The manufacturer classes his various papers under heading that represent the rooms for which they are appropriate, and he endeavors to have as wide a variety as possible in the several designs included in each class. In the average city house, there should be sufficient contrast and harmony of tone and design from one room to another to prevent a feeling of monotony, as one goes through the house, without too great an impression of variety; the following styles are suggested as appropriate:

1. The Hall.–The hall should be rich and cheerful in color though not necessarily brilliant, unless the hall is very dark. The pattern should be old but subdued in effect; it should be dignified and rather pretentious in drawing, severely conventional, suggestive of direct mural paintings in panels, of cloth or tapestry effects.
2. The Parlor or Drawing Room.–The parlor or drawing room should be stately and pretentious in its pattern but in coloring more delicate than the hall; tints should be lighter. Renaissance scrolls are frequently employed in rich embossed effects as are also suggestions of materials such as silk, velvet, etc. However, many dainty naturalistic effects are used in parlor decoration, particularly in small houses. The parlor or drawing room is essentially an assembly room for stage of dress occasions; it is used almost exclusively in the evenings and its paper should be considered so as to delicately harmonize with the suggestiveness of evening dress and dainty surroundings. It is usually the most pretentious room in the house and calls for an excellent quality of goods, showing skillful and chaste, rather than old and aggressive, designs. The ceiling should usually be papered in plain tints or hand-decorated in distemper.
3. The Dining Room.– The dining room should be cheerful in color and designed rather architecturally in subdivision, with a plain dado in wood or panel effect and fanciful frieze in tapestry effect with landscapes or figures. The side wall between the dado and the frieze may be in plain colors or in panels, but when panels are used in the side walls they should be avoided in the dado. The entire side wall may be omitted in the frieze treatment and its panels may be extended entirely to the ceiling, filling them with a tapestry effect repeated at intervals. The ceiling is often left plain or rendered in distemper to harmonize with the side wall treatment, or it may be papered suggestive of wood paneling or embossed leather. Frequently a bronze effect is attempted, tufted at intervals with metallic buttons.

4. The Library.– The library should be rich but subdued in color, in tapestry or fabric effects if possible, and in any case suitable to the style of the furnishings; of these the prevailing taste is gothic, Italian, Renaissance, Flemish, Elizabethan, Empire, etc. Other rooms on the first floor of the house are usually morning rooms, reception rooms, or, possibly, breakfast rooms, each of which should be rather more delicate in furnishing than the parlor and the dining room, as they are essentially rooms which are used in the daytime and their decorative elements should be so considered. Papers are seldom specially designed for the three last-named rooms, but the decorator is frequently called on to make selections for them and his judgment should be governed accordingly.
5. The Kitchen.– The essential point in a kitchen wall covering is utility, something that will reflect much light and keep clean. The ideal wall covering for a kitchen would be tiles or enamel brick; therefore, wallpaper pattern that are geometrical in design, suggestive of tile or brickwork, are entirely suitable, and designs of this character can be obtained in varnished papers, which are washable and can be kept nearly as smooth and clean as the tile itself.
6. Bedrooms.– Bedrooms should contain delicate bright designs in cheerful decorative or naturalistic patterns of flowers. Stripe effects with floral details are exceedingly popular, but the frieze treatment should always be included, as the appearance of striped running from the ceiling to the floor is decidedly distasteful. An exceedingly popular treatment for bedrooms and sitting rooms consist of a subdivision of the wall into three parts, the lower two-thirds of which is covered with a plain tint or two-tone stripe, and the upper parts a rather large and brilliantly designed floral pattern. A two-toned green stripe on the lower portion with a poppy frieze is very popular for bedrooms, as poppies are symbolic of sleep. But other combinations can be used, such as two-tone yellow under a frieze of lilacs or Wistaria.