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WALL EFFECTS FOR NEW INTERIORS OR OLD...........No. 1
How you can enhance the beauty
and attractiveness ofplain wall finishes for prospective buyers
and renters *
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STRIPING gives an individual tQiich of beauty to the one-tone
wall; It supplies a decorative note
which makes a finish distinctly dif
ferent from the usual, plain wall fin
ish, while preserving the dignity of
the one-tone effect. Because wall
treatments of this type are homelike
and atttax^iye, they are often of un-
usuai^hoWInce in selling and
renting
where women are
concerned. Women like the un
usual, the distinctive.
Striping is an effect easy to secure. It consists of
paralleling the woodwork with a narrow banding
line of harmonizing color--greater in strength and
deeper in tone than the side-wall color. The line is
applied directly to the wall, a few inches from the trim.
Striping makes an excellent effect when simplicity
and distinction are the theme of decoration. Bed
rooms, living-rooms, dining-rooms, particularly lend
themselves to this form of treatment.
The colors and the paint
STRIPING is most effective when the right tints and shades of the right colors are used. This question of the proper colors is one often hard to answer. To aid you we have a Department of Deco ration, composed of a staff of color specialists. This Department will be glad to assist you in choosing colors for carryingout the striping effect or in planning decorative wall-treatments for any type of interior.
What paint to use. in producing the desired finish? Dutch Boys^jite-lead, the all-lead paint.
At the leftis shown a typical example ofa room in which the striping effect may be used to advantage. The plain wail ofthis bedroom has been made interesting by means of the striping
lines.
because of its wide color range, is ideal for any color job. Mixed with flatting oil and tinted to any color desired, this paint is easy and economical to use, either for two or three-tone effects, or for plain one-tone walls. It cuts the cost of repainting since it retains its rich velvety finish over a period of years. Washing the surface does not harm the paint film.
Besides striping, there are other distinctive finishes which will be described in succeeding articles. If you wish, we will send you full information about them -- how and where they may be used. Write to our nearest branch.
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY
NewYork, 111 Broadway' Boston, 131 StateSueec* Buffalo, lid Oak Street' Chicago, 900 West 18th Street'Cincinnati, 659 -Freeman Avenue ' Cleveland, 620 West SuperiorAvenue St. Louis, 722 Chestnut Street'San Francisco, 48? California Streec'Pittsburgh, National Lead & Oil Co. ofPenna., 316 Fourth Avenue ' Philadelphia, John T. Lewis & Bros. Co., 437 Chestnut Street.
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