This space should be finished with a picture moulding, and the four superfluous feet of wall above it must be treated as a part of the ceiling.

The cream-white of the actual ceiling should be brought down on the side walls for a space of two feet, and this has the effect of apparently enlarging the room, since the added mass of light tint seems to broaden it.

There still remain two feet of space between the picture moulding and ceiling-line which may be treated as a _ceiling-border_ in inconspicuous design upon the same cream ground, the design to be in darker, but of the same tint as the ceiling.
The floor in such a room as this should either be entirely covered with plain carpeting, or, if it has rugs at all, there should be several, as one single rug, not entirely covering the floor, would have the effect of confining the apparent size of the room to the actual size of the rug.
If the doors and windows in such a room are high and narrow, they can be made to come into the scheme by placing the curtain and portiere rods below the actual height and covering the upper space with thin material, either full or plain, of the same colour as the upper wall.

A brocaded muslin, stained or dyed to match the wall, answers this purpose admirably, and is really better in its place than the usual expedient of stained glass or open-work wood transom.

A good expedient is to have the design already carried around the wall painted in the same colour upon a piece of stretched muslin.