A22 - Friday, April 27, 1984 - North Shore News

WALLPAPER IS THE KEY
Redecorate and save money

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SO YOU want to perk up your bathroom but vou don't want
to pay a fortune? Light wallpaper can give the room a whole
aew look, and the lighter the better to keep it bright.

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YES, you can redecorate a
room without going broke
The trick as to spend your

money where it counts, and
according to designer Jerry
Pappia that place is the walls!

“The walls represent: the
largest surface of most any
room, explains Pappia,
who designs wall and tabric
fashions tor the Thomas
Strahan Company “So
hardly surprising
wallooverings can
decorating miracles Fxpan-
ding space in small rooms,
retreshing tired ones, and ad-
ding interest: where needed
are Just a few of their talents

“AS a matter of fact, it’s
enough to just pul up a new
walleovering if Vour budget is
real/y strained) Even tf you
leave everything else the way
It was, the room will have an
enurely new look

But Choosing among the
thousands of designs and vol
Ors may contuse first time
walleovering shoppers, so
Pappia offers some hints to
narrow the choices

*To get started, you might

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that
work

look al patterns in the same

style as your room) That is an

almost foolproof method, if

not ternbly exciting. For
more chic, try a design in the
same penod as your fur-
niture, but in an unexpected
color. Today's popular grid
designs are decidedly contem-
porary, for example, but ina
soft color they will suit more
traditional and
rooms as well

elf you don’t have much

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furniture, go with a really
dramatic walleovering It wall
help the room look

turnished

*C coordinated wallcover-
ings are a boon to insecure
do-it-vourself decorators.
Lots of collections today of-
fer a vanety of patterns and
colors, all) planned to go
together, tor use in the same
or adjoining rooms. These
groups often include tabrics,
for drapenes, pillows and
Such, automatically 9 giving
vou d professionally designed
scheme

PGoto oa tiny
would like to save from its
feeling of claustrophobia?
Try a small-scaled pattern in
light colors, a metallic

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COMPANION wallcoverings dress up a room and add chic

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to inexpensive furnishings. Depending on the style and color
of paper you invest in, you can change the entire look and

mood of a room.

walleovering that will act
almost aS a mirror, or certain
large-scaled designs that wall
lead the eve beyond the walls,
thus creating an illusion of
space Trellis:type patterns
are among the designs that
open up a room

eA too farge room
look “cozier’” if treated to a
wallkovering with dominant
colors and design A rousing
plaid in the warmest of col
ors, and a tloral motit on a
dark blue, green or burgundy
background are good ex.
amples of designs that would
minimize rooms of ball park
proportions.

eC hoose a pattern that
leads the eve upward. if your

will

problem is low ceilings A
vertical stripe would be
perfect

elo ‘lower the ceiling’’ of
a too lofty room, break the
height with a dado about
half way up the wall, or find
a walleovermmy with horizon

tal stripes

eAny over-all design, from
checks to florals, will do a lot
to cover up the “‘broken-up”’

appearance of rooms with
too many windows, doors
and other irregularities Also,

use valances and draperies to
match the walls to disguise an
over-abundance of windows.
and paper the doors to match
the walls

It the doors are the paneled
twpe, cover up the inside ot
each panel. and paint the
“trame™ of each panel to co-
ordimate with the walleover-

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°eOld houses and = apart-
ments may have exposed
pipes. Cover them to match

the rest of the room, and they
will disappear right into the
walls.

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