YELLOW WALL-PAPER

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2716, 10 March 1916, Page 3

YELLOW WALL-PAPER

Writing in "The Craftsman," Miss Mario Hall makes soma interesting observations on wallpaper. Yellow, she says, is tho nearest to. sunlight, therefore morbid dispositions require this colour, although they may not chooso it. "Yellow hringß cheer and light into a dark, gloomy room. I have in Blind a small breakfast-room in a city house which is a particularly pleasing example of this fact. Although high buildings shut off the sunlight, there is a light, cheerful, sunny atmosphere, The walls are hung with a striped cream and yellow paper; the enamelled woodwork, furniturp and rugs aro in tones of old ivory; a printed linen with a decorative pattern on a bright yellow ground is used at the French windows— and the whole is carried out in the same cheerful tone.' Red is symbolic of blood, fire, excitement. It destroys restfulness. Therefore, it should be used with a complete knowledge of its character. ' Oddly, however, when a red room is attempted, the red should be allowed to completely dominate.