Adding Cheer and Color to a Dining Room Part4
To Add Cheer and Color
WHERE the dining room happens to be gloomy, with insufficient light and an uninviting outlook, much can be done to add cheer and color by the use of painted furniture and brilliant draperies against light tinted walls. One effective method of furnishing such a room would be by the use of blue green painted furniture that can be found in simple designs, with a drop-leaf table and bow-back Windsor type of chair. The walls should be cream and the draperies blue green, with red and orange figures. Add a table runner of plain dull blue with gay ends of appliqued figures like the drapes, and the warmth of growing plants and ferns, and the gloom is sure to vanish.
For a small apartment or country dining room the Sheraton style of furniture is especially suitable. The simple gracefulness of its lines will add dignity to any room in which it is used, and the pieces will not be large or massive enough to dominate the room. Sheraton furniture calls for light colored walls and white woodwork and will lend itself admirably to almost any color scheme chosen. A plain white paneled wall makes an excellent background. Walls papered in cream oatmeal paper, with curtains of some gay pattern of printed linen or English chintz, are also in keeping. A plain or block pattern rug would be effective.
In a dining room which is to be in daily use by a family with growing boys and girls, where the highly polished furniture is bound to suffer innumerable scratches or the children to suffer unendurable restraint, the wisest and happiest choice of chair is the most durable and closely woven reed that can be purchased. These chairs look particularly well with the drop-leaf or gate-leg tables, and can be stained or painted to suit the other furnishings of the dining room. When the tea cart or fernery are of the same reed construction as the chairs the effect is more pleasing.
If the kitchen is small, as it usually is in the modern house or apartment, and the office work of the housekeeper must take place in some other room, one corner of the dining room will have the advantage of being near the place where tradesmen are to be paid and where bills are received. A desk such as that shown on the next page is an ornament to any room. A desk in the same general period and design as the console or buffet should be chosen. When dining room and living room are combined, the end devoted to the dining room may well have the desk and books surrounding the long refectory table, which will then serve as a library or dining table as needed.
Part 4 of a 1924 magazine article on choosing Dining Room Furniture
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- Choosing Dining Room Chairs Part 2
- Selecting Dining Room Furniture Part 1
- Dining Room Console Part 3
- Duncan Phyfe Furnishings Part 3
- Earmarks of the Duncan Phyfe Style Part 2
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