THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
“INSIDE 
THE 
GARDEN HOME 
JAMES COLLIER MARSHALL 
APRIL, 1916 
Furnishings for the Small House 
Mr. James Collier Marshall, Director of the Decorating Service of The Garden Magazine’s Advertising Dept., will solve your problems of home 
decoration—color schemes, hangings, floor coverings, art objects and interior arrangements, making purchases at the most favorable prices. 
This service is free to our readers. 
N SHOPPING 
for the necessary 
house  furnish- 
ings it is easy to 
find good looking 
articles that are 
suitable for the 
large house, but not 
infrequently t h e 
search for fittings 
for the small home 
proves a baffling task. 
There is, after 
all, only one 
satisfactory 
manner of ap- 
proaching this 
undertaking 
and that is to 
settle first in 
one’s own mind 
just what is 
needed and the 
price one is will- 
ing to pay. 
One may then set forth on the quest with a light 
heart, for mfany firms, appreciating the need 
of attractive materials at moderate prices, are 
making a point of catering to it. 
One of the delightful surprises of these shop- 
ping tours is the fact that frequently a remark- 
able bargain may be discovered in shops that 
are reputedly high priced, hence no shop should 
be omitted from the list. It is in these shops 
that the most desirable designs in chintzes 
and upholstery stuffs are always found at 
prices that every experienced housekeeper 
will recognize as reasonable. At any rate, there is no 
economy in buying cheap upholstery materials, though 
the point I wish to make clear is that these so-called 
Why not brighcen you hearth with 
hand-painted bellows like these ? 
| RE eae ites ¢ 
One seldom finds a tea or coffee table of such dis- 
tinction as this one decorated with pale green 
Every house however small needs a writing table. 
high priced houses, sell stuffs at prices entirely com- 
mensurate with their values. Of course, they prac- 
tically control the more interesting purely decorative 
articles, but here again the prices are about even. 
Of the many attractive necessary furnishings to be 
seen, perhaps none is more effective than the oaken 
chest shown here. This well built box, designed on 
simple Jacobean lines, is lined with cedar and has two 
drawers of the same pungent wood. Mounted on 
rollers and fitted with a strong lock it is as convenient 
as it is good looking and equally adaptable to hall, 
living or bedroom uses. 
only good looking, but adaptable to many settings 
Apropos of cedar chests, there is now to be found a 
plain box of this wood long and narrow and flat enough 
to fit under a single bed, for use in apartments and other 
small rooms where space must be conserved. This also 
has rollers and comfortable handles by which to draw it 
forth, with a lock and clasp of the type used on suit 
cases to make it secure. It is quite capacious and ex- 
cellently suited to the réle for which it is intended. 
Since we Americans have begun to take our tea 
drinking seriously, or, less seriously, as one may choose 
to call it, it having become a part of our daily life, 
Equally good for hall, living or bedroom use is this oak chest lined with cedar, 
having drawers of the same fragrant wood 
This one of mahogany is not 
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there have come into 
being a remarkable 
number of designs 
of tables for this 
use, the greater por- 
tion of which are 
very effective. 
One of the smart- 
est of the new pat- 
terns displayed this 
season is shown at 
the lower left side of 
this page. Here 
is a most de- 
lightful combin- 
ation of pale 
green and nat- 
ural colored 
wicker in the 
simplest archi- 
tectural form 
with well 
mounted trays 
of glass. So 
simple is it that 
there is not one more osier employed in construction 
than is absolutely necessary to strength, but the 
effect is very good, the green, which shows dark 
in the picture, giving the required contrast. Such 
a table might be as well employed for porch serv- 
ice as for the house, and especially for after- 
dinner coffee use when some such table is found 
necessary for cigars, etc. 
Equally as satisfactory as the table and fully 
agreeable to it is the quaint coffee set of crackle 
ware, pictured on the table. This pottery is en- 
joying quite a vogue at present, and aside from its 
looks, the fact that it keeps the coffee hot much longer 
than does china, makes it the more desirable. It comes 
in several simple forms and is always effective. 
This Gothic Windsor chair looks 
well anywhere and pleases everyone 
A slender grace adapts this table for porch use, while light- 
ness permits its easy transfer to the lawn 
