Balance The Room

Perhaps the windows are at the end and side of the room, leaving a long wall, on which you probably have the sideboard with out any upright feeling to balance the windows. A hanging shelf over the sideboard and the screen in front of the kitchen door will balance the room.

Wall to wall curtaining. By this is meant curtaining an entire wall space, either on the length, or on the width, of a room according to the placing of the windows. It is a new note in decorating in which has grown out of the large groups of windows of newer houses. This treatment may be used to enlarge windows by using draperies over a plain wall space. In the attractive room above the curtains are on the long wall of the room over a group of windows with the effect emphasized by using the same material (or matching wallpaper) on the ceiling.

Even the indirect light is covered with the pattern. The fireplace wall is of brick painted to match the background of the colorful chintz, with the fire opening completed by a fascinating copper hood. The other two walls are of plaster. Note that the French Provincial chairs of Beachwood, covered in small all over print of the period are drawn up to an 18^th century mahogany pedestal table. The beige rug, with is nubby surface, completes an unusual and delightful bit of decorating. The combination of furniture of the right scale, of different periods used with imagination such as this shows the new decorating trends. Now turn on the room opposite: here is a new type of dining room with walls of wooden plank painted gray green with the brick fireplace of the same tone. The metal supports of the table and chairs are black, as is the 17^th century black iron candle fixture suspended over the table.