Boston Herald-Traveler's book of homes : how to plan, finance and build your home . ce a wood mouldingat the top edge, the canvas and the moulding should bepainted with lead and oil and left with a gloss dado should be painted a dark color in kitchensand pantrys but a light color is preferable in bath rooms. Color Schemes Unless one has a fair knowledge of color and housedecoration, it would be well to get expert advice. Thereare certain general principles to keep in mind in usingcolors. Color harmony is an important thing to under-stand. By this is meant the association of differen
Boston Herald-Traveler's book of homes : how to plan, finance and build your home . ce a wood mouldingat the top edge, the canvas and the moulding should bepainted with lead and oil and left with a gloss dado should be painted a dark color in kitchensand pantrys but a light color is preferable in bath rooms. Color Schemes Unless one has a fair knowledge of color and housedecoration, it would be well to get expert advice. Thereare certain general principles to keep in mind in usingcolors. Color harmony is an important thing to under-stand. By this is meant the association of differentshades of one color or of colors closely related to eachother in the spectrum. By color contrast is meant theopposing of complementary shades and colors. Color har-mony is more generally used in working out colorschemes for dwellings since it has a more restful andless obtrusive effect than color contrast. Contrasts areused sparingly to give life and interest to the order to illustrate the above, refer to the followingdiagram: THE BOSTON HERALD-TRAVELERS BOOK OF HOMES. This represents the so called cycle of the colors are arranged around the circle in the order inwhich they appear in the spectrum. By filling in the inter-mediate shades such asred-orange, orange-yel-low, yellow-green, etc.,we may further developthis cycle and this proc-ess may be repeatedagain and again until wehave filled in so manycombinations that theeye cannot distinguishone shade from colorsare always opposite eachother on this and green, orangeand blue, violet and yel-low are complementarypairs. In the same wayred-orange, half waybetween red and orange,would be complementaryto blue-green, half-waybetween blue and diagram deals withthe pure colors as wesee them in the spec-trum. Each of thesecolors can be more orless neutral or colors are popularly termed dull or example of color harmony would be a room in whichrug
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