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A Wall Treatment for Living or 
Dining-Room 
\ N interesting and very beatiful 
treatment for walls may be ob¬ 
tained by the nse of a tapestry or foliage 
wall paper in which the background spaces 
are small and of approximately the same 
size. With a sharp stencil or penknife, the 
paper being placed upon a piece of glass 
for easy cutting, all the background spaces 
may be cut away and the paper then put 
upon a background of Japanese gold pa¬ 
per. This is not by any means an easy or 
an inexpensive piece of work. Compara¬ 
tively speaking it is inexpensive, for the 
effect obtained is extremely rich and 
makes a very handsome room. The paper 
need not be very high priced, but the labor 
of cutting it out and hanging the tracery¬ 
like strips will be a fairly large item. The 
cutting may, of course, be done at home 
if one has a great deal of patience and 
time which is not more valuable spent in 
some other way. A strip of paper cut out 
at one time may not be too large an under¬ 
taking, and a few evenings spent in this 
way will accomplish without expense a 
piece of work which if done bv a paper 
hanger woidd be a very considerable item. 
I apanese g'old paper comes in very large 
sheets, at ten cents a sheet. The wall 
should first be papered with these sheets 
and then the foliage paper hung over it. 
if there is a molding or plate rail in the 
room, the wall paper need be carried only 
to that, leaving the plain gold paper above 
it; or a frieze may be made in this way, 
choosing some plain paper or grass cloth 
of a harmonizing color to go below the 
molding. The body wall of the shining 
gold paper would be too obtrusive and 
garish. 
When the process of papering the walls 
with first the Japanese gold paper and then 
the tapestry or foliage paper is accom¬ 
plished, a coat of thin shellac may be ap¬ 
plied to the entire wall space that is to be 
covered. It has the effect that a wash 
of thin color has on a water color drawing. 
It subdues the coloring' and holds the pa¬ 
pers together, and at the same time gives 
the wall treatment the effect of old leather. 
It is not necessary to give the papers the 
coat of shellac. Perhaps both treatments 
are equally handsome. 
Two excellent wall papers to use for 
these treatments of a room are shown in 
the illustrations, which unfortunately do 
not give one the slightest idea of the 
beauty of this arrangement. The photo¬ 
graphs were taken from sample boards 
which had been made up in this way, but 
the entire effect of color and brilliancy is 
lost in the photographs. 
The rose foliage paper is in tones of 
autumn colorings, soft tans, green or gray- 
A pottery vase that harmonizes perfectly with 
the rose papered living-room 
rose tones shading into violet. This paper 
costs $1.90 a roll and makes a beautiful 
living-room. The tapestry paper of fruit 
and flowers is in tones of gray, green, and 
old blue and is excellent for a dining¬ 
room. 
Such a treatment of wall space is too 
striking and unusual to overdo, and one 
room papered in a house in this way would 
be sufficient. Like many excellent things, 
it would lose its distinction if overdone. 
The two suggestions are given for those 
who are contemplating decorating the one 
room or the other. 
A very beautiful shade of amethyst vel¬ 
vet, or velour if one prefers it, may be had 
for the portieres and over-hangings to use 
in the rose-papered room. A better match 
would be hard to find, and the dark rich 
shadows of the plain hangings contrast 
admirably with the design covered wall. 
Rugs at almost any price may be had to 
go in this room. A double-faced Smyrna 
rug of amethyst color with a border of 
slightly darker tone would be perhaps the 
most inexpensive one to use. Made-to- 
order rugs in the colorings of the paper 
may be had at prices ranging from about 
$4.50 a square yard for a Scotch art rug 
to hand tufted rugs at prices varying, from 
$12 to $40 and $50 and more per square 
yard. 
Old English furniture of either walnut 
or oak, or both, is an excellent style and 
color to introduce into this room. Up¬ 
holstered chairs of Queen Anne design 
may have the seats covered with tapestry, 
the colors of which harmonize with the 
wall paper. A few antique gold finished 
willow chairs and a small table or two will 
also be excellent to carry out further the 
gold of the wall covering. Two hand 
carved electroliers finished in antique gold 
with shades in tones of amethyst and tans 
will be excellent on either end of a large 
center table of English oak or walnut, or 
lamps of pottery may be made to order. 
The vase shown in the illustration is an 
excellent piece to use in such a room. The 
overglaze which runs irregularly down to 
the rough body of the piece is the exact 
tone of the velvet hangings and the violet- 
rose of the wall paper. It is a most unu¬ 
sual color to find in a piece of pottery, and 
used either as a vase or made into a lamp, 
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