WALL DECORATION

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 272, 12 August 1932, Page 6

WALL DECORATION

Some New Ideas From London Exhibition USES FOR OILCLOTH '' Special to The Dominion. London, June 26. Wallpapers in a wealth of new designs, rough canvas, beautifully grained woods, paints scumbled and stippled in cunning effects—endless suggestions for spring renovations —were contained in the recent Ideal Home Exhibition. Examining the stands one came across several ideas that will help the home decorator. Let us start with the bathroom, usually the most neglected room in the house yet the easiest to modernise. If you have a wallpaper, still quite good, that is tiled for the lower part of the wall and plain above, the aspect of the room can be altered with the help of some plain oil baize in two colours. Cut strips about two inches wide, and paste them in a double row round the line where the tiled paper joins the plain. For instance, if the paper is green above and white below, choose a deeper shade of the green for the lower line, and silver for the upper. If you intend to redecorate the bathroom entirely, it could be curtained in American cloth and “papered” with the same oil baize. This can be obtained in plain and tiled patterns, is impervious to steam and heat, and can be stuck on with ordinary flour-and-water paste. Always choose a deeper note of your wallpaper for the curtains. The method of appliqueing motifs to wallpaper gives wide scope for the amateur, and incidentally Is a great improvement in the sparsely furnished room. One idea seen at Olympia is particularly successful . The design surrounds a modern dressing table —which is really only a dressing table in name. It. consists of a long, narrow wall mirror with no frame, on either side of which is built on to the wall a small drawer and closed-in shelf. A low stool is placed in front of the mirror. On the wall round this is appliQued a decorative strip of deep blue paper in a geometrical design, lending great importance to such a simple piece of furniture.

SHUTTING OUT NOISE A Window for City Rooms NO SOUND, BUT NO VIEW From Australia comes a louvred type of window which seeks by scientific design to exclude street noises. A model Is being shown at- Australia House (in London), and frdm this It can be seen that the principles involved are a combination of reflection and absorption. For office buildings in busy thoroughfares, where light and air (but not outlook) are important, this invention seems to offer distinct possibilities,; but for domestic use there would be few who would tolerate the obstruction of view which its use entails, remarks an English writer. . v The window consists of a series of. top-hinged lights which may be opened fanlight-wise by gearing into the semblance of a glazed louvre, while inside the window is arranged a series of roller blinds, as absorbent and deflective surfaces, in louvre formation in a plane approximately at right angles to the window louvres. -