Show Rugs n s Carpets Should Be Chosen To o Harmonize a mon ze With Room Setting j 1 i r i ia 1 a r a aV t L V I I I II I I i s 4 w C Editors Editor's note This is the seventh I I of a series of articles written forThe forThe for forI I The Telegram and N NEA EA Service by William H. H Wilson vice president of the American Furniture Mart and an acknowledged authority on interior interior in- in decoration and period furni ture Another article will appear next Sunday BY WILLIAM H H. H WILSON Carpets and rugs form the transition transition transi- transi tion from walls to furniture In a room As the group of rooms adjoining adjoining ad- ad joining each other must harmonize without a single jarring note so must the floor coverings co Inside the smaller unit They must hold the room roam together and make It an en- en I rather than a display of isolated groups of furniture Rugs and carpets must be chosen to soften the texture or of the floor and walls and to soften the floors to the tread of the feet J Form orm and color should S conform to the spirit or of room For Fer instance Hoo Hooked ed rugs fit it the Colonial atmosphere where a Chinese rug would be out of place Restful not restive carpets belong In the bedroom Like the drapes and the finish of the walls and Woodwork they should contain just enough color to f flame arne the picture picture-or make malee a pleasant pleasant background But weak insipid insipid in- in colors are just jUEt as deadly as too gaudy tones The motif motU or orna- orna mental figures in the floor covering should conform to the lines of the room and care should be taken that the realIstic and the alleged alleged- cal are not combined in the same rug or carpet It If the furniture is curved the figures in the carpeting should be the same Many modern homes have adopted the effective scheme ot of carp carpeting ing the entire floor of adjoining rooms in the same material If rugs are areto areto to be used effectively ly the floor must be polished to a soft glow and kept that way carpets of plain shades entirely devoid of design ex except t for little lands landscapes pes have achieved a recent vogue in England and will soon appear in this country If the colors are chos chosen m wisely the vivid landscapes will stand out nicely against the drab background For the modern room Chinese rugs and with such motifs as vari vant colored geometrical fIgurEs fIgurE's are appropriate with canary yellow yellow yel- yel low sapphire blue and Turkey red the popular colors |