Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1905 — Making or Marring a Room. [ARTICLE]

Making or Marring a Room.

Color makes or mrfrs a room, and many inexpensive houses have been made “successful” by the intelligent use of this powerful factor. Harmonious coloring does not necessarily imply a room where everything matches. The blue rooms of the eighties, wb&re'tValls, carpets, curtains, lambrequins and upholstery were all one shade, exist today only In fiction. They were never cheerful, Imparting by some subtle power their own .indigo colorings to the moods of the occupants. The blue room pure and simple Is not now In favor. But we are all familiar with the very green room. Green is nature’s own color, and none other Is so restful, so desirable, but it can be abused. Nature makes use of russets, of yellow browns, of red browns, of bronze shades, of grays, of soft purples, of pomegranate tones. These may be transferred (o the walls of our houses, and if rightly placed are very effective.—House Beautiful.