Coleman, Oliver · New York, Fox Duffield & Company · leaf 104
design and color, are the cheapthings easiest to be found—cheap enough to meet the purse of the mostneedy. The ceiling should be plain with such a flowered wall. The so-called borders and ceiling-papers, each a variation of the wall, but serve toconfuse and irritate the sight, and are an… … picture molding if there be one—a heavy pattern of bright flowers andleaves. This gives to such a room the aspect of a bower of flowers, whileleaving for the walls the best of backgrounds for the setting forth of pic-tures. The paper hangers look aghast at this; but being mostly Scandi-navian…
Architecture, Domestic
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