AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1908 



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This is where we manufacture our Monarch Porcelain Ware 

 Trenton, New Jersey 



Uniformity^ Design 



Architects DO appreciate the fact that by specifying 

 Wolff Plumbing Material exclusively they are 

 protecting their clients from the annoying con- 

 fusion of design and mechanical standards that 

 is sure to creep into even the most carefully 

 selected line of "assembled" plumbing equipment. 



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MANUFACTURING 

 COMPANY 



Established 1855 



Manufacturers of PLUMBING GOODS EXCLUSIVELY 



The Only Complete Line Made by Any One Firm 



Showrooms: 91 Dearborn St. 

 Denver CHICAGO Trenton 



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The Only Real Stain 



If you have only seen the crude and tawdry colors 

 of the thinned-paint imitations of 



Cabot's Shingle Stains 



you have no idea of the beautiful coloring effects 

 of the true Stains. They are soft and deep, like 

 velvet, but transparent, bringing out the beauty 

 of the wood grain. Half as expensive as paint, 

 twice as handsome, and the only Stains made of 

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Claude «f Starci, Architects, Madison, Wis. 



Reef stained moss-green, walls silver gray with Cabot's Shingle 

 Stains and lined throughout with Cabot's Sheathing Quilt for warmth. 



PROBLEMS IN HOME FURNISHING 



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windows are so near to the ceiling that a 

 border is out of the question. 



Another correspondent, A. B. S., of New 

 Mexico, asks: "Will you kindly suggest the 

 right wall treatment for our living-room. The 

 room has a southern exposure, and in this cli- 

 mate we have few cloudy days. I do not want 

 to darken the room, but I would like to make 

 it restful from the outside glare. The rug is 

 a Wilton, blue and green the most prominent 

 colors, with a little yellow. The woodwork 

 I will repaint any color you advise." 



A gray wall paper will meet the interior as 

 well as the climatic conditions of the room 

 described. The English silk fiber paper, at 

 ninety cents a single roll of eight yards, is the 

 best in tone and for sun-wearing quality. The 

 woodwork may be painted a dark bronze 

 green, if this shade does not conflict with the 

 green in the floor covering. 



Mrs. J. W. F., of West Virginia, asks: 

 "What color and pattern of wall paper can I 

 use for a small, dark hall that faces north? I 

 want to make the hall appear brighter and 

 larger." 



A buff paper with a light tracery of pattern 

 in a slightly deeper tone may be had for thirty- 

 two cents a single roll. A still cheaper selec- 

 tion would be a tan-colored ingrain paper at 

 twenty cents a roll. 



From Michigan L. E. writes: "I would ap- 

 preciate having from the Home Furnishing au- 

 thority a color scheme for my new house. The 

 vestibule, hall and dining-room will have the 

 woodwork stained alike in a medium dark oak. 

 The living-room will be finished in mahogany. 

 There are spaces in the wood paneling in the 

 dining-room that I do not know how to fill." 



For the vestibule wall, above the wood 

 wainscot, a Japanese leather paper would be 

 attractive. There are various coloring and 

 patterns, from three dollars a roll upward. 

 The walls of the main hall may be covered 

 with an English paper in two tones of deep 

 tan at ninety-six cents a single roll. The 

 spaces in the dining-room wainscot that are 

 not filled with the wood paneling may have a 

 foliage tapestry that will not cost more than 

 two dollars a yard, fifty inches wide. On the 

 upper wall of the dining-room a tan-colored 

 jute material, at the same price, may be the 

 background for some pieces of blue china. For 

 the mahogany-finished library, a soft shade of 

 olive green grass cloth may be the wall 

 covering. 



SITTING-ROOM FURNISHINGS 



M. H. S., of Iowa, describes a sitting-room 

 which is partly furnished, and on which she 

 is ready to expend two hundred dollars to 

 complete its comforts. "The wall paper is a 

 golden tan with small figures. The rug is 

 made of Brussels carpet, and its prevailing 

 colors are tan, green, cream and black. The 

 curtains are of ecru net. The furniture now 

 in the room is a Morris chair and a high- 

 backed oak Windsor. Please suggest addi- 

 tional furniture for this room, two or three 

 interesting pictures, a suitable portiere for the 

 double doorway, and also give me an idea of 

 what lamps to use, as we do not have gas or 

 electricity." 



A divan would be the first selection for this 

 room, and a good style at a small expense 

 would be a box frame fitted with spiral springs 

 on which a hair mattress is laid. The price is 

 twenty-seven dollars. A plain green Bagdad 

 cover, and four down pillows with pretty cov- 

 ers, would cost about sixteen dollars. A single 

 oak bookcase, thirty inches wide, made in such 

 a way that additional cases may be attached to 

 it at the sides, may be had for twenty dollars. 

 Two willow chairs with hair cushions- and 

 velvet covers (illustrations may be found in 



