I would NOT want to sleep in a room designed by this woman.
fun pome thar
KS
On 12/07/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sonnet: On Red
>
> Many think of red as a cheerful color, one good to use
> in a dark room. But the average red, used in large quantities,
> absorbs the light in a most disheartening manner, making
> a room seem smaller than it really is. It makes ugly, gloomy
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> shadows in the corners, for at night it seems to turn to a dingy
> black, and increases the electric light bill. Red also severely
> strains the eyes, and many a red living-room causes seemingly
> unaccountable headaches. Not that red should never be used,
>
> for it is often a necessary color, but one must remember that
> a little of it goes a long way. A room, for instance, paneled
> with oak, with an oriental rug with soft red in it, red hangings,
> and a touch of red in an old stained glass panel in the window,
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> and red velvet cushions on the window seat, would have much
> more warmth and charm than if the walls were entirely red.
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>
> Source: Lucy Abbot Throop, Furnishing the Home of Good Taste:
> A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with
> Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today.
>
> [New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1920]
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> Hal
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