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Show Tiie Deadly Sins Of Decorations X -' ' ' v 4i P ' ' F - , , f n? - , X ?' i ' . ink unities such, as Avail draperies or rusts. Wheu your room needs a brilliant bril-liant toninK up, the rifiht vases or pictures should give the color. "Kon't mix periods. Bennin'ton pottery doesn't belong with mahog-auy, mahog-auy, for instance, but witb more rustic woods such as pine, maple or cherry. "Don't be trite. Don't be indiscriminate indis-criminate in your use of Dante book ends, sr Calahads, nude statues and other -'arty' fads. "Don't forget a room is created to live iu so' it should be livable. Have your living room quiet and your chairs comfortable. Be logical and have your chairs and tables where comfort mid convenience dictates." Mrs. Fairchild startled business men a year ago by setting up an antique, shop in a bungalow on the roof of n llanhattan skysera ppcr. llcr quaint, cottage looks down upon roaring xew York as from a mountain moun-tain top. Furnished as an early American home would have been a delightfully uncommercial interior is the result, ' Living room of Mrs. Tanner Fairchild's maisonette shop. These are the interior deeort-ing deeort-ing DUN'TS most emphasized by .Mrs. Mary Tanner Fairchild, New York expert: DON'T Clash colors. Drape south rooms brightly. T'se dark draperies in north .rooms. Have bright colors in large units. Mix periods. Over-indulge in faddish furnishings. fur-nishings. Neglect logic, comfort and j convenience in anything. and plain lines nud don't pleasi don't overhang and overdrape it." Choked Koonis (Overcrowding leads all the othei sins, she finds. "Many women choke their home; with furniture and bric-a-brac nnti it looks like nothing but a museuu that's a relic of the Victorian age of hair-cloth sofas, atrocious clmn deliers and startled deer in glas; cases. Hud arrangement of chain and tables can ruin the size anc shape of a well designed room archi-tectually, archi-tectually, while cleverness in planning plan-ning can camouflage a too-little 01 too-big room and give personality tc drab pieces of furniture. ''Haven't you been in a room where none of the furniture looked at home?" she questioned; "where a sot'a seemed to be edging out of the room, the chairs restless, and the tables positively menacing? Bad arrangement, rather than bad furniture furni-ture is the reason for it." As for color here the sinning cannot be overlooked even by the most broadminded and tolerant. Mrs. Fnircbild. suggests a few don't that her experience as a decorator has taught her: "Don't clash colors iu humidors, book ends, ash trays, and so-called objets d' art.' These all distract the eye from the main beauty and harmony of a room. "Don't use dark draperies in a somber or north" room. If your living liv-ing room gels little or no sun, use orange, yellow, green or gold combinations. com-binations. "Don't use bright colors in a sunny room. This has a blinding, disijueting effect. Use blues, violets or dull reds. "Don't use bright colors in large NEW TOIiK, Mar. 7. The seven deadly sins of the present day are in home decoration, according to Mrs. .Mary Tanner Fairchild, antique an-tique collector and dealer of New York. "And they are ns bad as the seven iMoral don'ts defined by the medieval me-dieval monks," she asserts, "because :ii:-y betray a woman's judgment, u sre, refinement, intelligence in hcf. iter whole personality." - Here follows her list of artistic1 transgressions which will make the home a permanent monument to the deficiencies of its mistress: Incongruity between the outside and inside of a home. Overcrowding. Jumbled arrangement. Antagonistic' 'color schemes. Confused styles and periods. . Triteness in decoration. Lack of Inability. "Let the outside of the house keep faith with the inside," she warns. "With a Spanish stucco house, don't use Chinese decorations. Don't try to make a couvenlional apartment too fancy. Stick to simple furniture |