Pin up lamp sidelights

There are useful as well as inexpensive and are suitable on any type of wall in informal rooms –over a desk, on each side of a mantel or where occasion demands if the cord is plugged into the baseboard and is not too much in evidence. With proper bulb and shade they give effective light. Although sidelights are not used now so much as formerly, they may be placed above the mantel shelf and in narrow spaces between windows for general illumination, replacing chandelier. But this is a day of lamps –anything else seems dated.

Floor lamp –ceiling light

Both are good for general illumination. Choose a lamp to suit your type of room. It should give direct light for reading and bridge. A modern, standard lamp for bridge is illustrated. Adjust to suit your self and your convenience. Except for fine chandeliers in large rooms, cove lighting or spot lights in the ceiling have replaced the fixtures of the past. Old fashioned fixtures should be removed and the outlet used for a modern spot light or is capped and hidden.

There is a tremendous wealth of new textures, new weaves and unbelievable new colors and color combinations in the carpets, so again my advice is see them for your self when you are ready to select them. The fine luxurious, lush pile texture shown below is one example. Cotton twists, two toned carpet rayon, all linen, all wool in new look weaves with new non slip backing are all yours for the looking. Broadly speaking fine pile textures go in luxurious settings, the twists, the cottons, and the linens in the informal room. Choose color to suit the scheme of the room.

Modern lamp: in modern as in traditional lamps, vases, figures (man or beast), and simple shafts or uprights are all suitable for lamp bases. If you have a favorite piece, it can be wired (under ordinary circumstances) at moderate cost. The choice of shade is important and should be as carefully considered as the equipment under it. Dark shades as well as light ones may be used if white inside and if they are wide enough to throw light to ceiling as well as downward. Unusual materials –leather, rope, cork –are appropriate.

There are many types of Colonial rooms, but few are as attractive as the room with the fireplace and paneled. In the room illustrated a pair of recessed open cupboards is which to put choice china give added charm. The doors, window frames and dado are painted white, while color and pattern are given by a fine scenic wallpaper used on three sides of the room. Such scenic or landscape papers which were used frequently in both France and England during the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries, were imported by our well to do forefathers for the mansions they built along our Atlantic seaboard, from Maine through the Carolinas. Naturally, these papers pictured scenes from France or England and were frequently in pastoral design. The early days of our republic saw the beginning of our own wallpaper industry and our own historical events were recorded on the first scenic papers: scenes from the Revolution, William Penn signing the treaty with the Indians, Robert Fulton and his steamboat. With a revived interest in Americana around 1905, papers in the old feeling were made again used as here above a dado. In dining rooms, where we do not stay long, and in halls which we but pass through, scenic papers are especially appropriate, A colonial dining room in the traditional manner with simplicity, charm, dignity, as well as color.

An old fashioned window seat transformed with cornice, short, gay curtains, and cushions, become a joy! Use window boxes on the outside, or if there is an objectionable view, opaque glass is suggested. There is definitely today’s touch in this effective room, shown in the repetition of the scalloped cornice board in the recess for the sideboard, the grouping of plates above the sideboard, and the three ornaments on its top.

Wallpaper will transform a plain Jane of a room into any type you want; dignified, somber, formal, informal, colorful, or gay. The choice of pattern and color has a great deal to do with the result. By selecting paper of a definite character such as the needlework pattern above or the Pennsylvania Dutch pattern the wall can be made to carry out the style of the furniture. All over designs with Colonial modern or period motifs are all used, but my best advice to you is to see the new patterns of the season when you are ready to decorate. Styles do change and what is just as important, the coordinated color card of industry changes from year to year. You will find that the colors in wallpapers are to be found in harmonizing shades in fabrics, rugs, and paints. Imagine the joy of finding colors made to go together different for every room in the house but with a thread of color harmony running through a group, just as the theme in a symphony. Besides, they are washable and sunfast.