The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-19
Color
To Brighten
Your Home

Your Home
BY VIVIAN BROWN
Every woman loves to have
color in her h o m e. If she
doesn't it is probably because she
is afraid to take a chance. 1t is one
problem to have dad grumble be-
cause the walls are a tea-party
pink but when each member of
the family gets into the act and
complains about his own room, it
can make life pretty miserable.
To help women in a quandary
about their color scenes in home
decoration harmony, Ina M. Ger
maine has written a book, Hand
book OF Color" (Robert M. Nc
Bride and co.. in which she gives
advice about accents and how to
use them; warm and cool har-
monies; how to visualize %colors;
how to use a color chart; how to
select colo~s to suit personalities
and other advice On how to ana
I'VE and correct color schemes.
Through the use of color large
rooms can be made to appear
smaller, and small rooms can be
made to look larger, a boon to
the family forced to live in
cramped quarters.
Miss Ge-maine suggests using
fbale blues, grays, off-whites and
light tints on walls to make them
recede and to get a more spacious
effect in a small room. To make
the room appear higher, a light
tint may be used for the ceiling.
1t may even be painted a different
color-as long as the color scheme
will harmonic. 1t is also better
in small rooms to paint the wood
work and doors the same color as
the walls. The uniformity OF color
creates a more quiet effect.
Draperies the same tone as the
walls or slightly lighter or darker
will also add to making the room
more spacious and restful because
there are no interrupted breaks
in color around the room, says
Keep in mind she advises
Miss Germaine.
that some colors will bring more
light to a room than others, since
thew reflect or throw back more
light. Tints and light hues are
more spacious and light-reflect-
ing than heavy, insistent tones,
even when the latter tend to-
ward blue which Miss Germaine
says is supposed to be a very re-
ceding color.
Halls can take strong, exciting
colors. Game rooms should present
a feeling of gaiety, and vivid colors
with strong %overtones create this
atmosphere, but in the living room
and bedroom backgrounds are bet
ter when restful. The kitchen
should be bright and cheerful and
the bathroom is perhaps the one
room in the house where you may
let your color sense run riot, I'M
hampe~ed by many considerations
by which you are limited in other
rooms, suggests Miss GKmaine.
Here are some examples of ap'
propriate color schemes for con
meeting rooms which you may
use as a guide in planning your
own arrangements:
For an apartment foyer, Pom
pein red is a good tone and Of
fers a welcome word to guests.
A black and white floor car
make it striking. The living
room connecting with this en-
trance hall may have walls Of
blue-green, with an %all-over,
self-toned carpet in terra Gotta.
If the dining room opens from
this room the walls might match
the living room. A bedroom ir
jonquil yellow is cheerful, espe'
cially if the room has little sun.
This color appears almost the
same at night and will offer a
springlike quality that is uplift-
ing, says Miss Germaine. Colors
harmonizing with yellow are
amethyst, violet, chocolate,
golden brown, coral and blue
green.
In decorating refer to a color
chart often. This should give you
the primary, secondary and inter
mediate color tones SO that you
can r d complementary
scenes which are always in har-
mOny,