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Home Decoration: For each custom home decoration design plan, he sends his team of stone and timber experts into the forests of Northern New England to find giant boulders, entire trees or 8-ton granite stones that become the signature elements of each custom built home decoration.When asked about the use of such unusual materials in his design Nold said, "When a client wants their weekend, or second home decoration to provide retreat and renewal far from their primary home decoration - this distance is not measured just in miles, but in the emotions their home decoration evokes.
Since the opening of the 20th century, social and economic changes throughout the Western world have caused less sentiment to be attached to the word "home decoration." Whereas formerly, houses were used by several generations of the same family, ease of transportation and communication have tended to make the home decoration less of a pivotal center. The introduction of apartment house living has contributed to this movement. Many per¬sons have developed nomadic habits that have lessened their interest in permanent or costly types of decorative treatments. In the average room of today there is less thought allotted to the decoration of walls than to any other part of the treatment or furnishings of the room.A few exceptions to this condition occur. Certain people have the means and desire to use antique wooden wall panels of either European or American provenance and there is no doubting the charm of these decorative treatments if the balance of the furnishings permit modern conveniences and living conditions. In many cases, the antique woodwork is limited to a single wall, an overmantel decoration, or a built-in cabinet or bookcase. Reproduction of period wall panelling is seldom advisable due to the inability of the average American craftsman to produce these forms correctly, or the painter to create the mellowness of the original treatments. The custom of applying wooden moldings to plaster walls to attain a period panelled effect is a ■ decorative falsity and always unsatis-factory. Wallpaper strips in molding designs are more permissible as an honest type of decoration in itself. |
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