salon Of the
seventeenth or eighteenth century.
There are hundreds OF women Of small
nadnS VINO ia 70 " Lit blLldllcbb COuGbp-
ton Of the possibilities in wall paper
said a dealer.
What the New York woman Of average
means or of small means sadly lacks is a
disposition to study period effects in re-
lation TO house furnishing and decorating"
In describing panel effects Of inexpensive
grades and their cost the decorator gave
as a rough estimate from 81 to 81 a roll
as about She minimum cost. This means
the use Of SO cent and 81 a roll paper. The
cost OF panelling a room Is just about double
that Of the paper an account Of the waste
and extra work.
For a wall to be covered between q ten
inch Dashboard and a moulding heal the
ceiling with a long panelled effect the least
expensive method is to cover the room
arst with a solid toned MORE paper at 40
cents a roll and then merely outline panels
with a six inch wide border representing
floral or conventional design, the corners
Of the panels, OF course, being elaborated
10 give variety to the stiffness Of pattern.
The widest of the panels in n outlined
design Of pale gray MORE paper bordered
with pink roses n green leaves were about
twenty-five inches and the narrowest
panels between doors and windows about
fifteen inches. All the panels stopped
within six inches Of the moulding and the
same distance from the Dashboard and
were about eight inches apart in the wider
spaces Of the room.
A pale green wall with panels outlined
with darker green and gold, a yellow, wall
outlined with brown, green and gold and
old rose outlined with white and gold were
among the most artistic combinations.
way. Of having a panelled room is to use
fabric paper for the panels; that is, paper OF
small, rich patterns, either figured or
sriped--preferably striped-cu out in
fancy designs at the corners AS in the
case Of outlined panels, the room Is first
s .S. e y With shr Rain paper and the panels
An Illustration Of this sort Of panel was
furnished by q Louis XIV. fabric paper of
roses and bow knots on a plain cream color
foundation. A more dignifed design had
panels in ~arabesque and scroll pattern Of
copper color, gold and green on a dull green
foundation.
The panel designs this season are by no
means confined to long effects, many of
them showing short, almost square panels
arranged above a paper wainscoting, If it
may be called so, about twenty inches wide
above the Dashboard made OF the same
paper as the panels. Occasionally this
walnscoting Is one yard or more deep.
This idea is particularly appropriate to
dining rooms, with dark, rich wall papers
taking the place OF the lighter oolors pre-
fsrred In parlors and bedrooms.
Among the most attractive Of the newer
nursery effects Is a double frieze anywhere
from thirty to forty inches wide, the lower
edge Of which is finished with a shallow
shelf Of enamelled wood. The lower half
Of the frie2e nearer the shelf is OF q plain
paper, the upper half shows fancy picture
Designs OF animals, sporting scenes and
clowns, or nature studies Of trees, noun
'aihs and rivers. A small patterned paper is
generally used to cover the wall below the
irie1e and the shelf is used for pictures.
tor sleeping rooms there II a new FASH
Toned bouquet patterned, hand polished
paper which is one Of the most beautiful
seen IN som time. The most artistic de-
Signs have a white background sprayed
WIN clusters OF roses, lilacs, carnations,
for 81 a roll.
rival paper in style and price shows no
oacSeround whatever, the pattern being
compact mlngling OF foliage and birds OF
natural color. Although used to cover an
ehuie wall, the most effective arrangement
OF this grade paper is in the form Of q IS
men deep frie2e dropping over a plain wall.
Inc irieze is not divided from the plain
paper with a moulding, and it's lower edge
instead of being straight is irregular, fol-
lowing the line of flowers and foliage.
anew paper, which sells for 81 q roll and
,isparticularly appropriate for halls Libraries
ana qining rooms, ~ called silk fibre and IL
heavier and two inches wider than the
average paper. 1t is of solid colors only,
ana yet 1t cannot be called perfectly plain,
hse cartridge paper, for example, because
y a notified effect which gives a sort Of
ana golden browns, the rich deep reds and
Ine ioilage greens are particularly desirable
~ uhis paper, which also may be had in all
the lighter colors.