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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 1910 



[iriE unfitness of much of the wall decoration of a wall looks extremely well when covered with a trellis 



that is seen at the present time is not due design, with a plain, striped or texture paper below it. 



to any lack of appropriate material. In When this is done the joining of the two papers should be 



fact the supply in the shops show a marked covered with a wooden molding. 



advance, artistically, over the products of A newer phase for decorating the extreme upper wall, 



previous years. Wall coverings are com- however, is to apply a Hower border with its lower edges 



ing more and more into prominence for cut out to follow the design. These cut-out borders cost 



their contributory part in household decoration. So many from fifteen cents a yard upwards. A graceful border de- 



and so diverse are the conditions to be met in each and sign of La France roses caught up with light-blue ribbons 



every home that no specific rule may be laid down for their (see illustration) measuring ten inches at its widest part 



selection, but a knowledge of what may be had in the stores costs forty cents a yard. A narrower border at the bot- 



will be helpful to every one who has a problem at hand in tom, six inches wide, costs twenty-live cents a yard, and 



the papering of a room, 

 apartment or entire house. 



Bedroom papers are to be 

 found in so many exquisite 

 colorings and attractive de- 

 signs that one may hesitate a 

 long time over the array. A 

 few years ago there Avere only 

 highly colored floral effects in 

 exaggerated sizes; now there 

 are dainty patterns in every 

 possible tone, in combinations 

 that suggest innumerable 

 kinds of pretty "schemes." 

 Prices, too, of these bedroom 

 papers bar none from their 

 purchase, as even the ten-cent 

 roll will often lend distinctive 

 charm to a wall. 



The flower designs are 

 naturally the first on the list, 

 but a fancy for something 

 different from roses or pop- 

 pies may this season be 

 readily gratified, for there are 

 violets, pansies, sweet peas, 

 corn flowers and nasturtiums 

 in natural and convention- 

 alized forms. Some of these 

 flowers are supported on a 

 trellis of square lines (as in 

 the illustration) or a diamond 

 framework. An upper-third 



An ideal bath-room paper 



the pink chambray paper 

 costs seventy cents a single 

 roll of eight yards, twenty- 

 two inches wide. These are 

 all imported papers. 



If a flower border is not 

 desirable for its conflicting 

 with the colors of cretonne 

 or chintz there are simple 

 ribbon borders in pink, blue, 

 green or yellow that may be 

 used with the lower portion 

 either cut out or left with a 

 straight margin. Some very 

 narrow borders are applied 

 around the casings of doors 

 and windows, or to form 

 panels of each division of the 

 wall. 



That the border has come 

 to stay is evidenced by the 

 manufacturer, both here and 

 abroad, of stufi^s not only to 

 harmonize but to exactly copy 

 its motive. Even in expensive 

 silks and hand-printed linens 

 this idea is apparent. The 

 advantage is obvious, as it 

 leaves the main portion of 

 the wall for a plain or tex- 

 ture paper to serve as a back- 

 ground, while the decorative 

 note in the border is enhanced 



