Common sense about interiors.
Common Sense About Interiors is a 1910 trade booklet issued by the Lowe Brothers Company of Dayton, Ohio, a paint manufacturer, to show householders and decorators how colour and wood finishes shape a room. The pictures are full-colour interior perspectives in a plain early twentieth-century style, with painted walls, dark stained woodwork, tile fireplaces and simple furniture. A designer could take from them the period palette of muted sage, cream and brown with dark oak trim, and the way beamed ceilings and panelled walls are rendered.
