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Show Outdoor Colors Brought Indoors i i t , j t 1 Aminln tfi.-A , -JUtus.. . Above, living room decorated in harmony with color scheme on exterior of house, creating a unified uni-fied appearance. Right, numbers in the sketch are key to colors used. Bottom right, exterior view ol the dwelling. Start with the roof of your house to decorate your living room. That's not so illogical as it sounds. In fact, it's the latest trend in interior decoration, as advanced by Beatrice West, New York color consultant and designer, de-signer, who has planned color schemes for the exteriors or in-, in-, teriors, sometimes both, of more than 40,000 houses in all parts of the United States. The trend is to let the exterior set the color theme for the interior. in-terior. Miss West points out that parts of the outside of a house often can be seen from the inside, in-side, through big picture windows, win-dows, and the inside is visible from the outside. Her conclusion is that exterior and interior colors must harmonize har-monize to create a unified effect. "In today's home, large glass areas invite the outdoors to move right inside with us. Color must move in, too," the designer says. Starts With Exterior Here's how Miss West goes about a color planning job. She starts with the exterior, picking the roof color first, then choosing all other exterior colors to harmonize har-monize with the roof. She always al-ways specifies asphalt roof shingles shin-gles because of the wide selection selec-tion of colors available. One of her favorite tricks is to paint exterior window framing a vivid, attention-getting hue. This accents the softer colors used on larger areas. The home illustrated here has a roof of gray-blended asphalt ihingles. Gray-stained shingles were used for the sidewalls, except ex-cept one end wall which is white brick. The trim is gray. Banana yellow is the accent color on the doorway and the window frame. Interior colors were chosen as Indicated by number on the sketch of the living room. No. 1 is ranch gray, 2 is geranium red, 8 is forest green, 4 is banana yellow, yel-low, 5 is white brick, and 6 is natural pine with antlqued-gray finish. Taking her cue from the shrubs, the lawn and the trees, Miss West selected forest green for the floor and the wall. To harmonize with the exterior of the house itself, i she specified antiqued-gray finish for the woodwork and ranch gray for the ceiling and the window framing. Wife Continues Work The rest of the colors were chosen, in accordance with Miss West's basic idea, by the wife of the family that bought the house. Continuing the blending of indoor colors with the asphalt shingle roof and exterior sidewalls, she bought ranch gray rugs and the gray chair in the left foreground. Gray is the background color for the floral-design covering of the two matching chairs; The floral pattern itself is geranium red, forest green and banana yellow. Draperies also are banana yellow, yel-low, making the indoor accent color col-or the same as the one outdoors. The brick fireplace was painted white to match the white brick end wall outside. The chair at the right rear is geranium red. All the geranium red coloring matches potted red geraniums kept on the terrace during the summer and brought indoors to stand on a table by the picture window during cold weather. |