. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1036 The Cornell Reading-Courses. ing the woodwork or changing the floors. Wall decoration would be undertaken more cautiously if viewed in the light of a fixed part or element of the house. The use of the room.—In all family living-rooms of whatever sort we are likely to have various tastes, ages, and moods to satisfy. Only an unobtrusive wall cove
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1036 The Cornell Reading-Courses. ing the woodwork or changing the floors. Wall decoration would be undertaken more cautiously if viewed in the light of a fixed part or element of the house. The use of the room.—In all family living-rooms of whatever sort we are likely to have various tastes, ages, and moods to satisfy. Only an unobtrusive wall covering is appropriate here; for a paper the color and pattern of which strike our fancy when we are fresh and rested may oppress us when we are tired. If one intends to cover walls with paper, it is a good plan to bring home rolls of several selections and look at them in their proper setting and in various moods. One may thus test their effect before buying. The color schemes of adjoining rooms through which vistas are seen need not be identical, but must harmonize in order to produce an effect of spaciousness. It is very jarring to look from a yellow room into a blue room on the one hand and a green one on the other. The color scheme is thus broken into several small divisions and unity of effect is destroyed. The passing whims of fashion or of the paper hanger should not be inflicted on all the members of the family. Decided color preferences and a taste for novelty effects should be reserved for one's own bedroom, where they need offend no one. Light or dark walls.—Outdoors a flood of light from all directions permeates everywhere. Indoors we have artificial conditions of light, due to the fact that light enters a room from the side only, and usually from but one or two direc- tions; also, because a room is box-shaped, we have reflected as well as direct light. The ceiling especially acts as a reflector of Hght. For this reason it usually should be kept Hght colored, unle
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