LOW CEILINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 717, 17 July 1929, Page 6

LOW CEILINGS

CHARM AND DIGNITY For sheer charm there is nothing like the room with the low ceiling, for it has an intimacy unknown to the one of more dignified and generally more ! gaunt proportions. But the decoration of such a room undoubtedly presents certain problems, which the following hints may assist in solving n Avoid all tall furniture in the way of cabinets and sideboards, so that a clear space may be preserved between the tops of the various pieces and the cornice. A grandfather clock may easily be too high, but a bracket clock, placed half-way between mantelpiece and ceiling, would be excellent. Picture rails are inadvisable in the low room, and the pictures themselves should be of small proportions. Family portraits are not for rooms of this nature, but small groups of pictures j such as Victorian silhouettes, Japan- ] ese prints, miniatures and so on, I create a charming effect. | In the low-ceilinged bedroom, it will be wise to choose a bedstead without a panel at the foot (this type is : own as “stub-ended”) and with only r :rj r moderately high one at the back, he I new low type of wardrobe, only just ! sufficiently high to take dresses hang-1 ing full length, should be selected in j preference to the old six-footer. Simi- j larly the dressing-table that only just | reaches to the knees when one sits at j it is preferable to the more exalted j style. A dressing-stool fits in with the scheme of things far more appropriately than does a high chair. Narrow stripped papers are good in low rooms. The colour of the ceiling ! should match that of the wall, pro-! vided these are of some cool pastel i tint.