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Natural and synthetic Wall materials. There is a tendency today either through intention or unavoidable circumstance to find rooms in which the various walls and ceilings are made of two or more different materials. In many dwellings, certain portions of the interior walls are structural and built with permanent materials and must for reasons of economy remain as an element in the decorative treatment of the room in which they are located. Ceiling surfaces often vary from the walls due to the introduction of acoustical materials that have a rough texture. In modern planning, it is often possible to subdivide rooms by means of sliding or folding partitions that are made of materials that differ from the Wall surfaces. The popularity of built-in cabinets covering an entire Wall area, and glass Wall surfaces substituting for windows, add to the variability of walls in the same room. These features create a problem that did not exist to the same extent in historical types of rooms in which similar types of walls were pierced by doors and windows and compositional unity was attained by similarity of treatment on all four sides. The decorator must accept conditions such as these and must select and arrange the movable furnishings to harmonize with the permanent walls and partitions that have been installed by the builder of the house.

Natural and synthetic Wall materials. There is a tendency today either through intention or unavoidable circumstance to find rooms in which the various walls and ceilings are made of two or more different materials. In many dwellings, certain portions of the interior walls are structural and built with permanent materials and must for reasons of economy remain as an element in the decorative treatment of the room in which they are located. Ceiling surfaces often vary from the walls due to the introduction of acoustical materials that have a rough texture. In modern planning, it is often possible to subdivide rooms by means of sliding or folding partitions that are made of materials that differ from the Wall surfaces. The popularity of built-in cabinets covering an entire Wall area, and glass Wall surfaces substituting for windows, add to the variability of walls in the same room. These features create a problem that did not exist to the same extent in historical types of rooms in which similar types of walls were pierced by doors and windows and compositional unity was attained by similarity of treatment on all four sides. The decorator must accept conditions such as these and must select and arrange the movable furnishings to harmonize with the permanent walls and partitions that have been installed by the builder of the house.

Wallpaper patterns may conflict with other Wall decorations such as pictures, Wall sconces, and hanging objects. If one desires to use the latter with wallpaper, it is necessary to use a wallpaper of delicate colors and rather small-scale pattern; or, if this is not possible, to use only pictures that are large enough not to be lost in the pattern of the paper. Rooms in which wallpapers are used usually require very few other patterned surfaces. In order to attain optical relief and contrast if a wallpaper has a prominent pattern, drapery materials should preferably be in plain colors or inconspicuous patterns and the draperies themselves designed with simple edging, fringe, or ruffling of a different hue. The same idea may be carried out in the upholstery materials, although it is less important to maintain simplicity of surface in the upholstery than in the window draperies.