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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 1905 



Chicago Embossed Moulding Co. 



Embossed 

 and Plain 

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Balusters and 

 Stair Work 



Columns, 



Interior Caps 



and Raised 



Carvings 



591 Sc SOT Austin Ave:., Chicago, III. 



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Made of grey and malleable iron. The best 

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FALL PAINTING 



A short, practical talk on good paint 

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Address Paint Department. 

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FIFTY SUGGESTIONS FOR 

 THE HOUSE 



1 2. The Principles of Furnishing 



In planning or furnishing a dwelling, what- 

 ever or wherever it may be, you must be gov- 

 erned by three considerations — what you want, 

 what you need, what you can have. — Li Hie 

 Hamilton French. 



1 3. Painted and Papered Walls 



Artistically the choice between paper and 

 paint depends upon several considerations. 

 While walls simply painted unquestionably 

 look bare in comparison with those covered 

 with paper, this is sometimes an advantage, as 

 in summer cottages, to which they give a feel- 

 ing of space and air, and in rooms containing 

 a large amount of furniture, where they im- 

 prove the effect of the furniture by affording a 

 plain background. Where pictures are to be 

 hung also, either a painted wall or a plain 

 paper is much to be preferred to a figured 

 paper, which would produce a sense of weari- 

 some confusion. — T. M. Clarke. 



14. Camp Furnishings 



The charm of the camps in the Adirondacks 

 and Canada woods, luxurious and costly as 

 some of them are, lies in the fact that, although 

 every comfort is provided, nothing suggesting 

 care is introduced ; nothing that would imply 

 interference with the free enjoyment of the 

 woods or the untrammeled life of those who 

 have gone there for rest and refreshment. 

 A satin hanging in a camp would be inap- 

 propriate ; ebonies, mahoganies, costly inlaid 

 woods as much out of key as an elaborate 

 service of silver and glass. — Lillie Hamilton 

 French. 



1 5. Treatment of Pine Floors 



Hard pine floors should be first filled with 

 white shellac — in proportions of two gallons 

 of shellac diluted with one gallon of wood 

 alcohol — and after two coats of shellac there 

 should be one or two of fine varnish. Sweep- 

 ing with a long-handled hair broom is light, 

 quick work, and the floor should be wiped 

 with a damp cloth once a week. If such a 

 floor is rubbed twice a year with parafflne oil 

 it will lengthen the time for redressing. Chest- 

 nut stairs should be treated the same, but 

 chestnut is a more porous wood, and it will 

 require more of shellac filling. Kitchen, bath- 

 room and laundry floors are best oiled about 

 once a month. Boiled linseed oil and turpen- 

 tine, mixed half and half, make an excellent 

 oil for this purpose. Soft pine floors should 

 be painted, but hard pine never, as the paint 

 will peal off in spite of almost any precautions. 

 — Delineator. 



16. The Pitch of Roofs 



Where the pitch or angle with the horizon- 

 tal of any roof covered with shingles, slates or 

 tiles is too low, drifting snow will blow up 

 under them, unless they are laid in cement, 

 and melt there, often causing a small leak; 

 and the shingles on low-pitched roofs soon rot 

 out on account of the slowness with which 

 rain-water drains away from them. The 

 minimum pitch for such roofs should be 26^ 

 degrees, or " quarter-pitch," as the carpenters 

 call it, the rise of the roof being one-fourth of 

 the span, and a higher pitch is much to be pre- 

 ferred; and, unless the pitch is very steep, 

 shingles, or slates, or tiles should be out on 

 over two layers of waterproof felt, tacked to 

 the roof-boarding. — T. M. Clarke. 



