RSS Feed (xml)If you rearrange your room, but find it Cold in atmosphere, try deep cream gauze for sash curtains. They are wonderful atmosphere producers. The advantage of two tiers of sash curtains (see Plate IX) is that one can part and push back one tier for air, light or looking out, and still use the other tier to modify the light in the room. Another way to produce atmosphere in a cold room is to use a toneontone
paper. That is, a paper striped in two depths of the same color.
In choosing any wall paper it is imperative that you try a large sample of it in the room for which it is intended, as the reflection from a nearby building or brick wall can entirely change a beautiful yellow into a thick mustard color. How wallpaper looks in the shop is no criterion. As stated sometimes the wrong side of wallpaper gives you the tone you desire.
When rearranging your room do not desecrate the few good antiques you happen to own by the use of a too modern color scheme. Have the necessary modern pieces you have bought to supplement your treasures stained or painted in a dull, dark color in harmony with the antiques, and then use subdued colors in the floor coverings, curtains and cushions.
If you own no good old ornaments, try to get a few good shapes and colors in inexpensive reproductions of the desired period. If your room is small, and the bathroom opens out of it, add to the size of the room by using the same color scheme in the bathroom, and conceal the plumbing and fixtures by a low screen. If the connecting door is kept open, the effect is to enlarge greatly the appearance of the small bedroom, whereas if the bedroom decorations are dark and the bathroom has a light floor and walls, it abruptly cuts itself off and emphasizes the smallness of the bedroom. Everything depends upon the appropriateness of the furniture to its setting. We recall some much admired diningroom chairs in the home of the Maclaines of Lochbuie in Argyleshire, west coast of Scotland.
The chairs in question are covered with sealskin from the seals caught off that rugged coast they are quite delightful in a remote country house; but they would not be tolerated in London. The question of placing photographs is not one to be treated lightly. Remember, intimate photographs should be placed in intimate rooms, while photographs of artists and all celebrities are appropriate for the living room or library. It is extremely seldom that a photograph unless of public interest is not out of place in a formal room.
To repeat, never forget that your house or flat is your home, and, that to have any charm whatever of a personal sort, it must suggest you not simply the taste of a professional decorator. So work with your decorator (if you prefer to employ one) by giving your personal attention to styles and colors, and selecting those most sympathetic to your own nature. Your architect will be grateful if you will show the same interest in the details of building your home, rather than assuming the attitude that you have engaged him in order to rid yourself of such bother.
If you are building a pretentious house and decide upon some clearly defined period of architecture, let us say, Georgian (English eighteenth century) we would advise keeping your first floor mainly in that period as to furniture and hangings, but upstairs let yourself go, that is, make your rooms any style you like. Go in for a gay riot of color, such combinations as are known as Bakst coloring, if that happens to be your fancy. This Russian painter and designer was fortunate in having the theatre in which to demonstrate his experiments in vivid color combinations, and sometimes we quite forget that he was but one of many who have used sunset palettes.
Recently the fair butterfly daughters of a mother whose taste has grown sophisticated, complained "But, Mother, we dislike periods, and here you are building a Tudor house!" forgetting, by the way, that the socalled Bakst interiors, adored by them, are equally a period.
This home, a very wonderful one, is being worked out on the plan suggested, that is, the first floor is decorated in the period of the exterior of the house, while the personal rooms on the upper floors reflect, to a certain extent, the personality of their occupants. Remember there must always be a certain relationship between all the rooms in one suite, the relationship indicated by lines and a background of the same, or a harmonizing colorscheme.
paper. That is, a paper striped in two depths of the same color.
In choosing any wall paper it is imperative that you try a large sample of it in the room for which it is intended, as the reflection from a nearby building or brick wall can entirely change a beautiful yellow into a thick mustard color. How wallpaper looks in the shop is no criterion. As stated sometimes the wrong side of wallpaper gives you the tone you desire.
When rearranging your room do not desecrate the few good antiques you happen to own by the use of a too modern color scheme. Have the necessary modern pieces you have bought to supplement your treasures stained or painted in a dull, dark color in harmony with the antiques, and then use subdued colors in the floor coverings, curtains and cushions.
If you own no good old ornaments, try to get a few good shapes and colors in inexpensive reproductions of the desired period. If your room is small, and the bathroom opens out of it, add to the size of the room by using the same color scheme in the bathroom, and conceal the plumbing and fixtures by a low screen. If the connecting door is kept open, the effect is to enlarge greatly the appearance of the small bedroom, whereas if the bedroom decorations are dark and the bathroom has a light floor and walls, it abruptly cuts itself off and emphasizes the smallness of the bedroom. Everything depends upon the appropriateness of the furniture to its setting. We recall some much admired diningroom chairs in the home of the Maclaines of Lochbuie in Argyleshire, west coast of Scotland.
The chairs in question are covered with sealskin from the seals caught off that rugged coast they are quite delightful in a remote country house; but they would not be tolerated in London. The question of placing photographs is not one to be treated lightly. Remember, intimate photographs should be placed in intimate rooms, while photographs of artists and all celebrities are appropriate for the living room or library. It is extremely seldom that a photograph unless of public interest is not out of place in a formal room.
To repeat, never forget that your house or flat is your home, and, that to have any charm whatever of a personal sort, it must suggest you not simply the taste of a professional decorator. So work with your decorator (if you prefer to employ one) by giving your personal attention to styles and colors, and selecting those most sympathetic to your own nature. Your architect will be grateful if you will show the same interest in the details of building your home, rather than assuming the attitude that you have engaged him in order to rid yourself of such bother.
If you are building a pretentious house and decide upon some clearly defined period of architecture, let us say, Georgian (English eighteenth century) we would advise keeping your first floor mainly in that period as to furniture and hangings, but upstairs let yourself go, that is, make your rooms any style you like. Go in for a gay riot of color, such combinations as are known as Bakst coloring, if that happens to be your fancy. This Russian painter and designer was fortunate in having the theatre in which to demonstrate his experiments in vivid color combinations, and sometimes we quite forget that he was but one of many who have used sunset palettes.
Recently the fair butterfly daughters of a mother whose taste has grown sophisticated, complained "But, Mother, we dislike periods, and here you are building a Tudor house!" forgetting, by the way, that the socalled Bakst interiors, adored by them, are equally a period.
This home, a very wonderful one, is being worked out on the plan suggested, that is, the first floor is decorated in the period of the exterior of the house, while the personal rooms on the upper floors reflect, to a certain extent, the personality of their occupants. Remember there must always be a certain relationship between all the rooms in one suite, the relationship indicated by lines and a background of the same, or a harmonizing colorscheme.
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