70 FARM HOMES, Itf-DOORS AND OUT-DOORS. 



the floor has been laid in light and dark woods, well and 

 good. It will be a thing of beauty through more than 

 one life time, and always look genuine and substantial, 

 as everything about a dining-room should. If, however, 

 the floor is of pine, it may be stained in blocks or stripes 

 in a bordering two feet in width, covered with two coats 

 of best varnish, and the center adorned with three or 

 more breadths of pretty carpeting. 



Supposing green and oak to have been chosen for the 

 colors of this room the ceiling calcimined with pale 

 sage-green, and the wood-work either treated with oak- 

 graining or oiled and varnished without paint : Select 

 for the walls a flat-figured paper in oak and green tints, 

 and place around the top a wide bordar or frieze in black 

 and green and oak, with perhaps a touch of rich maroon. 

 The carpet should be of small figure in green and oak, 

 with a border of maroon. The window lambrequins 

 should be of green rep with green and oak gimp and 

 fringe, or of black-ground chintz with a gold and green 

 foliage pattern. A few neatly potted and luxuriant 

 plants should be kept upon the sills, which can also be 

 decorated with lambrequins if liked. 



Have a carpenter construct a side-board of simple but 

 substantial form, faced with oak or maple, or else made 

 of the best of pine. Glue artificial wood-carvings of 

 fruits in the center of the top, and upon each door and 

 drawer, and finish the whole with oil and varnish. 



The table may also be home-made and large and solid, 

 with rounded corners and substantial turned lor*, with 

 casters. If not of real oak, the legs should be nioely 

 grained to imitate it. If colored table linen is used it 

 should be buff and white, with green borders, or buff and 

 green in any neat, small patterns. Those cloths, how- 

 ever, are generally covered with plain white ones at meal 

 time. 



Above this table there should be a handsome hanging 



