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When choosing climbers for planting against houses or high walls, the direction that they will face must be considered since climbers on shaded walls will get little direct sunshine; those on some sunny walls may get too much; and those on walls with sun for part of the day may be exposed to cold winds. The problem hardly arises with fences, since plants quickly rise above them. The soil close to house walls can be dry, and until climbers become established they may need regular watering.There are many small gardens where the potential growing space on the walls is greater than the ground area of walls available. This space should never be wasted; climbers not only increase the range of plants that you can grow in your garden, they also screen what can otherwise be rather bleak walls and fences. Although some, such as wisteria, are planted with the long-term in mind, there are many that will grow rapidly. Make the most of walls and fences, poles and arbors and clothe them with climbers. ONCE YOU have created your framework planting, add some seasonal color and interest using a range of perennials, annuals, biennials and bulbs.
Ceilings may be calcimined or painted white or off-white. An agreeable effect is obtained if the ceiling is treated in a lighter tint of the color used for the walls. Increase in color interest may be obtained by painting the ceiling a color contrasting, either in hue or in value, with the walls. Ceilings that are painted in a color darker than the walls or treated in gold or silver leaf tend toward a modern effect. If a definite color is used for the ceiling, it should be repeated elsewhere in the Decoration of the room. Using two or more colors on the walls in the same room is always logical if the materials are different, such as wood panelling on one wall, and plaster on the other, or if one Wall is treated with wallpaper and the other with paint. A plaster Wall may be painted a different color than the woodwork. Where wallpaper is used in part of a room, it is advisable to paint the remaining plaster walls with the lightest and most neutral color used in the wallpaper. The Wall area of walls can often be painted the wallpaper-background color, or even more neutral in chroma. Where all walls are to be painted, decorators may use two colors; the window Wall is generally painted in a lighter tonal value than the opposite wall. In a double-use room (living room-dining room) an apparent division is often made by painting the walls different colors, and indicating the different uses thereby. Walls should not arbitrarily be painted different colors, but may be if there is a logical reason for so doing.
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