BLENDING COLOURS
Very few people know how to blend colours. First (says an exchange), avoid heavy, dark colours for any room that gets no sunshine. Choose instead light yellows, greens or orange pinks. For bedrooms any shade of light blue is restful and pleasing, but the previous remarks hold good even in these rooms. White or ivory always looks well and goes with any other colours, but there is such a thing as having too much of both, as some houses prove. Blend colours harmoniously, such as combining blue with ivory, yellow or I light brown; reds with white, pale greens, or greys; greens with pinks, I orange, reddish mauves or browns. Avoid the lavish use of greys, black or purples in a house; they are depressing colours, yet a little of them helps other colours at times. If the house is of red brick, good outside colours are greens, browns, white or graining.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20927, 5 January 1938, Page 10
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