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This type of house, presenting so delightfully homelike and artistic an exterior, leads one to expect to find it equally attractive within doors 
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Furnishing a House for $1,000 
By Esther Singleton 
Photographs by T. C. Turner and others 
one requiring careful 
thought and planning. 
The reader will find 
illustrated above, the 
exterior of a charm- 
ing little house in the 
suburbs, which is so 
delightful in this 
aspect that one is led 
to expect an equally 
attractive _ interior. 
How to go about to 
furnish such a house 
to make it so, and to 
keep well within the 
thousand-dollar limit, 
is the problem here 
discussed. 
In the first place, it 
is probable that a 
house of this sort will 
First - floor 
house that 
plan 
may 
Porch 
Cement Floor 
furnished for $1,000 
pEG)|F course, it is easy to furnish a six- or eight- 
i4|| room house comfortably for $1,000, if one 
disregards the matter of careful selection for 
thoroughly harmonious results, but to make 
such a house artistic and individual with this 
appropriation is a more dificult problem, and 
of 
be 
have floors of polished and waxed hardwood already laid, 
builder’s, and not furnishing, items, being included in the 
contractor’s specifications. 
Furthermore, let us assume that 
the windows have been supplied with roller shades and with 
awnings, and that our furnishing estimate is to exclude rugs, 
wall-paper, and hearth furnishings, as well as the laundry 
fittings. 
These ought all to be considered by themselves, 
being such variable quantities, and the reader will find many 
Second-floor plan of 
house that may be 
furnished for $1,000 
valuable hints on the 
choice of rugs and 
their prices in the De- 
cember, IQII, issue 
of AMERICAN HoMEs 
AND GARDENS. 
Let us assume that 
the chosen house is 
finished in woodwork 
painted white. Noth- 
ing is of more im- 
portance to good fur- 
nishing than the ap- 
pearance of the win- 
dows, both within and 
without. Fresh, crisp 
muslin or lace cur- 
tains proclaim good 
housekeeping. There 
is no excuse for not 
having every window 
properly adorned, for there are many inexpensive and attrac- 
and that all the painting has been done, as these are usually tive materials of good quality always in the market. In any 
city, curtains can, of course, be purchased ready-made. 
