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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Properly Framed Pictures Will Liven Any Livingroom By Ertta Haley PICTURES can add more to your rooms than you've probably ever dreamed, especially when they are adroitly hung and cleverly framed. The pictures themselves do not need to be expensive originals, origi-nals, if these are out of reach, but they should be properly used for best effect. Dull rooms look smart and colorless color-less settings take on new brightness If the walls are properly adorned with pictures. These may be something some-thing you've clipped from greeting cards, calendars, papers or magazines. maga-zines. They may be inexpensive reproductions re-productions which are, however, true to the original. Good framing and background can dramatize even the inexpensive picture and make it an asset in your room. Clever groupings of pictures can become the center of attention in many a room, especially especial-ly if you use some of the time-tried formulas for hanging them properly- Those who like a lot of pictures should be careful to group and place them in accordance with good decorating deco-rating precepts. Pictures do not necessarily have to be of one type, but their framing and matting should bring them together enough to place them in a grouping for the sake of effectiveness. Making unlike pictures somewhat alike can frequently be done at home with good matting and fram- Allover Tucking ' i - - ' . . . s - , " J pita :, i.. ;ssra . I t ' ,9 ' I imsmwrn 4l mmsm This smart casual dress illustrates illus-trates some important fashion trends of ' the season with its allover, stitched tucking on navy silk tissue faille crepe. White pique is ased for the shoulder-framing sectional collar, col-lar, buttoned with rhinestones to give the new wide lines at the top. Navy leather is featured fea-tured in the belt. If you do not have large enough pictures for the large pieces, then plan to use several small ones or one large one with several small ones around it. Another possibility is to use two medium sized ones with one set above the other. Good effect can be achieved with four related prints framed in a single large frame. This, too, will give you one large picture. Give Small Prints Character, Importance Small pictures placed on a large wall by themselves will lose all importance. If you can get together togeth-er several, with some relation to each other, frame them alike with some attractive matting which picks up a color from the room furnishings, they'll be important. Let the over-all form of hanging small pictures be symetrical for a pleasing effect. It's best never to hang them step fashion unless they're going to be used up a stairway stair-way wall. Many small pictures can be made to appear larger If they have wide matting on them. Let's say you have four or six small prints and want them over a large sofa. Wide matted in a deep or bright color, with good frames, such a group will have more interest and character than a single large picture. It's a good idea, with several small pictures, to use a rectangular grouping which suits the furniture above which they're placed. If you have a plaid couch covering, too, the rectangular grouping would be in keeping. Use Common Sense In Banging Pictures To be seen to best advantage, pictures are hung at eye level for the average person. If there are several pictures in the group, the bottom lines of all pictures should, of course, be at the same level. Let's take, for example, the chest or sofa that is quite low. Is it then wise to hang the picture at eye level? No, common sense as well as unity and balance dictate that this picture or grouping would look best hung low enough on the wall to become almost a unit with couch or chest. The above frequently happens in a chest in the hall or even a room. The better the pitcure is tied to the chest, the more dramatic the effect. ef-fect. If you have taken the colors for the room from such a picture, use it close above the chest, and try to get one or two accessories to place on the chest. These accessories acces-sories should have lighter or darker dark-er color of the same hue as that in the picture. Centering a picture on the wall Is done for pleasing and restful feeling. However, if you have a massive arrangement of plants or a lamp on one side of the 'wall, the large print or group of small ones can be slightly off center to balance the mass properly. Pictures will stay hung straight if they are fastened with wire run through a small screw eye at each side of the frame. They should be flat against the wall, with no wires showing in a "V" above the frame. Decorative Plates . Substitute for Prints Those who have decorative plates may prefer to hang them on the wall in place of pictures. It's possible possi-ble to use them in much the same way, and to get as interesting effects ef-fects from them as from pictures. used In disproportion to the wall space available, and has had an uneasy un-easy feeling about the result. No matter how good the picture, how nice the framing, the effect is not suitable if the wall space is not there. Avoid too large pictures in smaller small-er rooms. If you have no small ones, it's better to eliminate them entirely. As a general rule, ornate wallpapers wall-papers which you may have used to make a large room look less its size do not generally take pictures as this would give too much diverse pattern and destroy unity. Small-patterned Small-patterned papers may sometimes be used with very simple prints and frames, if the effect is not too confusing. con-fusing. Use larger pictures over large expanses of wall or over the larger pieces of furniture so that the wall decor can be balanced with what- . Use wall space properly . . . ing. When you do the job yourself, do it with the care and attention of a professional, and your pictures will look that mvtch the better for it. Relate Pictures To Decorative Stylo To observe the rules of balance and unity, use traditional pictures in the same type rooms. Victorian bouquets, Early American historical scenes and Colonial portraits belong in rooms of these different periods. Modern paintings and prints are best in rooms of the current period, while floral and fruit prints, seascapes, sea-scapes, family portraits, black and white etchings are considered neutral neu-tral and may be used in any period type of rooms. For the neutral types, you may choose framing that goes with a certain period, if you want to keep all furnishings in harmony. A very decorative gilt frame on a family portrait might be used in one of the decorative French period rooms for unity, while in a modern home the same picture could be framed in simple light wood or ebony type to be in keeping. If your home is a combination of traditional and modern, then some pictures of either type may be used, provided they're in good taste. Use Pictures In Harmony With Wall Space Everyone of us has seen pictures pBIClCli plllii for pictures and plates, ever piece is adjoining or part of this particular group. Large sofas take the large pictures, pic-tures, while a good-sized console or mantel may take some of the other large prints. |