The colonial style, which is far and away the favorite architecture in this country may have liberties taken with the interior decoration and still be most attractive; but a dining room in the traditional Colonial manner makes as especially pleasant room and is well worth consideration. There is great simplicity and yet formality in the room opposite. This, of course is due to its walls.
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 18th and early 19th 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.
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