Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1926, Page 20

REAL FURNISHING ESTATE THE HOME Conducted for The Star BY ELIZABETH STETSON AND GENEVIEVE HENDRICKS Color Combinations for the Living Room. BY GENEVIEVE HENDRICKS. Perhaps nothing is so important in the decoration of our houses as color. | And perhaps nothing is so absurd by ost of us as color. This is strange, too, for it is human nature to crave &nd enjoy color, and all of us con- stantly try our hands in using it, either in the assembling of our clothes or in furnishing for houses. Unfor- tunately, a color s nse is Godgiven to but few of us. Yet the rest of the| world need not despair, for through a | study of simple scientific facts open to every one who wishes to know the “how" and the “why" of color we may &1l learn something about its proper use. Color skillfully used can hide a mul- titude of architectural s.ns. If we are S0 unfortunate as to have a house that has been badly built, or if we have furniture that we must use that it is with color. An all green room, or an all blue room or an all yellow room would be as difficult to live with as it would be difficult to achieve. We must work out color schemes that will bring out the best in the principal color we have chosen and give pleas- ing contrasts and harmony. Before we work out our color schemes for our rooms we must take into consideration certain rules about the predominating color we wish to use. We must consider first of all our color preference, which will in a way express our personality. If it is agreeable to the size of the room, its lighting, its use, and the objects that > already have which we must use in then we may say detfinitely, living room is to be in green or yellow or red” or what you will. For our small rooms we must not use too much colors known as aggres- sive colors, such as yellow, orange, red, for they will have the effect of 13 not just what we would like to have, | bringing the walls and objects toward we can alleviate, if not almost cure, | uys, whereas in small rooms we will the trouble by using our colors clev- erly. Color can embellish a beauti- fully designed room so as to bring out all i qualities of beauiy and ap- peal that the architect or we ourselvés could ever have drcamed uf desiring probably greatly need to create a feel- ing of distance. If these warm colors are our favorite colors, we can use them as subsidiary elements in our [ allowing the cooler, receding colors, such as greens and HERE’S HOW TO FURNISH YOUR LIVING ROOM Furniture used in above plan—1, mantel; 2, sofa; 3, table; 4; table with 5, chair; 6, foot-stool or low table for tea; 7, armch: («.T.»nttmnlb; 9, screen; 10, table with lamp; 11, armchair; 12, table; 13, armchair; 14, table with lamp; 15, foot-stool; 16, secretary desk or piano; 17, desk chair; 18, armchair; 19, small table. air; 8, small table SATURDAY, DECEMBER like, occupy the smallest areas. A | safe rule for the amateur to follow | in selecting colors for these various | elements is this: “The larger the col-! or area the less intense it should be, and the smaller the color area the more intense it may be.” This means that we will fare badly if our Wlll!; are painted a strong orange or if we | have a brilliant blue or red rug on/ the floor or if our curtains are so, strong in color that our eye sweeps past the smaller objects to be held enthralled by their c e r. Our walls and floors being back- ground, should be kept as such and should be less intense than the ob- jects of furniture that we place against them. Our sofa, table, easy chairs, and other pieces of furniture are surely relatively more important than the background and should ! stand out from it and not be lost against it. Build Up From Floor. We will play safe it we build up our rooms from the floor. That is, the floor, being the basis of our color structure, should be the deepest in color, the walls lighter and the ceil ing the lightest color in the room. Also the ceiling of a room should have some tint of the wall color in its make-up i harmony is to be obtained. Otherwise there is apt to be a sharp contrast at the top of the room which would draw our eyes to the ceiling and tend to give the effect of lessened height to the walls. A room with high walls may have a deeper color than one with low walls. Another general rule that amateurs would do well to follow is