The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Plain Types
Are Yielding
to Patterns

After many years Of the fashion
for plain painted walls, wallpaper
is back in fashion again and is es-
pecially smart in rooms furnished
with period furniture when 1t
copies the old wallpaper designs
used years ago.
The most fashionable kinds are:
Scenic patterns offering for the
formal room large, formal scenes
and for the informal room, small,
allover tile patterns.
Chintz patterns in small designs
giving the quaint impression of old
fashioned chintzes.
Medium size flower patterns which
are not Of the chintz type.
Some Give Plastic Effect
Plain colored wallpapers which
look like plastered walls.
Modified modernistic designs,
generally in flower patterns.
Many kinds of colonial patterns,
particularly the small, geometric
designs that our ancestors liked so
well.
A few Victorian patterns for
rooms decorated in the new-fash-
toned Victorian way
Some of the newest wallpapers
have note of gold introduced into
the pattern. Color combinations
should be considered in wallpaper
Just as they are in furniture and
upholsteries and the papers chosen
to harmonic with decorative
scheme of the furnishings.
Hang Pictures Properly
Along the walls and wallpapers,
many housewives wonder about
rules for hanging pictures.
Pictures should be hung so that
the eye of person Of average
height will be about opposite the
center of the picture when the per-
son is standing.
They should be hung fiat to the
wall in order to form a part of
the wall. The only excuse for al
lowing them to dip or slant is
when, hanging so, they receive bet
ter light
DO not hang pictures with wires
extending from one hook in the
moulding. The resulting converg-
ing lines are contrary to correct
structural theories. A single pic
ture wire should be passed through
two hooks about one inch from the
top of the picture. This wire pass
ing through the two screw eyes will
leave the two ends free and the
wire adjustable.
Two picture hooks should be used,
one tied to each end Of the wire
and the wires hung vertically They
then will be parallel to the edge of
the frame and the walls of the
room.
Tone the wires to the wall, if pos
sible, so they will be as inconspicu-
Gus as possible. Small pictures are
best hung without wires.
There are two different schools of
ideas when it comes to the question
of how groups of small pictures
should be hung. One school insists
that when small pictures are hung
in groups, the tops of these pictures
should be on a straight line.
The other school declares it is
not necessary that the tops Cor bot
toms be on a straight line-that
the center picture of three, for in
stance, can be raised above the
other two or dropped below the
level of their tops.
Should Not Be stepped"
Most artists, however, agree that
pictures should not be hung in
"steps"-that is a group of three or
four or more, each hung lower than
the preceding one to form a diagonal
line
Pictures always should be hung
in relation to the furniture in the
room, not just in any bare spot that
seems to need filling. That is espe-
cially important in the hanging of
large pictures which need directly
under them some piece of furniture
such as sofa or good sized table,
to which they seem to belong.
Pictures are smart used in pairs
on each side of piece of furniture,
such as companion flower prints or
companion etchings.