Principles of decorative design . FiL. Gl. WALL-PAPERS. 87 below the cornice; such a border as Fig. 02 ma\- be employed in dull ci-angeand chocolate. A citrine wall comes well with a deep blue, or blue and white ceiling, if tlueprevails in the cornice, and this wall may have a dark blue (ultramarine and blackwith a little white) dado, or a rich maroon dado (browTa-lake). If the blue dado isemployed the skirting should be indigo, which, when varnished and seen in con-junction with the blue, will appear as black as jet. (See the colom-ed examples onPlate II., and remarks on colour on pages 4-5 a
Principles of decorative design . FiL. Gl. WALL-PAPERS. 87 below the cornice; such a border as Fig. 02 ma\- be employed in dull ci-angeand chocolate. A citrine wall comes well with a deep blue, or blue and white ceiling, if tlueprevails in the cornice, and this wall may have a dark blue (ultramarine and blackwith a little white) dado, or a rich maroon dado (browTa-lake). If the blue dado isemployed the skirting should be indigo, which, when varnished and seen in con-junction with the blue, will appear as black as jet. (See the colom-ed examples onPlate II., and remarks on colour on pages 4-5 and 46.) Walls are usually papered in middle-class houses. I must not object to thisuniversal custom; but I do say, try to avoid show^ing the joinings of the variousstrips. In all eases where possible cut the paper to the pattern, and not in straightlines, for straight joinings are very objectionable. If you use paper for walls, use it. •^•^•I^i^it:^ Fig. 62. ailistically, and not as so much paper. Let a dado be formed of one paper, the dadol)ordering (dado rail) of a suitable paper bordering ; the upper part of the wallbeing covered by another paper of simple and just design, and of such colour asshall harmonise with the dado. Proceed as an artist, and not as a mere out an ornamental scheme, and then try to realise the desired effect. Avoidall papers in which huge bunches of flowers and animals or the human figure arcdepicted. The best for all pm-poses are those of a simple geometrical character, orin which designs similar to those in Fig. 01 are powdered or placed at regularintervals over a plain ground. Just as the ceiling ornament must accord in character with the architectm-e of theroom in which it is placed, so must the wall decoration be of the same style as thearchitecture of the room. Indeed, whatever we have said i-especting the harmony ofthe ceiling decoration with the architecture of t
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