Light Shades for Decoration

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 21, 5 December 1930, Page 32

Light Shades for Decoration

Endless Variety Possible [THE use of shaded electric lights for decorative purposes is coming into more general practice and those who have tried this method of brightening up a room have found that highly effective results can be achieved. The keynote of success is to have several lighting points in a room. The old style of hanging a single lamp in the centre of each room is woefully out of date, though still very common. Take a living room, for instance. Certainly a central light is essential for general purposes, but in addition, at the back of a favourite reading chair, above a writing table, piano, lounge or sofa, a light should be placed. These need to be shaded and ingenious housewives realise that it is not necessary always to obtain expensive shades. A more satisfactory practice is to use coloured paper shades and to change them when they begin to show signs of wear or when the colour used begins to tire the eyes. : A room can be freshened up wonderfully by a change in the colour of the electric lamp shades, and the use of coloured lamps is also to be recommended. This method of decoration can even be used as an alternative to the purchase of expensive furniture. It all depends, however, on the provision of an ample number of lighting points which are the greatest comfortproviders in a home. It is worth while when building a home to remember the value of ample lighting points because the initial expense is slight and the more points there are the less electric current is consumed.