that white ceilings should almost never bé used. They are too cold, and so large a mass of white can be brought into the color scheme in using oolor. This is, of course, because too few of us understand how to use it well. The majority of houses are painted or papered. in the neutral tones of gray or tan or cream because they are safe and easy. While these are pleasing and often satisfying let-us not forget that’ they Model Six-Room $500 Cash REAL ESPATE. —_———————== are not the only possibilities of col- oring for the backgrounds for our réoms. Let. us consider several color schemes that might be used with pleasing effects in living rooms whose walls have been painted or papered yellow or yellow cream to warm the room with the cool northern or east ern exposure, and green or blue for the warm southern or western ex posure. If you will glance at the plan of our ltving room which we drew up as the first step he nl_e('nraflm{ of (Continued on Twenty-second Page.) Homes, Completely Equi;;ped, Garages Concrete Streets and Alleys at $8,350 $65 Per Month SHELBOURNE Bladensburg Road and M Street of the room only by most skillful planning. Too few of us have any courage have learned to think of them as ob- | ably takes up the next largest area, portunities for color messes, each one | draperies the next and decorative bits, of which affects its nearest neighbor. [Such as vases, lamps, pillows and the If you will think of your room and its contents as blocks of color instead of just so many objects against four wails you will readily discover if you have achieved harmony ar if you have violated the rules of color. The walls and woodwork, of course, constitute the greatest mass of color in your room, the floor and its covering are next in area, the upholstering prob- for it. Furniture that is bad in form can be obscured if colored in subjec- tive colors, while we can emphasize &nd bring forward our best pieces and accentuate their good lines by coloring them in stronger, more courageous colors. . blues on our walls to give us the ef- fect of distance. | " The lighting of our rooms and the | exposure will, of course, enter into any decision as to the main colors. If our rooms are to be the northh, w: " will want colors that suggest the ab- Psychologists have told us repeat-|gone cun- i they bask in e riieg edly of the effect of color on our lives, | S0 SUb C0 FAeh 0800 10 B0 eens and 80 that none of us is entirely ignnrilnll blues to temper the feeling of heat. of its powers. That brown is Sobering, | ¢ tpey are dark we will want our ';,'u“,fpl:“,',': : citing, $ome| walis light and suggesting sunlight, ful we have been told again and again, | °F If they are flooded with light we wil SEULS At ot e for s te|want our walls and furniture covered % % in colors that do not discolor in the know. We m to find the | o A e Wi casantly | IENt or turn to different shades in the philosophical; the blue that reminds | us of blue delightfal cool breezes Common Sense Ts Aid. and the w of the sea, instead of | S ! the blue that makes us feel cold and [ Common sense will help us deter. : ik mine color in reference to the use to repressed; the red that stimulates us and gives us a glow from fts rich, | Which we put our rooms. A soft shell warm color, instead of the red that | Pik. delightful in a French boudolr, makes us angry and irritated; the|Will not appeal to many of us as cov- yellow that is mellow and altogether | €ring for the ordinary living room Prehning, ke the vellows found in| walls. Nor will a heavy brown or a muddy green appeal to us as just the cheerful note in the room where we Jameson-Built Homes 913 to 937 Quincy St. N.W. - Oak floor; upstm’rs. and down, fully tiled bath with built-in tub and shower, hverlast;c Tile” floor in the kitchen; double inclosed rear porches. 35 built—2 left. Inspect Daily and Sundq_v Until 9 P.M. GEORGE A. WILSON COMPANY Bladensburg Road and M Street Lincoln 381 Only 2 Squares From 14th St. Car Line 22 SOLD | Connecticut Avenue Inspect at Once nature, rather than the yellow that is blatantly overgay and thus tiresome. Six large rooms, tiled bath, If we lack an inborn color sense or a cultivated color knowledge, we must turn to trained artists for advice to find the best qualities in our chosen colors. - Too Much Is Distasteful. Too much of anything, even candy, should find our greatest comfort and inspiration. Most of us are apt to think of the furnishings of our rooms as a sofa, a table, a few chairs and a few lamps with a rug and four walls, and are ac- customed to think of each one by itself without considering them as parts of what we hope to make a Shops In Stoneleigh Court h.