September, 1910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



349 



Sideboard for a Colonial dining-room 



Low bookshelves 



Sideboard for an English dining-room 



cessity. In the Illustration the various needs of a library 

 worker have been met in a clever arrangement of cabinet, 

 bookshelves, drawer space and writing-table. The deco- 

 rative details that leaded glass, drawer pulls and hinges 

 lend to cabinet work have not been overlooked in this com- 

 bination. 



In a college girl's room of quite tiny dimensions, a port- 

 folio rack, bought in a department store, was changed into 

 a writing-desk by fastening it to the wall and increasing 

 the length of chain to allow one side to hang level. In the 

 front of the rack a colored print was pasted as a decora- 

 tion when the rack was closed against the wall. 



In bungalows of the cheaper type, with the wall posts 

 and beams left exposed, there are numberless opportunities 

 for original fittings of shelves for books and bric-a-brac, 

 with and without the addition of doors. 



The contents of book shelves may be partially screened 



or entirely protected by a curtain, according to the way in 

 which it is hung and the material of which it is made. Silk 

 gauze showing a silk-woven pattern makes an artistic cur- 

 tain, or a fancy net may be laid over a colored silk if some- 

 thing more unique is desired. The new way of interlacing 

 embroidery silk in a border pattern on a square-meshed lace 

 is also attractive. A heavier material for more practical 

 purposes can be found among the sun-fast colors that have 

 lately been brought over from Scotland. These colors with 

 their different weaves are so varied that one may select al- 

 most any required weight and texture for any specific pur- 

 pose, with the satisfaction of knowing that the expense put 

 into them will be rewarded by durability. 



Perhaps the most popular expression of built-in furniture 

 is the window and fireplace seats that one sees in houses 

 of the olden time, and in others that are thoroughly up to 

 date. Stone seats in the window recesses of ancient castles 





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An old cupboard 



