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 fabrics, as well as colorful pictures, lamps and accessories. Some small rooms are even in strong, deep colors. Bedrooms have gay wallpapers with many colors against tinted background. This doesn’t mean that we don’t have neutral backgrounds, for we do. But with cream or gray we use color in furnishings according to our taste. The different rooms illustrated will show you different uses of color; vivid, pleasantly colorful, and restful. Naturally the place and the type of room – light or dark – influence the choice of color.

The new building materials, going into the construction or houses, as well as the new design and manner of constructing the house themselves, affects the color of the walls and floors. This, consequently, affects the furniture draperies, and floor coverings. Plaster walls and hardwood floors are still used, of course, but many houses of contemporary construction, whether of one – story Colonial type, or the one – story rambling type – so called ranch house – many have the finished walls of brick or stone of the fireplace combined with plywood, or tongue – and – groove paneled wood. Floors may be of brick, stone, cement, rubber tile, linoleum, or wood block – to have carpet or rugs added, or not, as desired or needed.