STYLES IN PAINT
Householders are coming to think of paint—especially indoor work—not as merely a protective covering, but as a means of giving their rooms a smart, up-to-date appearance, comments the "Cape Times."
Good style in painted rooms does not depend upon super-knowledge or mysterious processes—it merely means that the painter adopts new ideas as they come along, such as he is apprised of in his trade,, magazines, journals on decoration, and so on.
Because ivory or buff walls, with the trim a slightly darker shade, are artistically correct, it does not follow that these particular colour schemes should always be used. The light-toned furnitude woods, upholstery, and curtain fabrics in vogue are best set off by walls of about the same value—offwhites which go towards yellow, or rose, or parchment colours. Or, they may take on new effectiveness against walls of stronger, darker colours, such as medium blue, jade green, chocolate brown.
Styling in indoor painting has undoubtedly come to stay, and it makes the work of the painter much more important than when he is called in merely to coyer the walls with some stock colour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 16, 19 July 1939, Page 16
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188STYLES IN PAINT Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 16, 19 July 1939, Page 16
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