DOI Heft:
No. 25 (April, 1895)
DOI Artikel:Scott, Mackay H. Baillie: The decoration of the suburban house
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0029
The Decoration of the Suburban House
If paper is used, a design which should suggest,
without imitating, panelling on the same lines as
the canopy work in stained-glass windows, would
probably be very effective, and would be especially
suitable for the hall of a terrace house, or wherever
a severe treatment would be desirable.
In the treatment of the ceilings of the suburban
house, the constructive character of visible beams
and joists may be varied in some of the rooms by
the more delicate quality to be gained by the use
of the ceiling-paper on a plain plaster ceiling, or in
some cases in panels formed by ribs of moulded
plaster or painted wood.
A ceiling divided into square panels set with
stars in gilded plaster on a blue-grey ground, and
relieved by delicately moulded ribs in white, may
be suggested for the drawing-room, in connection
with the apple-tree scheme for the walls.
The use of the ceiling-paper will, however, prove
more economical, if not quite so unconventional in
its effect, and here a pattern based on simple stellate
forms may be recommended, though good designs
may be obtained when the flower wreath, birds, or
purely conventional forms, constitute the motif of
the pattern. Some further possibilities in the design
of ceiling-papers may be suggested by the use of a
bold geometrical design, enriched with those
stripings and running patterns which form such a
notable feature in the decoration of old panelled
ceilings.
The windows proposed for the suburban house
are casements opening outwards, and carefully
designed to secure in the most exposed situations
perfect freedom from draughts.
The judicious use of leaded glass will add greatly
to the effect of the interior, but it must be borne in
mind that unless the design and colouring of the
glass is really good, it is better to use sheet glass
only. The average stock patterns of the manufac-
turers are more suggestive of the gin palace than the
private house, and should be carefully avoided.
In the window illustrated a combination of
"rosebush" frieze by m. h. b. scott
19
If paper is used, a design which should suggest,
without imitating, panelling on the same lines as
the canopy work in stained-glass windows, would
probably be very effective, and would be especially
suitable for the hall of a terrace house, or wherever
a severe treatment would be desirable.
In the treatment of the ceilings of the suburban
house, the constructive character of visible beams
and joists may be varied in some of the rooms by
the more delicate quality to be gained by the use
of the ceiling-paper on a plain plaster ceiling, or in
some cases in panels formed by ribs of moulded
plaster or painted wood.
A ceiling divided into square panels set with
stars in gilded plaster on a blue-grey ground, and
relieved by delicately moulded ribs in white, may
be suggested for the drawing-room, in connection
with the apple-tree scheme for the walls.
The use of the ceiling-paper will, however, prove
more economical, if not quite so unconventional in
its effect, and here a pattern based on simple stellate
forms may be recommended, though good designs
may be obtained when the flower wreath, birds, or
purely conventional forms, constitute the motif of
the pattern. Some further possibilities in the design
of ceiling-papers may be suggested by the use of a
bold geometrical design, enriched with those
stripings and running patterns which form such a
notable feature in the decoration of old panelled
ceilings.
The windows proposed for the suburban house
are casements opening outwards, and carefully
designed to secure in the most exposed situations
perfect freedom from draughts.
The judicious use of leaded glass will add greatly
to the effect of the interior, but it must be borne in
mind that unless the design and colouring of the
glass is really good, it is better to use sheet glass
only. The average stock patterns of the manufac-
turers are more suggestive of the gin palace than the
private house, and should be carefully avoided.
In the window illustrated a combination of
"rosebush" frieze by m. h. b. scott
19