Milford chronicle., 1930-05-30
HAIR MONIZING
,COLORS FOR WALL
And WOOD WORK
BY Ellen Yeoman

The heavenly twins of every
room are walls and wood work. We
cannot select or decorate one with
ont considering the other if we are
, TO have a harmonious home. They
may be painted in contrasting or
barmonizing colors or decorated IN
the Same color, but in any case their
finish must be co-ordinated to make
IAN appropriate background for the
furnishings.
Lining and stripping are attractive
means of accenting wood WORK.
They should be employed only when
>the architectural lines are so beau
tiful or unusual as to warrant spe-
oial emphasis. The panels of doors
especially benefit by this treatment
on occasion. Where these means are
employed to decorate wood work,
the walls become the background
Ror the decoration and as a rule
should be simply painted or enam-
eled.
When walls are stippled or given
a Tiffany blend, an antique finish
on the wood work is in keeping with
the soft, mellow appearance of this
TYNE of background. Antiquing may
be effected on a fiat painted or ena-
meled surface by brushing on a
glazing liquid mixed with a darker
color than the background and then
>wiping off most of this glaze coat
with a soft piece of cheesecloth.
This leaves just enough of the sec
ond color to give the woodwork the
appearance of age. Several kinds of
. paint may be used for antiquing but
raw lumber or a mixture of raw and
burnt lumber is generally chosen.
BY completing one small area ut
time the glazing coat can be blended
while still wet and smearing will be
avoided.
In the case of a wood paneled
room, the walls and the wood work
become one. Generally they are both
stained or painted the same color,
but occasionally doors and panel
borders are treated distinctly from
the panel centers. Where paneling is
effected by means of mOuldings, lin
ing. stenciling, or plaster casting On
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treated separately from both the
walls and panelling if the wall is
contrasting color, thus forming
tie-up between wood work and walls.
For example, a pale peach wall
could have panels stenciled in light
jade green and wood work painted
the same verdant color.
In the modern room where strong
contrast is the decorative basis,
wood work may be given an ebony
finish to accompany walls painted
vermilion or silver. To obtain this
ebony finish an undercoat of vermil-
ion fiat paint should be used and on
top of that two coats of black
slightly tinted with Chinese blue.
The finishing coats should be of rub
bling varnish.
The architectural appearance of
the room can be greatly modified by
the manner of handling wood work
in relation to walls and for this rea-
son the deficiencies and advantages
of a room should be closely studied
before the background finishes are
selected. For example, a small room
will seem larger if the break be-
tween the wood work and the walls
is not definite. That is to sal, if the
wood work is finished in the same
color as the wall, in a different
shade of the same color, or even in
a harmonizing color, the room is
less cut up, and consequently Gre
ates greater feeling of space than
when the contrast is marked.
If a door or built-in cupboard is
architecturally interesting, it can be
emphasized by painting it a differ
ent color from the rest of the wood
work.