Excerpt from The Interior Decorator: Being the Laws of Harmonious Coloring Adapted to Interior Decorations With Observations on the Practice of House Painting<br><br>Fancy or choice is, and may be employed with perfect propriety in all matters of taste, both as to individual colors and their combinations. We are all individually entitled to have our likings for, and antipathies to particular colors, hues, shades, or tints. We may also, individually, have our par tiality to particular modes of arrangement amongst various colors, - some may delight in a gay and lively style of coloring - some in the rich and powerful, and others in the deep and grave - some may have a partiality for complex arrangements, while others prefer extreme simplicity. But this is the case in music also; every variety of style and composition has its particular admirers yet it never is assumed, that the arranging of the notes in a melody, or other musical composition, is a mat ter of mere caprice or fashion. All know that the arrangement of notes in such cases is regulated by fixed laws; proved also, by the experimental in quiries of the natural philosopher, to depend on certain phenomena in nature, which cannot be de viated from without giving offence to the ear.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.