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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 19 10 



mer living-room that can be met at a small outlay if one to adjust the chairs and tables before deciding on any spe- 



chooses simple shapes in glass and pottery. Copper and cific shapes. Although a general and safe rule for a floor 



brass are suitable for garden bouquets, and rustic boxes covering is to have it of generous width and breadth, one 



may be made from birch bark. To protect a table from may find that small rugs distributed in front of the sitting 



moisture, there are glass 

 mats made like a framed 

 picture, and with a little 

 ingenuity these may be 

 made at home by laying 

 a glass (round or 

 square, over a photo- 

 graph or colored print, 

 adding a piece of card- 

 board at the back and 

 binding all together with 

 tape or braid. When 

 the mat is not in service, 

 it still is an object of in- 

 terest as a picture. 



The furniture for the 

 porch is almost entirely 

 comprised in the seats 

 and tables, but one may 

 find a need for book- 

 shelves, a holder for out- 

 door wraps, a chest for 

 garden tools or tennis 

 rackets. As any one of 

 these is added, it should 

 conform to the general informality of the place. One of the 

 kitchen settles that can be turned into a table has been 

 found a useful article for the porch, and if bought in the 

 unfinished wood, it may be painted with out-door colors as 

 a protection from the weather. These combination settles 

 come in several sizes, from three feet up to six or more 

 feet. 



Floor coverings are a considerable factor in giving both 

 comfort and pleas- 

 ure to the piazza. 

 The grass matting 

 rugs are as cheap a 

 covering as one 

 may buy for the 

 porch, and the plain 

 tone is a good set- 

 ting for color ef- 

 fects else where. 

 The rag carpet 

 made by the yard is 

 suggested for a 

 runner on a narrow 

 porch, or the made 

 rugs in this weave 

 can be had in vary- 

 ing sizes. Only the 

 darker colors, of 

 course, should be 

 selected. Jute rugs 

 made in India, 

 showing one color 

 with the natural 

 color of the jute, 

 are well suited to 

 the verandah, and 

 one special pattern 

 with a mixture of 

 several colors, dark 



A corner settee 



places are more satisfac- 

 tory. 



Strips of old carpet 

 are sometimes laid down 

 on a piazza floor as be- 

 ing "good enough" for 

 this position; but, at a 

 small cost, these same 

 lengths of carpet may be 

 converted into soft, 

 mossy-looking rugs that 

 are really worth owning. 

 The ideal lighting at 

 night for a porch is by 

 electricity, and there are 

 many artistic designs for 

 lanterns or ceiling lights. 

 A side bracket with a 

 lantern swinging from it 

 is another pattern that 

 suits the conditions. Or 

 an iron or bronze Japan- 

 ese lantern may be fitted 

 with electric wiring. 

 With gas for illuminat- 

 ing, one cannot achieve as creditable fixtures as with elec- 

 tricity, but even with candle-power one may realize some 

 artistic effects with ordinary Japanese paper -lanterns. 



The inside walls of a piazza are often a perplexing mat- 

 ter to the home-maker who is anxious to introduce some 

 decoration. The mixture of wood, glass and plaster seems 

 to require something different at each break. Sometimes a 

 veranda is so nearly inclosed by walls and glass that it is 



almost a part of 

 the interior of the 

 house. Curtains, 

 too, seem to be 

 needed, yet after a 

 manner o f their 

 own. The mistake 

 i n meeting these 

 conditions is usu- 

 ally in attempting 

 too much, and in 

 not allowing the 

 simplicity of the 

 life to be enjoyed 

 in the place to be 

 the motive for 

 choice. 



Wall decora- 

 tions may be of the 

 poster type, bold in 

 outline and vivid in 

 coloring. Flags and 

 pennants are also 

 fitting in this place. 

 The permanence of 

 real value that be- 

 longs with the dec- 

 orations for the in- 

 terior of the home 

 need not apply to 



A comfortable lounging settee 



red, orange, black and tan, is very effective. The Scotch - the piazza, and objects of quite ephemeral charm may be 



rugs often mentioned in this department are another ser- renewed from time to time. 



viceable choice. The sizes of the porch rugs depend so As the interest in porch furnishing has developed, the 



much upon the position of the furniture that it is better architectural efforts in this direction have increased. In 



