The practical book of furnishing the small house and apartment . URKS>HR SIDEBOARD OF COLON! \l. fS^S^lt^-^ UK^.^^KK Mll]lli>\KII •! l\,l>H llhKUAIION Manufactuml by Cuni> Companies. Clinton, Iowa MODERN FURNISHING, MEDIUM COST i6i chosen. Plain surfaces may be rendered decorative by theuse of colour when desired. In any ornament applied to walls the architectural linesshould be followed and preserved. Cut-out borders in wall-papers are especially disturbing to these lines. Unless ceilings are unusually low it is of decided advan-tage to set down the picture rail fourte
The practical book of furnishing the small house and apartment . URKS>HR SIDEBOARD OF COLON! \l. fS^S^lt^-^ UK^.^^KK Mll]lli>\KII •! l\,l>H llhKUAIION Manufactuml by Cuni> Companies. Clinton, Iowa MODERN FURNISHING, MEDIUM COST i6i chosen. Plain surfaces may be rendered decorative by theuse of colour when desired. In any ornament applied to walls the architectural linesshould be followed and preserved. Cut-out borders in wall-papers are especially disturbing to these lines. Unless ceilings are unusually low it is of decided advan-tage to set down the picture rail fourteen to eighteen in itself gives a slightly decorative effect, adds a home-like appearance, obviates the necessity of long, stringypicture-wires, and makes the hanging of the pictures them-selves a far less dreaded piece of work. A canopy effect—the bringing down of the ceiling-tint to this rail—is desirableIf the ceiling is high, or in some methods of decoration to beindicated, but it is not usually necessary. Where not done,the paper or tint above the rail should be the same as thatbel
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