DECORATIVE LIGHT SHADES

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 January 1931, Page 14

DECORATIVE LIGHT SHADES

The use of shaded electric lights for decorated purposes is coming into more practice! and! those who have tried 'this method brightening up .a: room have found that highly effective -results’ ean be achieved.

The keynote of success is to have several .lighting points in a room. The old style of. hanging a single lamp in the centre of each room is woefully out of date though still very common. Take a living room for instance. Certainly a central light is essential for general purposes, but in addition, at the back of. a favourite reading chair, abo'vo a writing table, piano, lounge or sofa, a light should be placed. These need to bo shaded and ingenious housewives realise that it is not necessary to obtain, expensive shades. A more satisfactory practice is to use coloured paper shades .and to change them when they begin: to shows signs of wear or when 1 the colour used begins to tire on the eyes.

A room can be freshened: up wonderfully by a change in. the colour of the electric lamp shades; the use of coloured lamps is also to be recommended. This method of decoration can. even, be used as an. .alternative to the purchase of expensive furniture. It all depends, however, on the provision of an. ample number of lighting points which are the greatest comfort-providers in a homo. It is iwiorth while building a home, to remember the value of ample lighting points because the initial expense is slight and 1 the more points there are the less"electric current is consumed.