THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
INSIDE 
THE 
GARDEN HOME 
JAMES COLLIER MARSHALL 
JULY, 1916 
Cool Colors for Summer Furnishings 
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 ourreaders. Address inquiries to “Inside the Garden Home,’ The Garden Magazine, I] West 32nd Street, New York. 
for the house are never fully realized until one 
makes a spring tour of the shops and sees the 
many charming articles for this purpose and visualizes 
for one’s self the dream-house of comfort one’s home 
may become. 
A recapitulation of the 
impressions of such a tour 
will show that simplicity 
is the chief factor in the 
Tix possibilities for beauty in summer furnishings 
piece and decorative 
scheme, and more than 
this, there is a color clarity 
hitherto unnoted. That 
is, only clear, pure tones 
of color are used—sky 
blue, bright apple and 
moss greens, crimson, and 
usually as a decoration 
and foil for white. This 
feeling is expressed in all 
the decorative materials. 
The rugs are gay and 
fresh looking; the cre- 
tonnes, for covers and 
hangings, are all one 
could wish for in this re- 
spect, and the curtains 
themselves are as sum- 
mery as the season itself. 
The rugs this year are really remarkable, there being 
an unusually fine lot of rag carpetings of various weaves 
and designs, and a brand new material of woven flax 
that is altogether charming in effect and entirely suit- 
able for this use. These come in plaid and herringbone 
patterns, as well as in solid color, in seventy-five differ- 
ent color combinations from which one may make a 
suitable and an easy selection. 
With a fresh looking rug one must use nothing but 
crisp white curtains, and these are so inexpensive as to 
make the purchase of extra curtains for summer use 
only arealeconomy. Either a dainty barred or dotted- 
swiss, or a sheer cotton scrim will be excellent, though 
the latter is, perhaps, the more desirable for the 
living rooms as itis more formal in appearance, 
being just as serviceable since it, too, may be 
The dainty cretonne shade 
makes this glass lamp ideal 
for the nursery 
ror 
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Adventure breathes deep in the design and bright 
colors of this tin tobacco box, making it most 
desirable 
success of every individual. 
put into the washtub with the most satisfactory results. 
Indeed, it looks better after several washings and a 
very nice quality can be had at 25 cents. 
Naturally, summer furniture lays first claim on one’s 
attention, since in this line we seem most to crave a 
change, and one finds a great variety of the plain and 
painted article built on simple straight lines with no 
unnecessary decorations of any sort. In many cases 
old and familiar types of furniture are painted in new 
combinations. For example, Windsor chairs are 
painted white with only the top rail and arms in sky 
This etched 
glass beside side set costs $1.60; the cut crystal one is $3.50 
Nothing is so satisfactory as crystal and glass. 
blue, the side chairs showing the plain fan back of 
spindles rimmed with blue. And with these one may 
use a simple straight-legged white table whose drop 
leaf top is banded with the same blue. These are 
quite imexpensive and are equally good for porch or 
dining room use, though nothing could be better for 
the summer bedroom than this cool and dainty type of 
furnishing when used with dainty swiss curtains. 
There is another chair pattern that is quite good 
The brilliant iridescence of this glass set shows off to great advantage its unusual 
contours and will make it a graceful addition to any summer setting 
looking, constructed on the generous proportions of the 
straight-legged, square seated Chippendale chairs, 
painted white except for the solid splat in the back 
and the outer facing of the seat, which are tinted blue, 
These are particularly 
green, or any color one desires. 
good for porch use, but 
when fitted with flat 
chintz cushions striped 
with the same color, 
they are admirable for 
the breakfast-room. 
That this clear color 
is carried out in the 
smaller decorative ob- 
jects with equal success 
will be seen at once in 
the attractive articles 
pictured on this page, 
the tin tobacco box at 
the lower left being es- 
pecially decorated to be 
used on a white and blue 
porch table, its bright 
blue ground throwing 
into high relief the white 
sailed barques that breast ae minted: Ca sea 
; ese painted tin labels, $1. 
a eves an each, and paste pot, $2.50, will 
bel oe ig so the tin ie make attractive the writing table 
els for keeping in order 
one’s correspondence and accounts, decorated to match 
the gay summer writing desk. These and the box to 
hold the unsightly though necessary paste pot are very 
attractive and come in many forms. 
Even as regards glass this clarity is observed. No 
longer does one see the clouded glass of two years ago, 
but only the clearest crystal or glass and frequently 
iridescent glass is used to great advantage with these 
summer settings. The good looking water set shown 
here is of the last named variety, its brilliant iridescence 
showing off with great effect its unusual contour. 
Dinner table service has been made much more attrac- 
tive by the use of glass dishes. Glass service plates have 
been mentioned here before but when dainty glass cups 
filled with jellied consommé are seen with these, the effect 
ischarming. Equally good looking are the glass 
ice cream services either in plain or decorated 
glass and crystal. These come in many prices. 
The rich hued decorations of this flower pot and 
saucer will prove an excellent foil for growing ferns 
