ORIGINAL “TILED” WALL EFFECTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1040, 2 August 1930, Page 23

ORIGINAL “TILED” WALL EFFECTS

PRODUCED FROM LINOLEUM Tile-patterned linoleums are obtainable in every conceivable colour combination, and, if further embellished with a little paint-work in bright contrasting hues, they make delightful substitutes for glazed tiles proper. A dado round the walls of sittingroom, nursery, kitchen or bedroom looks decorative and cheery, and is easily kept clean: odd rolls of linoleum can be cut to At, and nailed to the background with small brassheaded tacks. A very effective nursery dado was carried out in this way. It reached about three and a-half feet up from the skirting-board, and was checked nih deep blue on a cream ground. Gay little wild Aowers were painted in oil colours in alternate squares, the vivid reds and blues looking wonderfully cheery. A deep blue border pained along the top edge, to the depth of about one and a-half inches, completed the decoration. The same notion could be adapted to adorn a dado round a bathroom wall. A light-grounded linoleum, checked with scarlet or orange, looks well, with different denizens of the deep painted In alternate squares. Another idea is to sketch in the designs, and then A!1 In the backgrounds of the squares with a solid colour, leaving the Aowers or Ash in relief on the. tinted squares. A kitchen dado would look appropriate and cheerful, if the alternate squares were adorned with little paintings of cups, jugs, and teapots; or a vegetable scheme would be quaint, with red carrots, brown potatoes, curly green lettuces and the like.