DOI Artikel:
On the interior arrangement and decoration of the house
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19423#0020
Interior Arrangement and Decoration
cannot possibly compose
with any decorations what-
ever upon which it may be
intruded.
And now as to actual
schemes of decoration, the
chief requirements of a
dwelling-place, it will not
be disputed, are restful-
ness and comfort. It
follows, then, that the
satisfactory room is that
which embodies the quali-
ties most conducive to-
this end. And, firstly, as
to colour: much research
has of recent years been
entrance hall designed and executed devoted to experiments
by liberty & co., ltd. r
for demonstrating the im-
mense physical effect of
and remedied. All this is a comparatively simple colour and the different effects produced by dif-
affair, if detected and dealt with in the first ferent colours and degrees of light upon all forms-
instance ; and that at a fraction of the trouble of organic life, from the lowest to the highest, from
and expense involved by subsequent operations. growing plants upwards. In the case of human
This is not the place to discuss the respective beings the effect produced mentally exceeds, if
merits of various systems of drainage; but among anything, the mere physical effect. It is hardly
the first conditions of a house is that it be fit to possible, therefore, to overrate the importance of
live in from the sanitary point of view. If this be the colour scheme in decoration, as affecting the-
neglected it will infallibly demand attention sooner health and happiness of those who may be exposed
or later, and much inconvenience arise from the to its influence. In general the proper mean is-
necessary opening of walls, pulling up of floors attained by that which is cheerful without being,
and the general disarrangement thereby entailed; gaudy, and quiet without being sombre. In the
while the decorations cannot escape more or less selection of colours, again, the aspect of any given,
serious damage in the pro-
cess. And as to artificial
lighting, whether by gas
or by electricity, it is
necessary that the whole
scheme should be care-
fully thought out and
arranged for accordingly,
and the walls plugged and
made good before any
decoration of wall-surfaces
is attempted. The common
practice, for instance, of
installing electric light
with surface wires, clumsily
masked by the usual tell-
tale, machine-ribbed mould-
ing, is about as disfiguring
and unsatisfactory an ex-
pedient as could well be
:en
4
entrance hall of a designed by w. h. davies
conceived, and such that country house executed by maple & co., ltd-
cannot possibly compose
with any decorations what-
ever upon which it may be
intruded.
And now as to actual
schemes of decoration, the
chief requirements of a
dwelling-place, it will not
be disputed, are restful-
ness and comfort. It
follows, then, that the
satisfactory room is that
which embodies the quali-
ties most conducive to-
this end. And, firstly, as
to colour: much research
has of recent years been
entrance hall designed and executed devoted to experiments
by liberty & co., ltd. r
for demonstrating the im-
mense physical effect of
and remedied. All this is a comparatively simple colour and the different effects produced by dif-
affair, if detected and dealt with in the first ferent colours and degrees of light upon all forms-
instance ; and that at a fraction of the trouble of organic life, from the lowest to the highest, from
and expense involved by subsequent operations. growing plants upwards. In the case of human
This is not the place to discuss the respective beings the effect produced mentally exceeds, if
merits of various systems of drainage; but among anything, the mere physical effect. It is hardly
the first conditions of a house is that it be fit to possible, therefore, to overrate the importance of
live in from the sanitary point of view. If this be the colour scheme in decoration, as affecting the-
neglected it will infallibly demand attention sooner health and happiness of those who may be exposed
or later, and much inconvenience arise from the to its influence. In general the proper mean is-
necessary opening of walls, pulling up of floors attained by that which is cheerful without being,
and the general disarrangement thereby entailed; gaudy, and quiet without being sombre. In the
while the decorations cannot escape more or less selection of colours, again, the aspect of any given,
serious damage in the pro-
cess. And as to artificial
lighting, whether by gas
or by electricity, it is
necessary that the whole
scheme should be care-
fully thought out and
arranged for accordingly,
and the walls plugged and
made good before any
decoration of wall-surfaces
is attempted. The common
practice, for instance, of
installing electric light
with surface wires, clumsily
masked by the usual tell-
tale, machine-ribbed mould-
ing, is about as disfiguring
and unsatisfactory an ex-
pedient as could well be
:en
4
entrance hall of a designed by w. h. davies
conceived, and such that country house executed by maple & co., ltd-