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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1907 



Color Richness Is the Keynote of the New French Parrot Frieze 



Crowns, Friezes and Borders 



By F. M 



ESPITE the fact that many of the most 

 tastefully papered rooms are minus any- 

 thing like a frieze or a crown, the wallpaper 

 being carried straight up to the cornice, 

 there are many instances in which such a 

 decoration adds immensely to the beauty of 

 the entire house. I his is especially true of 



a room in which there are 

 few pictures. For bed- 

 chambers, dressing-rooms, 

 morning-rooms, and cer- 

 tain tlining-rooms, such a 

 finish to the upper part of 

 the wall is likely to be very 

 charming. As a rule, too, 

 it is best suited to the 

 simpler sort of house, 

 since the arrangement of 

 the statelier styles is more 

 than likely to be complete 

 without wallpaper, except- 

 ing in some of the upper 

 rooms. 



Just now the wallpaper 

 most liked for the entire 

 second story of a house 

 and for some other rooms 

 is white, either plain or 

 with a glossy stripe. The 

 next modish wallpaper is 

 a diaper or other woven 

 effect in white and a soft 

 tint, usually delicate gray. 

 Such a paper is correct for 

 any tiownstairs room, as 

 is the white with the 

 glossy stripe. In any case 

 the ceiling and cornice are 

 covered with a paper in 

 the kid finish in white, or 

 an ivory or pearl tint, ac- 

 cording to the side wall. 



An elaboration in the 

 crown effect that pleases 



Old -timey Drapery Effects Are Redolent of Days Agone 



Cut Crown of White Grapes 



ide Smith 



persons who do not like the plain side wall is one of the 

 \ariations offered by wallpaper firms. That early favorite, 

 the rose arbor effect, has had many fascinating followers, 

 the nasturtium being among the latest. The nasturtium 

 crown, a dainty not of brown, orange and gold and sketchy 

 foliage, comes with a lovely nasturtium bedroom paper on 

 an ivory ground with a narrow high gloss stripe. Or it may 



be used above a striped 

 paper without the nastur- 

 tium figuring. It costs 

 $1.25 per roll of seven 

 yards, while the side wall 

 is a matter of thirty-five 

 cents. Charming effects 

 may be had, too, by cut- 

 ting out crowns from wall- 

 paper designed for the side 

 wall. These may be dis- 

 tinguished by endless va- 

 riety, as the range of floral 

 papers to choose from is 

 practically inexhaustible. 



Quite the highest chic 

 for bedrooms, however, is 

 the very old-fashioned 

 border, the narrow finish 

 that topped the walls of 

 our grandmothers. There 

 are mere ribbon borders, 

 flower borders and furni- 

 ture gimp designs, caught 

 with a bunch of blossoms 

 at intervals, which are cor- 

 rect above chambray and 

 diaper designs. Then 

 there are valance effects, 

 with the old-world charm 

 of the posy-decked 

 flounces and paper lace- 

 edged bouquets of long 

 ago, and little old-timey 

 drapery effects, caught up 

 with quaint roses and red- 

 olent of days agone. 



