Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . the natural color of woods in many cases may fail to harmonize with the scheme of color tobe carried out in the fur-nishings of the apartment. In such case, the wood-work should be subjected todelicate, harmonious, paintedtints, or polish or gilding, asthe case may be. There is a great variety dwoods from which we maychoose, but to obtain fromthem the finer shadings andcombinations of color is dif-ficult, not to say impossible. There is no necess
Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . the natural color of woods in many cases may fail to harmonize with the scheme of color tobe carried out in the fur-nishings of the apartment. In such case, the wood-work should be subjected todelicate, harmonious, paintedtints, or polish or gilding, asthe case may be. There is a great variety dwoods from which we maychoose, but to obtain fromthem the finer shadings andcombinations of color is dif-ficult, not to say impossible. There is no necessity formaking the woodwork thatis to be painted unnecessarily substantial or elaborate. Woods suchas white maple, holly, poplar, for the light effects; black birch, cherry,mahogany, for darker. One fallacy among people, says an architect, is an immovablefaith that the first duty of a human apartment is to look as high aspossible. A cathedral, or the rotunda of the Capitol, must haveheight to produce an overpowering effect. But in an ordinary roomof ordinary size, comfort, convenience and prettiness are more to besought after than WINDOW DECORATION. -170 ARTISTIC HOME DECORATIONS. Ordinary woodwork must be painted in such shades as will debarit from occupying the prominent position to which positive beauty isalone entitled. Give it a similarity to the ground of the paper, but alittle darker, and the rounded surface of any fancy moldings, a shadeor two darker. Paint the doors the same, except the panels, which
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