In all rooms, unless you are trying for unusual dramatic effects, it is better to have the walls and ceiling lighter in colour than the floor. A dark floor (or a floor darker than the walls) gives a solid base on which to build the rest of your room. It also shows the dirt less than a light colour. How dark it should be will depend on how much you want to weight the floor, whether it should have a pattern or not will depend, again, on the rest of your decorative scheme, but it is best to remember that a strong pattern on the floor is more restless than a pattern on walls or curtains. And if you feel a strong pattern is needed, it is often better to have it in the form of a rug on an otherwise plain colour than to have an all-over pattern which interrupts and is interrupted by the furniture.

There is no rule that can be made about curtains. Where you have no pictures on other walls that you want to display and where the window area is not too large, a bold pattern or a strong contrasting colour on the curtains will make interest which may be very much needed. But where the other walls are full of incident, be careful not to clash with them or drown them with a large area of patterned curtain, which by repeating its theme tirelessly, will always attract the attention more than a single picture.

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