Scale

The general air of spaciousness and good scale in this room, given by the uncluttered brick fireplace wall and the full length windows, makes it possible to use big comfortable chairs and sofa.

Wood – finished walls may be of light birch, pine, or the darker wood tones. Plaster walls may be painted, or papered, in accordance with the color trend suggested. With walls of a neutral wood or stone tone, it is a matter of choice whether to have a contrasting floor tone, or use one a shade or so darker than the walls – but have color in it.

Scale simply means having furniture of the right size for the room in which it is placed. We have all seen rooms which seemed all sofa and chairs, or a big room where delicate chairs, or a spindly table left great expanses, and we felt a bit lonely. The furniture was in the wrong scale. The room above is right in scale and illustrates the newer building construction. The ceiling is 8‘to9’ and the room is given enough speciousness (for the big sofa and chairs) by the full length windows, or “glass wall” on one side and wide opening without wall to the other area of the house, making an un crowded living – dining room.