The bedrooms possessing polished floors, shining walls and good color-effects can do without carpets. But if the floors are of pine and require to be covered, nothing can do better covering of uncomplicated or varied ingrain filling, than oriental hearths or bedside rugs.

The entire second floor of a home can be covered with fixed carpet in the obliging shade of green, whose soothing effect is already mentioned. The multiplicity of colors can be shown by using colored rugs. The well built-in, high-class pine floors can be blemished to harmonize with roughly any shade used in furnishings or on the wall.

I remember once visiting, a sea-side hall of a home, where the residents had enormous usual decorative ability. They had colored the floor a see-through olive, like all-time low of sea-water, and decorated the room with sea-weeds to give the effect of the sea. This room, which seemed broad open to the sea and air, had walls that were colored a greenish blue, and in the middle was placed a turquoise rug which made the effect ever lasting.

It is a little more complicated to convey the idea of choice and variety of floor-color than that of the walls. But in recapitulation it is safe to say, at first, that in choosing color for a room, light and medium colors are superior to the positively darker or brighter. The walls should be painted a shade which is unnoticeable in terms of arrangement & color. And the floors, if of similar color as the walls should be a shade darker, so as to outline its borders prominently. For it is the perfection of this relation of one color to another which completes the home beautification art.

The floor-covering, narrates to healthy housekeeping as a substitute of art. And one of the major elements of this art is that in all cases where carpets are being used, they should be in the form of rugs and not fixed in to uneven floor-spaces; so that there is no trouble of raising and cleaning. The great, and definitely the only, opposition to the use of carpeting in countryside or summer homes is the difficulty of frequent lifting, and removals of accumulated dust, which has strained through to the floor. But if mats are used, and are joined into squares which enfold the floor adequately, that surely is a perfect summer floor-covering, as it can be rolled and separated even more effortlessly than a carpet, and is a comfort for the house-keeper.

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