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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1914 
Play House 
Hodgson Portable Houses 
Artistically designed and finished, made of the most durable materials and practical 
at any time of the year in any climate. Madefor innumerable purposes. Erection of 
building extremely simple and can be done by unskilled labor in a few hours’ time. 
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stance, if a room is to be used as a living 
room or library, especially if pictures are 
to be hung on the walls, it will be mani¬ 
festly inappropriate to select a paper with 
a large, insistent pattern of flowers, foli¬ 
age or birds. The presence of the bold 
pattern will make the wall “uneasy” and 
destroy the restful quality of the whole 
room. The birds or flowers will crowd 
the pictures and distract attention from 
the books, which ought to supply the 
dominant note in a room largely devoted 
to their accommodation. Then, again, it 
would be equally inappropriate and ab¬ 
surd to hang the walls of a nursery with 
paper covered with a rigidly formal myth- 
ologic design wrought in the French style 
of a century or more ago, or with a 
dainty Adam pattern. In other words, in 
the selection of our wall papers, we must 
make the subject of the design fit the 
purpose of the room, and pick out such 
as will be suitable for the general uses of 
the rooms to be treated. 
The next factor to be reckoned with, 
after congruity or fitness, in successful 
papering is agreement and consistency 
with the general color scheme chosen. 
Suffice to say that nothing will ruin the 
whole effect of a room quicker than a 
wall paper of ill-chosen color and pattern, 
while, on the other hand, no one feature 
wil conduce more to decorative harmony 
and felicity than a paper of suitable tone. 
The walls of a room occupy a place 
quite analogous to the background of a 
picture. If the background of a picture 
is amiss in color it can readily be seen 
how serious the trouble is. Just so it is 
with the wall paper in room treatment. 
Another consideration to be kept well 
to the fore in selecting wall paper, as 
noted before, is the kind of furniture 
that is to be used. This alone will de¬ 
cide a very important question — whether 
we are going to regard the walls as a 
background or whether we are going to 
treat them as a decoration in themselves. 
If pictures are to be dispensed with and 
bric-a-brac and the smaller items of fur¬ 
nishing equipment to be employed only 
with the utmost restraint, then it is 
plainly appropriate, if not, indeed, neces¬ 
sary, to consider the walls as a decora¬ 
tion in themselves, and treat them ac¬ 
cordingly. If, on the other hand, pic¬ 
tures are to be used and a reasonable 
complement of ornaments, hangings and 
small furniture, such as sconces, vases 
and candlesticks, then it is very clear that 
the walls must be kept in check. No 
middle ground betwen these two ex¬ 
tremes of treatment will ever be quite as 
successful or satisfying as one or the other 
antipode of style. 
As it is much more usual to follow the 
custom of regarding the wall as a back¬ 
ground, although we often do it unwit¬ 
tingly and without taking trouble to an¬ 
alyze the situation, we shall consider that 
phase of the subject first. The treatment 
of backgrounds presents the difficulty of 
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