ORNAMENTING ROOMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19532, 13 March 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)

ORNAMENTING ROOMS

ATTRACTIVE FIREPLACES. Gas-heating stoves arc not, as a rule, regarded as ornaments, but merely ns necessary utilitarian objects. It is, therefore, rather surprising to find one acting almost as a keynote of a room, writes a correspondent. The little canopy stove had in this case been enamelled a soft bright blue and bordered

with a conventional design of orange spots. The filling of the mantelpiece behind was enamelled in the same colour and bordered in the same way, the whole being almost the strongest note of colour in a blue and cream room. For the purpose ordinary enamel had been used and had not been affected at all by the heat from the gas. Quite a lot of character can be given to a room by picking out the various lines of an ordinary mantelpiece in several well-chosen bright enamels, and painting or stencilling a border up tne sides or across the front. Another good

effect is made by bringing a strip of patterned wallpaper bordering, about 2lin wide, up the wall on cither side of the mantelpiece and continuing !t across the top, or else bringing it ;>p quite high before it crosses according to what is to be used* io ornament the mantelshelf. Many an ordinary room can be given an “atmosphere” by fixing flat on the wall above the mantelpiece a strip of any beautifully material reaching up high like an altar cioih, an ornament which has the advantage of being easy to change when It Is weaned of.