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Description - Our Homes, and How to Beautify Them by H J Jennings

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...and no one with a just sense of harmony and fitness would wish to forbid the banns. But mahogany, provided it can be got of a deep rich colour and with a fine picturesque grain, like the old Spanish sort, stands out even better. The neutral setting seems to strengthen its richness and enhance its dignity. Hut then mahogany of this kind has a regal bearing anywhere, and almost under any conditions. As the pictures hung on a canvas background will naturally be placed as much as possible "on the line," and the wall surface underneath, unless relieved in some way, will have a formal appearance, it is sometimes advisable to have a panelled wainscot or dado instead of the frieze, finished off at the top with a suitable deep moulding throwing a shadow. PAPER FILLINGS. "PROM canvas I proceed to quite plain wall papers used as backgrounds for pictures, or to give effective contrast to an elaborate frieze when the latter is made the chief feature of the decoration. These may be ingrains, silk fibres, or flocks, and they vary in price from i/o to 12/6 a piece. The flocks have a soft velvety appearance, but the chief characteristic of all these fillings, indeed their sole recommendation, is their complete neutrality. Either the frieze or the pictures constitute the chief decoration of the walls. Friezes may be stencilled, by which large shaded foliage effects not obtainable by printing are secured; or they may be printed in colours like any other wall paper; or they may be embossed to represent modelled plaster; or they may, if expense be no object, be executed in composition or fibrous plaster. A fine, bold frieze, in a lofty room, has a commanding and a majestic effect. Modern designers have devoted great attention to the paper and canvas frieze with d...

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