PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN.
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whether "stippled" or plain, and is both durable and washable.
An entire wall
should never be varnished.
Let me give one or two
I say that a wall can look well even if not decorated.
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Fig. 58.
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instances ; but, perhaps, I had better give treatments for the entire room, including
the ceiling, and not for the wall simply.
A good effect of a very plain and inexpensive character would be produced by having a black
skirting, a cream-colour wall
(this colour to be
made of the
Fig. 59.
colour called middle-chrome and white, and
to
resemble in depth the best pure
cream), a cornice coloured with pale blue of greyish tint, with deep blue, white,
and a slight
line of red, and
colour to be pure a
a
ceiling of blue of almost
any depth.
The
ceiling
French ultramarine, or this ultramarine mixed with white and
touch of raw umber (the cornice blues to be made in the same way).
The red