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of dust and dirt, and thus harbor germs and disease. A moderately light 

 interior looks cleaner than a dark one and encourages better care. 



How to decide color of walls for a particular room. — As before mentioned, 

 a room usually receives Hght from only one or two directions. This 

 affects greatly the color scheme for that room. A north room lacks 

 sunlight, and therefore needs yellow or some other warm color in order 



to produce a bal- 

 anced impression of 

 light. A south room 

 is filled with yellow 

 light and therefore 

 needs to be tempered 

 by cool or moderately 

 dark colors. Hence 

 it is safe to say that 

 all rooms, whether 

 living-rooms or bed- 

 rooms, which are 

 northerly (north, 

 northeast, or north- 

 west) look their best 

 when the walls are 

 of some warm color, 

 as yellow, tan, buff, 

 golden brown, reddish 

 brown, old rose, or 

 terra cotta, provided 

 the furnishings har- 

 monize with these 

 suggestions. Beware 

 of blue and green for 

 northerly rooms. 



Rooms that are 

 southerly (south, 

 southwest, southeast) 

 look their best in cool 



Fig II. — Corner of a bedroom which was naturally gloomy. 

 Decorated with grayish green "Sanitas" on walls, cream- 

 white ceiling and cream-white painted woodwork. Floors 

 of wide boards, painted golden brown, with hard floor finish; 

 old furniture painted apple green; cream scrim curtains 

 at window 



tones, such as cool tans or buffs, dull browns and greens, grays and gray 

 blues, and lavender (with gray or white for bedroom), provided the fur- 

 nishings harmonize with these suggestions. Beware of colors containing 

 much red or yellow for southerly rooms, unless there is but one window. 

 Rooms that are east or west allow of a wide choice of color, as they are 

 both sunny and sunless according to the different times of the day. 



