The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-06-19
Notes and News
Of Interest
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The season for renovating and beat.
| tifying homes is at hand and as the
paper hanger and painter are abroad in
| the town, the following advice from
Josephine Wells Richardson in that de
| lightful periodical, The House Beauti-
full will be timely She says: The aver
age individual will spend much time ii
choosing his architect, months in build
| ing his house, and he may bubble for
weeks over single antique chair, but
when it comes to decorating the walls
he says 81 will have the drawing room
in green, the library brown, the dining
room and my own room red Then he
will walk away satisfied that he has
chaser the proper colors.
If the paper-hanger happens to be an
artistic genius the house owner will be
satisfied, but even then he will be liv-
ing in a paper hangers house and not
his own
Each room should be decorated ac-
cording to its use, and the impression
it is intended to produce Upon the mind.
A library should be quiet, orderly, dig
nifed, mutually stimulating As
thoughts flow more freely in the dim
mer lights the dull tones of orange, the
shades of dead grass and leaves, are
good. The music room might be done
in blue, soft, dull grayish blue, like the
sky on a moonlight night. The furni-
ture should be blacltish walnut or eb-
ony In such room a musician fould
be inspired.
The dining room can afford to use
tones of red, but never deep red There
is Pompeian red, which is a combina-
ton of pink and Brick red, beautiful,
under some conditions a wonderful
background for thelgold decorated china
and glassware, or the silver on the side
board A dull greenish brown is also
a good color for a dining room. The
materiau used is of little importance,
except as it gives the desired effect
Cloth, paper, leather, paint OF kalsomine
all have their good points, and each is
best under certain circumstances. If
there is a pattern in the cloth or paper
it should not be a contrasting color. 1t
should be in the same color or a similar
shade, so as to give an effect of one
general tone. If large supplies such as
are found in cities are not within reach
kalsomine is the easiest and most eff
fectiye form of wall decoration. 1t is
cheap, hygienic, has depth of tone and
unlimited range of color. After it has
been put on, if it is gone over and
barely touched with the bristles of a
stiff brush (you might describe it as
being patted with scrubbing brush) it
removes all shine, and leaves a soft
surface of apparent depth The young
girls bed room would naturally be in
either blue or pink, according to her
preference. Ceilings can almost inva-
riably be done in shades of cream and
pale yellowf as these colors seem to
reflect the light best and be least no
ticeable. In rooms with low ceilings
the wall decoration should extend COM
nletely to the top, thus giving the eff
feet of height. Borders usually distract
the eye an DRUM the simplicity, SO they
should be avoided Molding can be in
either the color of the ceiling, the wood
work or the picture frames.
Walls should never be dark, either in
actual color OF effect. neither should
they be too light A sympathetic neu-
trality tempered by each persons indi-
vidutlity is the result to be desired.