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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 551, 2 January 1929, Page 12

There is, of course, safety in following in the main an established style, and this allows ample room for the display of personal taste in hangings, floor treatment, lighting, fittings, wall decoration and ornaments. In a really restful room there is one outstanding design, one predominating colour, one, if you will, definite style;

RESTFUL AND ATTRACTIVE

A room where balance in arrangement Has produced a pleasing effect of restful comfort. Choice Jacobean furniture and Persian colourings play an important part in the harmony of the set.

all else should be grouped round these essentials, supplementing them, playing up to them as it were, not by selfassertiveness detracting from them. And it is in these points of detail that most of us go wrong. We can get any amount of guidance where the broad principles of furnishing and decoration are concerned, but when we come to buy ornaments, pictures, cushions, lampshades, etc., we are out of leading strings, and in the hands of our personal predilections. We know, for instance, that there are four principal points which govern the selection of colour, viz.: (1) individual taste; (2) the size and height of the room and the purpose for which it is to be used; (3) the aspect of the room and whether it is well lighted or the reverse; (4) the style