January, 1912 
Sects. 
Settee, armchair and chair of this sort will cost under $80 
A rag rug, a fresh muslin curtain at the window and a small 
wicker table for the emergency candlesticks, that should al- 
ways stand upon it with a matchsafe, are all that we really 
need. We may estimate these furnishings as follows: 
LOWER HALL: Settee, $10.00; door curtains, $2.50; um- 
brella jar, $2.50. Total, $15.50. UPPER HALL: Curtain at 
window, $1.00; small table (wicker), $3.00. Total, $4.00. 
Now for the bedrooms. Room No. 1, over the living- 
room, also contains five windows and a fireplace. This room 
could be handsomely fitted up with mahogany and old 
rose. It would be a pleasant task to search for “Colonial” 
furniture and discover a high- 
post bedstead in some out-of- 
the-way place at one time; a : 
tall, high case of drawers RY my 
with brass handles and key- | Na 
plates in another; a few | | X XA 
Chippendale ladder - backed 
chairs on another occasion, 
and to bring home a tip-and- 
turn tea-table for a mere 
song; but, if we have not 
time to wait for opportunity, 
a very good suite of furniture 
can be had for a small price, 
in dull mahogany or quar- 
tered oak polished. We will 
allow for this room the fol- 
lowing amounts: 
BEDROOM NO. I—OLD- 
ROSE ROOM: Bed, $35.00; 
chiffonier, $36.00; dressing 
table, $22.00; muslin cur- 
tains, $5.00; old-rose lambrequin, $15.00; three wicker 
chairs, $9.00; small wicker table, $3.00. Total, $125.00. 
In place of the dressing table one might substitute a wicker 
desk and table. The desk would cost $14.00 and the chair 
to match $7.50. [hat would leave a credit of 50 cents to 
add to the miscellaneous total. For the wall-paper of this 
room, a warm fawn color brightened with a gold frieze 
would be appropriate, or a frieze of pink roses, or any 
other pink flower. 
Room No. 2 is the “Peacock Room.” The wall-paper 
is cream with frieze of peacocks, and the floor is covered 
Sheraton dining chairs 
AMERICAN HOMES AND 
A light table desk and chair of willow furniture is appropriate as part of 
the furnishings for a dainty bedroom 
Sheraton buffet 
GARDENS 9 
The furniture is 
white enamel and wicker painted white, and the chair- 
cushions and window draperies are of chintz of quaint de- 
with a square rug of plain peacock blue. 
sign. It is white, and the birds and flowers blue, red and 
green, with a little touch here and there of yellow. 
The bedstead is white enamel, with cane panels in the 
headboard and footboard; the dressing table is also white 
enamel, with a glass slab; we have one wicker armchair, 
also painted white, and a big wing chair upholstered with 
the peacock cretonne. A small wicker table stands by the 
bedside and utility boxes in the two windows. The estimate 
for this rooms is as follows: 
ROooM NO. 2— PEACOCK 
ROOM: Bedstead, $40.00; 
dressing table, $55.00; wing 
chair with peacock cushions, 
$25.00; one wicker arm- 
chair, peacock cushions, 
$6.00; small wicker table, 
$3.00; two utility boxes cov- 
ered with matting, serving as 
window-seats, $1.25 each, 
$2.50; two pairs muslin half- 
sash curtains, $1.00 per pair, 
$2.00; curtains of peacock 
print, 98c. a yard, $12.00. 
Total, $144.50. 
The material selected for 
Room No. 3 is equally attrac- 
tive. The roses are not pink, 
as might be expected, but are 
violet. This material is the 
same price as the ‘‘Peacock”’ 
drapery, and can be washed. The ‘Violet Rose’? Room 
contains two windows, and these can be draped with pretty 
muslin curtains and above them a deep ruffle of the cretonne. 
The curtains should only come to the top of the sill, as the 
windows are furnished with utility boxes. The one wicker 
armchair is painted pale violet to match the cretonne, and 
is supplied with cretonne cushions, and a small rush-bot- 
tomed rocking chair is made comfortable with a cushion 
of catawba-colored silk. The wicker table at the side of 
the bed is also painted violet. A bedstead and a chiffonier 
complete the furniture of this room, which is as follows: 
Table on Sheraton lines 
