Art in Paper-hanging.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 931, 3 January 1890, Page 5

Art in Paper-hanging.

Many people pay great sums of money in order to build houses that have fine, large rooms, and, because of bad taste fn decorating their apartments, counteract the fine effect their money has gained. There is opportunity for the use or much ingenuity In decorating the walls of a room to effect its apparent size. An appartraent is always enlarged in appearance by light paper. If the walls are light and the ceiling dark, the effect would be a long, wide and squatty room, whereas if the walls are dark and the ceiling light the apparent height of the room is increased. The same principles applied in arranging the perspective of a picture would be appropriately used in producing desired effects in a room, though the chief feature of such effects is merely that of shade. The border used in papered rooms also has an influence on apparent height. The extremely wide border that has been occasionally used of late, looking like waincoting pushed up under the ceiling, makes the apartment look very limited in height. Whether the decorations are cheap or costly there is no reason why every room should not be made to look large or small as desired.