-w.h., electric lights, hard- wood floors and trim, one-piece sink, built-in ice box, instan- taneous water heater and other extras. Double rear porches, cement front porch. With or without built-in garage. grows distasteful. It is only good when tempered with other tastes. So harmonious whole. MUST BE SOLD Any one But few of us “Ask the man who owns one” For Sale by Jhomas A. Jameson Co. Owners and Builders Reservation may now be made. EAVER BRO REALTORS 809 I5th St. NW. M. 9486 EVEN BEFORE COMPLETION 2707 Adams Mill Road Just North of 18th and Columbia Road The greatest home bargain for sale. contemplating purchasing a home should inves- tigate this great opportunity. No. 18 EAST BRADLEY LANE (Open 10 AM. to 6 P.M. Sunday) Near Chevy Chase Club Lot 120x130 Immediate Possession GARAGE 906 N. Y. Ave. N.W. Phone Main 5526 CLEVELAND PARK HOME 2955 Newark Street N.W. This beautiful Home, lo- cated in Cleveland Park, is offered for sale at a very rea- sonable figure. It contains twelve spacious rooms, in- cluding five bedrooms, living room and library. The lot contains nearly 19,000 square feet of ground and is magnificently land- scaped. There tennis court available and a two-car garage. BRIEF DETAILS Center hall type. steel beam construction, slate roof. Four sleeping rooms and two sleeping porches: two baths: enormous living rooms with open fireplace. Hardwood floors, weather-stripping, awnings and screens, electric refrigeration. oil fuel hot-water heating plant. Price, $25,000.00, Subject to an Offer GARDINER & DENT, Inc. Exclusive Agents 1409 L St. N.W. Entrance to Rock: is a Terms May Be Arranged Open Sunday, 10 AM. to 5 P.M. €. and AqLINilley | Bedtiors Jn Virginia Offers You All-Year Detached Home Comfort 'At From §7,’850 to »59,9$0_' 100%2 CO-OPERATIVE FIREPROOF Second Floor SUITE 201 Reception Hall, large Living Room (with 4 windows facing entrance to Rock Creek Park), two Bedrooms, with two baths, five Closets, Kitchen and Dining Room. Small initial payment and $95.20 a month (including interest, operating charges and curtail on' principal). * CHARM DIGNITY INDIVIDUALITY —and a location ufisur- passed in Washington City — overlooking the magnificent estate of in “15 Minutes From F Street” —to a subdivision that is becoming well known, even outside of Washington, as offering more real home value for its prices and terms than any development in the East. Careful control of a hundred acres of con- venient, attractive land, coupled with intense architec- tural and construction effort (we sell no lots) is the reason! The homes here are extraordinary, not only in their ap- peal to the eye (and every single house has definite architectural thought behind it), but in every feature of modern housing de- sirability. There are many different types, in materials ranging through brick, hollow tile, stucco, frame and combinations; there is every sensible modern improvement, and. in addition, there are large lots in a most charming, congenial atmosphere. SAMPLE ALWAYS OPEN AT 301 MONROE AVENUE Today Is a Good Day to Come Out Less than 15 minutes to Aurora Hills (by electric car or motor bus from 12th St. and Pa. Ave, or by your own motor a mile and a half south of the Highway Bridge). “ Y Beauvoir Cleveland Heights. Price, $11,500 Third Floor SUITE 303 Reception Hall, Living Room, Bedroom, Bath, Kitchen and Dining Alcove. Small initial payment and $39.95 a month (in- cluding interest, operating charges and curtail on principal). Price, $4,700 OPEN 9 AM. TO 9:30 P.M. - E M DAWSON . Co-operative Apartment Homes OFFICE ON PREMISES Phone Columbia 6490 3407 Woodley Road The first floor of this home consists of a cen- ter hallway, a large living room, with open fire- place, a dining room, butler's pantry, an equipped kitchen and a side living porch. Six bedrooms and 3 baths (one of which has a shower) complete the sleeping quarters. INSPECT THIS ENGLISH RESIDENCE SUNDAY It is thoroughly modern. The lot is 43x139 and is beautifully land- scaped. There is a 2-car garage. INCORPORATERD urora Hills «Virginia 1015 15th St. N.W. Exclusive Agents ON: & LUCH Main 7343