PAINT, PAPER, AND CALCIMINE

For the kitchen, painted walls, which can be easily wiped off, and
resist steam, are preferable to calcimine. Tiling halfway up will be
found still better, but tiling paper, which costs more than painting,
is scarcely to be chosen. For the bedrooms the professional decorators
are disposed to over elaboration. A simple paper, costing 15 to 35
cents per roll, is best, or even plain calcimine, which many persons
consider more healthful. The latter costs only $3 or $4 a room and may
be renewed every year or two. Very nice effects are had in a
Georgia-pine panel trimming running to a wood cornice, and in natural
wood or painted white. With this the ceiling should be plain white,
and if bright-flowered paper is used, pictures should be discarded.
Lively colors, if not too glaring, give a cheerful aspect to the room,
but the safer plan is to stick to simplicity.

In the children's room a three-foot wood wainscoting is desirable.
Part of this may be a blackboard without costing more, and at the top a
shelf can be placed for toys. Figured nursery papers cost, per roll,
from 35 to 75 cents, and will be a never-ceasing source of delight. If
the walls are not papered they should be painted, for reasons that need
not be suggested. Isn't it wonderful how far a three-foot boy or girl
can reach?



SHADES AND CURTAINS

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