March, 1910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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A garden tapestry 



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A trellis background 



A double border 



by its repetition on bed-covers, curtains and furniture cov- 

 erings. Cretonnes and chintzes to match the papers for 

 side walls are still in vogue, but more discrimination is 

 shown in adopting them in large quantities. 



Striped papers for chambers appear in varieties of ways 

 — two-tones either wide or narrow; jaspe stripes or with 

 moire effects; mixtures of stripes and flowers (an English 

 paper is illustrated at eighty cents a roll), or chambrays in 

 shadow lines. A striped paper that is sharply defined is 

 often wearisome when it is used in a room that is occupied 

 continually, but for sleeping-rooms or guest-rooms this ob- 

 jection does not matter. 



A bathroom that opens from a bedroom may carry the 

 same wall paper if it is protected from moisture by a coat 

 of colorless shellac. Bathroom papers chat are made in 

 this country cost thirty-five cents a roll in a medium grade, 

 but if one wishes to expend two dollars a roll the German 

 presentation of sea gulls flying over a gray-green sea is an 

 ideal selection. A sanitary wall texture that has in a short 

 time become popular for bathrooms has followed the ar- 

 tistic trend in quiet colorings and simple designs, and is 

 well worth its cost of sixty cents a yard as it is over a yard wide. 



Two places in the home offer themselves for a decora- 



tive wall paper — the hall and the dining-room. For the 

 former place a picture tapestry in good tones takes the at- 

 tention pleasantly, requiring neither paintings nor prints to 

 complete its decorative effect. The garden tapestry that is 

 illustrated is made in England and costs eighty cents a roll. 

 An American tapestry paper called "The Cedars" has an 

 unusual combination of gray, green and gold in its printing 

 and at seventy-flve cents a roll creates a lovely effect of 

 trees silhouetted against a sunset sky. 



The plate rail that is now adopted in nearly every dining- 

 room is too often an expressionless feature in this room, as 

 everyone does not have a collection of china or metal to 

 display. A scenic border to fit the space, such as the ships 

 at sea that form the heading for this department, imparts 

 more interest than merely filling in with a figured paper. A 

 selection of this kind is also suggested for a den if the lines 

 of the room suit it. 



The general improvement in good taste in wall decora- 

 tion is apparent in the demand for papers of a neutral char- 

 acter — grays, browns and buffs — which a few years ago 

 was hardly felt. Now, every house must have some room 

 treated with a gray paper, with curtains, rugs and pictures 

 for the decorative elements. 



A foliage paper 



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 Flowers and stripes 



A Colonial effect 



