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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



May, 1908 



The Scotch rug is a reversible woolen product that is ex- 

 cellently adapted for the living-room of a bungalow. The 

 cost, in nine by twelve feet, is thirty-six dollars. A plain 

 brown rug of this make, with the border diversified by a 

 mixture of brown and yellow, will give a substantial setting 



A Window Treated in Dutch Fashion 



for furniture on Mission lines. To relieve the dark, tones of 

 the lower part of the room, the windows may be curtained 

 with a semi-transparent, cream-white muslin printed with blue 

 flowers and green leaves. 



A wool rug that is made in a thick tufting in a plain color 

 is well suited for Mission furniture. In size it is varied, from 

 the small three-by-six-foot to the regular nine-by-twelve-foot 

 size, the latter costing thirty-five dollars. The body color is 

 relieved by a plain border in a darker tone. 



For a floor covering at a minimum cost, the grass matting 

 rug makes the strongest appeal by reason of its plain color 

 and light weight. In the fiber matting rugs a pattern is 

 woven with the background, at the price of ten dollars and 

 fifty cents in the nine-by-twelve size. 



If small rugs are to be adopted and brilliant color tones 

 are sought for, there is nothing to surpass the work of the 

 Navajo Indians. As wall hangings, too, these rugs are dis- 

 tinctively decorative, and they may also be put up in door- 

 ways or thrown over a lounge. In the illustration one corner 

 of a room is treated entirely with these Indian rugs, or, as 

 they are known in the West, Indian blankets. 



A drugget made in India from hemp in the natural color 

 is a good choice for the bungalow floor. The border, and 

 sometimes the center, is enlivened by the introduction of 

 green, red or blue in a zig-zag pattern. The size three feet 

 by six may be bought for eight dollars. 



Small cotton rugs woven by hand are well suited for the 

 bedrooms of the bungalow. They may be laid on either side 

 of the bed and in front of the bureau and washstand. The 

 color variations that are produced in this primitive weaving 

 is quite remarkable. Material by the yard is torn into strips 

 for the weaving, and when the colors are not of the right 

 tone a white cloth is dyed, and sometimes the warp also. 

 The old-fashioned hit-and-miss style is not by any means 

 given up for the more esthetic combinations of our own day. 

 The former is still usable as a runner in the halls and passage- 

 ways of the bungalow. 



In curtaining the windows of the bungalow the complicated 



draperies of the city home would, naturally, not be attempted. 

 One set of hangings may be the rule in the former, exclud- 

 ing even the window shade when there are shutters with 

 movable slats. A short curtain that hangs to the sill with- 

 out touching the wood looks well when it is placed between 

 the casing. If the rod is fastened to the outside of the casing 

 the curtain may hang below the sill as far as the woodwork 

 extends. 



Casement windows that open into the room may have 

 the curtain material fastened at the top and bottom of each 

 window, or, if preferred, only at the top. For casement 

 windows that open outward a single rod may be carried 

 across the framewok at the top of the casement, and a length 

 of the material hung at each side. For a very wide span a 

 short valance may be added at the top, between the side 

 length, in the Dutch fashion, as shown in the illustration. 



The opportunity for introducing color effect in the cur- 

 tains in the bungalow can be met with plain materials, linen, 

 linen taffeta, jute, or mercerized cottons, or, this same list 

 will afford a choice in figured effects. If a semi-transparent 

 material is desired without the conventional daintiness of 

 white lace or muslin, there are coarse-meshed nets in plain 

 and fancy weaves, colored madras and crete cloth. 



At the seashore, or wherever the windows receive the full 

 blaze of the summer sun, some of the new materials that are 

 guaranteed unfadable will be welcomed. For narrow win- 

 dows the ordinary wash goods for summer dresses — ging- 

 ham, chambray, percale or dimity — may be chosen. 



The new field for the amateur decorator, that of stenciling 

 a design upon a textile fabric, can be turned to good account 

 in giving an individual touch to the windows of the bungalow. 

 A pattern may be applied to the curtain material, either as a 

 trimming for the sides and bottom, or it may be repeated on 

 the entire surface in an all-over design. 



With another phase of handwork, that of weaving, the 

 bungalow fittings have an especial affinity. In making up 



In the Seashore Bungalow Old Fishnets May Be Looped 

 Against the Bare Walls 



curtains the white or ecru linen thread may be woven in an 

 open mesh-like scrim, or a closer weaving will produce as 

 firm a substance as one of our great-grandmother's linen 

 sheets. The pattern may be woven of different harmonizing 



