DECORATIVE SCHEMES

Shannon News, 11 October 1929, Page 1

DECORATIVE SCHEMES

Before ycu buy any kind of new furnishings for- your home,, analyse, the room in which they are to be used, iust as a professional decorator does, >nd decide what types, colours and designs will best harmonise with its furnishings.

But first of all consider the room’s exposure and purpose, and bo sure that you have the right decorative scheme, tr. general, this means the dominance >f yellow, reds and warm, browns for the cold rooms that are lneking in milunil cheerfulness, and blues, greens and greys for the warm, sunny rooms.

If you find vour room is not right, he easiest way to make it so is to in■till one of those new decorative floors if inlaid linoleum in suitable colours. Then you can gradually make such ..‘hanges as may be necessary to bring the rest of the furnishings into harmony with the corrected decorative c-lu-me

You will be amazed to • find-what a hangc can be made in a room by niQ'rly thus bringing the floor into the, decorative scheme. And yet, if you Top to consider, the floor is actually lie largest area which the eye usually ncounters. Quite naturally, its colours will dominate and. affect the entire character of its surroundings. In addition to their remarkable beauty and decorative value, floors of genuine inlaid linoleum are decidedly oractical. They arc so easily cared ’or, so comfortably underfoot, and so eonomlcal to maintain, that the satesaction they bring with them will last on all vour'days.