Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1884 — Tasteful House-Furnishing. [ARTICLE]

Tasteful House-Furnishing.

Harmony of color is of the first importance in furnishing. Not that walls, carpet, curtainki chairs, etc., should be of the same color; that would make a room cold apd uninviting. There should be two orxhree colors in a room, but these should hanponize. If one is conscious that she has no eye for color, she should consult some one of known taste before purchasing articles which, although by themselves might be desirable, would perhaps if placed with others spoil the effect of the whole, and be a disappointment tc be endured for years. A carpet for instance should not be purchased without considering what the color of the paint is: and to of the sofa and chairs, if they are up- | holstered. A earjtet is like the baek- \ ground of a picture, it brings in to effect i the whole. Styles for carpets have eti- | tirely changed within a few year's. Patj tern* of * huge bouquets of impossible flowers used to be seeu almost every- | where; now' a very small, set figure, so | small as to look almost like a plain color at a little distance, is in much better taste. This may be enlivened by a border of bright colors. The lovely pearl and gray grounds, with vines or tracery of a darker shade, and bright borders of Persian patterns, are very desirable, and look well with almost everything. The fashion of staining floors black walnut color for a yard or more around the walls, and having a square of bordered carpet in the center, is gaining ground, and much liked for the pretty style and the convenience of taking it up for cleaning. It is also economical. There are now plain, ingrain carpetings, in solid colors, called “filling,” which are used around these center rugs, instead of staining the floor. We have seen parlors carpeted with dark, turquoise-blue filling, with Persian rugs over them, not in any set or regular order. The effect was very good.—Ethel Stone, in American Agriculturist. ~ ~~ '