Using colors in interior design of indian homes –part 2

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The word accent itself shows its purpose of simply adding emphasis, so that it is at once plain that in such a tan room as we are considering we

must not have too much orange or blue (either in mass or number of scattered objects) or instead of accent we shall then have disturbance.


It is also obvious that in such a room we might have much

more of orange as an emphasis than we could

rightly have of blue, because the first is related and the

second is not, but is opposing.


It is equally plain that our principles still hold if we reverse the combination. One of the prettiest rooms the writers

remember was a simple little guest chamber in a country house.


It was furnished in old mahogany and at the rather high-set double windows were curtains of blue and white, while on the

floor were simple grey-blue rugs, matching in shade the blue of the curtain.


Had there been introduced into this room our previously mentioned orange bowl of nasturtiums

the result would have been perfection.


And the citing of this room brings us to another resource we have in furnishing.


It will be noticed that in addition to the blue in the curtain there was white, and we would now also mention that the wall-

paper was of a grey-white with a little scattered snowflake pattern in white talc thereon.


"We have, therefore, in addition to the blue and orange the introduction of a third element-white;

and a fourth in the mahogany tone of the furniture.


White is not a color, but is the combination of the colors and therefore neutral, so that it conflicts with

no other color and may safely be used with any.


In the present instance the mahogany is closely related to the orange and contrasted pleasantly with the shade of blue

employed, so that here again we have no conflict but a safe and beautiful combination of four color-elements in the one room.


Our resources are growing. Now say that we introduce, besides the above furnishings, a screen covered with

cretonne of which the same tone of blue is the dominant note,


but which contains green leaves and perhaps a number of other colors, all of which however occupy lesser space than the blue and

are pleasantly related or contrasted-so far as color is concerned we should still be safe. We therefore arrive at an important point.


Many home furnishers and even some professional decorators are apt to limit themselves too closely for life, variety and pleasantness of effect by the laying out of color schemes or "rhythmic notes" composed exclusively

of varying shades of one color, or adding simply an accent.


On the other hand, many women and even women decorators indulge in a riot of color without a sufficiently large basis of neutral or at least quiet

and undisturbed surface. In short, we see that the two errors to be avoided are all "harmony" without "relief" and all "relief" without "harmony."


We must, in furnishing, therefore use consideration, and a little thought will usually set us right. Take up, as an example, the

question of the introduction of the varied cretonne screen into the blue and white room we have been considering.


It might, so far as color is concerned, be safe, but would it otherwise be advisable?


In this room it would not have been, because the room was small and the only unbroken surfaces of blue were the two

small rugs. The cretonne, therefore, might have given the room a crowded, restless effect.


Much better, if a screen were required in this case, would be one of which the covering was a

plain related blue.


On the other hand, had the room been large, with correspondingly large unbroken surfaces of blue and

white, the cretonne would have afforded a pleasant relief.


Here, then, other questions than those of color have entered-those of space and quantity. Its placing would also have to be

taken into account, so involving the question of balance.


We note, therefore, simply by way of warning, that in considering one phase of decoration, color, we must not forget others of like importance and must

not be carried off our feet and purchase goods themselves delightful in their color effect but inadvisable in other respects for the use we wish them for.


Bearing in mind these interesting principles we can go over the various

possible color-schemes and combinations and see their

suitability in many instances and their

inadvisability in others, treating each color as

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