Color
Color is vita! It is the background against which we live. Consciously or unconsciously, we are affected by our backgrounds – be they bright, gay, soothing, gloomy or merely drab. Above all, don’t let your background be drab. This is an age of color. Today our walls are yellow, not cream; dusty pink, not putty; soft blue and green, not gray. Against these we use brighter combination of two or three or more colors – such as clear blues, dusty pink, chartreuse, sunlight yellows, and deeper shades of blue, green, and red – in Read the rest of this entry »
February 5th, 2010 in
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What short of room do you want? That’s the first thing you must decide for yourself. The living room should be just what its name implies – a room to live in with real pleasure and comfort. Just what “pleasure” and what “comfort” will mean to you will differ according to where you live, the size of your family, the type of room you like and what you can afford. But let me say right now, that attractive rooms are a matter not of money but of taste. “But, ah,” you say, “tastes differ.” Yes, tastes do differ, but there are certain 
Here is a corner decorated in the contemporary feeling, with plain wall surfaces, plain- colored draperies hung to the floor, and the comfortable furniture arrangement of our day. Light in corners brings out the size of a room. Therefore, a table and lamp near a window and a good seating arrangement give light both by day and by night, and make a live able group. Wall – to – wall beige carpet and clear blue upholstery are used, with color accents in the lamps and ornaments. 
OUR CONTEMPORARY DECORATING finds one expression which is typical of its charm, I the picture above. Plain colorful walls, light – colored rug, furniture of simple lines with draperies hung with pinch pleats from top of the window to floor. Here the walls are blue, upholstery and draperies corn color, accents maroon. 18th century English, regency, and modern combine here to make a distinctly live able room, contemporary in feeling Whether we like “modern decorating” or not we owe a lot the moderns. Their radical aims, for several years back rather than now, have given vitality, a sense of “ well, why not be different,” to all decorating, we have learned a lot about 
