ABSTRACT
The decorations of a room, as to carpet, upholstery, fabric and portieres, ought to be made to harmonize with the wall-paper as a background to the entire scheme of decoration. The carpet should follow the wall-paper in color, and the portieres should be in velour in a blue shade with silver embroidery. The furniture, which is usually in heavy oak, should be covered with leather in one of the red shades of the paper. Suppose the decorator is called upon to do an entire house in wall-paper, the furnishings of which are already in position. After a survey of the various patterns already in the market he finds that he can get nothing which will assimilate with the tone of color in the various rooms. In the cheaper grades of wall-paper the improvement in the pattern and coloring is very apparent, and many of these papers are quite as effective as the more costly varieties.
