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It is‘*now the thing, and a very good thing, to have very few but carefully chosen pictures that mean something by way of distinction
ood Pictures and Bad Pictures
Or Have You Too Many Pictures On Your Walls? ‘By Charles D. Chapman
(Interior Decorator for Famous Players-Lasky)
HERE was atime when it was ‘‘the thing” to
have every available inch of wall space in every
available room, hallway and vestibule, covered
with pictures. Just as it was “the thing’ to have heavy. velour draperies, morris chairs, ‘‘sets’’ of furniture, brass beds and the like.
Today, in the more modern idea of furnishing, we have got away, I think, from a lot of. stodginess in house decoration and furnishing. -We have got away from sets and heavy carpeting and shrouding windowhanging and we have got away, too, from pictures.
Oh, not entirely, of course. But we have ceased to practically paper our walls with pictures, good pictures and bad pictures, indiscriminately, so long as there _ were pictures on the walls. We used to think that a room without many pictures looked ‘bare,’ ‘“unfurnished.” We think so no longer.
-. It is now the thing, as you probably know and also probably agree with, to have a very few pictures, pictures eonerally chosen, carefully hung and pictures that
mean something by way of*distinction, value or real, if simple, beauty.
We realize, today, that one of the very greatest charms in interior decorating is to have a sense of space. It-is far better to have too few things than to have too many things. The great thing to avoid is an impression of being cluttered and this applies quite as much to wall space as to floor space. For, after all, it is upon the walls of any room that the eye most rests and rest is just what the eye should do. It should not be strained and confused with a medley of pictures, most of them meaningless to all but the family cirele and, often enough, meaningless to them if they came right down to it.
A small but practical consideration to the housewife is that this elimination of pictures means, also, an elimination of dust. Pictures are great little dustcollectors. They are also famed for leaving pronounced spots upon the papered wall where the space back of them has not faded as the rest of the room has.