The importance of rug color

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You may want your whole room to be in tints rather than shades of color because it will seem larger and lighter, but there must always be some contrast of values to prevent monotony.

The wood of your furniture is usually dark enough to give you this emphasis, even though your ceiling, walls and floor are all light.

Color, like light itself, is elusive and changeable. Every hour of the day it looks different. Artificial illumination often com­pletely transforms it. Incandescent or ordinary electric light makes all colors more yellow.

The newer fluorescent lighting makes them more blue.