Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16
Redecorating in the Home
Advice as to Choice of Wall Paper, Pictures and
Other Things-Charming and Effective
Results Are Achieved

Wall paper is the popular covering
for walls because of improved quality,
better designs, more variety of colors
and a wide range of prices all of which
offer more opportunity for choice. Good
designs now come in inexpensive papers,
so that there is no excuse for using poor
ones. The power of wallpaper to add
beauty to room is well understood by
decorators and designers. If your walls
are ugly, you may make many changes
In furnishings, draperies and rugs and
curtains but the room Will remain I'M
satisfactory until the background Is
changed.
When selecting wall paper, study the
exposure of your rooms, the number
Of windows in them and their use. A
dining room may be more gay than
living room, where one wishes to rest
and read. The dining room is not used
for long at time, and one does not
tire of unusual wall paper here. Pic
ture papers, Chinese forals, Colonial
designs and lovely scenic papers are ex-
cellent for this room. Breakfast rooms,
sun rooms, radio rooms and bath rooms
all may be gay in color and pattern OF
their wall paper. Bedroom paper
ehould be restful and quiet. A child's
teom should be cheerful and gay. A
mans study or . boys room may be in
darker rich tone of paper. Glazed
Kitchen papers, which can be washed,
come in excellent tile effects. The glaze
on these helps to preserve the paper.
An attractive bathroom may be planned,
using paper with a goldfish design
which has soft blue-green background,
sea grasses and water. The thing or
woodwork is best done in a blue-green,
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Don't be afraid of figure in wall paper,
but be careful not to get busy, restless
pattern Simple stripes and conven-
tional patterns in two or more colors
look better with floral wall paper than
spots of plain, unrelieved color. Two
designs of the same type should not be
used together in a room. Stripes give
the effect of a higher ceiling, but so
also do patterns with lines pointing up
ward, although not so severe as definite
stripes. Foliage patterns, forest scenes
where the upright trunks of trees show,
or conventional designs with elongated
medallions pointing toward the ceiling
will also appear to help raise the ceiling
line.
Tans. cream, orange, yellow, gold or
nile green used in quantity will make a
cherries room seem more sunny and
more pleasant. They are like indoor
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q room and tone down too bright sum
light or glaring light Green, blue,
gray, lavender and blush pink are used
to make q cool, restful room. Materials
both for draperies and upholstery, COM
bintng in some way two or more of the
colors in the wall paper design, are
more restful than too much of one
color. Satin-finish wall paper needs
luxurious surroundings. It is more for
MI ond dnac y1nt horr,nnr1f1o with haa wv
lines or dark colors.
Just because you have several rooms
opening together you need not make
them all alike. A little care in choos-
ing your papers so that harmony is
gained between rooms Is all that Is nee
essary Large rooms can take larger
designs and dark rooms need paper to
reflect light. Rough-surface papers
afford greater play Of light than
smooth surfaces.
Wall Pictures.
Too many pictures, carelessly chosen
and badly placed, produce as bad an
effect as q room without any pictures
at all Rooms papered with decorative
wall paper need very few pictures. and
these must be distinctive enough SO
that they are not lost in the back
ground effect. Some wall papers are
too startling In design to permit the
use Of any pictures. Scenic papers
should never have pictures hung on
them. Bed room pictures should not
be chosen as one would choose those
for living room, where the entire
family and ones friends must look at
them. Excellent reproductions of the
best pictures may be bought, which are
In much better taste than are crude
originals in ugly colors.
Glass must be used as q protection
over pictures on paper, although the
choice Of frames may vary. Reproduce
tions of oil paintings are usually best
In narrow, dull-gold frames or black
ones. Silver frames are good for some
Of the modern wood-block prints or
highly colored reproductions. II a
frame attracts attention at the expense
Of the picture, you can know that 1t
has been wrongly chosen. Some pic
lures are better with simple frames, a
few require more elaborate frames,
some are good with glass over them
and some are better without glass.
Soiled unframed photographs can be
cleaned easily by dipping a pad of cot
ton wool into methylated spirit and
lightly rubbing them all over. The gel
attn surface will not be affected by this