SHE NEW WALLPAPERING.

Putaruru Press, Volume V, Issue 176, 17 March 1927, Page 2

SHE NEW WALLPAPERING.

ATTRACTIVE STYLES. While patterns in wallpapers may be wearisome to the eye, the bare white or cream wall needs very careful treatment if it is not. to look spotty or all too hygienic. White walls are generally treated as being perfectly safe — which is far from being the case. In ■ towns, at least, they have the unhappy knack of easily looking dirtier than they are. A new method of dealing with them is to treat them with colour according to individual taste. A fairly thick-absorbent white paper is chosen, and is hung in the ordinary way. The decorator, amateur or other, has in the meantime made a plan of the colours which seem necessary to the general aspect of the room. These will, of course, depend upon its aspect and upon the kind of furniture it contains. Sometimes shaded effects are chosen, sometimes a general marbling, or, again, a blending of various colours. The wall is thoroughly damped so that the white paper is ready to take colour in smooth washes. Creams and yellows, palest pinks and blues, orange and pink may be washed in so that no one shade is very definite, but the whole room is given an effect of warm or cool colour according to taste. For a model in colouring it is well to study the sky. An early morning sky will provide a delicate blend of colours which look charming in a room. The work must be done quickly and without hesitation. When it is finished it is sometimes pointed with sm®jfcj»plashes of a stronger colour —perhaps flark blue or gold—which in themselves arc almost unnoticeable, but which give point to the blended pale washes' which relieve the room from starkness.