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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



April, 1 9 10 



Simple— Artistic 



This door is adapted for Crafts- 

 man interiors, Dens, Libraries, 

 Studies, etc., and its beautiful grain 

 and finish give a note of distinction 

 to any room. 



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MORGAN 

 DOORS 



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are perfect doors, light, remarkably strong am 

 built of several layers of crossed grained wood, 

 pressed together with water-proof glue, making 

 shrinking, warping or swelling impossible. 

 Veneered in all varieties of hard wood — Birch, 

 plain or quarter-sawed red or white Oak, brown 

 Ash, Mahogany, etc. 



Morgan Doors are the highest standard of door 

 quality ; made in one of the largest and most pro- 

 gressive factories in the country. 



Each Morgan Door is stamped "MORGAN" 

 which .GTuarantees quality, style, durability and 

 satisfaction. 



In our new hook~"The Door Beautiful"— Morsan 

 Doors are shown in their natural color and in all 

 styles of architecture for interior or exterior use, and 

 it is e.xplained wliy they are the best and cheapest 

 doors for permanent satisfaction in any building. 

 >* copy will be sent on request, 



Arrhifeifs. Descriptive details of Morna-n Doors 

 maij bcJiiKud in Siveet^s index, pages 67H and 079. 



Morgan Company, Dept. A., Oshkosh, Wis. 



Distributed hi/ Morgan Sash and Door Company. Chicago. 

 Morgan Millwork Company, Baltimore. Md. 

 Handled tiy Dealers who do not substitute. 



Cabot's 

 Shingle Stains 



Lined with Cabot' 

 Stains. 



s Sheathing Quilt and Stained with Cabot's Shiiit'lc 

 Robert C. Spencer, Jr.. Architect. Chicago 



—FOR— 



HOUSES 



BARNS 



STABLES 



SHEDS 



FENCES 



and all exterior wood -work, es- 

 pecially shingles. They are softer 

 and richer in color, easier and 

 quicker to apply, wear better, 

 look better and are fifty per cent, 

 cheaper than paint. Creosote, 

 the chief ingredient, is the best 

 wood-preservative known. 



Samples of Stained Wood, with Chart of Color Combination, sent on application 



"Quilt" — the Warmest SKeatKing' 



Wind and Frost Proof 



NOT a mere felt or paper, but a matted liniiifr 

 that keeps ont the cold as a bird's feathers do. 

 IncomparaT)ly warmer than building papers, and 

 warmer and cheaper than back-plaster. Costs less 

 than 1 cent a foot. Keeps warm rooms warm and 

 cool rooms cool. "/i is cheaper to build warm 

 houses than to heat cold ones. ' ' 



SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., 131 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. 



Agents at all Central Points 



bend for a sample ana catalofj (free J of 

 Cabot's Sheathing Quilt 



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 Ex. Pres. Nat. Federation of Women's Clubs. 



Its readers all say it is a work remarkably worthy, 

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A "House Beautiful" illustration greatly reduced 



THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, 251 Michigan Ave., Chicago 



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HOW TO EMBELLISH CHEAP 

 FURNITURE 



TO every professional cabinetmaker 

 the problem ha.s doubtless been al- 

 ready presented of making cheap 

 furniture, which, in spite of the lowest 

 price, should present to the eye a pleasing 

 appearance. Carving or tarsia (inlaid) 

 work cannot, of course, be thought of in 

 this connection, as these would materially 

 raise the price of tlie furniture. The fol- 

 lowing procedure will, accordingly, enable 

 the joiner to decorate the furniture in a 

 beautiful and appropriate way witliout the 

 necessity of enlisting therefor the aid of 

 other professional artisans. 



Every joiner is expected to have had 

 some practice in drawing and to be capa- 

 ble, therefore, of getting up designs for 

 the decoration of panels, front-pieces of 

 drawers, etc. This drawing he has, ac- 

 cordingly, to transfer by means of tracing- 

 paper upon the portions of wood to be dec- 

 orated and to fill the ornament or the 

 ground, according to the efifect intended, 

 with gum arable. The gum must not be 

 too weak in order that it may properly 

 cover the parts smeared, and must also be 

 entirely colorless, for otherwise the wood 

 becomes stained. Then, after having al- 

 lowed the parts to dry for a day, the panels, 

 etc., should be rubbed by means of a 

 woolen rag vigorously, though sparingly, 

 with printers' ink previously diluted with a 

 little petroleum, so that the wood may re- 

 ceive a uniform coloring. This ink can be 

 obtained in all shades and one may there- 

 fore choose the tint which shall harmonize 

 with the given stain of the wood. The 

 whole must then be wiped oflf with a 

 sponge, whereby the gum is dissolved and 

 the parts that were covered remain stand- 

 ing out with distinctness. The gum must, 

 of course, be entirely washed off and par- 

 ticular care should be given to this point. 



If the ground has been rubbed in, the or- 

 nament being in that case left untouched, 

 then it becomes an easy matter to color the 

 same with ordinary water-stain, inasmuch 

 as the printers' ink, by reason of its fatty 

 contents, does not take any water stain- 

 ing. The furniture is now treated as usual 

 — either waxed or polished ; whereby the 

 fatty nature of the ink renders very good 

 service. 



For such manner of ornamentation only 

 light woods are, of course, adapted, such as 

 fir, pine, ash, maple, oak, etc., while walnut 

 nr mahogany, on account of their dearness. 

 do not even come into consideration for 

 simple furniture. By the designing of the 

 ornament much depends upon a proper dis- 

 tribution of the same. Very poor and mo- 

 notonous would be the effect of filling the 

 given surface with it completely. It is just 

 in limitation and the happy selection of the 

 place where the ornament is suited that one 

 .shows himself a master. Above all will 

 those places have to be decorated which 

 first catch the eye, or are especially con- 

 .spicuous because of their monotonous lines. 

 In case of a door, which, perhaps through 

 a desire of saving a framing piece, has been 

 given a very long panel, it will be com- 

 mendable to set of? the upper quarter of the 

 same by means of an ornament. The 

 bounding lines of the latter need not, how- 

 ever, run exactly parallel to the framing 

 of the panel, but a somewhat greater free- 

 dom of form may be allowed here. 



It is likewise of great importance to con- 

 sider that one and the same ornament has a 

 different effect according as to whether the 

 ground executed in dark and the ornament 

 light, or vice versa. 



