Home Decoration

Southland Times, Issue 21196, 24 September 1930, Page 13

Home Decoration

(Front Our Correspondent.) Typical of the British nation are the newest wallpapers, picturing stretches of the high seas, and heavy clouds, with majestic galleons of the old world sailing gracefully along. These ships are painted in mellow, glowing shades of gold, red, and blue, and are in reality a kind of silhouettte that is artistically applied to an ordinary beize or cream wallpaper background. The clouds form part of the applied silhouette, and they make a dim frame for the gay colouring of the ship, that fades softly into the rest of the wall - covering. The ships are to be bought in various sizes, and are painted in a variety of different? aspects. Some times a panelled effect suits the shape of the room best—others are shown to greatest advantage by a wall-length expanse of ocean that washes forever right against the wainscot. The ships then sail serenely along at waist level or lower, according to size, on the wall, and smaller ones stand out clearly in the distance, nearer to a faint coast line. Some rooms are more suited to a fresco treatment, and in this case the ships are placed at the top, near to the ceiling, and a thin strip of sea diminishes gradually into a plain creamy wallpaper. A cut-out seagull, poised realistically in' flight in odd places, gives an almost startling true-to-life effect. The same ideas are carried out with flowers and butterflies—these being popular for drawing and bedrooms, while the ship designs arc especially contrived to suit dining-rooms, hall, or study decoration schemes.