HOME DECORATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21764, 2 April 1934, Page 3

HOME DECORATION

COLOURS AMD MATERIALS Fashions in home decoration change almost as quickly as those in clothes. Gone are the times when you decorated and furnished your living room in a comfortable-looking chintz or cretonne and a solid "suite," and left it alone for years. Now each new season brings forth new colour schemes, new fabrics, new designs in furniture, and new forms of lighting, says a writer in an overseas magazine. Colour is coming into favour again. The vogue for the all-white room is over. New colour schemes for this season include all tones of beige, yellow aud soft pinks. A colour scheme in which only one colour is used promises to be very fashionable. Certainly some excellentdecorative effects can be obtained by taking one colour and building up a plan round it, -using only those shades related to it. For example, you decide to decorate a room in light yellow. Red and orange are the colours related to this shade, so touches of these two colours can be used most effectively in this one-colour scheme. In some quarters there is a tendency to revive the use of blue in schemes of decoration. Sky blue and blue-violet are the shades most favoured. As always, green is still a popular colour, especially tones of apple-green. Furnishing fabrics are very interesting. Heavily-patterned fabrics are not as popular as they wore. Many find geometric designs tiring to live with. All the newest furnishing materials rely for their effects on tho weaving rather than on the design. Tho new decoration materials include tweed, mixtures or cotton and wool with rough-looking surfaces. The very smartest fabrics aro pebbly in texture, following, as usual, the fashions favoured by the dressmakers. The most popular colours in the new fabrics are stone, biscuit colour, coral pink, and tones of fawn and brown.