INTERIOR DECORATION

Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 2

INTERIOR DECORATION

THE ARTISTIC EFFECT The art of interior home decoration (writes Frank M. Schulz, in tho ‘ Decorator’) is most successfully carried out when tho mechanical labor is concealed to create an artistic effect. To produce this effect, wall coverings and applied' textures and their colorings, furniture, draperies, iloor coverings, and light effects, both natural and artificial, must bo given careful study amt consideration.

' The treatment of ceiling, walls, and woodwork of a room is generally accepted as a complementary effect to the contemplated decorative furnishing scheme. They .should provide an appropriate and effective background, both in color and design, lor the general setting. Hero texture, design, and color should be given most careful consideration, because without their harmonious aid no decorative scheme can he successfully carried out. At this time I wish to say a. word about the importance of color.and its perception by our senses. Color in all our interior work comes by way of impression received by tho eye and modified by the brain. The mind’s interpretation of color impressions must bo remembered by the decorator, and provided for in tho assortment and assembling of his furnishings. It is upon this judgment so formed that success or failure, in color arrangement depends. An assortment of colors should he easy ami comfortable to look upon. When one color may be traced in a composition of all tho more important colored objects in u furnishing scheme, there is something to lead the gaze easily from carpet to curtain and from side' wall to., upholstered objects. Ample brightness inay be secured by contrast of color within this limitation, whether in the pattern of a fabric or in an assortment of colored objects forming the furnishing of a room. in the treatment of rooms in our modern home, tho colorings, designs, and applied textures on walls and codlings are most important. In living rooms, dining rooms, and halls, rougti or scmi-rougli textures, suitably colored with hardwood or painted and antiqued wood to harmonise with the furniture, recommend themselves. Living rooms in subtle subdued deep colorings on ceilings, side-walls, and woodwork with furnishings in glowing, exotic colorings are commendable. Bedrooms, colorful and cheerful in their furnishings, with subdued walls and woodwork, lend tone and comfort to the home, and tho introduction of a cheerful bathroom, with color in walls, woodwork, and tile, is a pleasing innovation.

The use of ornamental iron, copper, pewter, and brass in the form of . grilles, railings, doors,, electric fixtures, aqd lumps of every description' ’ fiTis been a most successful decorative modi inn in tmr modern home. A feature which should receive tho most cnrclul consideration hv the decorators is the proper distribution of light both in volume and quality. The volume should bo sufficient to properly light the rooms, while the quality and tone should he such as to create an atmosphere of comfort and ease to tho general decorative scheme.