of dust and dirt, and thus harbor germs and disease. A moderately light interior looks cleaner than a dark one and encourages better care. How to decide color of walls for a particular room. As before mentioned, a room usually receives light from only one or two directions. affects greatly the color scheme for that room. A north room lacks sunlight, and therefore needs yellow or some other warm color in order

FIG 11.-Corner of a bedroom which was naturally gloomy. Decorated with grayish green "Sanitas" on walls, creamwhite ceiling and cream-white painted woodwork. Floors of wide boards, painted golden brown, with hard floor finish; old furniture painted apple green; cream scrim curtains at window

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to produce a balanced impression of light. A south room is filled with yellow light and therefore needs to be tempered by cool or moderately dark colors. Hence it is safe to say that all rooms, whether living-rooms or bedrooms, which are northerly (north, northeast, or northwest) look their best when the walls are of some warm color, as yellow, tan, buff, golden brown, reddish brown, old rose, or terra cotta, provided the furnishings harmonize with these suggestions. Beware of blue and green for northerly rooms.

Rooms that are southerly (south, southwest, southeast) look their best in cool

bedroom), provided the furBeware of colors containing

tones, such as cool tans or buffs, dull browns and greens, grays and gray blues, and lavender (with gray or white for nishings harmonize with these suggestions. much red or yellow for southerly rooms, unless there is but one window. Rooms that are east or west allow of a wide choice of color, as they are both sunny and sunless according to the different times of the day.

FIG. 13.-A few colors that should not be used for wall covering. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 are too bright and would fade; No. 4 is raw; No. 5 is too dark; No. 6 is a "nerve-racker."