Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-06-11
DRAPERY IN HOUSE
HOW BEST RESULTS MAY BE
OBTAINED.
Too Many or Too Heavy Hangnss
Apt to Spoil the Good Effects
Good Arrangement for the
Dark Room.

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the rooms close and stuffy, and par
ticularly when there Is not large
space and the room Is not very well
lighted, and one must be careful not to
produce a cramped effect by shutting
out the light. For a moderate-sized
room with a folding door which leads
into another apartment and is of
course permanently closed, good ar
rangement can be made without using
too heavy drapery. Instead of pair
of portieres hung on a rod and falling
in heavy folds, take the material and
stretch it across the doors. fastening
it even with the door, without the rod,
more like a panel effect.
When the Material Is Plain.
If the material be plain and not bro
cade or tapestry 1t can be draped
slightly or laid in folds like box plaits
and fastened in the center Of the plat
with a stud or brass tack. This will
give the material Efficient amount
of fullness and do away with the stiff
ness of stretching plain material tight
ly over doors If one happens to
possess a mirror in gold frame or an
old colonial heirloom In wood. the eff
feet is particularly good If the mirror
is hung against this background and
a divan placed beneath it with the
cushions of the soft shade which cor
responds with the colorings of your
room, and the divan cover either
matching the drapery of the door or of
a shade which is in harmony with 1t.
Arrangement for Dark Room.
An effect of this kind seen recently
in rather dark room was excellent,
but the background in this case was
rather more elaborate and consisted,
besides the fiat piece of velvet over
the door, of top piece. This piece,
which was separate, was made of
thin board of about six inches in
depth, which was fastened at the top
of the door and also covered with vel
vet, with the edge trimmed with a
dull gold braid like lambrequin,
while the folds of the curtain with
the brass studs in the center of the
folds fell from just below this piece.
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the same material and was trimmed
with the same gold braid, and the
mirror was a gilt one of a rocco de-
sign.
AS the room was rather dark, the
cushions selected were of the lighter
shades of brocade in soft greens, yell
lows and old rose, and the result with
the mirror rejecting the other side of
the room and the dark receding back
ground of the curtain was to make
il appear much larger and more spa
cious, and do away entirely with the
effect of a curtained doorway
Oriental Draperies Excellent.
Where one is the happy possessor of
some fine tapestry or bit of Oriental
embroidery they can be used instead
OF the arrangement we have men
toned. and, of course, are much more
beautiful. But even with tapestry, If
1t is not of the finest weave and de-
sign, a good effect may be obtained
in this same way by putting the tapes
try fiat against the door and hanging
mirror on it. A divan under the
mirror or a deep sofa heaped with
cushions is always attractive, and very
good effects may be obtained in the
matter Of soft pillows and couch COW
erings with the expenditure of com.
paratively little money in the way of
materials, upon the covering of either
sofa pillows or couch draperies, If the
proper combinations of color are sc.
lected and nothing glazing or obtrusive
is used.