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How To Finish Rooms.--in A Late

How To Finish Rooms.--in A Late image
Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
March
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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nuinber of the Independent, we nnd the folio wing expressiou of Bayard Taylor's opinión on tlii.-; subject : ' For the finishing oí the rooms there is nothing equal to th ilativo wood, oiled to dovelop tlia beauty of tho grain. liveu the commoiiest pine, treited in tku way, has a warmtli and lustre beside which tCtí dreary white paint, so cominou even ia the best of houses, looks dull and dead. Notbing gives a house such a cold, unoomfortable air as white paint and whsta piaster. Thia eolor is üt only for tho tropics. Our eheap, common woodt - pine, ash chostimt, oak, maple, beec'ti, waluut, batteruut - oiFor us a varicty of oxquisite tiutd and librous patterns whieh, uutil recently, have beeu wholly disregarded in building. Even in furniture wo avo just begiuuing to diecover how niuch inore elogaut and ohasta aro oak and Yalllut than matogany. Tho beauty of a room is as dependent on the Iiartnony of its coloriog as that of a picture - ' Somo of the ugheat and most dis.igrcecble of apartuioiits, l have evor scen, wero just tiloso which oontained the niont expeosive furniture and deeorations " My experience shows tbat a room fmished wit h the host aeasoned ok or walnut, costs aotually lèss than one finislicl with pino, painted and grained in imit.ition of those wooda, Tvo verandiths of yjllotr piue, treated to two coats of boiled oil, have a riekuréM of beauty and color boyo id the reaeh of pigment ; and niy oily regret oounecte 1 wit} the house ie,' that I was pcrsuaSed by tho reprwentations of mechanica to use anv niint at all,"

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Michigan Argus