The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
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By NEA 6erUtcs
HAVE you ever noticed, when
l. Il moving. how bare and forlorn
your new home looks until the pic
lures are put up? This is the real
proof of the Importance of pictures
and other wall decorations in add
ing INABILITY to a home.
This season there are many new
kinds Of pictures you can add to
give your home a touch of individ-
uality. Black and white etchings
are tremendously popular at present
and are especially good in room
Of high coloring where they present
Just the needed contrast. If a pic
ture is intended for a fairly dark
space, the colors should be vivid,
perhaps a gay hunting scene,
bright garden or a flower print in
lively colors.
often a mirror will enliven such
a corner UNNECESSARILY. especially if
from its corner it catches a view out
of window or reflects a lighted
lamp.
Often a home maker, conscious Of
her scant knowledge of art, is fear
full Of purchasing an inferior pic
ture, so selects reproduction Of
some masterpiece by Raphael, Van
Dyke, Reubens, Rembrandt or some
other great artist.
Simple Pictures Good
While the reproductions nova
days are marvellous, such pictures
are so commonly used that they are
apt to lessen the individuality of
home.
An inexpensive water color OF
some spot the family knows, a sea
scene, or an unusual landscape or
portrait might add whole lot more
to your home than a reproduction of
a master.
Fish are in again as dining room
decorations. There are all manner
of lovely shell or fish pictures that
you can purchase reasonably. Fruit
pictures also are good for the dining
room and come in a stunning as
sortment of Well-knoWn and exotic
varieties.
For the living room, smoking
room, card room and mems rooms,
the very latest things are gay hunt
ing scenes.
Old Prints Popular
Old prints, of course, take prece-
dence over new ones, and nothing
is nicer than some OF the red-coat-
ed figures riding to hounds por-
trayed in the stiff manner of olden
days. Coaches are colorful and old
English tavern prints are good, too.
Bedroom decorations now encour-
age engagements of family snap
shots, perhaps tinted, framed in
narrow frames the color of the
woodwork.
Costume pictures, old Godeys La
dies Book prints, silhouetteS and
old-fashioned garden pictures are
all bedroom vogues right now. Bed
room pictures are, Of course, the
most individual and sentimental of
all the houses decorations.
They should be hung lower than
pictures in other rooms, too, to en-
phasize the impression of coziness.
Though in this connection it should
be said that the most common fail
ing in picture hanging is to place
them too high.
Put Pictures in Kitchen
For the nursery, illustrations of
famous children's stories are ia
vorites. and other simple, colorful
portraits and scenes are good, too.
Even the bathroom and kitchen
can have pictures this season, with
perfect propriety, and there is no
denying that pictures add a pleas
ant decorative note to both.
Among the newest wall decora-
tons, tapestries and maps are fore
most. Tapestries should be very
good before they deserve hanging.
Moreover, ceilings should be fairly
high and a room fairly formal to
carry them. This, however, is not
true of the new vogue for maps.
Old MAPS new maps. maps of your
own home town, or lar China, of
the eastern or western hemisphere,
all of these are good.
The very newest mantelpiece or
over-the-hall table decoration is one
of these quaint maps, framed in
narrow wood and tone of your table
or often In gay red to set off the
room.