THE "KING'S HOUSE"

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1935, Page 15

THE "KING'S HOUSE"

PLEASING NEW ' COLOURS

Housing is no longer in the air, butis springing up all round in every shape and form, states an English exchange. A beginning has been made with the coloured house, and it would seem as though more might be done in this direction, even if the colouring be not too much on the. lines of the child's paint-box. Colouring in the Victorian, era ran chiefly to a harsh red brick. Otherwise, greyness, also chiefly due to brick, more or less obtained and became synonymous with dirtiness. Bricks have improved out of all knowledge, and, while perhaps there is still not as much variety as in Flanders, a great range of colouring can be provided by means of brick, which is very attractive.

The "King's House" is a good example of the use of brownish brick with curly tiles to tone. -It has a pleasant .warm tone. Houses with red, white, and green colouring suggest cross-stitch or Denmark, but they also can be most attractive. Some houses, particularly those which are all white, get their colour from shutters, gates, ,doors, .which may be criss-crossed with colour, as are Swiss shutters. One has only to return to the charming old gabled houses'of Essex, a non-stone county, to see how the pink, yellow, cream houses add to the mellowness of a street. It has been an axiom in this country that no weather was stable, and therefore there was no sun. The corollary to that was the ultra-colour-less house. Now that people have rediscovered the sun and lay themselves out to court it, houses are taking on. colour in their complexions too and are ignoring the assertion that climatic reasons are against this development. Certain deep blues go excellently with red brick houses, just as brown paint goes with creamy plaster. The natural colourings of substances are most usually successful in the new trend towards the coloured house.