Colours
CLICHES The current epidemic of black cavernous ceilings strung with wires and cords, promises to develop into a decorating habit. Ceilings requiring no camouflage have been defaced to conform to accepted style. If you are searching for a thought to neutralise a ceiling without disguising its height, first lower the lighting level,'then paint the ceiling and cornice pale grey, or mushroom, or silver green, depending upon your wall colours. If walls and ceiling contrast, the eye is arrested by the colourchange at cornice level, thus featuring the wall height.
' Why not a lofty ceiling, if it is well proportioned. Space is more peaceful than the congestion created by a dropped . orhome 1 OfRCe ’ Sh ° P ’
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28869, 14 April 1959, Page 2
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116Colours Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28869, 14 April 1959, Page 2
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