A FEW “DO’S” AND "DONT'S"

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12434, 30 April 1926, Page 11

A FEW “DO’S” AND "DONT'S"

FOR THE HOME-MAKER The best type of design to choose* where the wall-paper is to be a principal feature of the decoration, is the' "all-over” design, it gives the effect of an evenly-covered surface. A good "all-over” design grows over the wall as a single thing. Although it is continually repeated you do not see where the repeat t omes. Don't have very light-coloured carpets —firstly# because they soil easily; and secondly, because the floor should be the darkest colour in the room, the colours getting lighter as they go up. Don't nave realistic designs. The design of a carpet should suggest flatness. Don't, in a small room, have a carpet with a large design. Choose an "all-over” pattern for chair cover#. It will keep much cleaner. Don't put a big pattern on 6m all chairs. The chief mistakes made in hanging pictures are: too many pictures; pictures too large for the room, making the ceiling low and the room seem small, pictures of different si*es dotted about the walls; too great a variety of media. Th© safe rule is to keep to one kind, oils, or water-colours, or etchings, or whatever it may be. The pictures may be more important than anything else in the room, but you must treat them as part of the decoration. If you do not do this, not only the room but the pictures suffer. You cannot see the pictures apart from the room.