Small Bathroom: The small Bathroom tends to be a cool room -made colder by the unyielding enamel, chrome, glass, and ceramic surfaces. Unless you are starting from scratch, you will want to work your decorative scheme around the color of the existing bathtub, sink, tiles, and other fixtures. Warm-tonec off-white walls, brightly colored accessories, and lots of green plants are a straightforward choice for softening the small Bathroom environment. But since the small Bathroom is used only briefly and infrequently, you could take the opportunity to experiment with more colorful and adventurous options.
Downlights Strategically placed downlights can be used to accentuate different areas of a small bathroom, either to illuminate task areas or simply to create interesting light and shadow contrasts.
Mirror lights A Mirror is an important feature in a small bathroom, either for shaving or putting on make-up. The best Lighting solution is sidelighting - a row of low-voltage bulbs on each side of the Mirror will give you virtually shadow-free lighting.
Shower lights A Shower stall will probably require its own light. Use a specially sealed Lighting unit that is waterproof against all moisture.See Also From The Bathroom And Boudoir:The art of the mural decorator is as old as architecture. The artists of Egypt, Greece, and Rome developed it to a high degree of perfection. The walls of nearly every room in Pompeii were treated with mural decora¬tions, and the artists of the Middle Ages carried it on for those of the Early Renaissance. Fra Angelico, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Perugino, and Pinturicchio have left unsurpassable masterpieces, and the roll of honor continues down through the great French and English painters of the 18th century. There are many painters in America who have produced remarkable work along similar lines in recent years. As a result, a revival of the art of the mural decorator has occurred, and many decorators are depending upon this type of Wall treatment for unique effects in all types of rooms. From the Bathroom and boudoir to the public rooms of the house, murals are often featured.
Good qualities in a mural decoration. For a domestic interior, a mural pattern, whether pictorial or otherwise, should be reasonably pale in color value. Contrasts of light, shade, and shadow should be gentle. The picture should never appear to jump off the wall. Too great naturalism in repre¬sentation should always be avoided, and conventionalization and styliza-tion are greatly to be preferred. Colors should be comparatively flat and drawings should be simple. Lineal flourishes are disturbing as a back¬ground. It is always advisable to relate the subject matter of the pattern or picture to the personality of the owner of the house or to the use of the room, and to see that colors are used which establish the color scheme of the room and may be recalled in the rest of the furnishings. Of recent years, however, many rooms have been painted with abstract motifs.
Haga Royal Pavilion, with wonderful interior decorations by Louis iasreliez and with a fine park around it, is by far the most important and nteresting of these three. If Drottningholm is Sweden's Versailles, the laga Pavilion is its Petit Trianon, but its paintings, as the learned di-ector likes to point out, are "not the boudoir stuff of Marie Antoinette but virile and significant picturing of the past."
On The Other Hand See A House Mouse:Economic position: One of man's great problems, as a house mouse damages property, food, and clothing
It is thought that the common, unwelcome house mouse probably originated somewhere in Asia, but it has spread throughout Europe, America, and practically the entire world. The house mouse is al¬ways found accompanying man in every environment.
Although the house mouse is a pest, it does make an interesting and gentle pet.
Also, by using the house mouse in selective breeding, man has been able to produce the attractively colored mice now available in most pet shops.
A house mouse is one of the easiest mammals to maintain in captivity. It does not need a large cage, and is easy to feed. It is a most entertaining pet.
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