Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-25
Color Is An Important
Factor In the Coziness
OF All Home Decorating

A very interesting satire on the in
terror decorator in his native haunts,
with comment on the rooms he is
guilty of committing, stated that he
selected one color for an interior and
then arranged it in tones from light
to dark in that color
"Ah," one heard him murmur with
fingers delicately bridged over his
SIN art waistcoat, 'Mauve,' sigh,
"NIauver, Mauvest."
Such plan is indeed safe, but not
very original. Brown used to be the
arrange a room in stout durable
color. 1t would not show dirt, you
know. One woman remarked that on
moving into a house, she had found
the kitchen painted in dull disagree
able browns and had promptly done
it over in lighter colors. Think"
said her friend, ''how gayly you
could have splashed the gravy"
Color Important Factor
Color is now receiving study that
is due, and while some homes will
always present a wild mixture of
jarring colors, the result of trying to
assemble all sorts of fadS and fancies,
other homes are emerging from their
Sombre hues and are taking on
studied color harmonies and con-
trasts that delight all who see them.
Just what constitutes cozineSs? One
room seems to you cozy and another
repels you Hominess is such an en-
joyable quality to find, that it is
surely worth consideration. Too great
precision will always defeat it,. It
was said of one house, "It was beau
tiful-there was everything you could
Want-but they had no books"
Books surely do help. Then, too,
there must be other evidences that
the room is actually lived in,
Use Wood PaneIing
Instead of the survival of the fit
test, decoration is undergoing a re-
viVal of the fittest. One direction it,
is. taking is renewed interest in wall
treatments. Wall paper is with usj
again and wood paneling.
Wall paper deserves a long story
all its own, which space forbids.
Wall paper designs are as endless in
variety as are fabric designs. There
are patterns appropriate for every
room and several possible periods for
that room. Selection of wall paper
involves discrimination and care, and
at the same time it can show forth
our individual taste, or lack of it.
One interesting development is the
appearance of careful copies Of old
designs, that are so helpful when one
is trying to fit up a room accurately,
and has selected, say 1920, as a date
line as it were.
Meeting the Demand
For a while those who could afford
to have old wall paper actually lifted
from old houses, were the ones who
could accomplish this desired end
Now the paper manufacturers are
wisely taking care of this demand.
Wood paneling when really studied
is as full of variation and poSsibili-
ties as wall paper. Mouldings and
panel shapes come in for considera
ton and bookshelves, as we'll Re
ceSsed bookshelves fit in well with
paneling and with ones plans for
housing them at the same time.
A wall surface given over to st1elv-
ing for books, is of necessity color
full surface.
It can be counted to break an
otherwise monotonous wall. And then
again there is the liVeable quality OF
books. When you come into a living
room where there is a profusion of
books on tempting open shelves, at
once there is something to talk about
and mutual friends to discuss.
Graceful Arched Tops
Panelled walls in dining rooms
come in for their share of study, and
shelving problems appear here, too.
In one home Colonial corner cabi-
nets have open shelves on which to
display treasured china. Other SINH
lar cabinets have closed doors, that
fit trinity into a. gracefully arched
top.
A Directoire dining room had in
teresting cabinets lined with red
plush-needless to say there were no
doors. Chintz patterned paper is
sometimes used, and with much