Principles of home decoration, with practical examples . There are many reasons, sanitaryas well as economic, why hard-woodfloors should not be covered in or-dinary dwelling-houses; and when I30 PRINCIPLES OF HOME DECORATION the pores of the wood are properly-filled, and the surface kept well pol-ished, it is not only good as a fact,but as an effect, as it reflects sur-rounding tints, and does much tomake up for lack of sympathetic orrelated colour. Yet it will be foundthat in almost every case of success-ful colour-treatment in a room, some-thing must be added in the way offloor-covering to g
Principles of home decoration, with practical examples . There are many reasons, sanitaryas well as economic, why hard-woodfloors should not be covered in or-dinary dwelling-houses; and when I30 PRINCIPLES OF HOME DECORATION the pores of the wood are properly-filled, and the surface kept well pol-ished, it is not only good as a fact,but as an effect, as it reflects sur-rounding tints, and does much tomake up for lack of sympathetic orrelated colour. Yet it will be foundthat in almost every case of success-ful colour-treatment in a room, some-thing must be added in the way offloor-covering to give it the sense ofcompleteness and satisfaction whichis the result of a successful schemeof decoration. The simplest way of doing this isto cover enough of the space withrugs to attract the eye, and restorethe balance lost by want of strengthof colour in the wood. Sometimesone or two small rugs will do this,and these may be of almost any tintwhich includes the general one of theroom, even if the general tint is notprominent in the rug. If the use or. 3OX .J< u < FLOORS AND FLOOR-COVERINGS 131 luxury of the room requires morecovered space, it is better to use onerug of a larger size than several smalland perhaps conflicting ones. Ofcourse in this the general tone of therug must be chosen for its affinityto the tone of the room, but thataffinity secured, any variations ofcolour occurring in the design areapt to add to the general effect. A certain amount of contrast toprevailing colour is an advantage, andthe general value of rugs in a schemeof decoration is that they furnish thiscontrast in small masses or divisions,so well worked in with other tintsand tones that it makes its effectwithout opposition to the generalplan. Thus, in a room where the wallsare of a pale shade of copper, therugs should bring in a variety of redswhich would be natural parts of thesame scale, like lower notes in the 132 PRINCIPLES OF HOME DECORATION octave; and yet should add patchesof relative b
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