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Neutral Color:
When you are choosing a color scheme, consider the purpose of each room and how much it is used. For example, do you have a busy living room with a lot of activity in a small space? If so, lots of strong colors may add to the confusion. Instead, plan color schemes that provide a fairly simple, neutral background. Perhaps you have a clinical-looking Bathroom that could benefit from a lively color treatment, or a room that needs to serve more than one function at different times of the day.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 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.
The customary procedure is to apply over a thoroughly dried, light neutral-colored surface, a film of color of the consistency of water. The medium is usually of oil and turpentine, and a small amount of pigment is added to the mixture in the desired strength. For antiquing, walls are usually glazed with umber, which, more than any other color, seems to produce a satisfactory illusion of age.
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