Evening star., 1936-08-29
CONTRAST IS USED
IN WALL COL0RS
Each of Rooms Four Sides
Has Different Tint in
New Idea.
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NEW YORK, August 29.-Clever
ideas in painting rooms and ingenious
variations in color are shown in in
teriors created by New York decora-
tors. In modern-style rooms the prac-
tice of painting each wall different
color, or perhaps three walls one color
and the fourth contrasting one. is
growing. OF course, to be successful
these departures from the usual must
be carefully handled. Not quite so
radical are some of the new touches
being given to traditional rooms.
For example. smart Park avenue
drawing rooms furnished with rare
antiques have baseboards painted to
match the color Of the carpet and
contrast with the rest of the trim. This
seems perfectly natural when one con-
siders that the color chosen for the
carpet will, of course, harmonic with
the walls, and it has the advantage
Of increasing the apparent size Of the
room.
Guaranteed to chase away morn
ing crouch are bright and varied hues
in the breakfast nook. One daring
but satisfactory scheme worked out
in a suburban home included pale
yellow walls and light orange trim.
To an apartment dinette in the city
light Spring green on the walls and
soft blue for the trim gives distinc-
ton. The window end of this charm
ing dining space Is painted oyster
white: this, with the white null cur
tains, lightens up an interior inclined
to be dark.
Awkward Places Changed.
Changing awkward jogs in wall
into interesting receSSeS Is another
new trick of the decorator. A shallow
alcove in one wall of a room was
painted blue on its three sides, artis-
tically contrasting with the biege walls
of the rest of the room, and furnish
ing a perfect background of an old
fashioned mahogany chest of draw
ers. A badly placed paSSageway in an
old house was turned into charming
vista by painting the walls cream color
and the end door and frame Chinese
vermilion. The white of the trim in
the ajoining room was continued on
the Dashboard.
The decoration of living rooms with
q fireplace at one end may be varied
by painting the hearth wall the fash
ionable jonquil yellow, to contrast
with the side and end walls in French
gray. A dining room seen recently
with Duncan Phyfe mahogany furni-
ture, was brought smartly up-to-date
by giving it blue trim and cream walls,
Blue upholstered seats on the chairs
and a blue carpet furthered the at
tractive harmony.
Snap Replaces Commonplace.
Painted dados, with the upper part
Of the wall another color, give snap
to what might have been q common
place effect. A chair-rail moldine
placed at window-sill height or a
4-inch wide band Of darker color thar
the dado may mark the dividing line.
Instead of cornice or picture molding
q band of a darker shade than the
walls may be painted a few inches
below the ceiling. The molding or
the panelipg of doors is sometimes
outlined in a lighter shade, or white
so that the door becomes an object
of interest instead of an irritating
break in a decorative wall effect.
White, by the way, is used with al
most every color, and is unified with
the rooms decoration by introducing
. white lamp shade, a piece of white
lacquered furniture, or a chair up
tolstered in off-white leather.