Colors for a Dining Room The apparent size of a room may also be changed by a different distribution of the existing colors. Many apartment houses, for example, have a small dining-room done in dark blue. Now blue is a good color for a dining-room as it goes well with the average china and sets off silver to advantage. However, if the room is smallish, it were better to use gray walls and get the blue note in the rug and hangings; or else use a light blue and gray side wall and have blue hangings. The desired color note will be strongly sustained, yet the room will appear much larger and be more restful. Another way to create a sense of space is to use the same color on the walls of rooms that adjoin with wide openings. Thus we do not notice where one room begins and the other ends off. We get an infinite sense of color space. At the same time interest and diversity can be had by using different color combinations in the furnishing of each room. The walls of a hall, living-room and dining-room, opening on one another, may be a soft sand color. The hall may be furnished with a Chinese rug or Oriental of warm tan and black; the few pieces of furniture in black lacquer (or painted black) with a dull gold mirror, and a piece of embroidery in black and gold. The living-room may have a deep rose or mulberry toned rug and the furniture in oak or walnut upholstered in stripes of green and mulberry with a touch of black, and the hangings an English designed linen with a combination of many colors, mulberry and green predominating. The dining-room may have for a rug a small patterned blue and tan domestic, with mahogany colonial furniture ;,at the windows, gauze under-curtains that sheen from blue to beige, and as over-draperies a striped taffeta (or cotton material). Next Page: Decorating with Color for Large Rooms. |
