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Living-room end of the bungalow at “Muckross”’ 
finished with a foot-and-a-half wide picture railing. Above 
this is a rough plaster frieze tinted in café-au-lait, which 
color is also used in the beamed ceiling. ‘The floor is cov- 
ered with two nine-by-twelve Indian druggets in soft ivory 
grounds with figures in blue and brown. ‘The furniture is of 
oak, stained a soft brown with ammonia. On the large 
divan, as well as the several rockers of the living-room, are 
brown leather pillows which match the upholstering of the 
divan. The flat-top desk table in the center of the room 
is covered in the same brown leather, fastened with copper 
nails which match the hand-wrought copper handles, desk- 
set and copper lamp. The fixtures for this room and the 
bed-chamber, as well, are of original design—hand-wrought 
copper with glass shades in brown and amber. Linen-col- 
ored shades screen the windows, over which fall écru fillet 
net curtains with hand-embroidered borders in a darker 
brown floss, while the heavy draperies at either side are 
of a soft old blue Scotch arras cloth, with flat, simple val- 
ances, embroidered and appliqued in colors to bring the 
tones embodied in the room and rugs together. Then, in 
the center of the wall space opposite the main entrance, 
hang portieres and valance which harmonize with the win- 
dow draperies. ‘These portieres hide from view a bunk in 
which is a spring attached to elevating cords, and on the 
bottom, above several drawers, is a cushion in brown Arras 
cloth. ‘Thus is made a cushion effect in the daytime and a 
bed at night, with accommodations for another in the upper 
berth on the elevating or depressing spring. 
The dining-room half of this room is in harmony with 
the other half, since it carries out the same general tone in 
HOMES 
AND GARDENS 
December, 1912 
the furnishings. From the center of the beamed ceiling 
hangs a beautiful hand-wrought copper dome light, under 
which is a copy of an old, round Dutch table. Around the 
room are oak side chairs with seats upholstered in the same 
brown leather. A plain, simple sideboard ornaments one 
side of the room, while at the end are two china cabinets 
which match the rest of the furniture. But distinguish- 
ing the entire room are its many fine specimens of the birds 
and wild creatures which were captured by the owner. 
Among these are mounted trophies of bears, foxes, deer, 
weasels, squirrels, partridges, and an unusually good speci- 
men of a wildcat. 
Opening from the living-room is the owner’s bed-cham- 
ber. Here the color effect is in soft gray browns, the walls 
being hung with coarse bagging. The woodwork is the same 
as in the outer apartment. ‘The floor is covered with a hand- 
made wool rug in an original design in browns. The furni- 
ture consists of a brown-toned oak bed. On this is used a 
hand-embroidered linen bedspread of original design. Then 
a chiffonier of oak, trimmed with copper, over which is sus- 
pended from copper chains from the cornice a large oak 
mirror. Several side chairs, rockers, and a bed table com- 
plete the set. The draperies are linen-colored shades, 
gauzed with ecru fillet net, hand-embroidered in a dark 
brown floss. 
But this chamber, like the outer apartment, has a dis- 
tinguishing ‘‘feature.”’ For it is here that the switchboard, 
in the form of a cabinet, is located. ‘This, together with the 
“Falls,” which will be explained later, are the pets and pride 
‘of the owner, as, indeed, the real features of Muckross. 
