DOI Artikel:
On the interior arrangement and decoration of the house
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19423#0046
Interior Arrangement and Decoration
Mahogany or some other
valuable wood may be
selected, but the employ-
ment of inferior woods
affords occasion to stain
or, better still, to paint up
to any scheme of colouring
that may be desired. For
this purpose an almost
universal favourite is white
or a cream-white tint, since
neither of these will ever
clash, but both are tolerably
safe to harmonise with
nearly every possible
variety of movables. In
many rooms in town houses
and otherwise ill-lighted situ-
ations, where oak or colour
would be too dark, white
is, of course, invaluable.
music room designed and executed by goodyers In Striking Contrast to
large bay window on the
left adds an important
factor to the general de-
corative appearance of the
room.
Three examples show
the effect of oak panelling
from cornice to floor—
viz., a hall (p. 2) by
Mr. J. Henry Sellers, archi-
tect, in which the wood-
work is pleasantly con-
trasted with a considerable
expanse of Cippolino and
Devonshire marbles in the
fireplace; and a Jacobean
dining-room of fumed oak
(p. 10) by Messrs. Wylie &
Lochhead; and, lastly, in
another dining-room, in
early Georgian style (p. 20),
by Messrs. Waring & Gil-
low, where the ample wall-
space was designed, it
should be observed, for the
display of family portraits.
In this instance the oak
was simply waxed and left
in the natural colour of the
wood. But oak panelling,
even if kept quite light,
does not satisfy all tastes. music room designed and executed by goodyers
3°
Mahogany or some other
valuable wood may be
selected, but the employ-
ment of inferior woods
affords occasion to stain
or, better still, to paint up
to any scheme of colouring
that may be desired. For
this purpose an almost
universal favourite is white
or a cream-white tint, since
neither of these will ever
clash, but both are tolerably
safe to harmonise with
nearly every possible
variety of movables. In
many rooms in town houses
and otherwise ill-lighted situ-
ations, where oak or colour
would be too dark, white
is, of course, invaluable.
music room designed and executed by goodyers In Striking Contrast to
large bay window on the
left adds an important
factor to the general de-
corative appearance of the
room.
Three examples show
the effect of oak panelling
from cornice to floor—
viz., a hall (p. 2) by
Mr. J. Henry Sellers, archi-
tect, in which the wood-
work is pleasantly con-
trasted with a considerable
expanse of Cippolino and
Devonshire marbles in the
fireplace; and a Jacobean
dining-room of fumed oak
(p. 10) by Messrs. Wylie &
Lochhead; and, lastly, in
another dining-room, in
early Georgian style (p. 20),
by Messrs. Waring & Gil-
low, where the ample wall-
space was designed, it
should be observed, for the
display of family portraits.
In this instance the oak
was simply waxed and left
in the natural colour of the
wood. But oak panelling,
even if kept quite light,
does not satisfy all tastes. music room designed and executed by goodyers
3°